The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-12-03

column, Rudicil died, on the Sd of Sep
| TENDER, or about two weeks later. He
found no weapon of any kind on Rudicil.
The cross-examination elected moth
ing further than was given in the direct
] testimony.
Redirect: 81 regard the wound that
caused his death necessarily fatal"
| At the conclusion of DIR. Graves tes-
timony the state rested it's case.
Mrs. Will Cooper was the first witness
on the stand for the defense. She tes-
| titled that she was the wife of the de-
| PENDANT, being married to him on Novem-
Der 3, 1893. Had one child She knew
Jesse Rudicil. That he had insulted her
more than once. That the first time he
had insulted her was at Giddings. He
had followed her there and went into the
room with her. carrying her grip
Continuing, she said when he fol-
lowed me to Giddings l was going to see
my mother, at Yoakum. We don't make
immediate connection at Giddings Left
| here ut o'clock at night during the
month of August, 1895. The train would
have gotten to Giddings at 1880 o'clock
that night If it had been on time. The
Giddings insult was about three months
before Rudicil was killed. My husband
went with me to the train. | did not
see Rudicil until after we passed Manor.
| When we got to Giddings the porter took
my valise to the hotel. When we got
there Rudicil said, l will carry your grip
| upstairs. When he got to my room he
/ said: You know what have come for. ;
| said Il didn't He then said: We'll,
| will make you. If you don't consent,
| will make it warm for you when | get
| back to AUSTIN"
81 put my baby to bed, but didn't go
to bed myself because | was afraid TO
do so. sat up all night, with my
clothes on"
On second statement of this, she
said:
"IIe said to me: You know what
have come for and are you going to con-
sent? replied that ! was not. He
kept on coaxing, but finally left the room.
He came back to the room about 5
o'clock. l had not pulled off my clothes,
the room the second time after | threat
ened to call for help. went to Yoakum
after / left Giddngs. / went on the
first train. l told my mother. She
| told me for goodness sake not to tell my
father. When Mr.. Cooper came, about
week later, told him about the mat
ter. | asked him not to bother about
! it, as it would get him into trouble. He
promised me he wouldn't do it. There
was HO one present " amy Oh tne coHNer-
| sations with him. Mr.. Cooper stayed
there four days, then came home.
stayed three weeks, then telegraphed
Mr.. Cooper and he came down and came
home with me and my sister and mother.
| Rudicil was motorman on the Pecan
street line, which passed by my house.
| Three days after we came home we
moved off the car line and Mr.. Cooper
got me buggy and horse. ! met Ru-
dicil the last time on the Thursday
evening before he was killed on the next
day, Friday. / had been to Babcock's
store, where my husband works. My
little sister, my baby and myself were
in the buggy In going home from the
store / went by the switch at Haines'
store The car of Rudicil was standing
there He was laying on the grass by
the store. He came out and said whoa
to the horse and getting between the
wheels, said to me: won't you go out in
Pease park with he any evening after q
o'clockT l said ! would not do so. He
then asked me if j wouldn't 20 buggy
riding with him. told him would
not. He then asked me if | would not
lend him my buggy to take his girl riding
/ told him ! would not and left him, driV-
ing on home"
II told my husband that night what had
taken place between me and tudicii ut
the switch and he seemed very much
wrought up about it and cried and took
on nightly about it, He was at home
all that night and slept very little. He
left home az usual the next morning. loaN-
ing there about 3 o'clock. for his place
of business, which was Mr.. Babcock's.
He had been in the habit of carrying his
pistol, and had been carrying it ever
since we had been married. which was
three years ago. He was one of the fire
police, and had been one for two or
three years. The pistol in question was
n small one, and the same one that he had
taken from home that morning. After
my husband left home | went TO my
grandmother's. heard of the trouble
Mr.. Cooper had gotten into, about II
o'clock. Mr.. Cooper didn't eat any break
fast when he left home that morning.
On cross examination size testified:
"My maiden name was Annie Booking.
| was married November 3, 1893. ] have
one child, which is 2 years and 4 months
old. 1t was born June %, 1894. ! was
living on East Twelfth street at the time
and did not know Rudicil. Afterwards
we moved on the car line and had been
living there nearly six months before
knew Rudicil. | became acquainted with
him on The car. There WAS no introduc-
ton of us by any one. No. ! did not III
trOduce myself He just talked TO me
about certain things while was on the
car About the first thing he talked 10
me about was tile change of the conduc-
tors. After l became acquainted with
him l never made any motions 70 him Of /,
any kind from my house. Yes, did
smile at him once from the front gallery.
He took off his hat and waved TO me. I
Yes, deny that time and again, as he
passed the house, | made motions to him.
did no such thing. No, did not go over
to Mrs. Emerson's house and kiss my |
land to Rudicil as he passed. ] deny /
that when there ! ran to the front door |
and threw kisses at him, and that Mrs |
Emerson demonstrated with me about /
my conducting myself in this manner !
| never did ride on the car with Rudicil |
from one end of the track to the other, !
and then back again. deny that drove
my buggy along side his car after came
back from Yoakum, and talked with Ku-
dicil. | deny that ever invited him in
in my buggy with me or to go in buggy
with him. Yes, / know Nora Barnickel;
she is friend of mine" ] never asked /
her to write to Rudicil for me. She wrote
of her own accord Here the district AT
torncy handed her note to read. bur
she merely glanced at it and said: "Yes,
| have seen that note before. Nora wrote
1t. / did not know that it was found on
his body. This note was written before
the Yoakum trip. He came to my house
three times in all, and Nora Barnickel
was there every time. | viii say that
Rudicil never came to see me at any of