The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-27
KlPPlE BROKE DOWN AGAIN
ONiHE STAND ALLD4 YESTERDAY
 UNDER EXAMINATION.

The Ripple trial was reopened at 10 o'clock yesterday morning in the supe- rior court before Judge Prentice and a jury Ripple resumed his story at the when he was telling of being in Thom- as restaurant with his wife. She had been telling him of an assault which had been made upon her, and Ripple said that he reached for his hand6er- chief, when his wife ran out and had him arrested, evidently thinking that he was reaching for revolver or other weapon.
 He told of his sister having asked him why he did not leave his wife, and he said that he told his sister that he l"veS is wife and couldn't keep away from her.
 .A, ,.-ls point in his story Ripple be- gan to sob and suddenly beginning to pound the witness box rail, he said: T told Annie that if I couldn't have her in this world I have her in the next" Then jumping up, he shouted: By God, I said I'd never tell this story; I'd take states prison for life first" Two deputy sheriffs seized him and bore him to his seat.
 One of his sisters was In the court room when this occurred and she be- gan to sob In another part of the room. She was taken from the court room by officers.
 After Ripple had become quiet, Mir Futile asked him if he remembered Of ficer Streit coming to his house. Kip pie replied that he did not. MT. Futile then said:
 ''They say you stabbed your wife to death Do you remember anything about that?"
 ''No, I do not" shouted the prisoner.
 '.Did you ever have any intention of killing your wife?"
 NO; and everybody who knows me knows that I did not"
 ''What is the next thing you remem- ber?''
 T remember being in a fight of some sort. I heard some one saying that woman had been killed or cut"
 A letter from MT. Tiederman to Kip pie was handed to the court by MT. Futile to be introduced as evidence re- futing the states claim that Ripple came east with the deliberate intention of killing his wife, and also corrobora- ting the story of the prisoner.
 The letter told of the disposition of money sent by Ripple to his wife, and said that May was drunk and fighting all the time, and ought to be confined in an insane asylum. "All she cares for you and me, us two fools is to get money out of us to sport around with buns and loafers. You are a fool if you take her out there to disgrace you I don't know what lie she will write you. but this is the truth and not one half''
 MT. Futile, then offered the letter written by May Ripple from Detroit to William Holmes, whose wife was re- gently divorced from him here.
 The offering of these letters closed the direct examination and MT. Will Hams began cross examination.
 Mr. Williams took Ripple very briefly over his birth and family. and then began series of questions involving the character of the prisoner and show ing that he was frequently arrested for assaulting various people and for steal ing MT. Futile objected to the ques- tions, but was overruled by the court, and took an exception.
 At l o'clock recess was taken and at o'clock the cross examination was resumed. In the course of the exam fnation it was shown that Ripple took up mortgage on some property be- longing to his father in 1888, and Mir Williams produced a bank book which the prisoner identified as his own. On September g, 1888, the book showed $40C was drawn from the bank by Ripple.
 MT. Williams asked if Ripple took UT the mortgages with that s400, and Kip. pie replied that he did not recollect MT. Williams then offered the bank book as evidence and on being asked by MT. Futile what his object was in SC doing, said that it was to show that Ripple was not insane at the time.
 At about o'clock when, in the course of the examination, MT. Will Hams asked Ripple if he killed his wife's canary, the prisoner began tc sob and said that he did not. He sob bed violently and a short recess was taken in order for him to become quiet ed. During the recess, Nipples young. CT brother Andrew went over to him tc CoiiSoie HILL SH6rllI SpleS6l was stand ing by and seeing Andrew put his hand in his pocket as if to give something to the prisoner, he grabbed the younger Ripple and, despite the Iatter's strug gles and protestations, hurried hin from the room
 From this time on during the remain der of the afternoon Ripple kept grow ing more nervous and shook violently his muscles twitching and his head con tinually moving with a jerky motiol J all the while.
 MT. Williams questioned him con < corning his life in Michigan and sev eral assaults he had made on his wifi < while she was living there with him In the course of this questioning Kip [ pie said that he never remembered as
 saulting his wife, but that after tn
 assaults his wife would tell him wha he had done. At this point Kippi N again became much excited and in , rambling sort of way shouted: "Anni referring to his sister) knows if sh would tell all. I am not afraid of tn truth"
 In his questioning MT. Williams re l ferred to wash bowl and pitche sS which Ripple had bought for his wife