Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-06-18

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be a good wife and mother? Does
she not say that she is the cause of
all the trouble? She writos hero ::
i cannot live without you any lon
ger, Herman. Herman, do not
think l do not miss you. Now 1
ask you once more 60 come home.
''Is this the tone and feeling of an
injured woman? Do not these let
ters show that the stories of wrong
and outrage are the baseless fabri-
cation of prejured witnesses upon
the stand? The husband camo back
and lived with his wife without
trouble, until this immaculate son,
Charles, procuros an officer and puts
his father out Of the house.
"rhe defendant makes no effort
to find his wife until September, al
though she had come up here i'm
July Then he learned that a
fortune was waiting for him in Ger
many, and it was the humane in
spiration Of an affectionate husband
ana honest man 10 seek OFT his wife
to share his fortune with her. He
desired TO take her and Paul and
Willie with him, but TO leave be-
hind the whitening, blasting, blight
ing curse of the family, 'the son
Charles, that oceans might roll be-
tween them.
This boy gave his mothers adj
dress TO the father because he be-
gan to see the glimmer of German
gold. He wanted TO make a recon-
ciliation in the family that he might
share the riches. This fellow behind
all his villainy and rascality, is no
fool. He is cunning scoundrel
He says to himself. Pm her favor
ite son. I'll show my mother that
my father and / are friends again.
Ill bring her back to him. Then
III get a finger in this money.
There's the motive.
"The little boy, Paul is suscepti-
bic to this devilish influence, al
though he is a fine, good hearted
lad. Yet he took an oath on the
stand to swear to the truth against
his father life. When last Septem-
Der he net his father with lie on
his lips at the mere prompting of
his mother and called him Uncle,
he is told what to say and he goes
and says it, :"
The speaker, after using his efforts
to demolish the credibility of the
witnesses in the family, followed
the course of events at the farmhouse
claiming that no signs of hard feel
ing had been shown
"lf that woman had been afraid of
this man she need only have informed
the people around her and asked
them to send him away. Would she
have spent night after night with
him at Shohola and have planned to
go to New York with him? The
woman was pictured as remorseful
hysterical, on that fatal night, re-
preaching herself for her past inf
deity and wrongdoing toward her
husband, fearing return of her old
habit of drink worrying about the
evil influen ce of her son Charles
over her. This eliminated in a
hasty resolve, in a fit of temporary
insanity, to take her own life. The
pressure of a trigger while her hus-
band slept and her soul faced its
Maker.
"Why Schultz did not hear the re.
port of the revolver do not know
IT is strange, but not impossible
Have You not slept soundly through
the heaviest thunderstorms, whose
cannonading is far louder than any
pistol shot?"
VAN ETTEN's CLOSING WORDS.
In his peroration Mr.. Van Etten
said -
$50 far as the testimony of the
son Charles is concerned, upon
which the case of the Common
wealth largely rests, l know, and
you know, who has sworn life
away, if life has been forfeited
| tell you that l would not hang an
Indian dog upon such evidence as
that.
ACCUSED HUSBAND wEEPs.
During this speech the pale, slen
/ der boy Charles sat and looked a
the speaker who had hurled blasting
epithets at him, but the allege(
juvenile "arch villain" did not NOV
or change color. His face was with
out emotion, but his father, the pri
/ soner, was apparently hard hit. Hi
ewes were red with weeping and h
followed every word and gesture o
the man who very ably foughtin IT,
finishing engagement of the strug
gle for life.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY s ADDRESS.
District Attorney Van Auken be
gan his address at $50 O'Clock an
spoke for an hour and a half. Hi
: argument, in substance, was as fol
lows -
"Did this man on the witnes
stand deny that he had ever threat
ened to kill his wife? No. He di
not repudiate the evidence of his so
Charles. He made these threats an
then he comes to Pike county, til
serpent in another Paradise, ant
l within sixty hours this cheerful
? eontented woman was dead by hi
3 side. She expressed horror and SUI
I prise at seeing him. He said l
brought bad news. She was afrai
of him, she couldn't eat and on IL
. first night she slept with her litt
!. son Paul. She became despondel
= and never again was like herself
\ life" -.
= Very carefully and slowly the Di
t trict Attorney established the weigl
of the evidence which showed pr