The herald., 1898-06-26
MISS EDNA LARKIN

lodger in the house, under an agreement to
pay 81 per week, which he Claims to have
done, but which the Larkins as strongly
claim he never paid in full And now the
tale comes to the more immediate incidents
which led to the airing Of the matter In the
d courts. and as Miss Larkin's description of
\ the affair is very graphic, it is given as re-
lated to the court yesterday:
"Mr. Abbot first insisted on marrying me
some time in the winter, but We had only
a little difficulty with him until January,
when my repeated refusais to have any
thing to do with him SO angered him that
he threatened to do me harm. He raised
such a disturbance one night about that
time that we ordered him ou. of the house.
He would not go and finally went for an
officer. That time he was removed by Mr..
Mallory, and we ordered him never TO come
In the house again, but he did so repeatedly,
and time after time told me that did not
know with whom was dealing; that he was
desperate man and bad one, and that he
would kill me if l did not marry him. He
tod me further that he never permitted any
one to oppose him, and those who had
tried it had come to grief. One man he
claimed to have pommel.ed to death in
Chicago, and said the man still haunts him.
No threat seemed to be too extreme for
him, he ever telling me he would burn
down the house break everything to pieces
and kill me. All this If did not marry
him. On one occasion while indu.ging in
this kind Of taikfheethrew waste basket at
NV head. ,oroe sah
ION Saturday night, May 21st, he followed
me home from Los Angeles, came in the
house and went to bed in the room he had
before slept in and remained all night,
despite our protests. Next day he hung
around outside the house all day, and at
twenty minutes after 10 that night broke
into the house through the dining room win
dow, saying as he entered: I'll show you
women that you can't keep me out
jumped up from bed. dressed and went out
into the dining room. He seized an Indian
club and struck at me powerful blow
saying: L might as wei, finish the job now
1 lodged the blow and mamma ordered him
to leave the house. He refused to do so,
and then locked myself in my bedroom,
and, after deibe- ating two hours or more
finally climbed out of the window, the only
way I could get out, and went for Cons Ia
BILE Reed. The constable arrived at the
house In due time, and found Abbot with
the Indian club still in one hand and re-
volver in the other and an axe also standing
near The constable talked with him per-
haps an hour, and then took him away with
,him."
In the cross-examination Miss Larkin
stated that she did not tell District Attorney
Donnell that she did not know to her own
knowledge that Abbot had made threats
against her life. She also said that Abbot
was acound their house from 80 O'Clock In
the Afternoon until O'Clock In the evening
On the Sunday in question and that when
he forced an entrance to the house she did
rot strike him. She alleged that he struck
her in the face one time and that since
bringing this suit against him si.t feared
him more thin ever.
Abbot, whose department In the court
room was evidence that he possessed bad
temper, told a very different story, which
ran as follows:
"Previous to May %. I boarded at Larkins'
for ten days and had spent every ngNt in the
house and eaten every meal there, accord
Ing to my arrangement with them for
boarding, at 81 per day. On the Friday pre-
vious to the ed gave them 81 for the week
succeeding that date and on Saturday even