Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-24
CLAIM SUICIDE.
Continued from page S.

that time on the lounge and Raglan
sat at the table. In two or three min
utes she also went into the bedroom
bureau. Coaxed him to go to bed and
he was in a mood that he didn't want
to. After she had been in there a few
moments she noticed that he kept one
hand behind him, and she said: Babe,
what have you got in your hand?" and
he said nothing, his hand was all right.
She stood on the right side of him, and
he kept saying to her:
Are you going to get bill from me,
tomorrow? Are you going to live with
me any more. Now you tell me the
truth. If you are going to get bill
from me will kill myself will blow
my brains out"
She talked to him some little time
and said: Yes, Babe, I shall have to
get bill from you. l never can live
this life. l think / have lived it long
enough. If you are willing to stop
drinking and brace up and be man to
me will live with you and do every
thing, as / have done, that l can for
you"
He said: "Tell me the truth right
now. If you are going to sue for a di-
vorce i want to know it now" and she
told him that she was that she intend
ed to get bill on the morrow.
AT that he snatched his hand out
from behind him, and when she saw
the revolver in it it scared her and she
turned and started to run. She could
not say whether he changed the revol-
yer from one hand to the other, be-
cause she had started to go out of the
room.
When she heard the shot she turned
to him and found him sitting on the
floor with his head resting on the bed
and both hands limp by his side She
got her arm around his neck and en-
deavored to stop the flow of blood from
his wound with some of the bed cloth
ing, and called for water and for some
body to go for doctor
Subsequently she and her mother
carried him to the couch in the kitchen
and she remained by him until his
death.
In the morning, Gardiner came under
charge of the house and the revolver.
She remembered that in her statement
to Mr. Heselton she told him that she
was not in the room at the time the
shot was fired. and explained that she
made that statement by the advice nj
her mother and Sam White, it being
agreed that she should also say White
was not there because he did not want
to be mixed up in it.
Her reference to committing murder
in the letter to her husband. she testi-
fed was suggested by tender treatmen.
of the Arabian girl who was committed
to JAIL last spring, charged with kill
ing her baby. while she the prisoner
had been locked up every night ant
kept in close confinement ever since
ton she admitted that she shared hel
cell with the Ara bian woman and tina
the girls food was furnished undel
the direction of the Jail physician, wht
was attending her in sickness.
Fred A. Hoyt testified to being a
the prisoners house at one time wheI
revolver into the ceiling.
Cora L. Witham, sister of the pris
oner, testified that for the past twt
years she had lived in Augusta, tn,
most of the time. at sc Court street
which was in fact the Jail, and tina
she was now occupying the sam,
testified that Everett told her when h,
was in Jail that if Rose got a bill o
divorce from him he would kill him
self.
Mary j. Carson. mother of the ac
cused, testified that at present she wa
stopping with Mr.. McFadden. the sher
if. She testified that she had heart
Everett several times threaten to xii
himself if his wife got divorce from
him. She corroborated the testimon,
relating TO such times as she and he
daughter Rose were present together
The direct testimony of this wtnes
had not been concluded when cour
adjourned, at 5.45 until, Monday morn
ing.
The afternoon trains of Saturday
carried away Captains Conley. Mort
arty, and Hogan to their homes. Col
Onel Kendall also went to his home in