The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-04-06

"hOh hC BOI DdCh, uo WOuNu ublp Lle uIlu
the boots; | told him while he was gone
l would go to work and do the chores up;
cleaned ont the stables; could not tell
you what time he came back; well, when
he came back, he told me he was ready
to get them boots for me; went out to
the old house with him, but we could not
find the boots; | do not think there was
any more said that morning, we went to
work and done the chores and helped
him; Mrs. West came to the door and told
us dinner was ready; we went to dinner,
and after dinner went to the woods
with him, and helped him get two loads
OF wood; | took my gun along with me
with the intention Of going over to Mr..
Barnes IN Huntington, and on the way
out, he asked me if did not want to stay
another day, stay with him and help him
being Mr.. West was away; l told him |
would; went and put my gun in the
sugar-bush, behind a zinc, and helped
him get the wood; | helped him feed the
stock; got down hay; did not have any
thing to do with the milking that even
ing; stayed with Mr.. Pachenbush that
evening in the room south of the house;
he was out of the bedroom for time;
do not know where he was; said he was
going for papers; he was gone about an
hour; in the morning, l went to the barn
first; | done the milking, commenced ON
the west end Of the north row; MIXED
seven cows that morning; there were
two rows of cattle in the stable, five in
the south row and three in the other,
making eight cattle in all; five COW were
MIXED; Pachenbush was feeding The
cows and horses; (here Fox identified the
boots and mittens as belonging to himD
there was not very much said about the
boots the first morning was there; |
said to him l left pair Of boots there; |
told him Mr.. West gave them to NE in
the fall of '96, when worked there; he
said they are in the old house, and when
we went to the old house and looked
around, we could not find any boots
there; told him they looked very much
like the boots left there; he claimed |
was accusing him of wearing my boots;
had this conversation in the barn; | was
milking at the time. and we were talking
about the boots; we would keep chang
ing off this subject, and then go back to
it again; he got mad and threatened me;
told me he would throw me out Of the
barn, at which told him was Just as
big as he was; with that, he says, 1 will
see about this; | could hardly under
stand him; he came rushing at me; he
did not put me out Of the barn; he talked
somewhat brOkenly; he struck at me, and
struck me in the face, when turned and
struck him; he got enraged, and seized
some club, some big club, looked to me
like a plOw-handle, and rushed ME back
into the corner with it; in the southeast
corner Of the barn, he struck at my head
l showed my head out one side, and the
club struck the wall; he struck at me
three or four times; struck me on the
shoulder and on the arm; my arm was
all swollen up for quite while after;
got the club under my arm in some way,
and lying OH the girt to my right was
the iron barn-dOOr roller; | seized this III
defend myself with; struck at him, and
drove him back; he kept striking at me
all the time; | saw had to fight for my
life; he threatened to kill me right there
and then; struck him with the roller;
do not recUllect where | struck him;
struck him somewhere on the head; he
rushed me back into the corner, and |
went down on my hands and knees in
the corner; there he got on top of me,
and threatened to kill me; lin the corner
back of the cows, behind the last row; in
the struggle, | got up and got him down,
and knelt OD his arm; | told him did
not come there for any fight; l just sim
ply wanted my rights; he swore when he
got up he would murder me; then got
up and he seized this club and came al
me, and there was no way to sget out, w
had to fight 1t out there and then; he haC
me in the corner pretty near all tn,
time; when the truble began, | was sit
ting at the last COW; set the pail in tn,
corner, in the southwest corner; in tn,
scufle, it got kicked over; when strucI
him with the iron, he was trying to ge
the club away from me to strike me will
it; had it in under my left arm; we'll
he kicked at me, and at that let go o
the club; he struck me on the shOulde
with it; he struck at my head, and
moved my head to one side, and it strucI
my shoulder; then l saw it was time +
strike him; struck him to get away from
him; was in fear Of my life; got som
felt boots at that time; he had a pair 0
felt boots on; yes sir. they were mine;
believe the same now; he had some rub
bers over the felts; l pulled the rubbers
felts and all off from his feet; pulled tn
rubbers from the felts, left the rubber
there because they did not belong to me
introduced some rags, clothes. etc. > sa,
than in the hnuse whom nullad off n,