The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08

| have to die, and said he would shoot
| me and showed me the revolver.
| Q-Where did you eat dinner that day?
AIT his cousins, near Meriden-
Odd he introduce you to his cousin
| as his wife?
| Ayes, sir.
Odd you drive toward Meriden
when you left his cousins?
Ayes, sir. for little way. Then he
turned around because he said he had
| too many relations living around there.
Q-Where did he say he was going?
Ale said he was going to Grant
Vile
Q~Did you object?
A-Yes, sir; but he pulled out the
revolver and told me he would end
things there if I didn't behave myself.
Odd he say anything about taking
A-Yes, sir. He asked me once if I
wouldn't come to town and get some
morphine or chloroform so we could
Odd you go to Granville?
A-NO, sir. He turned back and came
to North Topeka
Odd you see him write any note
in the buggy?
A-Yes, Sir; he wrote a note on the
back of a note he had paid off at J. M.
knights. He said Dear mother, bury
me and my wife together"
Q-When did he write the note?
A-When we drove north on the Gar
field park road, after coming to North
Topeka in the evening.
Q-Do you remember leaving the ave-
nue. and turning west?
A-No. sir. I don't remember any
thing after seeing the note until after
they took the bullet out Of my head at
the Salvation Army hospital
Cross examination:
Q-When did you first meet viii
/ Hummer?
An an employment Office on kan
sas avenue.
Q-How long did you live at the
Hummer home before you commenced
to live with him as his wife?
About two weeks.
Odd you start to live with him as
his wife at his house?
Ayes, sir.
Q-Had you been away with him any
where just before you started to live
with him as his wife?
Ave came up town one afternoon
and when we went back he told his
mother we would go to town that even
ing and be married.
Q-When did you first speak of mar
riage?
Ale proposed to me the first even
ing I was at his house, but paid no
particular attention to him. He pro
posed the second night again and
told him thought we could lead
happy life.
Q[Did you come back up town that
evening after being in town in the
afternoon?
Ayes, sir.
Q-How late did you stay?
Ave stayed so late that we missed
the last car and had to walk home.
Odd you go to any house during
the evening?
A-No, sir. We just went into stores
and up and down the avenue.
Q-Then you went home?
Ayes, sir.
Q-E?u hadn't been married2
Q-You knew you had not been mar
ried?
A-Wen. I hardly know. Sometimes
I thought I was and sometimes l
thought wasn't. was just as though
I was in a dream.
Q-When you reached the Hummer
house, who was there?
A-No one was there, but Will went
to the room where his mother was
sleeping and told her that we had been
married
QIThen he retired with you?
Ayes, sir.
Q-When did you first say anytnlng
to him about being married after that
time?
A-Two or three days afterward,
when I began to realize how things
were, I begged him to save his money
so we could be married.
Odd you say anything to him after
Al asked him every day to arrange
it so we could be married, but he put
it off from day to day.
Odd you quarrel during this time?
Ayes, sir, we quarrelled almost all
the time.
G-Why did you quarrel!
A-Because he accused me or having
been with other men.
O-Had he manifested any DISPOSE
ton to do you harm before this Satur-
day that you started to Meriden?
Ale pulled two revolvers out of
his pocket one evening and afterward
when wanted to go over to see mamma
he told me that if insisted on staying
I wanted to remember that he had the
revolvers and had better not.
Odd he ever call you vile names?
A-Yes, sir; whenever we were alone
almost.
Q-Then he only treated you well
when other people were around?
A-Only when we were away at some
other place He would sit around at
home and tell his mother how low |
was and accuse me of doing things
OGWhen you reached his cousins
house why didn't you stay there II you
were afraid of him?
there and talked about going to house
keeping in a little while
O-WhiIe you were driving along
didn't you meet anybody after you De-
came alarmed for your safetyE
Al don't remember that we met
0EWasn't you near many houses
after you drove back into North To-
Ayes, sir. we were near some
houses, but I don't remember much
about it. 1 didn't remember Hluch 49, -
I ate the watermelon with him after
leaving his cousins house.
O-But you made no effort to tell
anyone of your danger?
A-No. sir. I prayed God that ne
wouldn't kill me, and l felt Just as
though it would be impossible for me
O-You say that your first recollec-
ton after seeing him write the note was
when the bullet was removed from your
head?
Ayes, sir.
n-nn Won remember everything that |