Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-03-09
TAKING HUN BACK.
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z. Have you told us everything
just how it was done2
A. This is the straight truth Of it;
don't see how ever done the deed;
it is done and it can't be helped.
z, Was there ever any private
trouble between you and your wife,
A. OF course it is like this. OF
course there is different things ahead
that ! don't tell to anyone, but don't
talk about it. Well, her and me,
always, to tell the fact about it, had
had more or less trouble, we never
was married no length Of time till we
had trouble all the time, and told
her two or three different times if we
could not get along togather we had
better just be free, but she never
seemed to want it, Well, there was
one Of the neighbors over there, that
was kind of a cripple, and ! used
to work for HIM when could. She
was always going on with me about
it and that was too intimate with
his wife.
z. What was his Nance
A. G. G. Sicily.
q. Did you have any words about
it?
A. When | come home she struck
me across the back and across the top
of the head with a board. That was
three or four years ago. Trouble been
working along all the time ever since
we was married.
Q, Did you have any other troublep
A. Not that night. OF course
there was quite a lot Of hard feeling
because tried to let her 90 clear from
me when she did not care for me, ii
seemed as though that was the way it
went,
Q, What did you do with the
pants You had onP
A. ! didn't have any pants on.
Q. Is there any blood on your un-
derclothing9
A. Why, | do not know whether
there is or not
| O. Have you got on the same un-
derclothing now
A. Yes | never intended to make
any escape from this thing after |
had done it. But of course hated it
right then. 1t was a sudden thing.
| never had thought through my
head. Yes sir that was the way it
was because ! never had thought Of
hurting her or the family. She stay
ed there when you might say she was
in danger.
e. Did your wife try to prevent
you from killing them
A. Yes, she said that she thought
| promised her that ! never would
hurt her or the children. 1t seemed
as though | could not stop. She just
talked. She said she thought ! never
would hurt her or the children. II
seemed as though that with the
thought Of the boy being dead there
was nothing to live for
@ Then you went ahead and kill
ed them allp
A. Yes.
G. How old was the youngest childP
A. A little over year and half
not quite two two years old.
G. Now what was the trouble
with you and your wifeP
A. 1t is just like this, we had
trouble right along all the time like.
told her and | tried to get her to 60
up and get a civil divorce. told her
also she could lay it on any ground
she wanted and | would give it to her
and | laid it to her week or so be-
before this happened.
@ If your trouble was with your
wife, why did you kill the children
A. / don't see what did it for. |
did not know what was dong or |
never could have done it, the time she
struck me on the back and nearly
knocked me down | never struck her
back for it, and there were some
neighbors and another couple there.
| never could hit a woman because |
seen too much Of that amongst other
people.
Q. Did you strike them hard to
crush their skulls