Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-12-14

had no words. After attending to some
things in the yard after breakfast, he
went into the kitchen again to get
some nails. Mrs. Wallace asked him
what he was going to do. He said he
proposed to repair fence, to husk
some corn, and later to 60 to Philadei.
phia, il she would allow HIM the $40 OF
hers which he had in his pocket.
She replied that he could not have 1T
and that she felt more like killing him
than anything else.
He said she picked up hammer, and
be said: Don't you 60 fooling with
that hammer, you have got more sense
than that" But she threw it at him |
with the intention of striking him in |
the head. He lodged and IL struck |
him on the shoulder
This made him angry and he struck
her with full force and knocked her
down on the lounge on her side. She
fell to the floor.
"And when she got up, which was
very quickly" he went on, "she came
with a hammer again, and as soon as
she got near me grasped the hammer.
She was as stout as l was. ! got the
hammer away from hei. She struck at
me again, We we're both crazy. |
struck the woman with full force. and
from that time until laid the hammer
on the cupboard, ! know nothing more
about it.
| After laid the hammer down on
| the cupboard it began to come to me
| what / had done. l saw what terrible
thing | had done.
| II then went to the door and saw
Ella Smith, and said: Ella, do you go
aud tell Mary 1.-THE child) not TO go to
school today.
From that started right up the
road and went on uE by the church, y
The prisoner told the course of his
journey northward. He said he walked
his usual gait.
Where were you going2" asked Mr.
Richards.
II was cutting for New Castle"
What for?"
II was going thero to tell what ]
had DONE"
ITO tell whom?''
"Whoever | first met; the sheriff.
On his way, Wallace saw boy, a
man named FenDimore and James
Carton. When he reached Middletown,
he walked a piece on the main street
and afterwards took the railroad. Ar
irving at Mt. Pleasant, be bought some
cakes offering IS bill of Mrs. Perry s.
$40, which he still had. He walked
about mile further and sat down and
ate the cakes. Two men on horseback
came up and asked him il he had seen
man with light clothes He had an
idea he was the man they meant. A
man on bicycle also came along
Wallace walked up to some men at work
, on the railroad and addressed one he
knew, who said: Hold on, we want
, A-Ir 10 I-A
, where he had hearing.
, The prisoner was cross examined by
Deputy Attorney. General Cooper.
! Wallace said he had been away and re-
turned in September; that he was
, going to leave because he was tired OF
i the life he had been Leading He mad
] lived with the woman seven years and
they had had two children. The ham
mer, which he said he got from the
( Baldwin Locomotive Works, was kept
' in the Kitchen, and he had used il
/ November 9Th to take nail from his
Z child's shoe.
Mr.. Cooper asked him If the hammer
bruised his shoulder. lie replied that
! he had never looked and never had II
4 examined. although it still hurts him
: some. The woman was about 5 feet
! inches tall and he had heard her say
she weighed 1888 pounds After sh,
: threw the hammer at him, she cams
! towards him with her arms out
!, stretched, and he then struck he
d with his fist.
g ibid you attempt to evade her O
y get out of her road2" asked Mr.
n Cooper.
mo, sir. G
If Wallace could not explain the bruise
/ on her arms. Nor could he remembe
n having seen her fall.
Is "You struck her hard2"
% Il suppose | did"
/. s'How many times?"
lie II could not say. / remember n
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ID Your mind became q biank?"
Il "That's what it did," 81
. Wallace could not explain how tn
0, piece of woman's dress came to b
around the hammer. He did not thin
s. the body was in the chimney plac
10 when he last saw it. He did not kno
whether or not the woman was deac
a. aud yet made no effort to care for her.
~ Mr.. Cooper asked him if he did nc
id say to Magistrate Reynolds that il i
ms had got by the canal he would hay
n hidden until after night and then g
ld away. The witness denied any sue
I'D Reynolds would not testify SO.
of Wallace denied also that he said
Detective Witsil when Witsil aske
of why he was walking on the railroad
o. "What would you do If you had dor
an trick like that ?'' and that Wits
id asked him If he meant he was trying
a get away, and that he replied Eyes. -
adj "No, sir,n said Wallace to NJ
Cooper. IF l did l must have bee
We crazy
Ter AS to ethes hammer, ssthe witne
el- thought the letters I'D. D. !" on it we
private mark. Mr.. Cooper thoug
he it might mean delaware Division. =
~ The prisoner displayed some cage
no ness in making out his case, showing
3 tendency to make a long statement fl
,er lowing the specific answer
nj In the absence of Ella Walker, wi
on had been summoned, the State admit
NO that she would testify that she was
,ce Walace's before breakfast and throul
nd breakfast time and saw nothing u
VI usual between Wallace and Mrs. w;
al lace.
ner Thomas Fennimore of Thoroughfa
On. Neck swore that he saw Wallace a
her Harry Rawley about O'Clock on n
mt, vember 9th, The defence tried to bri
ew out statement made by Wallace
on. Rawley. 1t was allowed by a MAORI
by of the court, Sprusnce and Grubb.
zed Fennimore replied that Wallace tc
ian the Rawley boy to tell his erandmott
led to 60 to the house, that Mrs. Walla
md was sick and wanted her.
lch When the defence wanted to KIN
dr. what Rawley said in reply Chief just