Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-07

Ny sister did not know it had been |
till / found it this morning.
saw some tracks in front of my
iather's house after [ went over
here later in the morning and
thought they were the tracks
Of my wife. / thought she might
have gone to her mothers house. l
followed them and found they pass
ed the lane that would take her to
her mothers, and then ] thought
she had gone over on the railroad to
let a train run over her and be done
with it. | knew at once that no one
but my wife could have done the
deed at the house. My brother Milo
went with me and we followed the
tracks up the road and we found her
bonnet near the quarry. 1t is an
stone quarry filed with
water. recognized the bonnet as
one that Ruth mad been in the habit
of wearing. We supposed that the
body was in the quarry and We came
back to town. We told my father
and some other people. / was not
present when the body was found.
Ny wife and | never had any trou-
BILE. We got along good. l never
heard her make any threats of either
or murder, except what L
have stated before. / never saw the
club which you have showed me,
and which You say you found under
the bed. She must have got it at
the new house which is being put up
next to my house."
Dr.. Dougherty's Statement.
DIR. L. E. Dougherty testified as
follows:
II have known Mrs. Kate Wise
about 30 years. l think it was on
Monday, July ST.. when Mrs. Wise
called at my office. She told me that
her daughter was not right and L
asked her whether she had been
keeping company with anybody and
she said she had not to her knowl-
edge. She then wanted to know
whether 1 could do anything for her
and / told her that if she had
taken cold could probably relieve
her.
''She said she didn't know whether
she had or not. l told her | would
give her little iron and gave her a
two ounce vial containing dram
and a half of muriated tincture of
iron and sufficient water in the same
vial. colored with caromel. l
her to give the girl tea
spoonful of it in a fourth of q cup of
water after each meal. She wanted
10 know then whether if this did no
good she would come back. l told
her that l thought that was all 1
could do for her. I then asked her
whether she did not really suspect
hat the child might be in serious
condition.
''She said she was afraid there
might be something of that kind.
She said if there was, unless she
could get relief, she could not possi-
oly live through it. l told her that
she wanted to live and hunt down
he party that got the girl into trou-
Die. She then said that would dou-
Die the disgrace. After sitting for a
minute OF such matter with her face
her hands, elbows resting
IN her knees, she got up and left
With the remark: If there is any
hing wrong with her [ can't possi-
lie live through it, She left the
,ffice.
II knew nothing personally about |
he family affair of the Wises but
lave heard story that Levi Camp |
'nce mounted a horse to go over to
Wise's house, when they lived out
With Mrs. Byerly, to see who was
murdered as the people had heard a
,ry of murder.
Il never heard her make any |
hreats except what have stated. I
lever examined the girl. L have
heard that the girl Ruth and her
were on very good terms.''