The record-union., 1899-12-28
PROTESTS her INNOCENCE.
MRS. SILVA DENIES THE CON-
sPTRACY CHARGE.
But She Was Bound Over to Keep
the Peace Toward Her
Husband.

The preliminary examination of Mrs
Mary Silva, charged with threatening
the life of her husband, A. ]. Silva, by
conspiring with one Manuel Morris to
murder him, was conducted in the City
Justices Court yesterday, resulting In
her being bound to keep the peace.
bonds being fixed in the sum of 500.
The intention, as has been indi-
Gated, is to have the woman examined
respecting her sanity.
Her husband testified that he had
lived in this city thirty years and had
been married twenty-four years. On
Wednesday evening of last week, after
he had gone to bed, he woke and
heard his wife and daughters talking
upstairs The daughters were crying.
They subsequently came down and
told him their mother had been talk
ing to a bad man. They wanted him
| to go upstairs to sleep, but he got
shotgun with which to protect him
self and remained in bed.
The next day, Silva said, he went to
see Manuel Morris, the man who Els
daughters thought had been talking
with their mother. Morris got into wit
| ness wagon and the latter drove with
him to the police station, where Nor
ris said Mrs Silva had offered him
$40 to kill Silva. Witness subsequently
asked his wife whether she had made
any contract with Morris to kill him,
and she denied it. His wife had hat
ed him for fifteen years, but he had
| never before been afraid of her.
Of Ach hof
day of last week Silva called on him
and told him that his daughters had
| overheard his wife plotting with a
man to kill him. Silva did not know
who the man was, but thought he
could find him. Witness told him to
find the man, and in the afternoon
Silva came back with Manuel Nor
ris. Witness questioned Morris, and the
latter admitted that Mrs. Silva had
contracted with him to kill her hus-
band for $40, and it had been arranged
that he should go into the loft of Sill
vas barn and kill him when he went to
feed his horses.
Witness advised Silva to go into hid,
ing, and sent Morris back to Mrs. Sill
va with the story that he had killed
her husband. Morris went to the
woman, and subsequently reported
that she had promised to get him the
| money.
Manuel Morris was next called. He
| Is II years old, and is general labor
er. He is Portuguese and lives in
Monterey County. He said he was at
Silva's place Of business four or five
times within the last few months.
About q month ago he had a CONVEX
sation with Mrs. Silva respecting her
| husband. At that time she took him
to barn between Third and Fourth, N
and o streets, and offered him $40 to
kill her husband.
| When he went to Silva's place the
first time Silva was not in, but Mrs.
| Silva was. She said her husband was
no good, and that she wished he was
dead. Witness went out of the store,
and Mrs. Silva also came out and
went into the alley and beckoned him
to follow. She went to the barn and
he followed. She told him she would
| give him $40 to kill her husband. He
declined to do anything of, the kind,
! and she told him she could get man
| to do the job for $40. She showed him
| the trap-door in the loft, and all the
arrangements in the barn, but he went
out and said goodby to her.
About a month later, when witness
was working for Brown, who keeps
woodward. he again saw Mrs. Silva.
At that time she told him she thought
he was different kind of man-that
on the night before Silva had come
home late and gone into the barn with
out lantern, and he could have done
him up easily
Witness saw Mrs. Silva again after
he had told his story to Chief of Po-
lice Ash. He told her Silva was dead,
and he wanted the $40, as he wanted
to leave town. She said to him that
she would give him the money if Silva
was dead. He went back the next day,
and she told him to meet her at
Fourth and M streets at z o'clock in
the evening and she would pay him.
He did not go back after that
Mrs. Silva insisted on making a state
ment. She wanted her daughters to
explain about the man Morris-that
she had never seen him before, and
knew nothing about him. She said she
never offered Morris any money to kill
her husband, and did not go with him
to the stable. Everything that Nor
ris had said was false. She wanted her
daughters called with reference to the
man Morris.
In accordance with Mrs. Silvas re-
quest her daughter, Miss Annie Silva,
was called.
She testified that on Wednesday
night last a week ago she saw her
mother and man talking near their
home on Fourth street She could not
say whether or not the man was Nor
r1s. but he resembled him. She went
down and told her father she thought
1t was Morris. She did not hear any
thing about any contract between her
mother and Morris to kill her father.
Justice Anderson said he thought the
case, peculiar as it was, ought to be
settled elsewhere, and 1t appearing to
him that the defendant might commit
a crime against her husband, he bound
her over to keep the peace and fixed
bonds in the sum of $500, or remain in
the County Jail for three months.
Justice Anderson said he believed the
woman was not right in her mind, and
he wanted her examined respecting her
sanity.
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