Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-14

from Miss Isabel, and OF Mrs. Turner's
offer to buy them FROM her. She
also stated that Mr.. G. Beverley Tur-
ner had told her that he would Kill
Gilligan If he caught him around his
house. Further, she said that while
her brother, the prisoner, was working
at her home, which ia half mile from
the Turner's, Miss Isabel used to come
over and call him out OF the field. VI
was a poor widow woman with six
fstherless children" she ssid, land she
led him sstray by coming over and
calling him from his work." She said
Miss Turner would drive up and wave
her handkerchief to Nick, and he
would 90 and get in her buggy and
drive of with her right often. She told
Mics Isabel's father about this. Mr..
Turner came over and asked why she
Mrs. Bstten) and her brother, Nick,
did not get along better, She said she
told him that ner daughter was the
cause of IT.; that Miss Isabel came there
after Nick and that both she and her
mother wrote him notes, and that one
night Miss Turner drove over to her
house and called Nick out and drove
him away in the buggy. She told Mr..
Turner about this.
Continuing she said:
"On Marcn 20, 1899, Mr.. Turner, her
father, overlook me on the road and
said: "Sue, come in the buggy with
me- went. He said he hated to tell
me, but, gritti x his teeth and shaking
his head, said he would blow Nck's
brains out. / was very sad at hearing
him say that, with only my sister and
six fatherless children. While | was
sick / heard rumors."
The witness was asked ii Miss Tur.
ner tried to bribe her to get the letters.
Counsel objected, and the court sus-
tanned the objection, and the question
vas not answered.
Mrs. Batten went into details upon
being cross-examined. She said that
Mrs. Turner had offered heI $3.50 to
get the letters for her, but that che told
her she did not ''like to meddle IN
Nick's and Isabel's affairs" "GilligaD
tended crops on nv farm in 1885," said
the witLess, "and Isabel used to come
there to get vegetables. She came to
see Nick sometimes as often as twice a
day, and during the year / suppose she
came hundred times. have known
Nick to leave my horses 10 the field
and 20 of with Isabel, never stopping
to put his coat on. She did her share
leading Nick astrsy, and Nick spent
nearly all the time driving with her
| when she was at home and writing let
ters to her when she was at school.
Her visits to my brother annoyed me
great deal.
Other witnesses testified as to the
events on the pight of the killing. AS
sistant Postmaste Goodson says that
] he saw Isabel and Gilligan together on
I Fergusson's wharf late that evening.
Chester Hundley, q half brother OF Gill
ligan, swore that the latter came home
at $50 O'Clock on the night Of the kill
! ing. Both his shoes, he said, had
round toes. 1t had been testified that
the tracks near the body were made by
both round and sharp toed shoee. he
said Giiigsn seemed much bothered.
Mrs. Chester Hupdley, the next wit
ness, said Gilligan was much perturbed;
that he stamped his foot and said:
"Look what a woman will do for a
man."
J. w. Dashied testified that, as q
member of the coroner's jury, he heard
Isabel say she was nervous, and that
when she heard the gun she could
almost have located the place where
her father was afterward found dead in
the snow.
This afternoon Gilligan will 60 oD
the stand and tell his own story.
The trial will not close before Satur-
day, and may possibly extend into next
week