Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-09

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by Mr.. Hubbard to the question.
Afternoon Session.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion Mr.. Howard resumed the cross
examination, going carefully over the
direct testimony and covering a large
amount of ground.
About three o'clock Mr.. Howard
turned his attention to threats said to
have been made by plaintiff against de-
PENDANT, and asked:
Didn't you follow your father to
Dillie's Bottom? Ale went down
there and I went down later.
Ole was there when you got
there? Ayes.
Gil ask you again. didn't you fol-
lew your father to Dillie's Bottom? A.
NO. That's a word which has been
used too often. When I went there he
was out hunting. 1 went to the house
and he came there.
Q.-Whose house was it? A.-Mrs.
~Thompson's.
Odd you talk to him there? A.
Yes.
Q.-Who was present? A.-No one
was present. We were in the yard. I
asked him what he meant by drawing
up the Ewing paper, and he said he
didn't do it-had nothing to do with it
had nothing to do with it at all. I
told him / knew he did draw it up, and
l wanted to see II he would lie. He
again said he didn't do it. SO That
day l told him If he didn't mean what
he said when he came back from Pied
mont, O.-that he would behave him
self and treat mother right and stop his
scrapping-I would have him arrested.
He wanted me to stay there that night.
l came back to Wheeling.
Odd you say anything about
$1,000? A.-No; I did not intend to
say anything about $1,000.
Q.-Didn't YOU take him a letter from
your mother? Al took some mail,
and I believe there was a letter from
mother in it.
Q.-While you was there did you ask
your father to walk up the railroad?
A.-No.
Q.-Didn't you urge him repeatedly
to go away from the house? A.-No.
Q.-Didn't you tell him you had in
vestigated your mothers character, and
had found she had been unchaste? A.
No; I always believed my mother to
be a good woman.
Q.-But didn't you tell your father
that? A.-No.
Odd you tell your father anything
that day about your mother? A.-No;
I said nothing about her character.
Odd You know the contents of
the letter from your mother? Al
did not know of there being a letter
from my mother.
Q.-Is it not a fact that the might be-
fore, in your fathers absence, you
went to your mothers room, and under
threats to kill her compelled her to
write a note to your father, asking for
$1,000? Al never did. He offered
me a check the morning it was cashed,
and / refused to take it.
Q.-You refused to take 1T? A.
Yes.
Odd you get a letter from your
mother each evening while you were at
the island? A.-She wrote me each
evening.
Odd you get all the letters she
wrote? Ayes.
Q.-Where are those letters? A
Out at Woods. I'll bring them to-mor-
row.
Q.-When you came back from Rush
Medical College as a graduate, you
opened a practice in wheeling? A.
Yes.
Q.-On the Island? Ayes.
Q.-Where was your office? AIT
the steel bridge and South Penn streets.
Q.-Who owned the building? A.
Father.
Q.-Who furnished the office? A.
Father.
Q.-When did you open the practice?
A.-After the Fair, in 1896.
Q.-What was the cause Of your
closing up of the office? objection;
allowed), Al was going to Germany
to take a course of medicine and closed
up the Office sometime in March.
Q.-When did you go to Germany?
A.-On August 18th.
Q.-And you closed the oflce in
March? Ayes.
Odd you stay regularly at your
Office and attend to your practice from
the time you opened it until you closed
it? Objection; argument; overruled).
Ayes. sir; but I was away on several
hunts.
Q.-How many times were you hunt
ing? Al don't know.
Q.-What is your best recollection?
Al was at the island several times,
and in Chic once.
Q.-Hunting? Ayes.
Q.-Did you stay q day or two at a