Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-08
business Of the morning session, and
Court took recess until 2 o'clock.



Soon after the afternoon session
opened the plaintiff was called to the
stand. The general public was ex-
Guided and the doors locked, which
contributed very noticeably to the i'm
| provement of the atmosphere in the
room.
Witness detailed his visit to Eu-
rope, his course of study in Germany
and his return to America. At the
depot here the family met him, and
they went home in cab, where wit
ness found Mrs. Mcknight, his aunt.
Father was grumpy and would not
talk to me"
Dwell, what happened? A.-Af-
ter while he asked me why l had
come home. He appeared to be rather
out of sorts because / came home with
out letting him know. He also said ]
should have gone to Italy because there
was batter climate there for me. He
also said had better go to Cuba.
Q.-How did you know he wanted
you to go to Cuba? Ale wrote me
letter.
Q.-Where is that letter now? A
I don't know.
Q.-Where was it? Alt was in my
trunk. 1t was taken out of it.
0-Ru w Hohh
Witness said his father accused him
of causing trouble between his parents
by telling his mother about letters
written to a girl named .lcFadden by
his father These letters had been
taken from witness trunk by his faith
er. Later his father said: you are
not wanted here, you"
Q.-How did you come to return
from Germany? A.-Because mother
wanted me. She said father was try
ing to get a divorce.
Later witness said: IT was sitting
in the dining room when mother saw
father coming up the board walk.
Mother told me, For Gods sake 60.
Here come old Satan Father did not
allow mother and l to talk together.
Father came into the house and found
me in the sitting rom. He told mother
he was going to put me out of the house
or shoot me. Father got so mad that
he told the servant, the Johnson girl,
to get out of the house as mother could
do her own work. Then father got his
hat and said he was going to have me
arrested. He returned with Bobby
McNichol, who stayed there about two
hours, but he did not put me out of
the house"
Q.-Was anything said when Nc
Nichol was present? Ayes, sir;
that was when father first found out
that I was sent for when was in Ger
many.
Q.-Was your father a candidate for
the Legislature? objection; sustain
ed).-Mr Hubbard remarked, "Why
object, because it is reflection on the
defendant" at which there was a
laugh.
Witness said he warned his father
not to run for the Legislature because
the papers would get hold of his life
and publish how he sent his father to
the penitentiary, and he died there and
father allowed his body to be buried
in the penitentiary graveyard. Then
his father got him to do some cam
paigning. The witness said:
Father wanted me to work the sa-
looms, as / could talk German. He said
he would work the churches"
Il told father that he had better not,
on general principles, go into politics,
because l understood there was but
about $120 in it for legislator. Father
said that was true, but it was worth
while because after you got to the Leg
islature somebody would pay you big
money for your vote
Witness told of threats made by his
father to kill his mother, and said il
he could not do it in one day he would
take three days to kill her.
Q.-After that what conversation
was thre between your father and
mother? A.-There was converse
ton between father, mother and my
self on the same day. Mother had the
conversation with father. He came to
the house after mother sent the note
in which she said she would not live
with him. He came and wanted to
see mother. When he came to the
door it was locked, but mother said to
let him in. He came in and went to
the stair door, and called to mother to
come down, as he wanted to talk with
her. She did not want to go, but l
took hold of mother and showed her
down the stairs and told her to go and
talk to him. They went into the din
ing room. =. He remarked that
sometimes he got too much of that
id wine.
Q.-What did he refer to? A.-There
was a barrel of wine in the cellar.
Q.-What was the practice as to your
fothor ucino 1xr;poS fOJ,;aot;ap- $50.