Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01

son he did not go was because his
father could not agree to treat his
mother right.
In answer to further questions by Mr..
Howard, witness said:
II don't want to say anything against
their character, but | can tell this jury
that no women ever used worse Ian
guage about the house than my mother
and sister,"
why do you tell that about your
mother?"
Because it is the truth, and I want
the jury to know what we were used
to at home"
Epithets Used.
Mr.. Howard took witness over the
incidents connected with the converse
could not write a check large enough
to settle the scrap" Witness said his
mother was alarmed and left for Mrs.
Hubbard's. The elder Hissom follow
ed. Then witness and Witten went
down.
Did you go together?"
Yes"
ION the contrary, isn't it true that
you ran down to the side door with a
revolver in your hand?"
NO; Witten and | went in together
What did Mrs. Hubbard say?"
"She said: Have the s. of b.
arrested"
DO you mean to say that your sis
ter used such language as that?"
Mrs. Hubbard could swear oaths a
yard long"
Now, why do you tell this jury such
thing about your own sister,"
Because it's the truth?"
After they returned to the house,
witness said his mother wrote letter
to her husband. Mrs. Hubbard came
up and took the note. Mrs. Hubbard
came back. Mrs. Hissom heard the
noise at the door, and screamed that
her husband was returning and would
kill somebody. Witness pulled out a
revolver, and replaced it in his pocket
when Mrs. Hubbard entered.
Isn't it true that you held that re-
volver at your mothers head, in the
presence of all the rest and compelled
her to write that note?"
No, that's all your imagination"
1T was a note suggesting a separa-
ton, wasn't it?"
Yes" -.+t
why didn't you interfere to prevent
it,"
1T was none of my business"
you came home to prevent sepa-
ration, didn't your"
Il came home to prevent separa-
ton through father getting a man from
Kentucky to swear he had intercourse
with mother that summer, for l knew
it was a. lie."
Did you want separation"
mo. l advised against it,
Witness admitted that he was shown
a paper in Attorney EWings office,
agreeing for consideration of 81, 900 to
remain away from his fathers home
for a period of five years. The paper
stated in effect that witness had been
creating disturbance in the family,
and interfering with the domestic re-
lations, and was to go away for five
years and not return for five years ex-
cept by request of ]. R. Hissom. Mr..
Howard exhibited what purported to be
the paper, and witness denied that it was
the same paper.
When you saw the paper what Gid
you say?7
Il told him he was on the wrong
track, that it was a lie. l asked him
who had prepared it, and he said faith
err | refused to sign it,"
The $1,000 Check.
Then you went to Dillie's Bottom to
see your father about it?'
Yes"
Did you talk to him about the pa
PERI"
Il told him Ewing had pretty tough
paper, and he denied that he wrote it.
/ told him if he meant business, he
would have to treat mother right.
told him he would have to draw up
such a paper as he had agreed to. At
forwards l stopped in to see Mr.. Ewing
and told him father said he was q
liar"
Didn't you try to get the check fol
$1,000 without signing the paper"
NO"
why did you give DR.. Meyers short
answers when he called on you?"
Il had met him a thousand times be.
fore went to Germany, and he had new.
er spoken to me. | thought he was ar
enemy of mine"
Witness was taken over his trip Il
Sistersville. the death of his neice, ant
his return late Saturday night. On thu
following day he talked to his father
about the $1,000 agreement, and either
that night or the following morning
he did not remember which he wrote
to Mr.. Ewing about the matter.
They never saw a funeral where
there was flowers before 1t was come
thing new in Monroe county. Tit
preacher told the people on the left side
to go down the asile to see the corpse
They didn't know what he meant H,
repeated IL three times. Nobody moved
Then | got up and everybody started
IL hadn't, we would have been sit
ting there yet l guess. Down Their,
they all get up on the seats and look owe
each other into the coffin. This wal
something new"
Didn't you have kodak and a pail
of boxing gloves in your grip?"
Yes"
"a revelver?'
Eyes. I think had revolver"
Then the things you took to you
| niece's funeral were kodak, pair o
boxing gloves and a revolyer?"
Witness explained that it was the Sat
furday trip, and not the Monday trip
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