The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-03-27
SMITH TELLS HIS STORY.
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Mary said: Wait tin / get my hair
combed and I'll go with YOU" Witness
sat down again and Rounds who had
been listening went out slammlng the
door. Mary then said: He is mad, but
/ j don't care. l did not want TO stay
alone with him, and for some time he
has been hanging around my sisters
home"
Witness told Mary later TO come
/ down when she got ready. he would
start ahead When witness got TO
Patience Thorntons house he told Mary
Cooks story about Brinton Rounds TO
Patience. Rounds overheard IL from
Mrs. Addie Rounds tenement and came
into Patience Thornton's.
ROUNDS ATTACKED SMITH.
Rounds fell on Smith. who sat on a
| chair near a window. knocked Smith
| down twice and most severely beat
| him about the head until Smith begged
| Tor bis llfe NlTness said he used no
| iron last on Rounds. Rounds made
| Smith promise not to use his. Rounds,
| name again. Rounds kicked Smith twice
| according 10. the latter. The trouble took
! place. witness claimed in the forenoon
| of Friday and not in the afternoon as
| the witnessfor the state testified. Then
| Smith returned TO the Ford place where
he resided and felt very bad for
! time.
Smith denied he ever .told Patience
! Thornton he didn't want Brnton
| Rounds hanging around her. or that he
| ever told Patience as testified 10 by
Mrs. Rounds and her sist$. Mary
! Cook, yesterday. that he would run a
knife into Brinton.
When he triea to lie down on the
Friday afternoon OF the row he found
ne could not lie on either side as II
hurt him. Witness did not see Brinton
until the following Tuesday.
ON Tuesday witness was able 20 walk
only very slowly. ON that day he met
Mrs. Rounds. whom he had told that
she must get out OF the Thornton house,
and she said: Pm not going TO move
out."s
This was very fiat contradiction of
the testimony OF Mrs. Rounds. Ii soon
became evident there was TO be big
variance between the states story and
that OF the defendants witnesses.
THE SECOND ASSAULT.
Rounds, the deceased, according to
Smith, jumped off his wheel when wit
ness met him shortly after meeting
Mrs. Rounds and striking witness said:
Damn you, I'm going to lick you again"
Witness hat had been Knocked off and
when witness picked IL up Rounds
again repeated the threat of a second
licking and witness said he was in no
condition TO fight.
Smith said the wheel incident oc-
CURED about 8 o'clock in the morning.
Later he went TO Patience Thornton's
and tried the door but il was locked.
lie looked in the window, but could
see nothing of Paticnce. Then he
turned from the windJW and saw Clar-
ence Cook and Brinton Rounds coming
I.t.. s.TIT
20 the house. CUok came first, but |
stood aside. and Brinton Rounds after !
witness had asked wnerh Patience was, |
and was told by Cook. stepped up. and |
striking witnes with his shut fist over !
the eye said. you're making yourself /
too d--d conspicuous Witness then |
pulled out jack Knife he had carried |
for years to beat off Rounds. Smith |
said he had his back to the house. was \
i'm weak cond ton. and only jabbed /
with the knife once. For a time he did 1
not know he had wounded Rounds.
Smith said he knew the character OF
Rounds TO be that OF dangerous man.
Witness had heard threats made i'm a
grocery store by Rounds against a bird
the matter OF threats further at this
point
THE CROSS EXAMINATION.
The attorney generals first question
ON crOss-examination was, What made
you say Brinton Rounds weighed loo
Witness said he thought
Rounds did weigh that, but admitted
he was only guessing. Witness was
asked ~ he had any old trouble with
Rounds and answered No lie was
then asked how long he had known
Patience Thornton and his reply was
% years, lie also said he had lived m
he same house with Patience for II
years. and there was no other tenant
IN the house at this time.
He had managed Miss ThOrntons
property for a good many years. This
was the reason he had 'ordered Mrs.
Addia Rounds out OF her tenement.
smith said when on the Friday !
Rounds entered PatlcnCe's tenement |
le began pounding him, Smith. and he
lad not a chance to reply on object.
Rounds kicked him in the ribs and
,ther parts OF the body. palience got
scared and ran into the bedroom and /
hut the door while the row was go-
ng on.
Witness did not see n doc,or about
iis ribs nor have an examination until
lfter he was arrested He denied hc
vas pretty drunk between the 20th and
4th of October or that the broken ribs
vere due ~ his fallinf on some stone ,
teps. lie denied telling any one his
,aCk eve was due % the bunt of
ali or that his broken ribs were due
% a fan while drunk
smith told the attorney general not
the serious aseaud made
N him. the reason he did not somplafn
q tho town authorities was because I ,
ne man he worked for. Turner Wl- )
Jams was sick with heart disease at D
he time and witness didn't want 10 q
ause him trouble
EYE BLACK. EAR CUT.
Frank Hamilton. the owner OF the
ouse iu which smith lived. saw the
prisoner on Saturday. October 2fst. lis 4
ye vas black. HE ear was cut. and =
ores were on his head Smith was d
obor. and the car looked as if u had
.een Kicked Smith had dificnltv m
letting un from bis chair 90 go flr the Z
nail =