Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-29

He would have gone to Italy, but re-
ceived letter from his mother, ask
ing him TO come home. She wrote
that her husband was going to get a
divorce from her, and had sent a man
to Kentucky to get. some evidence.
Witness salu he did not notify his
father that he was coming home. he
came to protect his mother.
DIR. Hissom told of his chilly recep-
ton by his father. The elder Hissom
asked him why he had not gone to
Cuba, as he had written him to do.
referring to letter witness received
from Attorney NJ. l.. Mclaughlin, in
which Mclaughlin advised, him to go
Ito that country.
Witness said his father told him he
had trouble with his son Written His
som, and was going to put him off
Fish Creek Island, if he had to blow
his brains out Witness defended his
brother, and warned his father that he
would take hand in the matter if any
violence were attempted. j. R. Hissom
got very angry, and declared that he
was going to run the house or run it
into hell.
What was your fathers occupation
then?'
81 don't know, unless it was beating
his wife,
Witness told about a conversation
with his father, in which the latter at
! tackled the character of Mrs Hissom
and said he was going to send man
to Kentucky to get evidence to be used
| in. divorce proceedings
Plaintiff further testified that his
father had approached him with offers
of assistance if he would side with him
i'll contemplated divorce proceedings.
| The elder Hisom told him he was
his pick of the family, and in re-
turn for his assistance in the divorce
matter, he would see that he didn't
want for anything"
What was said to you about work
during the campaign"
Father told ME to canvass the sa-
looms for that vote, while he would
work the churches. He thought l
could do it because l could speak Ger
man. l told him l would do what
could for him."
well, what did you do?"
| He took me below the creek, and
took me to see ex-Mayor Seabright.
He introduced me to several South
Side people. He tried to impress the
people that l was the only physician
in the world-just home from Ger
many"
DR.. Hissom told of another occasion
when he was talking to his mother.
the elder Hissom came in, and his
mother said:N There comes old Satan"
| When his father came IN, he accused
witness OF being his enemy, and said
he would have to leave the house.
Then he saw a new domestic in the
kitchen, and asked her: Where in
the h she came from?" Then he
applied vile epithets to witness, and
started out with the statement that
he would get an officer to put him out
Of the mouse. They crossed the river
on the same yacht trip. On the city
side, witness telephoned to Written
! Hissom, asking him to come up. Whit
! ten arrived in the evening, and was
net by his mother, who explained
1.-The kind of timea.we were hav-
ing" he got money from her, and
went to town and bought two revol-
vers, a 32-calibre for himself and q
| 40-calibre for witness.
| Witness said that when he returned
/ from town in the afternoon, he found
his father and R. T. McNichol there.
! His father said: Here's a man that
wants to talk to YOU" | said | didn't
care to talk to him. McNichol tried to
run bluff that l had better talk to
| him. | told him that if he was hunt
ing a scrap he had better go home and
! beat his wife. We we're having trou-
bles of our own. Then we talked a
| little and McNichol said he merely
wanted to settle family quarrel.
| Father said: These two will
have to leave my house." meaning
| Written and |. He said something
! about mother making bread when he
had $500. l said to McNichol that he
was talking different, for when mother
asked him the night before for money
to buy shoes, he said You d old -.
do you want to spend all my money!"
| After McNichol left, father said he
would give me two hours to decide
whether to leave the house, or be ar
rested | told him | would not leave,
as | was needed to protect mother.
| went to my room and did not see
him any more that night"
Did you have more than one re-
volver?"
No, only the one Written bought"
why did you keep it?'
Mother thought it was best"
| Dr. Hissom SAID his father made
overtures looking to a compromise on
the following day. Witness said he
called Written, and then told his
| father that he had made threats to
/ shoot, telling him he would have to sit
! III the rocking chair with his arms in
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