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

OF Hlssom vs.. Hiss0m opened with
plaintiff still on the stand for a re-
sumption of his direct examination.
The first matter taken up was a memo
randum Of some figures on the margin
OF a newspaper. the sum OF $780, 900
having been SO divided as to leave a
result of $4,000. Witness said the
figures were made by his father at the
Howell House. He afterward threw
the paper away, and witness picked it
up. The idea was that Mr.. Hissom,
defendant, was willing to make such
a division as that indicated by the fig
ures. Witness then related a CONVEX
sation with his father. also at the
Howell House, in which the father
said witness could not fight him be-
cause witness had no money. but if
witness would accept a certain sum he
later, witness father wanted his son
to see witnesses summoned on the
bribery charge threatened soon after
the sons arrest for lunacy and keep
them away from the grand jury. Wit
ness refused to see the witnesses be-
cause he was afraid of punishment.
On the occasion of a visit of wit
ness to his uncle's, down the river, he
said he got there in the evening and
after talking a while said he would go
up to bed. Uncle said: You'll not
sleep in that bed; your daddy's there
So / said / would get out. If father
knew l was there he would get out
in the field and run up and down and
say 1 was trying to kill him."
Q.-How did you come to take your
things away from your house? Job
lection; s~ustained.)
Q.-What difficulties did your father
put in your way to keep you from get
ting your things out of the house? A.
When l was in Jail / demanded my
trunk. Father came to Jail and told
him / wanted my trunk. He sent me,
not the trunk, but some things out of
it. He said after that that he did not
understand my note.
Witness said he got possession Of his
trunk in May, and then it vas not in
good condition. There was about a
peck" Of old checks in the trunk and
a bunch of keys. Witness produced the
keys from a satchel. There were a
large number of them.
doctor, what was in your valise
at the time it was broken open? A
Well, there were several letters in it
that l had received from my mother
when I was in Germany.
Q.-Were those letters in the satchel
when you got it? A.-No, sir.
Q.-What was in your microscope
box? A.-Some letters.
Q.-What became Of them? A.
They were taken out by my father.
Q.-Doctor, you had a conversation
with your father in regard to politics.
Have you told everything you said
might be brought out against him If he
persisted in running for the Legisla-
ture? Al told him it would not look
well ON paper about his stabbing Yea
ger.
Q.-WTho was Yeager? A Ger
mann farmer down at Woodland.
Q.-After the election what did your
folks say about the result? (Objec-
ton; sustained).
Q.-How did he explain his defeat?
Objection; sustained).
Q.-What do you know of the Nc
Laughlin letter in which your father
tried to get you to go to Cuba? A
Mclaughlin said father wanted me to
take a ship from Germany and go to
Cuba. Mclaughlin was my attorney.
When l came back I had several con-
v~ersations with my father as to why
l did not go to Cuba.
Mr.. Howard then began the cross-ex-
animation, which continued the re-
mainder of the day. The proposed
trip to Cuba was then taken up, and
witness thought Cuba was not a good
place to go to. He did not tell his
father, because l knew / was wanted
at home, and l did not care to have
him know much of my business" He
was wanted because his mother had
told him of his father trying to get a
Italy when he was in Germany, but
did not because his mother wrote to
him to come home at once. Witness
had kept his mothers letters, but he
said his father stole them from his
trunk before February Sd. Witness
knew that because his father had told
him he had taken them and burned
them. Witness got back from Ger
many about October 10th.
Q.-Fix the time your father threat
ened to drive your brother off the is
land. A.-Oh. about three days after
l got back from Germany.
Q.-When was it your father charg-
ed you with creating trouble between
him and your mother? About the
same time.
Altar O l0no contest Ao&-aor 49,,