Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-28

II don't kno exactly. Sh was back
and forth. She took her meals at my
house and had charge OF the house dur
ing the Illness of my wife,"
you considered that you had q better
right to guide the destinies of Miss Hop
kins thar her brother had?"
"She had lived with us six years and I
felt that I had a sisterly interest in her."
Coming down to the night of the stab
hing, is it not a fact that you forcibly
elected Miss Hopkins from che room?"
II took her by the arm and led her to
the door."
us it not a fact that you had a knife
in your hand at that timer"
mo, sir; it Is not"
Continuing, Peters said he proposed to
married she should have the right kind
of a husband; that there should be no
flaw in the proceedings. He had heard
that Colby had been possessed of three
wives, he said. Colby admitted to me
himself that he had a wife and child in
England"
Peters again referred to the seance in
his apartments when he led Miss Hop-
kins out of the room. He denied having
knocked her dow or knowing that she
had tainted, but admitted having used
force in ejecting her, as she had refused
to leave when he told her to go. He
characterized the affair as a little family
quarrel.
What became Of the knife with which
you did the stabbing?"
Dropped it in the scuffle with Colby"
"How large was it,"
"a little larger than the ordinary
knife?"
WAS it not a large clasp knife, such
as they use in Kentucky in political and
other feuds, with a blade four or fve
inches long?"
TT was not. think the blade was two
and a half inches long,"
Going back to the scene on the sidewalk.
Peters said that Colby had struck him a
very powerful blow over the left eye and
mark of it had remained several days. 1t
had dazed and staggered him. He had
caught the second blow over the heart
and it came very near Strengthening him
out.
"It acted as a tonic, did it?"
sit almost knocked me out"
you were not dazed when you drew
the knife?"
Yes; from the blow on the head"
"And you thought of the apple tree in
cident, the fact that Colby had three
wives and of various other things?"
The answer was evasive.
Tell the jury how you got the knife
out and opened it."
II pulled it from my right coat pocket
and opened it,"
"Did you say anything to Colby?"
IT said, Mr.. Colby, don't strike me.
did you see Colby have any weapon?"
IT did not"
do you remember telling the officer
when he asked you if Colby was armed
that you did not see him have any weap-
on and that if he had one he would not
have had a chance to use it,"
mo; 1 didn't say that"
Peters said that at the time he stabbed
Colby the latter had hold of him, one
hand on either side. He did not know, he
said, that Colby was hurt when he went
in search of Policeman Peters to have
Colby arrested. The defendant denied
having told his wife before leaving his
home that he was going out to look for
Colby; denied having met a friend after
the cutting and making a remark to him,
Had you been in the habit Of carrying
that knife?"
1T used it at the store a good DEAL"
did you have it in Kentucky?"
IT did"
Had you not been totally oblivious tc
that head Of yours in Louisville?"
mo, SIR"
Are you prepared to swear that you
were not engaged in numerous brawls In
Louisville and that you were not arrest
ed in that city?"
IT am not. I was arrested in Louisville
for disturbing the peace and put under
fDOnUS 10 keep the peace LOT SIX HOnLnS
Ny arrest was more to keep me from go.
ing home to my family than anything
else"
principally your wife,"
mo; my parents"
81 will ask you If you remember getting
into an alteration with an officer i,
L~ouisville?"
The question was objected to quicke
than a fash and the court sustained it.
DO O know Sol Cain, a practicinl
attorney in the police court Of Louis
ville?"
mo, sir"
"You never employed him to. defen
your"
mo, sir"
DO you remember the 7th of June 1879;
, the 18th of June 1898, and the 9th of De
cember 1872"
NO."
y "rhose dates are all blanks to you, ar
y they?"
: Yes"
Thomas j. Bordeaux testified to tn
physical proportions Of Colby and the d.
a Tense then closed it's case.
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