The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-16
The WOMAN In The CASE
MRS. RICHARDSON TEsTIFIEs IN BE-
HALF OF STEWART FIFE.
Was Acquitted OF Husbands Murder
and Put on the Stand i'm Defense
of the "Man In the Case"

SAVANNAH. Mo, March 15.--In the trial
of Stewart Fife On the charge of numbering
Frank w Richardson the state to-day
practically closed its side of the case. 1t
asked, however, TO be allowed to examine
one other witness. Lydia Fuson. early next
week, when that witness, who is i'll, is able
to come into court. The state previously
asserted that it would prove by the Fuson
woman that Fife had Dade admissions to
her after the murder of Richardson that
would connect him with the crime. She
was not to be found when the state called
her name two days ago. Sheriff Holeomb
was recalled to-day and cross-examined
about the finding of revolver by Carl
Kickoff in a sewer yesterday. The state
submitted as evidence this revolver, with
the statement that the bullet taken from
Richardson's head was OF the same size as
the empty shell found in the revolver.
James w. Boyd, the leading counsel for
Fife, then made the statement for his
client. The defense would show. he said
that Richardson had once asked his wife TO
drive Fife down to the square; that when
he went to North Yakima Wash. after the
murder, he did not cover up his where
abouts; that the revolver found by the
Kickoff boy was placed there long after the
murder, and that Fife was at the Owl
Club rooms at the time the murder was
committed.
Mrs. Addie b. Richardson, widow OF the
dead man, was the first witness called by
the defense. She explained her presence at
different times with Fife. The only time
she had gone riding with him was when her
husband requested her TO drive the horse
to the public square and water it. telling
her a the same time to take Fife along.
When seen on the stone steps with Fife she
said she was looking for her husband, who
drunk. Richardson had taken a cure
for drunkenness, and she told OF his quar-
reling on the street with Fife. Witness
shed tears when she said her husband was
not abusive when sober, but only when
drunk. She told the same story of the
murder as she had related it at her own
trial a month ago.
Mrs Richardson denied being with Fife
alone in the store on the Fourth OF July,
and. fatty contradicted the statement OF
Gilbert Mcdaniel that he saw her and Fife
riding together at night. All of the two
dozen witnesses who have testified that
they saw Fife and Mrs Richardson together
were contradicted by Mrs. Richardson.
THE night Mr. Richardson was killed.
asked Flies attorney, was Stewart Fife
at your house at any time?"
Not to my knowledge
do you know how Mr. Richardson came
TO his death-at whose hands?'
81 do not"
on cross-examination Mrs Richardson
said her husband was jealous of her when
he was drinking.
did Mrs. Fife, the mother OF the defend
ant, say to you in the store about the 1st
of December, i'm the presence OF the
defendant: L wish you would keep away
from Stewart and not bother him so much
at his work?
mo; she did not
John Richardson told about going with
his mother 10 look for his father the night
they met Fife at the stone steps. He
fixed the date, but his recollection was
shaken by cross-eXamination.