Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-10
TESTIMONY
Miss Lizzie NoIan's Testimony in the Case Of
State VS.. Chas. IungbIud and
Lizzie Nolan
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

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more? No sir, I did not. Then
you were not following Father
Garrity's instr Lotions to teach her
to do house work, were you? Well
| refused after | seen the way she
was treating herself, and l told him
about it. You gave it up, did you?
Yes. When did you give up,
that you shouldn't do anything
with her2 In regard to what? In
regard to teaching her to keep
house? Well after l found out
that the way she did the things.
Soon after she came there, or a
long time after? Well soon after
she came there. From that time
on you thought there wasn't any
hope of making a house-keeper OF
her, did you? Well, not a neat
one. Now when you asked her to
do anything, did you say "Please"
to her? I always said please" to
her. Always did? Yes Sir. One
of the things that she was obsti-
nate about, | think you stated, was
about her eating; that she would
not eat at times? She would not.
She would simply refuse to eat
One of the times was the grid of
October wasn't it? Yes sir. And
you say she did not tell you why
that day. No sir. When was it
that she commenced saying that
she wanted to go back to her
people in Jackson County to live2
Well she said that quite often; be-
fore she quit school and after she
quit school; and Immediately after.
How soon after she came there?
Well | mean Immediately after
she quit school, on Sunday even
ing; it was Of a Sunday evening.
Well that was more than 2 or :
weeks after she came there, was it,
or did she 60 to school two
months, when you said two
weeks?" Well she did not 90
quite two months to school. Not
quite two months? No l under
stood you it was weeks. From
that time on she kept saying to
you that she wanted to go back
to her people in Jackson County?
At. times she would say she wanted
to; and then again she would say
she did not want to. But when she
would do anything bad she usually
said that she was doing it SO that
she could go back to her people in
Jackson county? Yes. Now l
think you have said that she lied
pretty nearly as often as she spoke;
that she would not tell the truth
at all. That is about your testi-
mony isn't it.? Yes sir. That,
you observed all the time SHE was
there, did you? Well to keep
close tab on her I did not. What?
| did not watch her too closely.
You did not keep close tab on herr
No. Then she might accidentally,
when you were not listening, have
told the truth, might she? Well l
don't know whether she did Or not
when | wasn't listening. And
you have told the most serious
things mat you can now recall as
to what she lied about, have you?
The lead pencil and the hat-pin2
Well | don't know whether they
are all. Can you think of any
thing more serious than that, that
she lied about2 | could not
recall them all if I tried Those
are all the things. You have
already told of all the things that
she lied about, haven't you? Well
in her daily talking with me l
would find her out in lies about
little things; simple things, you
know. Yes; not so serious as the
lead pencil and the hatpin? Well
no. Did she lie sometimes to
avoid these punishments that she
occasionally received? Did you
ever know her to do that? How
do you mean? | do not under
stand. | say she lied sometimes
Did you find her lying for the
purpose of avoiding punishment?
| did. What is it? Yes sir. You
say you occasionally took her out
with you. Where did you ever
take her to? To Mrs. Zimmer's
and to Mrs. Bernhofen's. Mrs.
Zimmer and who else7 Bernhofen
think is the pronunciation. They
live right there on the North side,
both of them, in Neillsville, do
they? No sir. Neither of them?
One of them, l think it is on the
North side, Mrs. thinner. But
Mrs. Bernhofen lives in NeilIsville
there, does she? Yes sir. You
took her there? Yes sir. And
where else? And to the church
entertainment, and the school
entertainment. How many of
those did she ever attend while
she was there? There were only
two. And other place that you
took her? Yes, | have had her