Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20

and my littl e boy stayed with her that night,
The night VIC stayed there she wrote a letter to
his son in Washington, saw the letter; did not
know what she did with it. Next saw her Mon
day noon; she ate dinner at my house, also
Christian Leltch. Saw her give LeItch paper
and pocketbook, think about $50. Thought pa
per was mortgage. John Ludwig read it 10 me.
Think it was Monday morning. The mortgage
was under the bed where she slept; she was
| there Saturday afternoon after O'Clock, when
she brought her clothes. She wanted me to save
the papers for her. She stayed at my place
Monday night and slept upstairs with my wife:
| did not sleep well. After she came, when it be-
| came dark. she wanted to go to Lean Servings
She acted when she came to my place as If she
| wanted to travel. Had her satchel all packed.
Collected to. Sustained.)
Looked as she always did, acted as she always
did, but wanted to leave; wanted to go to Lean
Servings; wanted to give away some of the
things in her house; She offered me ham, but
did not want 1t.
Cross-Ex. Have lived in FlorenCevlle years;
did not know Mr.. X, before he came to F. to
live. Saw 4. Thursday between and 5 O'clock.
| left the house about 4; looked at the clock be-
fore leaving. Went to Albert Wcinkaufs where
he was hauling sand from Sertilug's land. Saw
X. at the send pit where he was talking with
Weinkauf; was there from 5 to 10 minutes. X.
went for his fish pole, or rods away, and
| they left together. From Kreuger's to Wein-
kauts is about miles. Went to the sand pit on
| foot. X. and witness parted about IGOR 10 rods
from KS home, Thursday afternoon. Saw her
at corner of her land; there was road between;
| she did not come but asked me to cone over;
She said X. went away; said he went to Cresco
or Washington. 1 did not AJAX where he had
gone, she told 1t herself. Said he took his sat-
| cnel put In his best clothes and wore the old
ones. Have had but little conversation about
this case since the preliminary examination,
(Did not understand what preliminary exami-
nation meant) Might have talked about the
case since; everybody In town was talking about
1t. Don't remember any talk with Leitch since
then, or with Ed. X. Was at home Saturday
when Mrs. K came to my house; think she had
her supper there, 1t was dark. She wanted to
go to Settings.
She wrote a letter in her house, the Saturday
evening; not in my house. Went home Sunday
morning after daylight; got up and went home
not staying very long. Saw Mrs. K. that Sun
day afternoon. Don't remember that she was
at my house that day: Ny boy slept at KS Sun.
day and Monday nights. Saturday night sh e
said she had placed some papers under the bed
up stairs and would not let Henry go up there.
took the papers and John Ludwig read them
to me and returned them to the place where
he found them. Monday morning lot of peo-
plc,don't remember who, said def't had killed X
She read few words of the letter and said she
was sending 1t to q son In California. The sat-
chel was small one; think she took it along.
She got up in tho night at my house, looked out
of the window. went down in the yard and want
ed me to get up and go with her to her house
as there was light there and she thought
there were thieves there / told her it was
Drummond's light she saw 1t was Monday
when she asked me to keep the papers for her.
Leitch opened the pocketbook and he saw
what was in it, SEQ or more; it was leather
pocketbook. Leitch told me there was $40 in it..
(Motlon to strike out what Leltch told him
sustalned.)
Think 1t was on Saturday when l was fixing
the fence she offered me the meat. Think am
sure this was the time. Was at Mrs. KS on
Monday with my wife and Mrs. X. She
offered me the ham the Saturday when car
rled the meat into the house; she told me to
pick out the best ham and take it home. Don't
know whether 1T was to pay for work or not
Redirect. Was In the house Saturday for
about ten minutes. Mrs. X. was there but /
did not notice her doing anything in particular.
The meat was being smoked south of the house
Could not poe the west porch from where "
was.