The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-03-11

or stop at either of the hotels in this
town as the wife of Mr.. Britt? Yes.
You were still married to Mr.. Wat
kins? No, sir; we were not married at
that time.
When were you married to Mr.. Wat
kins? The 5th of December.
What year? 1902.
Where were you, Mrs. Watkins, on
Monday, the 2nd day of March this
last Monday where were you stopping?
Last Monday? Yes, ma'am. My home
here in town.
Right here in town, last Monday?
Yes, sir; right in town; that is my
home; sos North Third street, my
parents home.
Were you staying with Mr.. Britt at
that time? No, sir; he was visiting
there.
What do you know, Mrs. Watkins,
relative to the death of Mr.. Britt? L
know nothing at all-nothing.
Were you in the house? Yes.
At the time it occurred? Yes; he
went to bed
Just state what the facts are relative
to that.
Well, my mother went to bed first,
and my father and him sat up little
while and seemed to be talking. He
seemed to be MISUNDERSTANDING about
his first wife, and about an item that
was in the paper, and asked if he should
die if he would go to hell. lie asked
for some water, something he never did
ask for, and asked him if he was sick,
and he said yes, he had been feeling
quite bad, and | got him some water.
Were you in town Sunday, the LIST OF
CT
When was the last time that you
registered or STAYED with Mr.. Britt as
his wife? | do not remember.
Has it been a month?
do not know.
Just as near as you can remember,
Mrs. Watkins, is what | want to know.
Well, | do not know how long it was.
Where were YOU before you came over
here? Seattle.
Did you come over here in January;
do you remember when you came over
here? | do not know.
What day did you say you were mar
ried, December 3rd? No, the 9Th.
1902? Yes, last December.
Have you lived with Mr.. Britt as his
wife since that date? Yes.
Now, there was little trouble OF
some kind, was there not, Mrs. Wat
kins, between Mr.. Britt and yourself?
No sir; not in the least.
There was some family trouble be-
tween your father and your brother and
Mr. Britt and yourself, was there not?
No, sir; none.
None at all? None at all not in the
least. We all thought well of MIR. Britt.
Now, do YOU know anything about
your father and your brother coming
down to the Yakima hotel and trying to
persuade Mr.. Britt to come home? No,
sir; | did not know anything about
that.
You and Mr.. Britt never had any
trouble of any kind? Not III the least,
never.
Do YOU know what was the cause of
! this melancholy that you speak OF? No,
do not know that
| VINO was present, Mrs. Watkins, be-
sides Yourself at the time this CONVEX
sation between your father and Mr..
| Britt occurred? No one.
Was anyone else present? My father,
Mr.. Britt and |.
| When he was talking he asked if you
I thought he would 20 to hell II he died?
He was speaking if there were any hell.
In fact, he said that Grover Cleveland
and Ingersoll and some of the smartest
men in the world thought there was no
hell or heaven, and he didn't know If
there was or not, and he wondered if he
died if he would go to hell, or something
like that.
What is the address of your husband,
Mrs. Watkins, in Seattle? | do not
know.
What is his business? He is a bar
tender.
Where does he work? | do not think
he is working at present.
Where has he been working? Mon
terey theater.
Do you know anything about Mr..
Brtt's first wife? Nothing at all.
Do you know anything about his
second wife? Nothing.
Did YOU ever hear him say anything
about either of them? Well, | have
heard him say that his first was hand
some, and there was an item in the
Seattle paper that he gave my father
and gave me also to read, and he said it
was the case exactly with him and his
first wife. My father and mother read
it; didn't read it. | have heard him
say that his second wife was in an in
sane asylum and had been for several
years.
You do not know where that is? No.
Do you know whether he is divorced
from his second wife? No, she has been
in an insane asylum.
You do not know but what he might
have been divorced from her? No.
From what you know he was still
married to the woman in the insane
asylum? According to the laws Of that
state he said there was divorce after
three years; do not know.
Did he say what asylum she was in?