The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-03
Declares Mother Failed to Name
Her and She Called Herself
Jessie Clayton Galloway
When She Grew Up.


spection. defantly faced the interrogator
who was cross-eXamining her. and left the
courtroom during the middle Of her testi-
mony. which consumed practically the en-
tire day.
When shown the clothes that she identi-
fed as those of her husband. she broke
down and wept and some of the women
in the courtroom wept with her. When
asked If it were not true that she had
never married James p. McCann she in
dignantly denied the charge. When asked
hen and where she was married to Henry
Lamping of Vicksburg, Miss. she
laughed in a mocking manner. and an
swered in a sarcastic tone. Never"
NEVER BEEN NAMED.
Mrs. McCann said she named herself
Jessie Clayton Galloway when she grew
up. She said her mother failed to name
her; that she was called Emma Proctor
after friend of the family. and that she
had not been christeueG.
Mrs. Mccain was called Immediately
after Deputy Sheriff Jack Bellairs who
asked to be permitted to correct a state
ment that he had made in his testimony
on the preceding evening. when he stated
that the patrol wagon in which Barring
ton rode from the Mounted District Sta
ton to the -Four Courts had rubber tires.
conducted the direct examination OF the
States witness. She said she knew the
defendant, having been introduced to him
by her husband at the saloon where he
was advertised as Lord Seymour Bar
rington sometime during the month of
May 1909 -Four or five days later Bar
home No. 290l Franklin avenue.
The last time l saw my husband
alive, she said, was on June IS, when
Darlington. Darlington had eaten lightly
at suppertime. and when my husband
asked him the reason, ne replied. you
know we Will have supper at II O'clock
L thought they were going to surprise me
as we had suppers lots of times at that
hour.
Il asked my husband to get me some
TO him, which he asked me for, fearing
| would give 1t away to some one for a
cent When he left he told me he would
return soon.
SPOKE OF COUNTRY.
S"About a week before Darlington told
ne he had been out in the county. He
said: There are the prettiest farms in the
county 1 ever saw. and 1 want you and
Jim to go out with me. Jim can beat me
shooting, you can beat me playing cards,
but. 1 can beat you both horseback rid
ing
He told my, husband he had s., 500 com
ing to him about the middle of July on
pension papers, and that he could get
$1,000 on them from a county man, as
he needed the money then to fight his di-
vorce suit
81 arose at O'Clock on the morning of
to the Planters and Southern hotels to
see II my husband had been there. / went
home about II o'clock and met Barring
ton. | asked him where Jim was and ne
why. and he said il would break my
heart to know. Then he told me. the
Suburban Garden story, how my husband
had refused S to woman he met and
had been assaulted by her escorts, and
how he was assaulted when he went to
his assistance.
He said my husband had said for me
not to worry, that he had gotten into
trouble and was ashamed to see me; that
he would telephone at $3.50 o'clock Friday
afternoon for money, but not to let her
come to the phone.
cAsHED POOL CHECK.
mo message came. harrington said he
would cash 1854 pool ticket Of my hus-
bands. replied that it was mine, but he
would not let me have 1t, and 1 went with
him to cash It,
The witness then detailed the story of
events during the succeeding week. Sat
urday morning Darlington told her Jim
had telephoned, or rather, woman had
telephoned for him; that he was in Cen
traiia, Ill. and wanted 500. she sent
Vandalia. ILL.,. marked returned in three
days, and both were returned unopened. |
Sunday afternoon the usual carriage came |
driving and she began to cry. Then Ona |
Morrison, servant, told him he would be |
held responsible for any evil that might |
have befallen her master. harrington |
threatened to take her to Chief Desmond |
and she defied him To do so.
Mrs. McCann, said Darlington expressed |
husband, stating it would be remarkable |
for any woman. The next Wednesday |
she asked him to go to the Suburban |
Garden and search for her husband. but |
be replied that he could not endure the |
idea of going near the place after what |
had happened. He said the sight of the |
place made him sad.
AFRAID OF HIM.
harrington told Mrs. McCann that he |
believed she was afraid of him After he |
had been released from his first incar-
,eration he told her she had gotten herself |
line he had cautioned her against saying
that would tend to publicity
After returning, from the Four Courts he
asked her If she was going to let him
stay there. She told him to leave and
lie replied that she was turning him out |
1enniless and asked that she pay him for
.he clothes he soiled the night OF Nc
Cann's disappearance. This was the next
He said he cid not want to leave in the
daytime for fear the neighbors would see
j
times during the preceding week, and
that she could see him that night with
her sister. He asked her to bring money |
with her.
DENIES PREVIOUS MARRIAGE.
Mrs. McCann said she was never mar
led to a man named Leland. She only |
knew McCann a month before they were
married, and he proposed to her four or
i've times. He suggested an elopement
rom Cincinnati to Windsor, Canada be-
,ause he had a sweetheart in the former
,ity who might make trouble. She said
she never had Mccain arrested.
What IS the nature of your busineSs?"
asked Attorney Grover.
II run correspondence club or matri-
nonial bureau. whichever you call it,
To Prosecuting Attorney Johnston's OBJ
iections Attorney Grover replied that he |
proposed to show that Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Iar1n had continually engaged In fradu-
ent schemes; that Mccain had 800 enc
mics; that there had been 200 complaints,
and that IL McCann were dead he had
right to show that some of his enemies
killed him.
NIGHT SESSION.
At the night session Mrs Mccain said
hat there were no gold filings in Nc
cann's front teeth. It was also shown
hat she had never been received as Nc
Cann's wife by his relatives. Mrs. Nc
Cann attributed this to the fact that Nc
-ann and his brother-in-law were at outs
because of quarrel about money owing
% McCann.
Chief Of Police Kiely identiifed Barring
on. and said that when Darlington. was