Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-10-24

and in fact Mrs. Cooper did to a moro |
or loss degree at subsequent inter |
views. That night. Mrs. Cooper did
not know just how the thing happen
ed Mr.. Cooper said that he heard
noise like the slamming of a door and
running to the door of his smithy saw
his wife come screaming from the
house and run toward him. He caught
her as she came near the shop and
she exclaimed:
Charlie has shot himself, go for
the doctor"
"Th.t was the limit Cf our direct talk
| to Mr. Cooper then and we questioned
Mrs. Cooper. She said she knew that
Charlie was coming to the house that
day for she had met him at the Mctho-
dist church Christian EndeaVor meet
ing. the Sunday night before, ana had
told him that he must not call so often.
He seemed in a, to say the least, quiet
mood and wanted to talk the subject
over then hut she told him That that
was no place to talk it over ana thch
made the appointment for Charlie to
call at the house. She had never
thought OF getting revolver before
going home that night. although at
times Charles had seemed OF an almost
moody disposition, and she said that
she did fear him and then again she
did not.
Zone time when she talked with him
lie had said that he would not bother
anyone very long and then they had
had several talks when she thought
that he had acted queer. When asked
If Charles had made any questionable
advances to her. she replied that he
never had. although she did admit that
he had kissed her. On the afternoon of
that fateful day he had grabbed her
in his arms and kissed her, but that
was the only time. She also admitted
that shc had kissed him twice, one time
being when his mother died and he
seemed so dcspondent and this was the
only time that she had ever given him
any cause for encourag cement.
During the first conversation with the
coroner and Mr.. Pinkham she had said
tnat she saw tho revolver and ran
screaming from the house and thought
she might have heard the revolver
shot. Then turning to her husband she
said, And this is something you don't
know, / bought that revolver myself
"GOnG back Il little she told of how
She had said that it was time for her
to so for the children she carried back |
ana forth to school and Charlie got up |
from the chair and brushed against her, |
feeling the revolver and then he got it. |
III Il Later interview she said that pos |
:,Inly the REVOLVER might have been |
disc hlrgrd during the scufi,c and that |
She had q faint idea that she had seen
il bullet hoe in the door as she ran
out to the yard closing the door after |
her.
IN this respect her story differs |
somewhat. although not materially. |
She said that Charlie came to the house |
between l. and ! o'clock. Her parents |
Werr there and he sat near the kitchen
table with his head bowed. When her |
parents had gone she began to have a
kind Ot n fear for her safety and went |
to y secret stair and took out the re-
Volv"r from its hiding place and placed |
il in a pocket that she had made for
this cspt cial purpose, that morning.
She said no one entered her home from /
the time her folks left until she ran
out after or during the shooting. The |
cartridges that she purchased at the
time she bought the revolver she placed |
III the Siicboard under a brace and as
they had become somewhat musscd up
Shc could not get them all in the box,
50 taking the superfiuous ones she |
threw thcn into an old tree 50 that her
little son. Ralph, would not come
across them
These bullets were aftcrward found |
by tie witness.
'ht the third interview the authnri-
tics had with Mrs. Cooper, Detective
Martin Of the Pinkerton force of Bos- I
ton was Il party too and he did most |
of the questioning and The interviews
terminated as before. with practically |
the same story by Mrs. Cooper, she |
could not distinctly remember what
happened at the time Of the shooting.
"Charlc had spoken to her about 60
ing away with him in several instances
and one time asked: We'll, if you want
me. go away with me somewhere
"To this Mrs. Cooper replied DO You
think that this would be right. for me |
to 20 away with you and leave the
children behind?'
"TIc said. No, l don't know as il
would
Mrs. Cooper then said: so you see
in this way the matter was turned off
as joke.
"On tho Sunday night in question.