The Washington herald., 1906-12-20

20 10 town that night 10 you?
A. No: he said he wanted to go and tell
his mother.
@. When did he first get up and go out
OF the room?
A. had my arms around him and he
/ jerked away from me, and that Is the
| last remember as he went TO the steps.
Then he came back and went out of the
window, and 1 don't remember after that
| O. When did he come back from down
the steps?
A think Mr. Gaines pushed him back
| O. When Mr. Gaines pushed him back
| fl the room did he stop any time IN
there?
Went Out the window.
A. No. He went out Of the window
/ didn't say anything to him, and he
went right for the window
O. Was there any quarrel or rough talk
between Mr. Bywaters and your brothers
just before the shooting?
A. No; none that I heard.
O. Up to that time had his manner and
treatment to you been affectionate?
A He treated me very nicely, He had
been talking about the announcement
cards. He hadn't treated me coldly or
anything.
Q. Were you willing he should go back
to town that night?
| A. No; I would rather he had stayed
with me.
| Q. When he spoke Of going to town and
gave his reasons for wishing TO go, did
you object to his going?
4 a. l told him I thought Jim could at
| tend TO sending out the cards, and knew
| he would attend to it, as he was going
/ back that night.
O. When your brothers went out on the
| top Of the porch did you or not try 10
keep them from killing him?
A. I was so near crazy that l just ran
downstairs.
Q. Did Byvaters, when he spoke of go
ing 10 town, say when YOU could expect
him back again?
A. As far as I can remember, ne didn't
| say. Just wanted 10 go TO town
| .. Before the marriage when the mat
ter was being discussed about the mar
riage, did not Mr.. Bywaters and yourself
prefer that the wedding should take
place later. some time in January?
Both Wanted TO Wait.
A Yes; we both wanted to put ii off
| for while
Q. Up to the time Of the shooting. did
you have any idea that your brothers in
| tended 10 Kill him?
| A. No; but they said if he showed any
disposition to leave me in any way that
they would
.. Can you recall what Mr. Bywaters
may have said Just before he started
down the steps? What passed between
him and you Just before he left you?
A. As he jerked away from me, / did
not hear a word he said, either 10 me or
/ to my brothers.
Q. Just before then. what was passing
! Just before he did leave? Again, what
were you talking about?
a. I don't remember anything.
Q. When he left you and started down
the stairway, did you know he was going
OF?
A ] felt that as he jerked away from
me and started. he must be going.
Q. Did you have faith in him that he
would come back that night or the next
! day?
A. Yes. sir. I hoped he would come
back
Q. Had he said anything to you at all
to make YOU think ne would not return
a Nothing that I remember. I don't
remember anything he said. I felt safer
with his arms around my neck. though.
Q. Did you actually forbid his going
! that night or just ask him not 10 go2
Wanted HIM to stay.
A ] don't remember I had said that
I thought Jim had better send out the
cards and he stay with me-
O. When he was there at the house
the day before con Friday, was it not
then understood that you and he were to
be married?
c. Hadn't any special time been set
He said he would marry me-
@. When Mr.. Bywaters left you on the
bed and started down the stairs, did
either Of your brothers follow him?
4. No. ! am sure they did not
Q. When your brothers went out on
the porch. did they both go out Of the
same window Of the chamber. or did one
of them go out Of another window
A No. There Is no other window they
could go out
Q. Is there not a hall window?
A Yes; but they did not go there
! They both went toward the same window
Q. Did they come back into the room
before you left2
A don't remember 7 ran down stairs
Q. That evening Of the marriage. did
/ you hear anything disagreeabIe pass
1 between Mr.. Bywaters and your two
brothers. either before the marriage or up
to the time Of the shooting?
Jim Was Friendly.
a. No. because Jim had told him that
he would help him and be his friend.
Q. When Mr.. Bywaters was talking
about going home that night. did you
not give him and your brothers TO under
stand that if he was compelled to 60.
you would understand il, OF something 10
that effect?
4 No not that I remember
@. Do you remember whether the win
| dow to your chamber was raised or not?
A No. do not remember whether or
not it was.
Q. Did he have 10 raise the sash to get
out?
A I don't know.
BY Mr. Jeffries:
Q. When VIII started through the
window and Philip commenced TO shoot at
/ him, where was Phil standing?
! A. Out on the porch
Q. Where was Jim2
\ I don't remember exactly where Jim
was
| Q. Is it not true that Jim and Phil both
/ shot at him as he went through the
window from your room, and then jim
ran down the steps 70 head VIII Bywaters
/ off after they had shot at him?
| A. I don't remember
! q. Is 1t true that you may be mistaken
about their going out on the porch, and
that either of them only went as far as
the window and were shooting through
/ the window? Could you swear about that
one way or the other?
/ A, I thought it was out on the porch.
as far as I could remember.
/ @. You might be mistaken?
|. A. I couldn't swear, because l was so
nearly crazy. didn't have my right
mind.
Mrs. BywaterS then went on to tell