The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-12-21
Die 81 Tie Strother Brothers Is q.
Member---Elect Of the West
Virginia Legislature
IIE 8' WIDOWED BRIDE tell OF THE FATAL SHOOTING

such a life as she would have to live
with you
"He laughed at me and sneered II
my face. About that time my husband
said: 'Bywaters, want to tell yoa
what think of you. You have yiolat
ed every obligation as an Odd Fellow
and as a gentleman
"He said: Yes. know it;-but
you and the Odd Fellows, What have
you got to,do with it?'
Forced to Marry Her.
"Bywaters then cursed them with
every vile epithet under Heaven. My
husband and two brothers heard him,
and he made motions as II he would
like to throttle my husband, and my
brothers kept him from striking my
husband. saw he was determined to
force trouble on us, and I pulled my
husband from the room and then
went out on the front porch.
~ did not see anyone again until I
went to the dining.room, where Jim
and Philip we're. We talked about
what had happened. We just said he
would have to stay with her and nurse
her as husband should. Those were
The conditions they gave him when he
married her. We decided he should
stay. That was the condition under
which he had begged his life. We
wanted TO conceal the fact that he
had been forced to marry my sister.
Zone of my brothers said he would
go upstairs and tell him that he was
not to leave the house that night. We
we're then in the dining.room, and i
heard my sisters voice. said let us
90 mp stairs When I got up to the
head of the steps and could see into
tlle room the man (Bywaters) was sit
ting by my sisters bed and she had
her arms around him, holding him. He
jerked away from her, and in trying
to get down the steps nearly pushed
nc over.
Boys Began Firing.
MY husband then pulled him back.
The minute Edwin let him so he Dart
ed for the window. AS he went out
of the window the boys began firing.
There we're no shots fred in the
room"
Witness then said that certain
on the floor were due to
lie hemorhage which her sister had
during the day. Mrs. Gaines said the
shots we're fired on Bywaters as he
went through the window. Her broth
ers, Jim and Phil. fired the shots.
Replying to a question, the witness
said that Bywaters had said he knew
nothing of her condition, and saw
nothing wrong. This was on Thurs
day.
She told him her sister was dying
as the result of an operation perform,
ed under his direction.
"He laughed" continued the wit
ness, land said: You can't prove it.
told him I could prove It."
Mrs. Gaines and her sister, the wild
ow of the slain man, both testified in
the afternoon.
Testimony Of the Widow,
The most sensational development
occurred In the afternoon. The morn
ing was occupied with the testimony
of Mrs. Gaines, and as soon as she
was done the jury was driven out four
miles into the country. to the farm Of
her husband, E. L. Gaines. Here, on a
sickbed, lay Mrs. B. F. Bywaters, the
young widow, who, propped up in bed,
gave her testimony in a clear voice,
shaken only with tears when she was
forced to speak of her dead husbands
tenderness and love toward her,.
MIS-. Gaines testified that the shoot
ing of Bywaters took place wholly
within his wife's bedroom at Rother'