Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-20

miles INTO tue country 10 lDe laih vi hes
husband, L. l. Gaines. Here on the
sick bed lay Mrs. Bgwsters, the young
widow, who, propped up In bed, gave
her testimony ia q clear voice, shaken
only with tears when she ~ss forced to
speak of her dead husbands tenderness
and love toward her, calling him Chilly
and "My husband" and In telling OF
bis kneeling beside her bed on the fatal
night when he informed her that he was
compelled to return to his mother
She said:
al felt so much safer with my arms
about Billy's neck"
Mrs. Bywaters said that after they
we're married, Bywaters went downstairs
and when he came back they talked
about sending out announcement cards.
Continuing, she said
ole said he had not told his mother,
and he had to 60 back and tell her. be.
cause she was delicate aud he would
rather tell her himself. Some one sug-
gesied that he telephone, but he seemed
more inclined to go.'
After some unimportsnt explanation
Mrs. Bywaters said that her husband,
who had been sitting beside her, started
cut of her room down the back stairs,
Just as her sister came up. As he went
down he met Mr.. Gaines, and returned
with him. Soon after that, she saids the
shooting took place.
"What passed between him aud your
brothers just before the shooting while
be was in the ROOM"
az don't remember. I'think they had
told him if he attempted TO leave that
night hey would shoot him."
"When did he first get up and go out
OF the room"
al had my arms around him and he
erked away from me snd that is the last
remember of him as he went TO the
steps. Then he came back and went
out of the window and don't remember
after that.
"When Mr.. Gaines pushed him back
10 the room, did he stop anytime in
there ~
"No, he went out Of the window"
"Was there any quarrel or rough talk
between Mr.. Bywaterssnd yonr brothers
Just before the shooting p
"No none that heard"
"Up to that tins had his manner and
treatment OF you been afiectionate ~
"He treated me very nicely. He had
been talking about the announcement
cards. He had not treated me coldly or
anything" ,
"Up to the time oil the shooting had
yon any idea that your brothers intend
cd TO kill him p
"No. but they said If he showed any
disposition to leave me that they would. ="
"When he was at the house the day
before, was it then understood that he
and you we've to be married ?"
"There WAS no special time SET. lie
said he would marry me-"
10 the course Of her testimony Mrs.
Bywaters said she did not remember the
circumstances Of the killing. She Was
40 crazy" when the shooting began that
sbe Just ran down stairs She did not
remember, she said, that her brothers
beth shot at Bywaters as he went through
the window from her room.
Mrs. Bywaters acknowledged that her
sickness at the time Of the marriage was
cluscd BY an operation performed 10
Washington. The frat operation was
performed in October, and the second
about two weeks after that. The third
operation was performed the day before
Thanksgiving. She had remained in
Washington after the last operation for
fifteeu dsys. Mrs. Bywaters said that
DR.. Leon, a Washington physician, had
performed one of the operations at bis
Office, and she then vent TO hotel, the
Montrose. Here she was attended BY
Bywaters and DR.. Waters. Bywaters,
she said, had been with her at each oil
the operations, and paid the bills. BS
waters snd herself had registered at the
Hotel as Mr. and Mrs Tyson.
lis it not true that yolr affection fol
him (Bywalersj was such that anything
he told you or advised was all right with
You ?" Mrs. Bywaters was asked.
eyes" she replied.
"Do you remember what he told the
doctor at the time you thought you were
in a critical condition about saving your
life"
"He tod him Che doctor that il
would ccst him (Bywsters) his life if
didu't get we'll"
Mrs Bywsters testified that on her
last trip to Washington, Bywaters re.
NAMED with hel, except two days and
nighte. She admitted that when By
waters advised her that 1t was best for
both of them to postpone the marriage
awhile, she assenltd TO it because she
thought it was best.
The coroner's jury, after taking the
testimony of Mira. Gaines and OF Mrs.
Bywaters on honr, rendered verdict.
1t found simply that w. j. Bywaters
came to his death from bullet wounds
inflicted by James and Philip j. Stroth-
err, and affixed no degree to the crime
| Within an hour afterward the testi'
mony was presented before Alden Bell,
mayor Of Culpeper, acting as magistrate
The case was submitted on the evidence
already adduced, and the two brothers,
waving further examination, we're bound
over in bonds OF s.. 600 each to the Jan
usry term of the grand jury.
They went before Bail Commissioner
lW. G. Wlllisms, who aid that the old
bond wa satisfactory, biit at the request
of Jim Strother new bond was made.
He said that he was sorry TO zee that
because his friend, Smith, the county
treasnrnr was on The bond there had