Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-10
Il believe he s of arsenic poison

Saw pie Kiss.
Before placin = Linn on the stand
Yesterday the = examined a num-
her of Witness. along the same line
pursued thus 4 of showing the in
tinacy which . sted between Mrs.
Pratt and Win arsing.
The most important of these wit
nesses was Mrs. j. A. Misner, who
claimed to have seen Mrs. Pratt and
Persing kiss each other. She was the
first and only witness who would
swear to ever having seen the couple
demonstrate their affection In this
manner
Mrs. Misner who is the wife of a
neghboring farmer, said she was IN
the Sitting room that evening. talking
to Mrs. Pratt, when Persing came from
the sick room to get drink OF water
for Pratt. Mrs. Pratt arose and went
with him into the kitchen. which was
unlighted at the time, except Tor the
band of light that streamed into 1t
from the sitting room door. Witness
saw Persing after the two had passed
into the kitchen, but were still in the
light, put his arms around Mrs Pratt
and kiss her; then stepping to the
cupboard. he secured a glass, and the
two went to the corner of the room In
the dark and remained there for about
fifteen minutes, whispering to each
other. They then brought out the
glass of water for the sick man in the
east bed room
A second time that evening about a
half hour later witness saw Persing
and Mrs. Pratt go into the kitchen to-
gether to prepare some "nourishment,
| for Pratt Mrs. Pratt took the lamp In
her hand and Persing followed her ana
| shut the door after them. Witness sall
her little boy was hungry at that time
and in few minutes she went into the
kitchen to get him piece. She turn
ed the knob two or three times before
she could open the door and when she
stepped inside Mrs. Pratt was standing
by the stove stirring the "nourlshment
and Persing was standing few feet
| from the door with one hand behind his
back After getting the piece" from
the provisions on the table witness re-
tired from the room and saw Persing,
with one hand still behind him, step
to the door and again close it. PersinS
and Mrs. Pratt remained in the kitchen
this time for ten or fifteen minutes
and during that time witness went ou;
doors through the east bed room and
tried to look in at three kitchen VIM
dows. At two of them she found the
blinds down-though they were up ear
lier in the evening-and at the third
the gasoline stove cut off the view in
the room. Consequently she could not
see what Persing and Mrs. Pratt were
doing there The shades were not
drawn in any other part of the house,
excepting one on the south side OF the
sitting room, which Mrs. Pratt had
lowered when talking with witness
few minutes before.
On cross examination witness test1-
fed that she had attempted to look in
to windows on the west south and east
Sizes of tho kitchen.
Are you certain" said Attorney
Parsons chat you tried the east WIN
dow of the kitchen?"
"Yes, sir!"
"Positive?"
Yves, sir!"
"Here," said Parsons triumphantly,
"is the plat of the Pratt house and
there is no east kitchen window"
Witness was somewhat coAIuseu a.
this but insisted that there must have
been a window there into which shf:
tried to look
The plat shows a window on the
south side of the sitting room, but
none on the east side of the kitchen.
Witness testified that Mrs. Pratt said
nothing to her during the evening
about setting poison for mice that ev-
ening or about having secured poison.