The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-11

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IS ia sherman Needed money wor~r
Is shetman than in Venus slwe nos
fhey sgtia money Was given ~ .ntie"
hur away Witness Then in response
ia counsel. told the lury ahst her ia
Their had aaid tn her presence TO mo
ilser concerning the Honey GFaSn
woman that be Natd Hhs was rich.
awnet six houses ~ ill fatna a8t that
be WAS after her money and then he
recited To defendant In presence oS
witness hts liassns With this WON
an
Hecross Examination Father
paid witness a quarter In sherman
for cleaning yards
The state here showed witness
letter which she Identified as one she
had written ia her father and OF
fered II IN evidence, bur upon obJ.e-
tlon hy defense. letter was excluded
Witness said her mothers mind was
bright up to the time of killing her
father
Witness was then excused after
having been on the stand for over
three hours.
The court here took under con
sideration the admissibilitN or q
letter written by Mrs. Annie Mahan-
ey, the defendant at Sherman to
Mrs. Mollie Foster at Venus. The de-
Tense has been trying to introduce
this letter from the first day of the
trial. bat the court has been ruling
II out After reading decision, the
court announced to the jury that he
would admit the letter on the issue
of insanity alone. The letter, which
was written October 80. 1906. by
Mrs Mahaney while she was living
in sherman to her sister. Mrs. Mol
lie Foster, at Venus was then read
to the Jury by Senator Odell and
there never was written letter in
which a more broken hearted woman
poured out her soul in anguish and
implored her sister to send their
brother Edgar Breeze, than this one.
She did not ask for money but want
ed her brother to come TO her so
she might tell him history OF four
years of mistreatment, wrongs and
human suffering. She referred to hei
lchildren, saying the oldest was aoit
ito care for himself and had been 90
ling so for three years, that sh
could not bear the thought OF Ca
lrie Cher 14-year-old daughter) eve
falling in the hands of a little blacl
eyed woman whose happiness d
pends on my death. Speaking of h
husband she said: But four yea
= ago my troubles commenced. the
commenced taking morphine, bn
: got over it all and still had hop
and have lied for the man | loved t
hide his faults away from my peo
pie but my hopes were bllghted
again last year. Still | smuggled
| things. but now my hope and health
are gone forever" At the close OF
the letter, which is not very lengthy
she says: Nov, if Ed don't come
this time, and me sick, | don't know
what to do. If | could only tell you
all so YOU will know when | am
gone"
Mrs Jake Foster and Edgar
Breeze, sister and brother of defend
ant. testified TO having received the
above letter Oct 81. last, and both
left for Sherman on the first traln
the next day They said that they
found Mrs. Mahaney, whom they
had not seen in two years before,
much changed in appearance ana
hardly recognizable; that she was
broken in health. wrinkled in face
and her hair turning gray Edgar
Breeez testified that the defendant
looked much worse then than now.
This witness said that defendant
made a statement To them, which
occupied an hour IN its recital me
nature of this statement was ruled