The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-09-04


for the mother and her little child
Asked IL the defendant visited his
wife while she was al her house, ana
concerning his treatment Of her. Wit
ness replied that he came there three
ar four times. and that his treatment
Of both his wife and his child was
markedly cold and Indifferent He
ould come In. said The witness, and
il his child was about he would say
hello kid: but he never kissed or
caressed either his wife or child that
/ saw while they were at my house
Witness said that Mrs. Granbery
was sick the entire time she was at
witness house; so sick that witness
sent her meals to her room. Mrs.
Granbery had all this time been ex-
Meeting defendants motheR TO invite
them to stay with her until other ar
rangements could be made, and she
felt very sorely the slight. She
asked her husband if he had heard
his mother say anything about in
yiting them there Christmas, and up
on his replying no. she became very
mad and said to him, Il do not want
YOU to ever ask me to put my foot In
her house again, for | won't do IT,
She said to her husband, IF you viii
not resent such treatment to your
wife, | will. Your mother never liked
me: never wanted us to marry; and
| want them to understand that my
people were as much opposed as
yours
Witness said that defendants wife
was bitterly opposed to going to Mt.
Pleasant; that she insisted all the
time that she wanted to go to Cen
teville aud live with her father. Wit
ness heard the conversation between
Mrs. CRANBERRY and her father, at
which time, yielding to her fathers
advice she consented to go to Mt.
Pleasant to live with her husband.
(The conversation was objected to
and ruled out, but witness was per-
mitted to state the condition OF de-
PENDANTS wife at the conclusion of
the conversational She said she was
weeping bitterly and seemed utterly
heart broken, because she did not
want to go to her husband at Mt.
Pleasant, but wanted to go to Centre
Vile to live with her father.
Asked if Mrs. CRANBERRY talked with
her frequently during this visit Mrs
Forgey said she did. Asked as to, her
mental condition during these con-
versations, witness said she was mis-
erably unhappy and crying frequently.
Said that when defendant visited her
they were constantly scrapping, and
that he always left her in tears.
"The day she called her husband
over the phone and told him she was
coming to Mt. Pleasant" said the wit
ness, ''she asked him over the phone
to tell Mrs. Long to have two beds
put in the room; l could not hear his
reply, but it was evidently very of
fensive to her, because she left the
phone in fury and cried like a
child"
Asked if she had heard the defen-
dant's wife talk to witness husband, |
DR.. Forgey, about her trouble with
her husband witness replied that she
had. and that Mrs CRANBERRY would |
become almost frantic. while telling !
witness and DR.. Forgey about what
she had had to put up with in st.
Louis, and his treatment of her. Her
manner was very distressing and un-
happy, and she cried most of the
time"
Witness was asked if she knew
what had become of Mrs. Granbery's
mothers engagement ring. She an
swered that she did; that Mrs. Gran
berry had told her. (But this was not
in the presence of the husband, and
was ruled out, and witness was not
allowed to state what had become of
the ring.)
In replying to other questions Mrs.
Forgey said: Eyes, | invited him to
my home to take Christmas dinner
with his wife and child. l called him
over the phone, and told him that we
would have little Christmas tree for
the children, and that would be glad
to have him come and make one of the
party. He said he would let me
know; but he never came, and he
never let me know"
what effect, if any, did that seem
to have upon his wife?' asked Attor-
Garner.
"Why she seemed heart-broken to
think that he did not care enough for
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