The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-08-28

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their mother. He said that Mrs
Longs bed was the bed nearest the
door occupied by his wife.
witness said the first talk he had
with Or. Lenehan was in March; he
talked TO him again the last OF April
and then again about ten days before
the killing.
The first information he obtained
trolp Miss Matt Dobblns was about
the middle of May, and the last time
was a week before the killing. His
talk with Charlie Burns was the first
week in May. The one with Tom Fet-
ter was nine days before the killing.
His talk with Annie Dob5ins, colored,
was the last week in April. Witness
never had any talk at all, he said,
with the detective; never saw him.
Witness was asked &C ncerning Wis
it Of his wifes father to his mothers
home on the Monday following the
Friday, when the separation had taken
place. He said that his wife's father
had called at his mothers house.
That he met him in the hall and in
vited him into the room and intro
duced him to his mother; said he
could not recall, but did not think that
the father spoke to him at all. He
was invited to take his coat off and
have a seat. After some time the
visitor asked defendants brother Bob,
for a private conference, and they left
the room together. Witness did not
hear what was said, but Bob reported
to him that his wife's father said he
had "come there to settle matters;
that he had come for revenge; that
he never knew a divorced woman
whose character had not been pulled
down by it." Bob said that he had
replied that only evil-minded people
were given to think evil of all d.
vorced women; and that If there was
to be any settlement for revenge it
must be with him and not with me-"
That, said the witness, is the sub
stance of what Bob told me was said
between them.
Acknowledgement Garner here re-
peated his searching question which
the defendant declined to answer the
day before:
when, if ever, did your mind be-
come fixed that your wife had been
criminally intimate with Washington
Long?"
Il don't know that it ever became
fixed" was the reply; sometimes
thought so, sometimes l did not think |
So"
How long before the killing did
your mind become fixed as to the guilt |
of your wife," was the next question.
Il have told you that cannot say
that my mind became fixed at all"
was the reply. Sometimes when I
would hear what people were saying,
l could not help but believe the re-
ports of her conduct; but then again
| would think 1t over and throw it off
and not believe 1t. l was hearing
these reports and thinking over my
trouble so much that my mind was
excited and troubled all the while,
and what I thought at one time I
would not think at another time"
The Acknowledgement then left this
line of inquiry, and inquired about
the pistol Witness said he had
bought the pistol in St Louis, and
carried it regularly, as was the Gus
tom among bosses at the mines. He
had borrowed a pistol when he first
went to the mines, and had not pur-
chased this one until after he had !
separated from his wife. 1t was a
Colts automatic, and shot nine times,
as fast as you could pull the trigger.
It had a safety arrangement, however,
which prevented 1t from shooting un- :
II that arrangement had been fixed.
There were no loads In his pistol that
light after he had ceased firing AT
he time he bought the pistol he had
Ilso bought one hundred cartridges,
md had used them all except the nine :,
lie used that night. He had used ),
hem, he said, shooting rabbits and
argets.
Changing the line of thought again. a