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

thing that aroused his suspicious va
the fact that Long vas n his room
after he asked her to keep him on,
: He was afraid there would be GOSSIP
about her II he did not keep out o
her room.
Acknowledgement Garner gave tn
defendant a very close examination a.
% the causes which aroused his sus
picion against his wife. He asked
him what was the first thing Witness
replied there we're SO many things
he could not recall the first. state
the first you can recall said the At
torney-GeneraL Well" said the Wit
ness. about the first thing / remem-
Der vas seeing them playing a game
Of cards. Wash Long and my wife
we're partners. but instead Of sitting
opposite each other. they were sitting
next to each other; and when asked
the reason for that peculiar arrange
ment, she said It was to protect Wash
IOm the ure.
And what was the next suspicious
~ circumstance" asked the lawyer?
They had been to church." was the
answer, "and when they returned she
said, 'Pardy let's go and get some
pickle; they were gone but a few min
utes. but when they returned they sat
together on a trunk, and she looked
very admiringly at him" Witness
further continued, saying, "and the
way she treated me, showed that she
was daily growing more and more in
different to me, and refused to grant
my request to forbid him the room,
was enough to arouse any mans sus-
picion When would come home after
weeks absence, and find him in my
roomy- he would not look at me but
sneak out, and she would turn away
from me and have no conversation
with me; would go into another room,
DR. out in the hail. She seemed to re-
sent my presence or to ignore it,"
To further questions witness testi-
led that his wife was of a nervous
easily excited, and had
ainting spells He admitted that
While boarding at the Longs, he and
lis wife had frequent quarrels: if not !
or one thing then for another; "and,"
le continued, they were all caused
" this boy and her studied indiffer-
nee to me-" +
Questioned concerning his effort to !
axe her out near the mines to board, :
there he could be with her every !.
ay and night, witness said that Mrs. q
ong agreed with him and tried to per-
uade her to go. and she finally con-
ented to go in month; and he said
} her, IF you do not think enough of :
lie to go with me, you can stay here"
He said that he and his wife board
at the Longs about FIVE weeks.
hat his wife was in a delicate condi- :
on when they went there, and was Il
ok the first ten days or two weeks.
Question What was there in the
sneral character, temperament, dis
'sition or past conduct OF your wife,
Tide from the game OF cards yoa 81
ention, and the eating Of some sweet
ckle, and the sitting on a trunk to-
ther and looking at each other, to
ad you to believe that in three short
eeks boy of nineteen years OF age sp
uld wreck her character? TIE
nswer:-Nothing at all. / never ma
Id it was wrecked at that time. Up fr'
the time l left her l never suspect tl1
any criminality l left her the last 20
January, and still believed in her Pc
rity up to that time. But after what dis
try Harlan told me, and after the tei
Ter rumors l heard, some times ! IN
uld doubt her. and then again I sol
uld believe in her. / did not want ma
lose faith in her ana sometimes Lee
en- did doubt her would throw 1t UNI
and believe in her again. Some M.
e in the last part of April, when inc
rlan told me the story I have re- ter
ted here,was one of the times that Eel
elieved in her guilt; but whether the
t was the first or second time / pro
not know. But I never had the uno
htest doubt of her chastity until nov
II had left her and heard the ru- TAX
s of what Long and others had Pc"
|. The fact that l so frequently
ght Long in my room; that he w
Id sneak out without looking at or
aking to me, and that she refused
iced my warning or grant my re-
st to keep him out, aroused my =
,icions as to her loyalty to me, but %
d not believe at that time there WA
any criminal guilt between them 'ui