The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-08-28
RIGID CROSS EXAMINATION FAILS TO MAKE
MATERIAL CHANGE IN DETAILS BROUGHT
OUT IN ORIGINAL STORY.
ANOTHER cTED WITH DEFENDANT IN RE.
CITING ABOUT HIS WIFE ExcLAIMs at WAS
ENoueHT TO MAN cRAzY"-coURT
ON lNcoMPET ENcY OF EVIDENCE

had on this score on yesterday. Inc
Courts injunction was obeyed and the
people took their seats. The Court
said he would hold the oficers respon-
sible for the enforcement of this or
der. The jury was then formally poll
ed and the defendant, Cranberry, re-
sumed the stand. He was question
ed by Attorney General Garner. Ask
ed that if his wife, while at Dr. For
gey's, asked him to take her to de-
PENDANTS mother, witness said no. and
he also denied that his wife ever ask
ed him to move her to the mines or
take her to the mines.
Witness admitted that he borrowed
a pistol from Washington Long, but
did not return it until after witness
and wife had separated. Long asked
for the pistol and defendant sent 1t
to him. Cranberry had this pistol when
he would come in from the camp after
his suspicious were aroused and he
supposed that Long knew he had the
pistol on mis- person.
Defendant said he sometimes went
out in town at night while boarding
at Mrs. Longs and on one occasion
he stayed out till 2 o'clock in the
morning. This was after witness sus-
picions were aroused The first
thing that aroused witness suspicious
was finding Of Long in the room with
his wife and he warned her against
Long. He was then asked about the
brandy and witness said wife told him
Washington got whiskey for her on a
PRESCRIPTION from physician. 1t was
then his wife told him this could not
go on always and his wife asked him
for money so she could go away, He
hoped she would think that it would
be a good idea to get her away from
Longs influence for some time. Wit
ness then went over the stories told
him by the nurses. Witness said he
knew his wife had not been criminal
but that she was merely indiscreet in
doing things that he did not approve
of.
The court directed fine of $40
against the sheriff for not keeping the
audience seated.
Witness then went over the brandy
incident. He denied that in the dining
room. in the presence of others, he
charged his wife with being untrue to
him. He called his wife out, and
then charged her with being untrue to
him.
Witness denied emphatically that
Mrs. Long offered one word of explain
alton about how Mrs. CRANBERRY got
the whiskey. When witness told his
wife he was going to leave her he did
not know whether or not this was
final. Witness tried to phone wife's
father the next day, but could not get
him until the day following and he
then told wife's father that they had
separated. His wife refused to come
to the phone and talk to her father
because she said that she didn't want
to be under the same roof with de-
PENDANT. Witness did go back to the
house that night after the separation,
but he did not talk to his wife in the
presence Of Mrs. Long. Shortly after
that, his wife's father came to Mt. Pleas
ant to see his daughter. Asked If he
had a talk with his wife's father, the
witness said that he did, he said some
words; was present when others were
talking. The father came on the
night he telephoned him on Sunday
after separation, but witness saw
wife's father the next day.
Witness denied that he agreed to
remain separated from his wife. On
Monday night his brothers and wife's
father and brother met In Columbia
at the Bethel House, he understood to
i.ettle his and his wife's troubles. He
that this meeting was for
the purpose of agreeing on separa-
ton of himself and wife. He under
stood that this agreement was made;
that It was decided that he and his
wife were to be separated from then
on. He understood also that he and
his wife were to remain apart. He de-
MED that he began at once to search for
evidence upon which to get divorce
Or secure possession of his child 1t
was natural that he should want to
Iind out what people knew. At this
time an article appeared in Colum-
bia paper that he though was refiec-
lion on him.
Witness asked Harry ]. Harlan