Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10


called and left a card when she was out.
when Mr.. Adams came to my sitting
ROOM said Mrs. Parker. MIR. Potts
was there. / sent Mr. Potts downstairs
solutely alone with Mr. Adams. because
/ felt that in private and confidential
conversation with a member of Suttons
family he might talk more freely.
AT first Mr.. Adams was reluctant TO
speak of my brother. He appeared to
wish to spare my feelings. But / told
him / wished to know everything. and
TO disregard my feelings entirely. Then
lie talked with freedom.
Story Told Her by Adams.
He told me of several differences he
and my brother had had prior to their
final trouble. He also told me my
brother had used abusive language dur
ing the automobile ride from Carvel Hall
10 the barracks.
The story Adams told her, Mrs. Parker
said, of the preliminary occurrences
the night Sutton died tailed almost ex-
actly with the story Adams told on the
stand. Coming to the final acts OF the
tragedy, and still quoting Adams. Mrs,
Parker continued:
Mr. Adams told me that after my
brother and Mr.. Ostermann stopped fight
ing my brother trotted off toward camp,
threatening to kill all of them. The
next Mr.. Adams saw of him was when
he came upon Jimmie with the revolvers
After Jimmie had shot him in the
finger. Mr.. Adams said. he rushed upon
him. grabbed him around the neck and
then. forcing Jimmie's arms crosswise
in front of him. threw Jimmie face down.
ward upon the ground. He was holding
Jimmie down and beating him when an
officer came and jerked or kicked Mr..
Adams off. The officer. Mr.. Adams said,
was Lieut.. Bevan.
Mr.. Adams said he was so Infatuated
hat
brother more, but was prevented from
doing Then he heard the shot-he was
looking away at the instant it was fired
and heard some one say Sutton had killed
himself.
II asked Mr.. Adams If he did not feel
sorry, when he realized that Jimmie was
dead. that he had beaten him. He told
me he did not, because he knew that
if my brother had lived his own life
would not have been worth 10 cents. He
said he knew Jimmie would have got
ten him..
II reminded him that that would be
most damaging statement for him to
make before a jury.
But l am not talking before a jury.
his reply"
Adams Her Guest at Dinner.
She and Adams talked together from A
q clock in the afternoon until 10 o'clock
at night Mrs. Parker said. Then, realz-
ing that she had made Adams miss his
dinner she invited him and Prof. Sisson
and DIR. Murphy the latter had been wait
ing FIR her downstairs while she was with
Ada ,n.1 10 n restaurant to take dinner
with her. which they did
Adams left early. Then she repeated to
the others their conversation.
The examination of Mrs. Sutton was
merely for the purpose of identifying
some papers and letters of her son
written shortly before he died. the
object of Mr.. Davis being to show
that SuttoH's mental condition at that
time was not gloomy or morose and that
there was nothing to indicate suicidal
intent.
1t was at the reading of the letter her
son had written her about his prospec-
tive trip around the world with the
battleship fleet that Mrs. Sutton broke
down SO completely. The letter had no
bearing whatever upon the present in
quiry. 1t was bright, happy letter,
full of jocular references in which the
expression. Nom, old girl cropped
out frequently. Sutton wrote of the many
things he hoped to buy on the voyage for
hts mother.