The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-10-28

they were getting along. One of his
children was kind of sick and I teld
him he better get doctor, that in
case she died he might get into trouble.
O'Mallev said that after the child is
buried no one can touch them. On
the Sunday that l was there when the
children died O'Malley was around the
house and on the swing outside. He
laughed and did not seem to be feeling
very bad. He said something at one
time and then laughed. This was in
the same room where the children were.
Upon cross.examination witness did not
change her testimony except in one i'll
stance where she stated that Mrs.
of three times.
John H. Kendall's Story.
John Fl. Kendall was the next wit
ness called and testified as follows:
, l know OMalley since boyhood and
our farms adiom. We visited each
, other and were friendly. l saw his
step-chldren at his home about two
, or three weeks before they died. AT
one time the boy Frank came around
the house and O'Malley said to me,
| Here comes Buckeye" he told me that
the boy would not live very long.
asked him the reason why and he said
! that his eyes were too big and he
would be better off if he died now as
, he would go to heaven but if he lived
2 to be about q years of age that ne
, would 90 to the other place. The next
, time that my wife and / visited at
. O'AIalley's home he said that DR.. White
told him that the children had consump-
| ton of the bowels and that they were
, eating too much. He told me that
, his wifc's children were the worst Kids
f the boy would not live more than two
Q or three weeks. On July second he
e took me to see the sick boy and told
5 me he would not live till morning
t He showed me the medicine and pills
' that DR.. White gave him. He was
, in q happy frame of mind and laughed
) when he spoke about the medicine |
saw the boy the morning that he died
and also looked at the girl that day.
+ After the doctor left the O'Nfalley
r home OAIalley said to me, Il suppose
people will say that | poisoned those
children" He acted somewhat nervous
5 when he said this. DIR. Moench came
2 there on Sunday. July third when / was
| there. O'Nlalley had the doctor look
I at the children and said that he knew
!, what DR.. White had said and that
e he wanted to know what he would
: say. O'Malley was holding the girl ana
the doctor looked into her throat. Out
s side of the house he said that they
e might as well dig both graves at once
: as the girl could not live anyway. He
, told this before my wife, and John
e lis. Mrs. OMalley's brother and
e myself. I saw the boy when he died.
r His eyes protruded from his head very
much and were very much swollen,
e also his chest and abdomen were swol-
r len and foam was coming from his
mouth. The girl was alive but seemed
to be very hard of breath, was draw
ing up her knees and throwing her
hands over her head. Her eyes were
, very much infamed and bloodshot She
I appeared to be in great agony and
r suffering much pain and it seemed the
2 way she acted that her pains were in
, her stomach. Some time in June
spoke to the defendant about the black
t birds and gophers. tearing up patch
r of corn l had and the defendant told
| me it was easy to get rid of them
, He said | should get strychnine and
that would fix them. He told me
y could get lots of it for Is cents. He
Y told me he kept it in the house all the
time. | had a talk with him after
Y he was released from jail and told
4 him then that he looked thin and he
/. said who wouldn't look thin after be.
t ing shut up in that hell hole and
3 said it was shame to put an limo.
! cent man there. Then he said, even
Y if / did do it they can't touch me. I
e was too sharp for them to hold me-
t On Sunday, July 3rd after the doctor
was there and pronounced the cause in.
fantile paralysis he said to me, "The
$ best damn thing to do with hel, mean.
. ing his wife, is to take her home and
r leave her there until I send for her.
h He told me then that the children
i. had the same sickness about a yea,
q ago. He told me this after the chill
. dren were taken sick and two or three
g days before they died.
4 Testimony of Mrs. Kendall.
]. Mrs. Margaret Kendall, wife of John
= II. Kendall testified in substance az
i. follows: ! know Martin ONIalley, the
:, defendant, went 10 school with him, We
p visited with the ONIalley family anc
4 they visited with us. | saw the see
q ond Mrs. O'Aialley's children, they be
n haved well and were nice children
I had talk with ON1alley and he told
v me al one time that he couldn't com;
4 over to our house, that he was sorry
4 he married his second wife on account
n of her boy and that the boy could moi
+ live any more than two or three weeks
. The boy was not sick at that time. IL
h told me this at our house about three
p weeks before the boy died. He TOLD
n me that his second wife had 81 O0(
and she told him he could have it t.
4 buy land with. OAlalley, told me he
:. took the boy to DR.. White and that thu