The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-05
O. Is that house your father orig


A. Yes, sir.
Q. You passed that house going to-
wards what road?
A. The Midlothian turnpike. After
passed that house, think just be-
yond the clump of pines, there n a
little dip down in the road. / no.
ticed there that had flat tire. the
same tire that / had the slow leak In,
and / got out and pumped 1t up and
got in the machine to put the pump
in tho rear seat and jumped out again
to get In the front seat, when | hap
pened to notice that the tire had
gone down. i saw there was nothing
10 do but fix the puncture, that It had
become enlarged. and l fixed the pune
ture there.
Q. Tell the fury what you have to
do to fix puncture?
| "A. On that wheel it IL a very diff
fcult one, II has what they call Tugs
around II, and you have to unscrew
each one of them
@. Is it what they call a demount-
able rim?
a. l don't know about that.
! Q. | don't know. either, so we had
better not go into that.
A. There are two steel rims there
and you have to take those off, and
then / took the inner tube out and
patched 1t. l could easily demon
strate, II l had the car. and show
them the difficulty Of patching such
a tire.
Q. Did you have to get out your
tooso
a. Oh. yes got out the tools and
everything and Jack up the rear of
the car.
4 Q. Did you have to take the tire
off?
! A. I had to take the tube clear out.
and 1t took twenty minutes alone to
patch that tire. The directions on
the can Of cement say to put on one
/ coat CT cement and let 1t dry ten
t minutes and then put on the other
and let 1t dry ten minutes, and then
/ YOU have to put 1t in the outer case
and pump it up.
( q. Do you know how long II took
you to fix that tire
/ A. ] can't say: no. sir.
y. Can YOU give me some idear
Took Nearly An Hour
a Judging from the time / left my
house and the time I got to Mr..
owens It must have taken nearly an
hour.
Q What time did You get TO Mr..
/ Owens. do you know
I A. No. l really do not
I q When YOU got to Mr.. Owens,
was DIR. Mercer there7
| A. No. sir
Q. Do YOU know anything about
whether Dr. Mercer had been sent for
I then?
+ A. No. sir.
( @ Whom did YOU find out In front
Of the house when You got to Mr.
Ovens
A. / ran the car up in front Of the
F house and no L.
which i always do when the car is
standing-in fact, everybody does IL
when the car Is to stand for any
length Of time. MIR Tom Owen was
in the yard with his wife; | talked
10 them for few minutes / thought
nay wife would come down In the ward.
that was where she usually sat In
the evenings; l thought that hear
ing the car come up. she would come
on down. / talked to Mr. Tom owen
a few minutes, and he told me to 10
upstairs, that Louise was I'D there
nursing the baby. and he told me
what room to go IN. l don't know
that he told me she was nursing the
/ baby, but he told ME she was IN
there with the baby. went upstairs
IN the room he told me. on the right
hand side going In. and Louise was
lying across the bed nursing tho baby
leaned over and kissed her and cat
I on the side Of the bed and talked 70
her.
Used to Tea@s. Wife.
u While the baby was nursing,
A Yes sir l used to tease her
by putting my hand in the haby's
mouth when It was nursing. had
told her before that l had had a
puneture the reason l was late. ana
she called attention to the fact thar
my hands We're dirty. / asked her
which way the bathroom was. ana
she showed me
Whom did you ask your wire's
mother or your wife
A, | don't know that I directed the
question to either one or them
u Mrs. owen testified that she
showed YOU where the bathroom was:
that YOU did say you wanted to wash
your hands and she showed you where
it was.
A ! don't recollect which one I ad-
dressed the question to. I asked where
the bathroom was and one of them
+ told me, and Mrs. Owen went out
Ell the room and did not come back
until she came and said that DR.
Mercer was there. and that he might
nave prescription he would want TO
nave hlled She did not know how
many times Louise nursed the baby
she was not In the room.
q. Were you teasing the babv vbua
It was nursing?
a. Yes. / used TO put my finger In
'he pabYs mouth sometimes while IL
was nursing, 10 make it bite her. lust
10 tease her. The baby finished nurs
ing and she got up to fix her dress
I before the bureau. The baby started
CRYING again, and she said, Isn't tina,
aggravating I took the baby and
walked up and down the room with II
several times but l couldn't quiet II.
ana she said, We'll I guess l will
nave to nurse it again" She laid
across the bed and nursed 1t, she al
ways nursed 1t lying across the bed,
10 Keep from having to hold II. She
got II asleep and got up and fixed
her dress at the bureau the second
time, and Mrs. Owen came in and
SAID that DIR. Mercer was downstairs
and that Mrs. Owen wanted a pre-
scription filled.
Wanted to Tell Conversation.
-. Before you got to the murder
you mentioned Mrs. OWENS name
she has said--the only intimation I
nave heard that your wife was un-
happy comes from your mother-in-
law. Did you have any reason at all
TO suspect that she was unhappy, or
worried, about anything In your life
A. Well. IL ! could state converss.
tons. | think I could
The Court: Conversations with
whom?
Witness With my wife, about a
third party.
BY Mr.. Smith:
@. In what relation did that third