Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-26
REQUESTS.
Continued from Page One.)

The first letter. written by Rooer-
ia while he was with Miss Farmer
ut Eliot on Jan. rs, 1910, reported that
he was assisting DR.. Willis and a
nurse in taking care of her. DIR. VIII
lis told him Miss Farmer was suffer
ing mentally and advised that she &c
to an insane asylum. Roberta tried
psychic control over her and they
took long walks. He stated in the
letter that in the morning she would
be raving all the time. and at night
would be calm. The second letter
was written at Portsmouth. n. H..
Jan. %, 1910. by Mrs. Bull and direct
ed to Roberta.
Under cross examination. Roberta
stated that ne suffered good deal
himself and at times was nearly dis
tracted because he was associated
with Miss Farmer. He had to tie her
in a room, battle her. take walks and
use exercises. When he went to Eli
OF he found everything in the house
il disorder and Miss Farmer was raw
ing.
In 1907 Mrs. Bull went to Europe.
returning in August. 1908. He was
of $40 q month began in the fall of
1908 Mrs. Bull was at home all that
winter and paid him with checks
signed by Mrs. Stevens.
Attorney Whipple again took the
witness in hand On redirect exam
ination and read a letter sent him
in Italy by Olea Bull Vaughn, March
2, 1911, asking him to come over and
testify if needed. as truthful evidence
about what happened in the Cam
bridge and Eliot homes of her mother
was wanted and she believed he would
furnish it. With the letter clippings
about the case were enclosed She
spoke of her poor mother" who must
have been entirely under the control
of others for l feel sure that never
in her own clear mind or her own
free will would she have consented
to sign such document as this will
that Mr.. Parker and my uncle nave
offered for probate
1t has come upon me-" the letter
continued, like a thunderbolt from
clear sky. as | felt sure of my
mothers real love for me-" She hoped
there would be no contest over the
will, but was not sure there would
be none.
Roberta gave the names of nine
people who were in the household at
Cambridge after which Attorney
Whirple stated his desire to show
that the reason OIea Bull Vaughn
lid not want TO visit her mother Of
ten at Cambridge was because she
WIS surrounded by such band and
Oiea Bull Vaughn did not believe in
the faith nor desire to associate with
those who practiced it,
Roberta testified that Mrs Vaughn
would go to a hotel in Boston. tele-
phone her mother at Cambridge and
ask her to come to the hotel to see her
For month after Mrs. Bull returned
from California, Mrs. Vaughn went to
tae house in Cambridge as at that time
most of the others who composed the
household We're away. He heard Mrs
Vaughn declare she would not stay in
the house when the crowd" was there
sometimes her mother was not we'll
enough to go to Boston.
Replying to Attorney Cobb. he said
lie had read the clippings carefully
Asked by him if he was surprised at
anything that appeared in the clippings
anout what Mrs Bull had done in re-
lation TO the will, he said that nothing
surprised him.
Roberta was excused and Joseph G..
Thorp, brother of Mrs Bull and SON
In-law of the poet, Longfellow. who
was on the stand three days last week.
was called by Mr.. Whipple Reference
was made to q letter sent him by Mrs.
Bull from Cambridge in 1905. An
nolnccment was made that all letters
between airs. Bull and Mr. Thorn in
1906 would be presented this afternoon.
CHURCH CLASH,