The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-05

anu you nave to take those on, and
then took the inner tube out and
patched 1t. could easiiy demonstrates
II | had the car. and show them tho
Difficulty of patching such a tire
9 Did you have to get out your
tools?
! A oh. yes. get cut the tools and
everything and Jack up the resr of
the car.
Q. Did you have to take the tire
off? '
y. I had to take the tube fear QUIZ
and 1t took twenty minutes alone to
patch that tire. The directions on the
can OF cement say TO put on ono coat
OF cement and lot 1t dry ten minutes
and then put on the other and let
1t dry ten minutes. and then YOU have
70 put It In the outer case and pump
/ IT up.
Took Nearly nm Hour.
q Do you know how long II took
y u to fix that tire?
A. l can't say. no. sir
=. Can you give us some idear
a Judging from the time left my
mouse and the time got to Mr. Owens,
II must have taken nearly an hour
q What time d. you get to Mr.
ovens do you know?
A No. I really do not
Q. When you got to Mr. Ovens
was DR. Mercer there?
/ a. No, sir
g, Do you know anything about
then? '''
a. No. sir.
@ Whom did You find out In front
Of the house when you got to Mr.
| Owens?
! a. ran the car up in front of the
mousse and put out the gas lamps. which
always do when the GER is standing
IN fact, everybody does 1t when the
car is TO stand for any length OF time.
Mr.. Tom owen was In the yard with
his Wife; ! talked TO them for a few
minutes. / thought my wife would
come down in the yard: that was where
she usually sat In the evenings; 1
thought that hearing the car come up.
she would come on down. l talked
to Mr.. Tom owen n few minutes. and
he told me to go upstairs. that Louise
| was up there nursing tho baby, and
he told me what room to so IN. don't
know that he told me she was nursing
| the baby. but he told me she was up
! there with the baby. I went upstairs
In the room he told me. on tn" right
hand side going In. and Louise was
lying across the bed nursing the baby.
I leaned over and kissed her and sat
On the side OF the bed and talked to
! her.
Went Into Bathroom.
@. While the baby was nursing?
a Yes, sir. I used to tease her by
| putting my hand In the baby's mouth.
had told her before that 1 had had
a puncture the reason 1 was late. ann
! she called attention to the fact that
rS hands were dirty. I asked her
which way the bathroom was, and she
! showed me.
! Q. Whom did you ask. your wifes
mother. or your wife:
A. l don't know that directed the
! question to either one OF them.
Q. 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 of the
room and did not come back until she
came and said that DR.. Mercer was
there and that he might have q pre-
scription which he would want to have
filled She did not know how many
times Louise nursed the baby; she was
not in the room.
/ @. Were you teasing the baby while
! II was nursing?
/ "A Yes. / used to put my finger In
the baby's mouth. The baby finished
nursing, and she got up to fix her dress
before the bureau. The baby started
, crying again. and she said: Isn't that
aggravating?" took the baby and
walked up and down the room with 1t
several times, but I couldn't quiet It,
and she said: We'll. L guess I will have
TO nurse 1t again" She laid across the
bed and nursed II; she always nursed 1t
lying across the bed. to keep from hav-
ing to hold 1t. She got 1t asleep and
got up%and fixed her dress at the bu-
renu the second time, and Mrs. owen
came In and said that DIR. Mercer was
downstairs and that Mrs. Owen wanted
n prescription filled.
Wife Not Unhappy.
Q. Before you get to the murder, you
mentioned Mrs. Owens name She has
said-the only intimation / have heard
that your wife was unhappy comes
from your motherin- law. Did you
have any reason at all TO suspect that
she was unhappy or worried about any
| thing in your life?
a. Well. ii / could state conversations
think I could
THE Recommendations with
whom?
wITNEss:-with my wife about
third party.
BY MIR. SMITH,
-. III what relation did that third
party stand TO your wife?
a. Her own brother and my sister
Will testify to the same thing
Q. am asking you whether there
was anything in your life. or anything
about you. that caused your wife to be
unhappy about you. in any way shape
or form?
a. No. sir. She had no reason to be.
so far as I know.
Q. Do you state to the jury that you
have no reason in the world to sus-
pect that you wife was unhappy, and
that you know she was not?
A. ] know she was not on my ac-
count l would like to state that con-
versation If the court will allow IT,
e. 1t Is not necessary. You have
gotten TO the point now at which your
wife was ready 70 go on tho automo-
ln e.