St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-11-23

her, which i did and after we hat
finished this work she put the lamI
down on the table and began talking
TO me. It was there the first love
talk was begun, and took her hand
and raised It TO my lips and kissed 1t
Then she thew her arms around NJ.
| reck and kissed me. and told he:
.nat she Ia me hypnotizod, and that
| che ought to stop tina. sort Of fool
| ishness. was cray with love OF
her, but realized the danger of the
position in which was being drawn
She said she did not want to dc
wroq hbut that she loved ne with
her Whole heart and soul. l went
home that night without trying to
take advantage OF her husbands alb
sence from his house, but the next
day and every day after that for some
weeks We met every morning at the
well. where she would kiss me, and
would talk Of how sorry she was
that .aon7itions we're such that We
10 together as man and
wife. xnxlfs grew worse all the
time We stayed at Flanagan, and
continued after We went to Metcalf
to live.
Begged to Kill Husband.
"One night l went to her house t.
make out some checks for the men
and she motioned me to wait outside
I stopped ct the water bucket. Bal
ley went to his bedroom, and she
came out and told me that she want
ed me to 60 inside and destroy him
The next day she wrote me a letter
IN which she asked me to buy some
beer and put strychnine in it for
her husband. I did not answer the
letter. but when l saw her again
told her she had put hard PROPOSE
tion up to me. Later on she begged
me to kill him about the mill and
pretend that it was an accident, and
once when he was sick 1. went to
tho drug store and got q prescription
for him; when brought the medicine
homo he wanted it put into capsules.
and Mrs. Bailey asked me to put
s!iyt hniAe In on, q, them and give
It to him. but 1efMeed to do it, and
put in the right medicine, as he had
asked me to do. That was when We
lived at Flanagan. At Metcalf she
begged me every day for two weeks
to lot her 90 fishing with a negro
cook and then for me to go to the
house at noon and shoot him, but
refused to do that.
Woman Gave Mrs. Watson Poison.
MRS. Bailey gave my wife the cap
sule Of strychnine that caused her
death. My wife was sick then at
Flanagan; it was on the 10th day of
June. 1911. Mrs. Bailey saw me put
the medicine in q capsule and she
knew what it was that she gave my
wife. She suggested the whole awful
plot, and she deserves the same pun
ishment as dor worse, for was
weak and run down, physically, and
in no condition to Withstand the
Intimacy Begot Murder.
1.-THE first time there was anything
between Mrs. Bailey and my
self was on the 4th day Of March,
1913. After that time l used to go
to her house regularly once . month
n her husbands absence, while he
va on on one Of his trips. She
would leave the door open for me to
eater, ana frequently met me outside
the house in the dark. This continu-
Cd after the death Of my wife, the
last time being on Tuesday after the
drst Sunday IN August. l begged hel
to get Q divorce from her husband
md said I'd marry her afterward.
and would have done it d1dn
see anything but the woman then
md / didn't think untila few dayF
hso of the possibility what she would
Lave dore for me just what she tried
to do to Mr.. Bailey. She wouldn't
agree to the divorce plan. saying he
would follow us and kill us both.
ION one occasion Mrs. Bailey gave
Ter husband three tablespoonfuls OF
4 preparation containing laudanum
which / had bought to use on some
horses which had distemper. He
thought he was taking Lax-Fos.
didn't see her give him the drug. but
when I went to get the eight ounce
bottle to get some OF the preparation
I eaw that eOn.e of 1t was missing.
and asked her where it was. She
pointed to her husband, who wa:
asleep, and said she had given 1t to
him, and she hoped he would never
wake up. He did wake up, though
and next morning complained of feel
ing badly, but he thought he had
touch OF congestion. Two week:
after We moved to Metcalf, she told
me she had given him a teaspoonful
Of aconite in his coffee; he said hi:
heart felt wrong and next morning
his eyes were all pulled out rs II he
had been on q drunk for four or five
days.
Tried Third Time to Poison Husband
s"As to the last attempt to poison
her husband, Mrs. Bailey told me she
put half q teaspoonful of strychnfne
In Mr.. Bailey's sugar when he startea
away ON his trip. He never talked
to me in her presence, but he brought
the coffee home with him and asked
me to go and taste it, as 1t was the
bitterest stun he ever tasted. He
told me not to swallow 1t. The next
day at the mill he told me that some
one had tried to poison him, but he
didn't know of anybody who wou1f'
want to do such q thing; he said l.
he: thought his wife had done it he
would kill her, then get on his horse
and leave the country. "Mr. Wat
sou. there is something wrong witt
that Coffee" he told me on the nigh
Of his return from the trip. He saw
me taste it; in fact, he took me out
to where he had put it and watched
me. but he told me not to swallow
It. as he didn't know what 1t might
toto me. He said he had taken ono
swallow of 1t, and that It had almoet
killed him.
'sThat was just eight days before