Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-10-17

reason 10 believe that IL once | set
} tied my financial condition so that
my conscience would allow me to put
through divorce, my wife's consent
would be granted.
Rather than fight about it she
would bring the action her
self and make a deal with me, and
instead of taking a fight and what
she could get she would take gen.
erous arrangement, the best l could
make for her. 1t required time to
bring her to that state of mind.
wanted His Son.
'I wanted to have my little one;
wanted to have my son. I didn't
feel any scruples about getting di-
vorce if only were comfortably sit
uated financially, because I knew
that she would be perfectly contented
in Maine when she had plenty of
money"
did you talk of divorce to your
wifo?"
MANY times. Subsequent to her
arrival at Ampere on many occasions
brought up the subject and from
| Lie icSuil VI thS COhNCtStiLlOh L SOiA-
sidered that she fully agreed to di
vorce. On several occasions she had
discussed the subject fully with me-
and I felt naturally that she had
agreed, and that the whole matter
was settled with the exception of
details
when did all this happen?"
"These conversations took place.
should say, roughly, from about Sep
tember 12 to the 18th. Then the mat
ter was brought to a head when one
day l was returning from New
York"
Hold on this from Mr.. McDermit,
when was this?"
II believe it was on the 18th. l can
only identity the date by referring to
several letters to and from Miss
Bromley.
"All right; proceed
| wife struck Son.
Il was coming home from New
York, and as l came into the room I
saw the boy. little Robert, with his
I face all bloody and his suit had blood
on IL down the front. Evelyn. that Is
/ my wife. had him by the arm and
was dragging him toward the wash
bowl, l said, what in the world is
the natter She said, i struck him.
1 had folded newspaper in my hand
She was still dragging him to the
washbowl. 1 wanted her to stop and
she wouldn't, and to stop her prog
ress and arouse her attention, and
partly because some remark she
made got me angry, lifted the news
paper and struck her with it,"
Had you ever struck her before?"
NO" emphatically.
We'll, proceed, What happened
them"
I'VE had an argument. l told her
that we would have to come to a
settlement, and that quickly, too.
said we would soon have to move out
of the house and then we would part.
said that we could come to the
friendly parting that we had dis
cussed, but that If she would not
agree to that would take the boy
and go off somewhere, and | would do
that if she did not make a deal with
me of some kind. | told her that If
she was sick of the money | would
not live with her."
did you write of this to Miss
Bromley?"
yes, | remember writing to Miss
Bromley and telling her that I had
had disagreement with my wife,
and told her that l was ashamed of
the whole business, ashamed Of strik-
| m fr-I I,,,w- - 1.
letter that fixes the date In my
mind"
is this the letter to which you re-
fer?' and the attorney handed up one
OF the famous Bunny letters.
Yes" said MacFarland.
Read parts of it that bear ON the
present issue"
Prosecutor Mott was on his feet
Immediately, but after a little
wrangling the letter was read in part.
wanted to cry when | thought of
little Bobby's little face all bloody.
If ! ever DO such things to our kid
dies l won't blame you for striking
me- Something in the letter re-
minded MacFarland that he had for
gotten something. and he interrupted
himself to explain. AT the time of
the argument my wife said to me- IT
you ever strike me again | will have
you arrested or will shoot you. Yes.
] viii kill you" Then, resuming the
letter; Goodness, do you think she
might shoot you? That would be an
awful mess Then should have to
shoot her before l die. l hate to have
you fuss around her. Here the
reading-not the letter-stopped
Before the quarrel about Robert
did you discuss with your wife any
thing IN regard to getting cyanide?''
Prosecutor Mott rose af If to object
but merely asked to have the uues-
ton repeated 1t was done.
Planned Philadelphia Trip.
; The getting OF it and the discus
[ sion were practically at the same
time
| We'll when did you discuss it?"
1T was the latter part of August
little. before payday"
| you were anticipating payday ant
| receiving some money"
| surely"
t How did you expect to spend 9
portion Of that money!"
! Il was going to PPhiladelphia or
business, a trip that 1 had expected
to take right after payday"
5 Had you discussed 1t with YOU
wife2"
t "Yes. we had some silver that wal