The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-09
THE WOMAN STILL
LOVES HUSBAND
Wife of Accused Man was
Placed on Stand Again
To-day

He'd to his attention that some news
papers were containing expressions OF
opinion in regard to the trial OF Juiius
Wells, charged with causing the death
of his son, Louis, aged o, by ADMIN
istering poison in the form of arsenic,
and he gave warning that such action
was in eeatempt Of court. People cir
culating foreign newspapers containing
such matter are liable to punishment,
he declared.
Mrs. Wells. wife of the respondent
ana herself indicted on a similar charge,
was on the stand in cross-examlnatloh
again this morning for an hour w. n
Austin. attorney for Mr.. Wells, resumed
cross.examination on letters introduced
bv the state and he offered an EXHIBIT
for the defense in which there were
threats and which Mrs. Wells counsel
had told her not to show to her hus'
band.
Attorney General Brown objected to
Mrs. Wells answering regarding the con
tents of some papers and was upheld by
the court. Mr.. Brown also objected 70
a letter that Mr.. Austin was trying
to introduce. Mr. Austin having declined
to state the ground on which he made
tbe offer; and the letter was excluded,
to which the defense took exception.
AT this point Mrs. Wells was asked
10 write several sentences, which she
did.
Continuing the cross-examnation. Mrs
Wells denied she had told some neigh
bors that the Saturday night before the
children died that Mrs Parizo wouldn't
live two weeks, or till spring. She de.
MED she had said il would be good
thing If one of the children, who was
TO undergo an operation, did die, as It
would make one less for her to take
care OF. She denied again that she put
paris green in the oranges.
Asked If she told Wells that there
was $500 in G. w. Writers hand If she
was cleared. she answered she told Wells
that she heard Mr.. Gushing ther attor-
nevi was to get 81 900 If he cleared her.
She denied that she had ever said she
would Law her hand on the Bible and
saw that Julius knew nothing about the
affair. She declared she never said TO
man beneath ker cell window: Don't
YOU think it would look better to have
the man go down than the woman
A paper offered as showing the hand
writing of Mrs. Wells was then present
ed. but was excluded and exceptions were
noted.
The re direct examination of Mrs.
Wells was started at 9:5S o'clock, and
Mrs. Wells was asked about a confer
ence with her attorney, Mr.. Writers and
herself. She said the attorneys did not
advise her TO call Attorney General
Brown imt she asked them to do so. She
had known Mr.. Writers since she was
little girl; he was friend of her Ia
ther She had seen Mr. Writers only
twice in many years. Attorney Brown
told her. she testified. that she did not
have to testify; also that he could prom
ise her nothing; and she came to court
because she wanted to.
Was Afraid of Husband.
Mrs. Wells told of time when she
was afraid of her husband and had hid
den herself from him. That was one
morning when they had a quarrel, IN
which she said her husband had threat
ened her: he had been drinking and was
angry She always feared Mr.. Wells
but didn't now because he was where
he couldn't get at her.
Then Attorney Austin began question
ing her again. and Mrs. Wells replied
10 him that she still loved her husband
although she feared him.
Mrs. Wells attorney. Stephen S. Cush-
ing. was then placed on the stand. He
told of sending number of oranges to
the state laboratory. which had been Civ
en- him BY Mrs. Wells.
Much Arsenic Found
DR.. c. r. Whitney. chemist at the state
laboratory. testified as to receiving the
oranges from Attorney Gushing, also
two more oranges from the attorney
general. Another package which he re-
eeived from Attorney Gushing contained
cotton and excelsior. DIR. Whitney tes-
tilted that he found arsenic in the
oranges and there was no arsenic ON
the cotton or excelsior. Since then the
oranges have been kept at the state
laboratory.
DIR. whitney said he also received a
TIN box. an instrument Win "a hahNte
and some cloths. which also had paris
green. The box, he testified, could have
held fourth ounce Of arsenic, or
from so to 80 fatal doses. Still another
he received contained oranges and some
red hair. There was arsenic in the
oranges.
Mrs Wells Queer Actions.
CIR - g. u,f,va- faz4fEod 20 70.
eeiving oranges in a glass jar from At
torney Gushing. keeping them until
the grand jury met and then turning
them over to the states attorney. He
aid an instrument and a tin box were
found in Mrs. Wells cell when a woman
went there to search. Mrs. Wells cried
and moaneF that day. and the day aft
erwards she cut of her hair and tore OF
her clothes. The sheriff testified that
be found Mrs. Wells in the bathtub with
nearly al her clothes torn from her
body. and she said that i some imag-