Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-17

all this world and that wanted him
to love me the same way. And the
reason he wouldn't see what was al
ways a-showin' him was that he was
so dead in love with Miss Mary Tod
hunter. That's what made me tell
that lie against him when l knowed
that Mrs. Todhunter was a-Soin' to
ask me to leave the party"
There was a pitiful break in the
girls voice.
~ didn't care the tip of my finger
/ for Jesse Bream." she cried. Il hated
! and despiSed him. But he was wiIlin'
to marry me and take me away from
: Nineveh. and so KEEP my mouth shet
/ and waited for him to come and do it"
u am going to ask you. Miss Dog
gett." said Major Gentry Dryden.
when was the first time you saw
Jesse Bream after Colonel Todhun-
ter's visit TO you. that day."
! 81 didn't see him till the day before
/ this here trial begun. sub. He had
gone away to fix things Up for mar
ryin' me and takin' me down some
where in oklahoma, and he didn't
come back till then
What tine of the day did you see
him.
Il reckon twas long about three or
fo' O'Clock in the day. sub. He didn't
come clear TO the house cause he saw
grandfather settin on the front gal
lery. But he give whistle l knew.
and l went out and met him.
Where did you meet him."
"In little clump o woods cross the
road, not far from the old cabin where
Aunt Mirandy Ransom and old Jed
pie are Twin, sub"
What had he come to see you
about?'
He come to tell me that everything
was ready for US to run away that
very night He was plannin' to drive
over into Rails county, and we'd get
married there and then start for Okla
homa. And he'd been drinkin' and was
braggin' about how he'd killed STAN
O. Tucker 1t was then l knowed for the
first time. from his own lips. that it
was him that killed STAN. but I'd been
certain of it in my mind all the time"
Did you consent TO so away with
him."
"Yes, sub. and we went away togeth-
er. The first day and night he got to
drinkin', and when we stopped ut the
hotel in Sidon he quarreled with me,
keepin' on sayin' that l was in love
with Tom Strickland and would blab
about who did really murder STAN
Tucker if l got half a chance. And
somethin' l said then about my wish
in l had told the truth at first skeered
him. Stead O. stayin' in Sidon till he
was ready to go straight to Oklahoma
he took me away from there the next
day. We went fur, too. and he was al
ways a-watchin' me. At daybreak one
mornin' we come to tumbledown
cabin deep in the woods, and he said
that's where we'd stay till dark. anG
then l begun to be skeered myself"
"Of what were you afraid?"
Il begun to feel skeered that he was
a-goin to kill me- We had quarreled
and quarreled. and whenever l lost my
temper good and proper told him the
truth-that l oughtn't TO leave Ton
Strickland to be hung when / knowed
Tom wasn't guilty and knowed who
was. Then-well, all of sudden WE
had our biggest quarrel, and what ID
been skeered of come to pass
What do you mean by that. Miss
Doggett?'
, Il mean that Chickasaw Jesse :ried
to kill me- sub. He sorter went crazy
5 and jumped for me with his bowie
: knife in his hand. and I'd ha' beer
dead the next minute if it hadn't beer
for Colonel Todhunter, subj
For Colonel Todhunter:"
Yes. sub. Colonel Todhunter bust
> ed in the door o the cabin that very
t minute, bringin' the sheriff o Rail.
| county along with him. Him and the
sheriff both had their pistols sighted OF
!, Jesse and made him throw his knife
I down. And then l done what Id want
4 ed to do all the time. / told them :.
was Chickasaw Jesse Bream who hat
: killed STAN Tucker
t And what happened when you die
q that?"
r The girl shivered. Il don't like t.
o think about it. He made me feel likt
1 a cowardly hound dog" she sail, {
q new shame in her reckless eyes. Jess
/ Bream just laughed and folded hi
4 arms and looked at me and then a
l. Colonel Todhunter and the sheriff an;
/ said that l told the truth I killet
It STAN Tucker because he ruined Lottie
May he said. smilin'. And l ruI
3 away with her to marry her But She
tellin' the truth now to get shet . me
~ and l don't care what comes next
| Take me and hang me. I'm done""
d A moment later the witness wa
l. turned over to the state. The eros
d examination strengthened rather thai
it shook her testimony for the defense.
% Briefly under the questioning Of tn
5. leading counsel for the defense ColOne
Todhunter told of his visit to Lottle
4 May Doggett on the forenoon following
the murder of Stamford Tucker.
"a Where did you go. Colonel Todhun
n ter" asked Major Dryden. when yoI
,r left the Doggetts' house after tina
70 visit:"
% Il went TO a cabin across the road
10 just few yards down from the Dog
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