The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-25

7 All right, there are some cartridges !
the magazine now She took the gun a
and fired Il az a mark on the tree whef
a limb had been, the bullet striking q
the top OF the mark. After that
p cleaned the gun, She told me she moNe
the rifle into the summer kitchen Satur
day, | next saw IL Saturday night,
; little after eight OF quarter Of nine sat
urday night ] saw her with the rifle
! When | went home she told me 10 com
back in about half an hour She sail
that Joe was getting ready To go 20 tn
sugarhouse. She said after he goes &
the sugarhonse. come back in about hal
an hour. said, What is going onF She
said, Come back | want TO see YOU
went home and did the chores, and wher
got back she had her rubbers anC
sweater on and Mas ready 90 60 some
where. ! went into the summer kitchen
didn't go into the main part OF the house
Nobody saw me only Anna. The hired
girl and the little girl were in bed. Anna
came out through the summer kitchen
and said. i want YOU TO come with me-
| said, Where are you going" She said
i want You 10 come with me- At that
time didn't know what was going on,
She had the rife with her and said, i am
going over 10 the sugaThouse now /
said, What are You going over there
| torf ! thought her husband was there
and wanted her 10 come over and help
him boil the sap that night. | under
stood she wanted me to go over with
her and when We got there she would go
in and | would 60 back. She said at the
foot OF the hill 4 want you 10 do some.
thing over here tonight | asked what
she wanted me 10 do. She said, You
know just as well as ] do. You know
what ! have got this thing for | said
i will not She said, You will. too
We didn't say any more until we got
almost to the log pile, when she said,
You are going to do that now said,
No She said, You certainly are
stopped right there by the wood pile and
said, You can shoot me right here, will
never do that She SAID, Yes you will,
too ! said, i WON'T We walked up
beside of the sugarhouse and she looked
through a hole and said he was sitting
up there on bench. didn't look at
him. | thought she intended to sit the
rifle up there and 60 in. Instead, she
got down on her knee and pointed the
rifle up through the hole didn't think
anything then, and the next | knew, | !
heard the report of the rife. At that
time ! was perhaps three to four feet |
from her. She said have done il now.
! said, What have you donef She said, |
i have shot him ! says, You haven't |
either She says, i have. Then II
didn't know what to DO to cover up what /
was going on, so | 'ook the rifle and /
went up around the sUgarhouse and in
through a hole and along by the evapo-
rator. He was kind OF on the can there
and | put the rifle on the ground and .
pushed the can around and he fell onto
his face and | got out OF there. We
vent back to the house together. When
We got back to the house, she says, Amt
pou coming in | says, No, ! guess
viii 60 right up to the house She said,
Come in No need to worry about him,
he isn't coming back tonight. So
vent in. The little girl was on one side
II the bed and she did not wake up. |
.hink the shooting occurred about Q
o'clock. | reached my house between
0 and half past.
"Ihe Thursday before he was shot, |
vas down at the barn doing chores.
Anna came down. We went up into
he lower barn floor and she went up
he ladder onto the hay NOW. The Pero
-irl came up the ladder She looked
yer on the hay NOW, went down the
adder and Anna left the barn and went
round through the fields to the house.
.fter Joe was shot the only talk | had
nth Anna--the next day, | told
bought the whole thing would be laid
nto me: 1t was my rifle and everything
'ould be laid onto me Now what is
Ding to be done about it. She said
ION needn't worry, shall spend every
mt to defend you If they pinch you, II
1ey pinch you, / will spend every cent
got here, taking this property, prob
bly, five thousand dollars. This talk
,curred in the new part of the house
Fednesday morning before she went to {
he funeral, / told | knew damn we'll
lie way things were working they were
ling TO have me pinched. She said she
dn't think so. She said, You needn't
orry, / shall use every cent | have got
Id | shall stand by it, too
Il told my brother, Eugene, that
I'VE been intimate with Anna but told .
m nothing about the shooting or the :
'ison nor about our going away togeth- p
| thought my wife suspected my re- c
tions with Anna. She said she thought t
had been doing something with Anna, {
ID | told her | hadn't. That converse
IN took place on the farm where live. a
when the baby was just a week old, Y
ere was a Halloween party somewhere II
out the Goth OF October, and | told my ir
fe was going to the show. My wife's W
tie sister was living there and she
Inted to go. Her brother came over
d got her. Joe had gone to Bradford |
: load of feed Anna told me, | was |
milking that night, and said, You
tier go to the show tonight She
d, You are going down with me- l
d, 4 hadn't heard anything about it
,u are Just the same, hurry up and do II
: chores and change your Clothes So
lid"
Josie Pero Testifies.
The exceptions taken by the defense l.
lie the preliminary hearing was in l.
'gress, stood against the admission of IM
statement as evidence on the ground IM
It it was obtained before Williams OBJ lz
ned counsel and with promise of inn
nifty. Worthley was cross examined
! briefly.