The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-25
SAYS WOMAN
FIRED RIFLE
AT JOE FETCH
Continued from first pasej

outcome. Spectators, intent upon FOL
lowing every word of the unusual con
fession, riveted their attention on Oh
witness Worthley as he unmyelled hi
story OF what the state claims 90 be
freely given account of the circumstance
leading up TO the killing Of Felch. Dur
ing Worthley's recital of the confession
the alleged slayer sat unmoved, For th'
first time, almost. since the trial begaI
week ago yesterday, Williams share,
with someone else the attention Of thu
spectators.
The stenographer testified formally e
his occupation, the circumstances OF hi'
presence in the county jail on the day
the statement was made and to the fact
that the states attorney and Mr.. Arlan
who IL developed, is "A detective, Were
present For the reason that portions
of Williams alleged confession are un-
Winta Bile, especially those paragraphs
referring 20 his relations with Mrs. Felch
in the weeks before the tragedy, the fol-
lowing narrative account of the confess
SION has been deleted In places. Barring
the absence of such excerpts as come
within the scope OF the exception men
toned in the foregoing the confession,
as sworn TO by Worthley as being a true
copy, is given as follows;
81, Otis A. Williams of Topsham, at
Chelsea the 9TH day of May, 1916, hereby
voluntarily, of my own free will, without
pressure brought, or hope of promise of
reward, at my own request hereby make
this statement as a full confession of the
occurrence of the death OF Joseph Felch
and all incidents leading up to the same
within my knowledge.
II went TO the farm between the 10th
and goth Of August, | think it was the
18th. Sometime in the following No
vember | left the place. ! went away
Friday. On the Tuesday night following
| / had conversation with Joseph Felch in
which he asked me if ! wasn't coming
back TO work for him that winter To
which / replied | didn't think so. |
thought | hadn't better Thereupon he
requested me TO talk the matter over
with my wife, which | did, and went to
work the following Tuesday. Sometime
the last of September or the first OF
October Anna told me she had a horse
and COW and hog which she wanted to
sell. She thought she could get about |
one hundred and fifty dollars for the
horse, she wanted thirty-fve dollars for
the COW and twenty dollars for her pig.
She wanted to go down to Meredith. |
had cousins down there. She wanted to
90 down there and work out somewhere
and have me work out so we could live
together. She told me she had about
twenty-five or thirty dollars laid by
When | left the place | went to Mere
dith, n H., but Mrs. Felch did not go
with me. At the time Of my leaving
disposed of my furniture to my broth
er, and upon my return bought it back.
am unable to say how much ! re
eeived, / think sixty four or sixty-five
dollars. At Meredith | saw two of my
cousins, Harold Weeks and Charlie Jenk
ms, also Rosco kimball. | told them
Anna wanted TO come down and get a
Job down there. She wanted to come
down there to work and live together.
spoke to none of her relatives down
there. On my return | was driven from
Groton by James II. Smith to whom ]
told the same story, In December or .
January after my return Anna first I
spoke to me about wanting to get rid of
her husband She wanted to know if &
knew where ! could get some morphine. q
There was bottle at my fathers house l.
which contained about teaspoonful a
which l procured, under the pretense
hat we wanted to poison the dog. v
brought the bottle to the place and gave t
{ to her This was sometime in Jan 0
lary The morning following Joe was y
lick with the grip. She told me in the &
orenoon that he was pretty sick. o
tarted to go into the house. She said c.
Don't go into the house now and told Il
ne to go out to the barn and do some |
hores. She came down in few minutes a
nd inquired after her husbands cond o
ion. She told me he was worse and v
hat she had given him the morphine. Il
said, You haven't given him that, have Il
our She said, Yes, | have | said, g
How much did you give him. She said, d
give him all there was in the bottle W
said, He is the same as dead now al
old her my mother only took a pinch
bout as big as the end of a pencil. hs
bout two hours after that, he began to hi
eel better She told me she give it to pc
i'm in tea. He took some of the tea er
nd said, '-- ---, ] know somebody la
ut something in my tea, it is so -- |
ahmed bitter I can't drink it, She al
I'D me she went and put some more wa til
n in it to weaken it some and after
nat he wouldn't drink it all. 1t was tn
10 bitter. Three or four days after Civ All
e him the morphine, she said, IF you wi
i'll get rid of him | will give you two lit
lndred dollars | said | wouldn't take W;
chance on my life for two hundred dol an
RS. She said We'll, will give you five TO
inbred dollars | told her / wouldn't in
, it for five hundred. Upon which she be
id no more until about two weeks fol- sa
wing. She offered me a thousand dol sat
RS if | would get rid of her husband. / "
Id her | wouldn't do It, She suggested tn
hire somebody to do it and give him {
70 hundred dollars. She suggested that
hire either my father or my brother TO
it, to which | replied, 4 wouldn't say :,
ything to anybody about doing any WI
ing like that One day ! said to my PR
other, Eugene, 4 will give you two t u
ndred dollars if you will shoot a man. Una
d he said, 4 wouldn't do it for ten tai
ousand.' That is all l ever said to mu
ybody about it. told her to tell Joe ou
was going to get through the first of
ay, and | would go away somewhere pal
e. If she wanted TO do anything like to
at she could come where 1 was. at
lde arrangements with Charles Kicker, am