Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-14


she said she cried very hard and ask
ed Keyes to take her home.
"'Do not worry; it will be all right
he said" she continued. He said he
would marry me when he could ar
range matters. Again l asked him to
take me home and he said, No, you
must stay here
The next morning he said every
thing would be all right and he took
me home"
The next day she saw keyes and told
him she would return her ring to Whit
ney. Whitney called and she gave him
the ring.
Miss Varney then said she saw
Reyes every night and remained at
his hotel a number of weeks About
May l they went TO New York and
stopped at hotel there for two weeks
Then she told Keyes that she was
going to leave him.
The defendant told of returning to
Providence and said that Keyes came
after her and they returned to New
York.
During this second stay in New York,
the witness said she told keyes that
she would not remain longer unless
as his legal wife. She told him she
would END it all"
1t was then, she said. that she went
into the bathroom. locked the door and
filling the bathtub got into it. keyes
| Climbed up through an airshaft into
the bathroom and found her uncon-
scious in the tub. The next day. she
said. she went to her sisters home.
where she introduced keyes as her
husband.
Kicked and Beat Her
Miss Narney said that on Labor day
Of 1911 keyes kicked her and beat her,
causing an illness which kept her in
bed four days
He gave me two rings" she said.
I IN response to a question from her
attorney. One was diamond en-
/ gagement ring and the other q wedding.
| ring"
The band ring, Miss Varney said.
bore the inscription Jack 10 Harriet :"
keyes told her to tell her people it was
her marriage ring.
Il wore it," she said. until il was
taken away from me by the police af-
ter my arrest"
Leaving Winthrop the two went to
live in Boston and while there the wit
ness said she went to confession.
Il saw priest in Boston," she said.
and afterward | told Keyes what l
leave him on advice of the clergy
man.
He told me if I left him he would
shoot me dead | was afraid of him.
Later after she had been living with
heyes as his wife for year, Keyes.
she said, kicked her and caused her to
be seriously i'll.
/ We had been to the theatre and on
our return he told me to get lunch.
When | would not, he kicked me. A
doctor was sent for and he charged
me not to tell the physician that he
Lad kicked me-"
While they We're living in Boston
Reyes told her. the witness said, that
he was already married to Helen Pro
van.
Promised to Divorce Wife
When he told me that / announced
that I was going to leave him but he
said that would not be necessary as
/ Az NobiV" Stllu Ills VIE 10
get divorce and marry me-"
J From Boston Miss Narney said she
went to West Upton and stayed for a
time with. her sister and then returned
to Providence. Reyes visited her
every week end
Answering her attorney. Miss Earnev
stated that keyes beat her again while
they were in Providence She said they
often talked of marriage
Continuing, Miss Narney told of a meet
ing with keyes in Boston Just before
Christmas, 1916, after she had been work
ing for some months at the state hospi-
tai at Howard, r. |. She had kept AN
appointment with him at the North sta
ton and urged him to spend the holiday
with her at her sisters home at West
Upton. He told here that he was going
to stay home with his wife.
! Il asked him what excuse | could siva
my sister for his not coming" she said
ana he answered: Tell her that | have
TO manage prize fight at Hudson.
The witness told of having sent Keves
money at his request and was then ask,
/ ed about her movements on March 1s tho
day that the prosecution has sought to
snow she visited Providence and mr.
chased revolver. She was working at
| the hospital at Howard at the time and
declared she did not leave the institution
that night
! MISS Narney was being questioned ahou.
her movements on June -. a week before
| the murder when her counsel has said
she went to Brookline to tell kaves. uira
the whole miserable story" but failed to
! hhd Mrs Reyes at home. when court ,d-
journed for lunch.
MISS Narney, returning to the stand
AFTER recess. continued the story of
! her visit to the Keyes home a week
nefore Mrs. keyes' death. She said
! she reached the house about noon. and
nnding no bell on the porch. she went
around to the rear. where she met Mrs
Aue'aiue NJ. {ogers. who had previous
~ resumed regarding the meeting.