The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-29

She also remembered questions concern
ing his banking methods.
Didn't Remember Calling Joe Queer.
The statement further quoted con
versation in which Mrs. Felch when
asked if she and Joe had any difficulties,
reported an occasion when she left home
to visit her people, whom Joe didn't like,
and said that Joe threatened himself
There were lines in the alleged state
ment in which Mrs. Felch told OF her
/ belief that Joe was insane at times and
! gave her reasons for so believing, but
the dialogue as read by the prosecutor
| did not serve to refresh the victims
memory. Witness said she couldn't re-
member of having quoted to Mr.. Will
liams statement that she didn't think
Joe would kill himself.
81 have an idea that he killed himself
and he wanted me to go to the sugar
house, and / think if / had gone we
would both have been dead instead of
one" was another answer credited to the
witness in the alleged transcript, but
Mrs. Felch denied any recollection of
having answered in those words.
Asked if her memory was good, wit
ness replied in the negative and denied
number of recitals with her attorney,
Mr.. Hoar, of answers to be made on the
stand in telling her story on direct ex-
animation.
Turning from the alleged statement as
contained in the transcript, Mr.. Barber
had the witness describe the sleeping
arrangements on the Sunday night after
Felch's death Witness said that Otis
Williams and his wife, Josie Pero little
Bernice and Fred Smith were in the
house; that Smith and Williams slept
together, and denied that a door between
her sleeping room and the one occupied
by Williams was open during the night.
Asked if there was any accident while
she and Josie and Bernice were going
to the sugarhouse Sunday morning, the
witness replied as if in surprise that
she didn't know what was meant and
certainly could not remember of any ac-
cident. Witness denied talk with the
Pero girl as to who should go ahead as
they progressed toward the sugarhouse
and couldn't recall the conversation be-
tween her and the housemaid as they |
made their way to Tom Smiths after
discovering Felch's body. The woman's
story of their arrival at the sugarhouse |
did not vary from the version given in
direct examination.
The prosecution in putting his ques-
tions quoted alleged conversations be-
tween Mrs. Otis Williams and the ac
cused, in which the latter was quoted as
advising the farmhand's wife not to say
anything to indicate that Otis left his
own home at all on the night of the
murder. Mrs. Felch denied all knowl
edge of the alleged conversation. Her
was clear on that point, she
said.
"Did there come time when you ar
ranged with Josie Pero to remain with
You until you had given birth to a
,hildf" was the next question, and the
witness answered, Yes" Asked if she
old the Pero girl when she realized her
lelicate condition, the accused replied in
he negative and denied telling the girl
hat she had had no relations with her
husband for some time. Witness also
lenied saving to Josie Pero that she
would "laugh if the baby looked like
tits" just before the afternoons ses-
ion ended, witness identified an apron
by the state as her own and
aid she last saw it lying On the bed in ;
er home, although she had testified that
he apron worn by her when she went
o the sugarhouse Sunday morning was
n her mothers possession.
1t was noticeable that while the events
which Attorney Hoar asked the witness
bout in direct examination had ten
ency to be arranged in chronological