The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-16
MRS. MAIN IS LOYAL TO
iii HUSBAND BAND AND N 1 HER FRIEND E
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She told 1t, she said, to help her husband and TO
clear the name of her friend
| When she tells it to the jury it may be the one
thing that will her husband, for it is the biggest
piece Of testimony that the defense has, can pro-
duce. Here it is, as nearly as possible in her own
words:
Early that Sunday afternoon Sadie Mrs
lSwayne) asked me if | would not like to take walk
with her and her daughter to the Emery MILL where
she was going to return book her child had been
reading. told her couldn't co. my little daugh-
ter was not dressed. They went on toward the mill
| "About four o'clock Mr. Main came in and asked
me if did not want to go for ride in car as it
was nice afternoon and had been ill all week. L
told him was unable to go our little girl not
dressed
| "My husband then went away, coming back some
time later in the afternoon. could not say exactly
what time it was but we had finished dinner by six
O'Clock. remember he ate two big pieces of pumpkin
pie That doesn't sould like the dongs of who
had just murdered someone does it!
''There was absolutely nothing unusual about his
appearance DO you want little concerto he asked
when We had finished dinner. | told him did, and
lay down on the couch while he played the victroa.
During this time we had heard the telephone bell
ringing frequently. You are party Jine
and when puts in call the bell rings in our
house. Someone must want bill of groceries pretty
bad, remarked my husband. believe that those
Icalls being made by Sadie trying to locate her
husband who had not returned home $50
"About seven o'clock Sadie called us up and want
led to know the telephone number of the pool hall Mr.
Man, who answered the phone said he didn't know.
He turned to questioningly. 1T is number and
$50, told him. Il had to look it up when called you
There last week.
'My husband turned to the phone and~laughngly
told Sadie what | had said, giving the number.
at about o'clock when Bobbie, the delivery
boy, up to tell us that Fred Swayne was hurt
Mr. Main and Mr.. CousOn, who worked with him in
the real estate office, Immediately went down to- the
grocery store. Soon Mr.. Couson called me up and
told me Mr.. Swayne was dead.
II set out at once for the Swayne home to break the
news to Sadie if l could. There found that she,
learning from Bobbe that her husband had been
hurt, had prepared bed and hot water and was
waiting for him to be brought home.
81 couldn't bear to break the news, and I ddn I
tell her the truth for some time.
"Sadie kept saying over and over again: oh, why
don't they bring him up here? Why do they leave
him lying down there on the hard floor? Why don't
they bring him home? I've got everything ready for
him.
at was all to cruel, so at last told her that Mr.
Swayne dead
''She was stunned. She refused to believe it. 1T
can't be true L know it can't she said again and
again. She insisted on going to him at the store
perhaps he isn really dead; perhaps can do some
thing for him. she cried.
Ono told her, he really is dead DR.. Petit /
and the coroner have been there. AS long as had
any strength left in me wouldn't let her him the
way he was. AT the morgue the next day wouldn' t
let her see him. wanted her to remember her hus-
'sAfter time Sheriff Berry and Sadie talked
to him for time. She probably controlled her
self and talked calmly to him. She didn't want to
make an exhibit of herself any more than any other
self-respecting woman would.
"AfteE the sheriff left, Sadie went to the room of
her little daughter Margery. She buried her face in
the child s bed and sobbed as if her heart would
break 'Oh, don't wake her, don't wake her. she
cried Il can't tell her that her daddy is dead. II
canttell her.
'By this time Mrs. Swayne the verge Of
collapse. made her put on her coat and walked her
up and down the porch. Her knees were weak that
she almost fell A little later Mrs. A. L. Coffman ar
rived, about o'clock, think, and took her to Che
halls.
care these the actions of woman who was cold
and Indifferent to the death Of her husband?" said
Mrs. Main Indignantly, concluding her story-the /
story that may mean freedom to her husband.
Scoffing at the contention that Main infatuated
with Mrs. Swayne, Mrs. Main explained away the /
evidence the state claims to have that they spent /