Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-10

next day. ! LETT there then told
her | wouldn't be- sure whether !
could draw il out OF the bank or not
She wanted it all in money. she didn't
want It in checks or anything else
I told her didn't know whether Mr.
Lewis would give il 10 me I'm dear
money or bills or silver or not but if
he would | would bring il 10 hor and
when went 10 him. he did went
The next day and got the money ont
Of the bank and gave l. 10 her. got
II in bills and in silver | don't know
how much in bills or how much in
liver She didn't want it in silver
after | had brought it To her and |
brought II TO The Ottawa Banking G.
/ frnct Bank and had it all pul in bills
She wanted il all in bills. She didn't
want il in silver She had a red sack
N the table and she had me place # .
IN the sack and make wishes when |
laced il in he sack had 10 place
| p wish upon the money wuen placed
IN in the sack. but not wish OUT loud
made a wish. | wished my husband
! would quit drinking don't know
/ What she did with the sack Just laid
+, on the table. Up to that time had
| 1ot seen her husband She told me
! she was married and her husband was
living with her.
I After | put the money in the sack
he told me had TO get silk under.
wear and silk shirts and stockings
md she would burn them and put he
ashes in the planet along with the
money She had told me the kind 10
get and told me why they had to be
ilk On account OF The handkerchief
icing silk the planet had to work
Gus Mays and paid $2i00 for them
7 don't know what she done with
hem; she did nos burn them while
vas there She asked me what sizes
wore and what sizes my husband
wore. Then she told me what to get
She told me to come back the next
lay al about two o'clock and | went
md she told me | had to have $500
lore to make The planet work. to
make il that much stronger didn't
rave enough ;old her didn'. have
my more but | would see il | could
rot. borrow it and then | left | went
II. Wiley that day and tried to
3orrow it but he would not let me
rave it She had told me nor to tell
'nybody; told me If told anybody
he planet was no good Mr. Wiley
. iettled my fathers estate went
, Jack and told her and she told me she
would have 10 have it. and asked mo
| fl could not get it in The Mrsellcs
lank and told her would try nexl
| morning
Mex; day ! got an automobile and
he went with me 10 Marselles. She
taid in The auto and went into .he
Dank and borrowed $4,000 on my
lote upon which judgment has beer
uttered in this cour gave her the
$4,000 in bills. We came back tt
Ottawa and left her out in front O
Ter place She told me to come bacl
he following Sunday at ? o'clock
This was Friday. | left her abou;
" ) O'Clock T. A. | gave her tn,
money when came ont Of the bank
! had then made her two payments
e,ides the check. and about s3.6oC
md Sj09 II was every cent had
Went back abou o'clock the fol-
owing Tuesday did not see her
She and her husband hy gone. Mrs
)uckworth informed me'sho was gone
1ut she would be back as she had
he key went back the next day
Dut did no, see her and she has not
leen back since never saw her
husband during this time She ;old
ne not to tell. not to say anything to
anybody or tell anybody and not &c
tay in the street because if went
)u' in the street the planet would
wander of if was Wandering around
Il the street
don't know what made me trUs,
Yer and give her this money | did
lot realize it at the time. She also
old me to bring a picture Of myself
nd a picture OF an intimate friend
f my husbands and also my nus
lands took her my own picture 0
picture of my husband and his broth
r on a post card and picture of lOh
)'Neil, my husbands friend and chun
believe when gave her the money
9 hat she could do for me what | want
d done and thai was the reason
> cave It to her. | never told her Sh,
could have other than the $1,000 She
' ,old me that $4,000 was all she WantcC
and hat she would give me hacI
every other cen. She told me not u
u worry, that it was just as safe Wit
" her as i. was in the bank and she
' didn't want another cent from ne,
l. Phoebe Boswell
o Phoebe Boswell testified.
a. Il was born in Cass City. Michigan
10 NIy parents names are Olive Bos.
# and Sarah Boss was born Scplem
e Der = 1897 Am twenty now | wal
n married to Arthur Boswell April -
4 ,9f7, at Streator Staid in troato