Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-10
CLAlRV0YAMT FOUND
GUILTY; HUSBAND TO
DO TIME WITH HER
tC0ntinued from Page H.

room from hef ANA mad llNed IN hel
home for about five or six weeks.
as we'll as she could remember She
told how they had LEFT taking the key
for the room with them, and saying
they would be back again. which they
had never done. She had never re
ceived her key back
On cross.eXamination by Attorney
Nicholson. Mrs Duckworth admitted
The Boswells had paid their rent up
10 the time they left, but owed hei
for the time she held their room Tor
them after they were gone
Sheriff T. NJ. Davis was the last
witness put on by the STATE yester.
day. He testified he had gone to
Nashville, Tenn. and secured the
prisoners from the Nashville. Tenn.
county jail. bringing them back to
Ottawa where they had since been
lodged in the La Sale county Jail
ON the way home from Nashville
Boswell had talked to the sheriff
about the case and he claimed he did
not know about his wife having Mrs
Meagher's money until the couple
had left Ottawa and gone To Chicago
He said he took the money then, ant
! banked i. and he and his wife had
! purchased new automobile with part
! OF the money and had used the resi-
/ of il in travelling thru Indiana. Ohio
and other states until they reached
I Nashville. Tenn.
Attorney Lee O'Neil Browne asked
/ Sheriff Davis to give Mrs Boswell 5
/ age and weight 10 the best Of his
ability based on all the observations
he had made OF Mrs. Boswell This
! was vigorously objected 10 by At
J rorney Nicholson but Judge Davis
! oyerruled the objection and Sheriff
Davis. said he thought she was q
, woman OF mature years, aged abou'
=. years. weighing about 200 pound,
and about ) IT, . in. tall.
In his description OF Boswell Sheriff
Davis said he thought he was "A mar
about - years old
Defense Opens Case.
The first witness for the defense
and the witness who lied with Mrs
Meagher for interest in the eyes ant
minds of the spectators who had fillet
IN
Mrs. Phoebe Boswell alias Madame
smith. Mrs. Boswell was "A yer.
stout woman and wore dark re'
coat. belted in al the waist. She hat
removed ;he light gray hat which sh
wore into the court room, and wen
on the stand bdreheaded. She wa
composed and answered distinct
during the direct examination, bn
raised her voice during the cross-eA
animation, and seemed at times Z
he rather excited.
On the cross examination she az
mtted going 10 Marseilles with Mr.!
Meaeher, but claimed she did nc
know what Mrs. Meagher went 10 IN
bank for or that she secured $1,000
there
The following is Mrs Meacher
5 ory as she told it on the witnos
stand a transcript OF the testimon
being kindly furnished by Court RI
porter Horace HUI
My husbands name is S.ephe
Meaeher, his age is 81 He is a ia,
mer In May last he lived in OttaW
and worked for Hamilton & Vincent
cunning an aut Omobile truck
My fathers name was johnson
Fullerton. He died four years age
3 | received about 100000 from hi
. estate. | bought farm near MAJ
p settles with he money; sold the farm
and had over S4.oae.0o. put tn
the money in check account in tn
: 'ns National Bank at Marseilles
In May last, and before that time
my husband drank to excess and t.
such an extent that it interterre'
with his work first learned o
/: Madam Smith, or Mrs Phoebe Bos
well, in the latter part Of May, 1917
from seeing her and as forum
teller and clatrvoyant at the Maiesti
theatre. She had her parlors at Mr.,
! Duckworih's at 9l5 y. La Sale stree
> went to see her to see Fl sh
, could help me to kill my husband
+. drinking habits. A Hiend Of min
in Chicago told me about having
/. similar experience did not NEE
g her husband | told her what m
trouble was just as | have told Tn
jury She old me ! was in troubl
| and she could help me. She told m
i had to give her 5000 that day
p told her ! did not have that niue
money, tina is. in cash. She Wante
}. the cash. told her she would hay
to take a check for it. | gave he
the check at the time and the chec
. YOU hand me now is the check | gay
her She told me when | would 9,
the rest Of the money to place on tn
planet, she didn't want another eel
5000 was all she wanted and tn
!. resi- OF the money she was to retur
: To me. She had asked me when
/ paid her the $1,000 how much none
q had and told her and where la
: it. ! told her had S3,6t00 90 in til
J. First National Bank Of Marseille