The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-17
HAD SEEN BUTTON
THREATEN KNIGHT
Testified Mrs. Worthen Button for De-
fense in $4,000 Alienation Suit
Brought by Her Husband
Against w. c. knight.

Worthen Button was on the stand in
Washington county court to-day in his
suit for alienation Of affections, brought
against w c. Knight. He was cross-ex-
amined by Attorney j. Ward Carver, aft
er which the defense commenced the in
PRODUCTION of testimony.
L. c. Moody, clerk OF the court, was
the first witness, testifying as TO the
records of divorce case Then followed
Mr. Knight, the defendant who testified
as to his conduct during the time that
| he boarded at the Button home and since
that time, which did not bring forth any
thing of very much interest excepting
the denial OF testimony made by the
plaintiffs witnesses.
| Mrs Button, wife Of the plaintiff, took
the stand and her testimony was more
interesting to spectators, especially as
she told OF Button taking gun and
assuming the attitude Of shooting at
1 Knight and when she claimed that But
4 ton was as crazy as she ever saw a man.
| This evidence, along with considerable
other, was presented, subject to the
plaintiffs exceptions. Mrs Button had
/ told Of going to Graniteville to sell but
| ter, but that only on one other occasion
| did she ride alone with Knight. She told
about the trip home by the way of VIII
Jamestown and here Mr.. Carver put one
over" on the plaintiff, as Mr.. Hoar said,
when he asked and received an answer
TO the questions Did you do anything
wrongl7 the reply being in the negative.
Later efforts to get replies 70 any inn
proper thing being done were accepted
as evidence subject to the plaintiffs ex-
ceptions II was during one of these that
Mr.. Hoar claimed zone had been put
over
Carrying the thread of the story to the
time Of the morning Knight was ordered
to leave the Button home, Mrs Button
testified that she saw her husband come
out OF room loading the gun and
threaten with il; that she knocked the
gun into the air and called to Knight to
1 help take it away Later that night
Button got the axe She testified at that
| time that Button acted as crazy as any
man she ever saw She volunteered that
she had seen him that way before she
| knew Knight.
Objection was made and the last part
of the statement struck off, whereupon
Mr.. Carver asked direct question which
! brought an answer that she had seen
Button that way before she knew Knight.
Mr.. Carver stated he was going deeper
into that matter after dinner and the
/ noon recess occurred.
Late Tuesday afternoon Mr.. Button
took the witness stand in his own behalf.
He told the story of his married life,
which story, up to a certain point, did
not vary great deal from the general
| run. excepting that Mrs. Button had
helped considerably with the farm work
until such time as the boys got big
enough to do some work but, bringing
| the testimony down to the time OF the
death Of Mr.. Knights wife, his story of
| his married life became more complex.
4 He claimed that his wife took Mr.. Knight
| TO board without his (Buttons consent
and that she had the money received
| from his board
The witness carried along the thread
of the story to the time when he claimed
he traced his wife towards the Knight
house which was near the Button home.
He told of tracing the woman's foot
| pILlts thIouBH tue coiH hciu' Oh"t ole
corn was higher than her head so that
people could not see where she was GO
ing. He made the spectators laugh when
he said she jumped wire fence six feet
high and one of the woman witnesses in
the grand jury box Uttered little at
the statement. He told of his wife leav-
ing him when he was in Plainfeld one
day attending an auction Mr. Button
claimed his family associations had been
all right until Knight went to his house
to board, that Knight suffered of head
aches and that Mrs. Button would care
for him, giving him as good care as she
did any of her own family.
Effort to get testimony connecting the