Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-09-25
.HACCARD CASE TO
JURY AT 6 SATURDAY
Day Spent m Presenting Argu-
ments-Vedict is Expected
by Sunday M5ning

With the closing of the evidence
Friday night, which came at an ear
lier hour than anticipated, the Rodney
Haggard case rested until Saturday
morning when the arguments were
begun. There are three for the COM
monwealth and like number for the
defense. These will require the en-
tire day. 1t is expected the case will
go to the jury Saturday evening by 6
o'clock, when the arguments are to
be closed 1t is probable there will
be verdict by Sunday morning.
Haggard took the stand in his own
defense at $40 o'clock. He answered
the questions calmly. He said he mar
ried Nancy Mullins. February 10, 1916.
They have one daughter. little girl
over three years old he said. He said
his own and mis- wife's families are
extensively connected.
He said there are two entrances to
his apartment. He and his family oc-
cupied the entire second floor.
He said he and his wife got along
nicely" up until April of this year.
Witness said his suspicion of "some-
thing wrong" was when he. in COM
pany with Bruce Taylor and j. A. Boone
went to Louisville to tai l<e the Scottish
Rite in Masonry While there his wife
telepho1ed him and asked him if he
would be home that night. He told
her he might not be home until the
following night as he had to transact
business for Frank Thompson. Thomp-
son telephoned him he could not be
there, and witness came shome Saturday
morning instead of at night. and found
that his wife had gone to the races in
Lexington.
The following week, he said, his wife
turned the corner at the Citizens Bank
and crossed the street near the Baldwin
Millinery store, and came north to the
Rupard-Stew store. and Ben Good
came out and they talked about five
minutes.
He later asked his wife about the
conversation and she said Good had only
said. be had seen him Rodney) at the
races. Witness said he said sit took
long time to tell that
He said his wife had several times
told him she thought Good a hand
some man"
At another time, witness came home
from Lexington, and found a note pin
ned on the curtain in his wife's hand
writing saying she had gone to the tent
show with Mr.. and Mrs. Hunt Hadley.
Witness went to the tent show and
saw his wife sitting by Ben Good. Af-
ter Is or 20 minutes. his wife saw him
and joined him. A few minutes later
Good left the tent with two young lad
les. Good returned alone to the tent.
Witness told his wife to go back and
stay with the people she had come with.
When the witness got home his wife
denied being with Good but later con-
fessed that she was with Good.
She explained she had met Harvey
Lisle and wife on the Steet and they
asked her to go to the show: that s"they
got him and they went to the Ell<s club
and got Ben Good.
His wife later connected her state
ment by saying that Davis and Good
were sitting in the car at the time she
and Mss. Lisle got in the machine. Wit
ness was told by his brother F. H. Hag-
gard that the party was made up as
described just before.
Later, June %. Haggard asid he went
to jamestown. KY, on business. The
baby was sick with whooping cough
and his wife and child continued to
stay at her parents home.
On June 81. witness said he found
scraps of note in a waste basket and
a blotter used at his wifes desk Wit
ness placed the scraps of paper to-
gether, and the note was in his wife's
handwriting. (Note was exhibited to
the jury). Witness read the note:-
Leave the with Mrs. Lockname or
To Do
N. S. and B. G.. will be there and
promised to have you there in at least
ten minutes"
Witness said he believed the initials
stood for Nelson STROBE and Ben Good
He found a writing of his wife's as
follows:
Bits From Magazine
''Who taught you how to write such
nice letters: how to say the right thing
the thing that pleases the feminine
mnd?"
A blotting paper with the name 'sMr
Ben Good City" was shown to jury
with a mirror to reflect the words so
as to be legible.
Witness said from the notes and blot
ter he believed his wife had been meet
pondence with Good.
and sent the trunk to her fathers
home. He believed his wife had been
guilty of misconduct with Ben Good
Mrs. Haggad came to their apart
ments and asked why her trunk had
been sent home. He told her of finding
notes. She denied writing them.
About two weeks later he told her he
would like to disabuse his mind about
any intimacy between her and Ben
Good, and asked her to write the S"Say.
Kid" note as he dictated. She at first
refused. but later did write the dictated
note.
Haggard said his wife never admit
ted writing the Say, Kid" note. Wit
ness said Rand Wright told him he saw
his (Rodneys) wife number of times
in and around Stewart store
talking to Ben Good. Wright said
Nelson Strobe told him he and Good
had been down to J. S. Mullins place
and that Mrs. Haggard was there.
Witness was told about August % or
%. by Joe Frazier that he had seen. his