Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-04-12
What promise does she refer to?'
Colonel Allen asked.


Colonel Allen asked.
81 know not" said Welch.
What do you understand by this
lady writing to you in these trms and
referring to a promise?"
II don't know"
Did you ever ask her to explain?"
NO"
Welch SAID the buggy from which he
secured the picture, was brought out
to his farm about week before he
sold the pony. He was cleaning it when
he found the picture.
He was asked if he were not aston
ished and amazed at receiving a let
ter from a woman with whom he had
only Il friendly acquaintance, and in
which he was addressed as Sweet
heart"
well, some little bit" he said.
why did you never refer to it to
herr"
L thought no more about it,
He was asked if he understood what
was meant by the expression. do you
love me CO No-Yes-No." He said he
did not The fact this letter was mailed
in February and the postcard in July
and that they were found in his per-
son on December 24th, was emphasized
by Col. Allen.
| why did you always carry a pistol
when %Ou went to call on "a lady and
the babies?" the defendant was asked
| Il always carried it at night" He
had previously stated he had been car
lrying u revolver for two or three years
"Why did you take it out of your
overcoat pocket and put it in your 9TH
ln1.
Il Thomason home?"
There was danger the children
might knock the overcoat down." he
replied. He said he always laid the
overcoat on chair or on the bed and
never hung it on a hatrack.
Wclch. in reply to questions. said
he did not know that Thomason OBJ
jected to his calling on Mrs. Thomason.
Mrs. Thomason never told him of any
objections. he asserted.
Wclch said he did not remember
whether Mrs. Thomason had told him
about an interview with Smith. He
was pressed further and said she die
not mention it.
When asked If Mrs. Thomason ever
mentioned to him the fact that her
husband had been poisoned. he said he
did not remember just when it was o,
the exact circumstances.
did you pay so little attention t.
what Mrs. Thomson told YOU that YOU
don't remembers" was asked.
Welch then said he remembered
having her say something about Thom-
ason being poisoned when near Rich
mond. that she said he had picked up
stranger on the road who gave him a
drink.
The defendant stated he had gone
driving with Mrs. Thomason once oI
Itwicc-just pleasure drives out in the
country.
After Wclch's sister. Mrs. Goldie
Stivors, had told Of family visits cx-
changed with the Thomason. witnesses
who had known Welch from for four
| 70 twenty years then were called. and
testified that his population was good.
j. W. Thac<er, mayor of Georges
toWn: Harry Baur;Eoyae.. manages. fol
Walnast. IIaiIEFat tna Il 81 ,Bt, Nunnelley.
sheriff. Gfs Scott county: James Craig
president Of the Georgetown National
Bank III. nAStqtladtjLz of Georgetown,
2 Dewey Nl5iirs;s II .Adye witness, Scott
county farmer. could not refrain from
: arguing with the commemorative At
\ tofncy. and the court warned him that
he would be. sent to Jail if he did not
desist.
He was talking to Jess and Laura
Marrs his cousins from Mercer county
He had not seen Thomason or WeIch
He observed d man and woman talk ing
at u machine close to him. She was in
the car and he was on the street at the
cars front door. a man passed in
front of him. and his attention was
attracted by the woman calling his
name. '"Thomason"
He said the man took a knife from
his right hand pocket and held it in his
right hand. Welch took either two or
three steps backward. He didn't hear
a word exchanged between the men.
He couldn't see the knife after Thorn
ason passed him. After the shots the
woman got out OF car and tried to 90
to her husband. but was held back by
Laura Marrs. his cousin.
, His cross examination was spirited
, from the first. He declined to osti-
mate the distance of the car wheels
from the curb. "If you haven't sense
6 enough to know how near the wheel
! was close to the curb. you haven't any
business being here he told Colonel
Allen.
Il
, Thomasons. was called. An objection
to her answering a questio mas to any
>, incident she may have observed at the
Thomason home the evening before the
h tragedy was sustained. and she was
:. excused. Attorney Kemper then made
\ an aVowal as to what she would have
o related had she been allowed to testi-
, ty. Like testimony would have been
given by Mrs. Sidney Hail. Mrs. II. D.
Coleman, Edgar Estes. Frazier Rich
o ardson, and Ollie Reed. he said The
Il purpose of calling these witnesses, he
said. was to show the treatment oi
>, Mrs. Thomason by her husband the ev.
+ Iening before the tragedy. The state
conceded that these witnesses had beer
- called and would have been prevented
; from testifying had they been interro
. gated.
n T. 5. Dulin. Chilesburg; Jesse Couch
~ man, Athens: c. d. Conley. Milton Ba
ller. G. T. Madden. Richard Madden
: Luther Stivers, William Fister ant
, VIM. Jarman all testified that Welch
n, reputation was good.
Others who testified were VIM. Jen
! kins, Guy Huguelet, w. M. Barkley
70 and f. NJ. Mckinney.