Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-03-25
WITNESSES
EXAMINED DURING
SESSION THURSDAY
WIFE or sI.iIN MAN DENIES THAT
SilE HiS MARRIED SINCE
HUSBANDS DEATH.
liy WALTER LYON.
staff CnrreSpnndDni.

pALiiAl.T. Texas. March 81.
with the matrimonial status II
Mrs Myrtle Sawcll. ~ Amarillo. In
question District Court adjourned
trial ~ The killng charge against
Charley Barrett with jury and
trial fans on tip toe of wondermont
Confronted by document purport.
to be- marriage certificate of herself
to enc O. c. Sowcll. witness denied
positively and repeatedly that she
has remarked.
Attorney Stations questions as TO
her receiving attentions by men on
matiimony bent were also vigorous.
~ denied The marriage certificate
document IN signed and sealed by
j. NJ. Fuller. County Clerk of Col.
lingsworth County and the mar.
ragc purports to have been per.
formed by County Judge e. G.
Small.
Defense attorneys busted themselves
after adjournment of court securing
subpocnas lnr Collingsworih County ".
ficials, and further sensational develop.
menis on which either state or defense
must lose ARE awaited
Damage Suit Mentioned.
Another but Less sensational feature
brought IN cross examination of Mrs,
sowcll was that damage suit In the
name of herself and boy has been filed
against defendant Tor $4,000. Leading
up 10 the marriage question. Attorney
Slainn asked Mrs. Sowell:
Have you been receiving attentions
from amy IT those men at your roomins
house-hayc they been counting youi
answer?
No sir
q. Not ~ allg
A. 30. ar.
q. Isn't there young man down
In Amarillo that ~ counting youg
4, No. sir.
o. I noticed or heard something
about something being In the paper
about Mrs Myrtle Sowell being mar
ricd there That wasn't you. was ~ ]
heard II was published IN the panei
that a Mrs Myrtle Howcll was married
'hcrc the 18th. was that youg
A. Ne sir.
a. Your are not married nav?
A. 80. sir.
q Mrs. Sowcll you have No, suit
Tor damages pending against Mr. Bar
rot AZ Hereford Tor $4,000 for killing
your husband
\. Twenty thousand isn't ~
O. Isn't Il >90.000g Any way there's
suit pending against Mr.. Rirrett hv
YOU and your son Tor killing your hus
hand?
\ Yes. rir. hut I, was $4,000 wasn't
/ II NJ. Gilliland9
I q Mrs. Sowcll. are you sure tina,
was not you who married In Wellington
on the 10th of this month?
A. N-a. sir.
.. You dill not answer. no. sir9
Marriage Drnied.
q. Mrs Sow,ll. didn't you leave
Amarillo "Wednesday morning on tn
10th or this month?
4 A. ON the 18th;
q. Yes ma'nm.
A. lcfl once ilgh, about that time
q. Last week
A. Yes. sir
q Where lid you goo
A. won't Ia Hereford
q Didn't you tell your boardcrs this
you were Ro.ng 20 Hereford on lha
daye A Yes sir
q Wasn't that Wednesday. the i6,l
day IT March,
A don't remember what date .
was
q. What day ~ The week was g.?
A. don't remember !, was on
day last week or the week before
q. You told them YOU were goinI
to Hereford
A Yes. sir
Q. ibid you go to Hereford
4, Yes, sir.
@ nd any one go with you"
A. Ycs.sir.
q. who
\. Mr.. Scwcll
q How a. you spell your Nance
4 Sowell
q How does he spell his namc7
A. Well don't know how h" spell
his name never asked him.
q. What are his initialsT
A. I don't know his initials
| o You and Mr S-weil went io Hers
ford last "Wednesday
n Yes. sir.
O. when did you come back fror
there?
a. | came hack the ncN, day.
q Next day
| A Yes. sir
q. How did YOU go'
4. ! went un the train.
q. How did you come hack
A. TN the train.
q. Mrs. soweil. didn't you take N
Denver train In amarillo Wc'lncsda
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