The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-10
WIFE TELLSOF
MOTIFS DEATH
Gives Her Own Version OF
Events Leading Up to Hus-
bands Staying.

the murder OF George b. Mott, one
time prosperous coal dealer and
politician OF Chelsea, Mass, and
later professional gambler In Bridge
port, is confident today she will be
exonerated OF the murder charge
when her case comes to trial.
GIVES. HER OWN STORY.
Mrs. Motifs own story of how her
husband was killed and OF her life
are given here for the first time.
my name is Ethel Mildred Mott.
Before my marriage to George Mott
at Chelsea, Mass, September. :. leoo'
my family name was Hutchins. MY
father died when i was three years
of age. and my living family consists
OF my mother, Mrs. Matilda Hutchins,
seventy-two; two brothers oscar ana
Earl. living in Chelsea; my daughter
Ruth Ida Mott, who will be thirteen
January 20, and my son. george Ell
win Mott, eleven, last August o.
~ will be thirty-one on June i. My
husband would have been forty-three
had he been living last September.
"As for Elwood Wade. / thought
he was twenty-five, but j learn now
he was younger. / met his wire nrst
and she introduced me to him That
was two years ago this coming July
81 attended the public schools in
Chelsea until I was thirteen, when
had to leave on account OF Illheaith.
KNEW MOTT FOR YEARS.
George Motifs family and mine
had been intimate for years. l start
ed going with him about two years
prior to our marriage. George wanted
to get married. despite the fact that
I was only seventeen, and my mother
finally consented. She was widow
with three children, whom she was
supporting by running boarding
house in Chelsea and doing any ctner
work she could get to do.
"Mr. Mott Is dead now and nothing
I can say or do will alter that fact.
God knows I don't want to say this.
but when he is held up as model
husband who provided well foro his
wife and family, and I am pictured
as a faithless wife who would not
stop at murder to get rid Of him,
must protest.
George Mott was a gambler. That
was not all. He was compelled to
get out Of the coal business for
using fraudulent scales. After our
marriage he gave my youngest
brother Earl a job in the coal yard.
Earl was only sixteen. yet George
wanted him to short-weight his
customers. poor families like our
own. When Mr.. Mott proposed to
him that he make lot of money
by putting inferior coal on the
wagons and covering it. over with
good COAL Earl wouldn't stand for
it, and gave up his job.
"A short time afterward Mr.. Mott
was arrested for giving short
weight, the authorities took his
scales away from him and he was
compelled to get out of business. He
didn't go to work again. l had to
get job working in restaurant
at IS a week to support the family.
CLAIMS HE DESERTED HER.
"Then he left me and camc to
Bridgeport. I heard nothing from him
until the Government announced they
would draft into the army able-bod-
led men who were not supporting
families. Then I received letter
from Mr.. Knott I knew at the time
he was a gambler, but in his letter he
said he had a good a job at the REM
ington Companys plant and would
give up gambling if I would join him
with the children. I took his word
for it, Two weeks later he informed
me the only TeaSOH ne ndu oCht AoA
me was to evade the draft
Instead OF giving up gambling, he
became a professional gambler, run
ming a club for that purpose. He was
a man of intense jealousy, and an
ungovernable temper.
remember once, when we were
living in Wilmington, Mass, he threw
a leg Of lamb at my head. Another
time he threw a looking glass. When
it broke, he said he wished / would
have seven years bad luck. That was
seven years ago. His wish seems to
have come true. Once he tore up $50
bill and threw the pieces on the floor.
] picked them up. and when his rage
had left him. / gave the pieces back
to him and he sent them to Wash
ington and got new bill for them.
NEVER GAVE HER MONEY.
~He never allowed me money for
myself. He would fly into a temper
il / asked him for a few cents for
carfare. He wouldn't give me the
price Of a ticket to the motion pic
lure theater for myself and little
children, although he might have
roll of hundreds OF dollars in his
pocket
He threatened at times to cut my
heart OUT and Also said he would
throw me out of the window The
children were in mortal fear OF him.
at was a year ago last Christmas
that I hrst discovered he was mixed
up with another woman. a letter
fell from his pocket as he sat down
to the dinner table. l picked 1t up
and started to read II.
THE letter was from a woman who
signed herself Bessie My sister Is
sick II read. You should send her
some money for the baby's board.