The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-28

ed, You know we don't work on
Sunday"
over objections from the defense
the court permitted the prosecution
to show the transcript of her testi-
mony, given at Wade's trial, but she
still insisted she could not recall what
Mrs Mott had said that Sunday night
Cummings continued:
Did you hear Mrs. Mott say any
thing about washing the walls?"
Eyes, she said to my mother. The
walls were so dirty I washed them,
but they look worse than they did
before"
Frankk NJ. Holbrook, detective ser
geant, testified:
II went to the Mott house that day
and asked the lady I saw IL there had
not been some shooting there. She
told me that her husgand had come
home about o'clockk in the morn
ing and that at o'clock he called her
to come to his room. She said she re-
fused to go and that he had beaten
her. She said she was going back
to her mother in Chelsea, Mass.
"I asked Mrs. Mott IL her husband
vas a good provider. She replied that
he always bought the things and sent
them home, but that she. had had
nothing to seat for two days.
II asked her how 1t was that only
two bullets had been found and that
four shots were fired. She said they
OF the two men.
II asked her IL she meant her hus-
band and Wade, but she said she had
rot seen Wade. She said she had
sent a small trunk containing her
clothes to the depot and that her little
girl, Ruth, had found the expressman
Gu the street.
Mrs. Mott said I must know her
tusband-that he was gambler,
thief and a user of opium
LIFTS VEIL FROM FACE.
Here Mrs. Mott, without raising her
eyes, shook her head. The heat Of
the afternoon caused her to life 0ie
heavy black veil from her face and
throw 1t back. Her tears were less
re ady today, and, though still a pa
tIetic little figure, the discarding of
her tight jacket and the wide black
band about her throat left the APP
pearance of greater comfort.
Capt. John Hogan identified a pic
ture of Mrs. Mott found in the swamp
near Easton.
Patrolman George Washturn was
recalled and showed the jury how he
| and Patrolman Walter Anger had
| re-enacted the kitchen scene testified
| to by Pauline Bopko. He said he
| went to the attic window of the
| Bopke home and plainly saw PATROL
man Anger standing in the kitchen
| of the Mott house. He held a white
| basin and a cloth. This pantomime
was performed after Pauline's testi-
mony this afternoon.
A transcript of Mrs. Motifs ,esti-
mony in the Wade trial was read 20
| the jury by Cummings.
This story told of her introduction
| to Wade by his wife, the threats her
| husband made to get" the pink
checked fsvorite, her fear that Mott
would shoot her, how she twice gave
the pistol to Wade and at last hid Il
behind the piano; of the beating she
| had received from her husband two
| weeks before the murder on Wade's
account, and of the visit that fatal
Sunday morning Of Wade and John
ston. Mrs. Motifs words were:
"Mr. Wade sat down near the front
hall and I stood behind him. talked
low to Mr.. Wade, because I did not
want Mr.. Mott to hear. ] told Mr..
Wade that Mr.. Mott was not asleep.
He said he did not care.
81 asked him not to go there and
would he go away. He had the pistol
in his hand. He had the iron in his
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