The Washington times., 1922-08-20
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Interesting Testimony Which
Old MIR. Burns Really Was
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Q.-All right, 60 ahead.
Al said, "Who is she?"
told me she was real nice won
that she couldn't live with her ds
because she didn't like her da,
husband, and they didn't agree, a
she didn't want to go into room
self, because she couldn't have CO
because people would talk about
said, "If she is as particular as tn,
/ guess it win be all right to bri
If you want her." =.
Q.-During all this time, speak,
particularly of this latter period a
time he was married in 1918, how
appear as to whether he was rati
irrational?
Ale kept getting worse all Il
getting more irritable, and doinl
very foolish things, and silly thin
embarrassing every one in the hou
his silly dancing and fooling arc,
Q.-Did he appear rational q
tional?
Avery irrational.
Q.-Go ahead and state some
things, Mrs. Graham, that he did,
. US some conduct that caused you
he was irrational.
- A.-One time heard him
whistling. We were all standing
in the kitchen waiting for him to
come down to breakfast, and
heard him whistling, and I looked
in and he was coming backward
toward the kitchen door and
swapping his fingers and whist
ling and calling "Come, doggie,
doggie, doggie; come, doggie,"
and Mrs. Swanson was following
him with a couple of shoes in her
hands like that. | said, "Soy,
why did you do that" and |
kind of laughed, because l didn't
criticize him, and | was afraid
of a scene, and I changed the
subject Immediately, so there
wouldn't be a scene, because Mr..
Graham's niece was in the room
at the time. | didn't want her
to see Mrs. Swanson embarrassed
the way she was.
Q.-What was his facial ex-
preston at that time?
Avery silly.
Q.-Before or after his mar
riage did he talk about Gloria
Swanson?
A.-Yes.
Q.-State what these CONVEX
sations were.
Aust about a month be-
fore he was married, he and Mrs.
Swanson came to the house, and
he says to me, 81 am going to be
married" I said, "Yes; who are
you going to marry?" He said,
~ am going to marry Gloria"
Q.-Do l understand that Mrs.
Swanson was with him?
.A.-Yes. He said, 81 am 60
ing to marry Gloria" And l
said, "Soy, what do you mean?"
And l turned to her and said,
"What does he mean? Does he
mean this?" And she said,
Eyes, that is why l left Holly
wood, on account of her conduct
with Mr.. Burns"
Q.-Do you remember of his
anything else about Gloria?
.,A.-He came back in a few da.
that and he said he wasn't going Il
her, that he was going to marl
Swanson, because Gloria couldn't
divorce in time, and they would
gether just the same, because sh
him and even called him daddy n,
Q.-Fix that date as nearly as
with reference to the date of tn
riage.
Alt couldn't have been mo-
two or three weeks; two, l think,
sibly three.
Q.-What did Mrs. Swanson
that?
A.-She was not there when
that.
Q.--Do you remember anything
said about Gloria?
A.-No.
Q.-Do you remember any refe,
Gloria and her mother together,
designated them?
Ale called them the Swanson
and he said all they cared for
his money. He said that repeated
was common talk.
Q.-Tell the jury what he .
those occasions.
Ale said it so many times,
same thing every time, that all the
for him was his money, and it was
but money, money, all the time,
one time he came in and said he ]
a telephone from Bullock's to kno
would stand for her bills, and
"What did you say?" And he
told them no."
Q.-Did he say anything at al
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