Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-20

Of Milletts daughter in this city and
she told him that her father was not
! there and that she did not care if she
did not see him again.
When he went to Livermore he
found that Mrs. Smith had been there
but had gone This was sometime in
May that she was at Livermore.
Defense
The testimony of the plaintiff and
his witnesses took the whole of the
forenoon and Immediately after
dinner the defense put on their wit
nesses. Millett was first called:
He said that he had lived for 80
years in this city, where he had saw
ed wood and done general trucking.
A few years ago he had cut his hand
with saw in such a way that he was
inca acitated for a mans work and
for that reason he could not earn a
mans wages. Since April p. 1921 he
! has been running a ferry between
Livermore and East Livermore. He
! also said that his wife had died %
years ago.
He first heard of Mrs. Smith
she placed in the journal. At that
time he wanted n housokecper and
| so he wrote to her. Arrangements
were made for her to come with her
! daughter and try the position for a
short time. after which they would
| try to make terms. They had come
! there and after staying eight or ten
days they had left as she wanted Sc
! q week and the maintenance of her
self and daughter, and as he was re-
Ceiving but 81. 80 4 day he did not feel
| that he could afford H. She had
stated to him that her home was I'M
! pleasant and that she would not go
| back to her husband. He had made
no effort to ALLEVIATE her affections.
| He said that while they were cor
responding about the position he had
gone to see her once as he was near
| by and wanted to see what she was
like. Before she finally came to his
house package came there address
sed to her and he had readdressed
it to her.
! Upon cross examination he testi-
! fed that he had but little property.
He said that ne saw the advertise
ment the last Of February or the
first of March and that he had writ
| ten her five or six letters about the
position. He admitted that the let
ter which had been produced was
written by him and said that he was
! lonesome at the time and that this
was the only one which had depart
! ed from purely a business form.
/ Here he produced several letters
which we're introduced as exhibits
for the defense. These letters were
written to him by Mrs. Smith and in
them she speaks of the work which
she is to do and also Of her unhappy
; life with Smith. In one of them she
says that she had lent S575 to Smith
and that she was beginning to realize
her mistake.
| Mrs. Smith was the only other wit
ness called by the defense. She said
that her first husband died in 1914
and that in 1920 she married Smith
after having known him for two
weeks. She said that the reason for
! marrying him was to provide home
| for her children. She said that she
had loaned him $50 and that she
had returned the first time upon his
promise to pay it to her. He had
also tried to get her to give him
other money but she had refused and
! he did not like it.
She said that she felt that If she
went to work she might be more
happy and that she could not stand
! to have the boys act as they did to-
ward her. The first time that she
| heard of Archie Millett was when