San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-12

to be n good girl?"
The witness replied that she always
spoke in this way TO all of her chill
dren.
You say she was shot;7
yes"
who shot herr" Objection from the
state sustained.
why was she shot?" Objection by
the state sustained.
You speak of her having gone to a
hospital shortly before she married
Clayton?'
II said nothing Of the kind"
"Well, she was in the hospital, wasn't
she?-
II presume she was"
1T wasn't because Of that shOt?'
"No,"
"Now, I asI you, if lover did not
shoot herr"
The state objected 10 the question.
The jury was removed and the witness
was questioned. This was at l. O'Clock
Friday noon.
The defense put the defendant on
the stand Thursday afternoon and he
was subjected to three hours grilling
by the state, beaded by Mr.. McAskill.
Mcdaniel took the stand at Il 10
Thursday afternoon. All available
seats were taken and the aisles and
back were crowded. The big audience
leaned forward TO catch each word.
Questioned as to events leading up
to the death of Charlotte McDaniel,
the witness related that he went win
his wife to town because he thought
she wanted TO buy cocaine. He never
left her but once and that was for
short time when he telephoned out on
Mesquite street. When he came back
and told her that he was not going
out there. he testified that she went
into a rage and abused him.
Tried To Stop Her.
When they came home, he SAID
Charlotte went into her room and be-
gan crying. He entered the room and
found her lying on the bed. She was
holding a picture of a small boy. She
told him to leave the room. Mcdaniel
testified that he went out into the
dining room where his mother was
and asked her to go into where
Charlotte was and see if she could do
ANYTHING for her. His mother, he said,
told him to go and went back through
the hall and opened the door. He said
she had her hair in her left hand
holding it up and was stabbing herself
with her right hand.
"Oh. Honey, Honey, don't, don t,
he said he cried to his wife
Il will, l will, he said she answer
cd.
1T rushed in trying to grab her ARM
Mcdaniel said.
Charlotte then ran into the hall and
~ q H.. flnnr kN tAetifial Iln tried
TO head her off thinking she was going
into the bath room. as she had done
before. he said. While trying TO help
her off the floor, she got away from
him and ran out the front door, he
continued.
At this juncturc, Mcdaniel was
handed the scissors which were intro
duced by, the state as evidence. The
defendant took the scissors composedly
and looked at them. He said that they
belonged to his wife.
She Nursed Him.
In placing Mcdaniel on the stand.
the defense questioned him in detail as
to his first meeting with Charlotte
Mcdaniel. Charlotte or Lottie Plum
kett. met Mcdaniel IN rooming house
at COS 1-2 East Commerce street. This
was in April, 1922. They were en-
gagged within a week, Mcdaniel said.
Mcdaniel testified that he hurt his
arm while working at the Alamo Iron
Works and that Charlotte waited on
him while he was sick, the infatuation
starting at this point.
In the cross examination by u. \.
McAskill. district attorney. Mcdaniel
was asked about the trouble in the
bath room. Mcdaniel said that he
found a package of cocaine in camera
and that when he questioned his wife
about il, she demanded that he give il
10 her. He refused and she grabbed
n bottle Of poison, he said. and ran
into the bath room and said that UNI
less he gave her the cocaine. she would
drink the poison. He said she cried
from the bath room, Give me that
cocaine"
Had Sought Divorce.
He said that he feared his wife would
take the poison and he pushed the
envelope containing the cocaine under
the door.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Saldano. testifying for
the state. Monday, stated that she saw
Mcdaniel push an envelope under the
bath room door upon one occasion.
Mr.. McAskill also brought out that
Mcdaniel had been informed by law
yer that his wife had brought suit for
divorce. Plans for this divorce were
said TO have been made following the
happenings Of the night at the home
of McDaniel's mother when Charlotte
Mcdaniel tried to 60 down town at mid
night scantily clad and later went about
O'Clock in the morning, Mcdaniel
said he went to see the parents of
his wife and a reconciliation was eff