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on the contrary, she replied.
Things Begin To Change

snail nome. IL SCarCeQ seven years
ago and became very apparent last
summer.
Formerly, Mr.. Marshall would be
home a good deal. He began go
ing out evenings seven years ago
and would only come home at meal
time and at bedtime.
During the last seven years Mrs
Seymour was our housekeeper until
January of this year, when she was
discharged.
Asked by Attorney James Boyle
what happened in the Marshall
home in recent years, Mrs. Marshall
replied:
"The Seymours rented housekeep-
ing apartments from us. Mr. Sey-
mour had come to Tucson for his
health. He died in 1926 and after
that Mrs. Seymour came to our
house to live.
Detects Change
Then I detected a change in my
husband. He began saying little
things to hurt my feeling and ac-
cused me of nagging. He'd say: I'm
not needed here at all, I'm in the
way'. It was unlike Mr.. Marshall,
it seemed he was seeking an OPP
portunity for trouble"
"He began making it a pont to
stay in the house only for meals
and would come home at nfsrc
and not cpeak
"I had but little chance to talk
to him as he and Mrs. Seym'!ur
would be talking together.
Then she told of becoming very III
in oct, 5er LAST year, that being the
incident leading to the first dis-
co;cry that me was pe.ng poison I'd.
Altar that. according to Mrs. Ma
s.lall, MI. Marshall and Mrs. Sey-
mclr began getting more gay aa1
talked and laughed together a gr2as5
dea. more, and paid great attention
10 each ctfer.
size s..bped as she said: II fc:t
terrified ~ know t.1tse two perEle
wee trying to put me out OF the
way. felt they would kill me if 1
accused them AS she finished this
statement r1ost of the women IN
the audience were crying.
Makes Discovery
She then told of discovering that
Marshall had dread disease, and
shat he began washing his own ui
de1wear.
She told Marshal she had be n
poisoned and was afraid in her own
home and she said she accused
Marshall and Mrs. Seymour
of being too friendly. Re
ferring to Mrs. Seymour to
being thinly clad about the
Marshall home she said Mrs. Sey-
mour wore a "whoopee dance set"
and that anyone could see down to
her waist line if they we're stand
ing up on level with her. She said
she objected to the way Mrs. Sey-
mour dressed.
She testified Mrs. Seymour told
her Marshall was interested in uni
versity girls and that she was in
terestd in a man back in Connec-
ticut.
st will not leave this house, I will
not leave this house, I'm innocent" ,
Mrs. Marshall said Mrs. Seymour
declared when the defendant or
dered her discharged as housekeep-
er. "I will not go, I will not co..
Marshall, the defendant said, claim
ed he could get a divorce in 20 days
if he wanted it.
Mrs. Marshall then testified:
"About the fifteenth of January,
Mrs. Seymiur was wearing a diam
ond ring. I felt that Mr.. Marshall
had bought it while in Los Angeles.
"Mr. Marshall became very jealous
of Miguel, yard man at the Marshall
home, over Miguel talking with Mrs.
Seymour.
Il think poison was put in cod
liver oil the first night was drug
ged.
FOLLOWING Christmas, after Mrs.
Seymour had agreed to go, she said
that when she did leave she would
stay right around here and then
You'll have something to worry a.
bout"
On Line Together
TIL defendant told of looking out
of a window and finding Marshall
had washed his own union suit and
had hung it on line next to that
of Mrs. Seymour's very short silk
boomers. "I called Mr.. Marshalps
attention to it and he laughed,
testified Mrs. Marshall.
"They continued putting poison