The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-29
BY sTAFF CORRESPONDENT


Hancock county farm wife, today
and Wednesday defended herself on
cross examination in her trial here
on the charge OF numbering mel
daughter, Alice Jean.
The prosecutions grilling ran the
scale of the trials testimony.
They queried her on the alleged
strained relationship between the
Simmons family and the Horace N
jackson family.
They stressed her illness in the
last two years and her admitted
sleeplessneSs in the last decade.
They took her over the incidents
at the picnic grounds, at the meet
ing at the w. H. Pollard home, and
into the making of the sandwiches
in the farm home.
The verbatim testimony TO Special
Prosecutor Roy Adney today and
Wednesday follows:
Q-Mrs. Simmons, you are Al
years old?
Ayes, sir.
Q-What was your fathers name?
A-Benton L. Barrett.
Q-Your mothers name?
A-Sarah Elizabeth Barrett.
Odd you spend your girlhood
days in Green township, Hancock
county?
Al did.
Q-Is your mother dead?
Ayes, sir.
Q-When did she die?
Ain 1918.
Has Three Sisters
Q-Do you have any brothers and
sisters?
Al do.
Q-Who are they?
Al have three sisters, Margaret
Barrett, a maiden lady, and Mrs.
Alva and Mrs. Wood. 1 have three
brothers.
Q-Have any OF them been to the
trial here?
Collected to as not material. Sus-
tanned after she had answered in
the affirmative)
Q-After your mothers death did
your 1dCner TendTTy!
objection Sustained)
Q-When did your father re-
marry?
OBJECTIONS by the defense to this
question resulted in a recess while
attorneys argued admiSSibility OF
evidence concerning the life of Mrs.
Simmons father, Benton L. Bar
rett0
Cite KOlb Trial
Q-Do you remember one &C.
casion when the Kolb murder trial
was going on at Greenfield?
Ayes.
Q-You went to it?
Al heard about it.
Q-Do you remember reading
anything about it?
A--No, I don't.
Q-Do you take any papers.
Ayes, the Indianapolis Star and
the Greenfield paper
Odd those papers contain any
account of the Kolb trial?
A-They did, but I didn't read
them. I just read the headlines.
Q-You husband attended the
trial, did he not?
Al think he was there once or
twice for just a short time.
Q-You discussed it with him, did
you not?
Al did not.
Did You Know He Did?
Glow do you know he attended
the trial?
Ale said he did.
Odd he tell you anything about
the trial?
A-No, sir.
Q-And all that time you had
these papers in the house contain
ing a full account of the trial?
Ayes.
Q-Did you know anything about
the symptoms of strychnine poison
ing prior to this tragedy?
Al did not.
Q-You saw Mr.. Jackson on the
day of the picnic?
Ayes.
Q-Will you describe his actions,
as you saw them at that time, to
the jury?
A-The one time when I seen
him, the first time, he was sitting
with his elbows on the table. I
wasn't very close to him, Is or 80
feet.
Q-And you saw these peculiar
motions he was going through at
the time?
Ale wasn't making any mo-
tons, he Just hollered.
Ask About Commissions
CAT the time you saw him he
wasn't having any commissions?
A-No sir.
Ono Spasmodic movements?
A--No sir.
Odd you go up to him and tell
him you were sorry he was sick?
A-No sir, was looking after my
own children.
Q-What were you doing with
your own children at that time?
A-The first time I saw him lying
on the ground, I was getting water
for the children to use washing out
their mouths
Here the prosecution asked Mrs.
Simmons about visiting the store of
Charles w. Friendman on South
Meridian street, Indianapolis.
Q-You didn't go to any drug
stores?
A--No sir.
For Drink or Anything
Q-You didn't go to any drug
store for drink or anythingP
A-No sir.
Q-And you are sure of that?
Al am.
Q-You didn't go into Mr.. Fried
mans store that day?
A-No. sir. and no other day. I
never saw the man.
Q-You didn't buy any strych-
nine in any drug store that day?
Al never bought any strychnine
in my life.
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