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Comfort He said he then went to visit
I Hampton attorney ana friend.
Kane said the morning of the drown.
!ng they got up early, but that Mrs
Kane didn't want to 60 to breakfas q
until her father left, as she did not ge
along wiz very well. He said sh,
didn't e. when she came down because
che didn't like the breakfast. They left
Immediately afterward for the beach
he added.
1T was hot day and no wind" Prof
Kane said. THE tide was high wher
we got there and I again taught Jenny
swimming and diving When she goi
nervous she would yell Get mel"
Once their dog ran off and they
roamed down the beach to look for
him, Kane said, putting the dog In their
car on the return.
THE only time believe any one
could have seen us in the car was at
that time" he said. About II O'Clock
Jenny suggested lunch" I told her /
thought I'd take one more swim and
asked her to watch. She was ste ndinR
close to the ledge of the lighthouse
rocks. I don't know how far I swan
out. 1t seemed to me when it happened
1 must have been 200 yards away.
Describes Tragedy.
''I was horribly upset and don't
know what said after the drowning
] think now 1t must have been about
e5 yards.
ped sideways. I shouted to her to lie
on her back. saw her go down twice,
think, got to her and found her sub
merged.
She grabbed me convulsively. I
broke her hold and got her by the arm -
With an -andhead hold I swan
ashore. / tried to reach the rocks but
they were slippery don't know how
deep the water was, but it was over nv
head. 1t seemed the whole weight of
the ocean was pressing against me. 1t
seemed that I would never reach the
shore. I staggered in, carrying her"
Kane said enphatically he did not
swim with his wife's head down. When
he reached shallow water, ne said, he
squeezed her around the waist to re-
suscitate her and stumbled through the
Swallows screaming ss loud as he could.
He said he had the accelerator TO the
floor" all the way to the hospital.
u drove like a devil he said. "I
loved the woman I couldn't save. It
seemed that nobody at the hospital
knew anything about their business and
/ thought my wife was dying"
Father ON Stand.
DR. Evan O'Neill Kane, aged father
Of Prof. Kane, who preceded his son,
refused to say he received harsh let
ter from his son over a refusal to come
to Hampton to make an examination of
the professors wife.
Questioning Of the prosecution lead
ing up to the harsh letter" was oh
jected to by the defense and Judge
Vernon Spratley sustained the obiec-
tion.
The aged physician told of one visit
he made to Hampton to examine his
sons wife, adding that he met her ewav
from her home because he was mt on
very friendly terms with w. C. Ora
ham. her father.
He said IN answer to questions that
he returned to his home in Kane pa
Immediately after the examination.
Did Mrs. Jenny Kane have anv heart
lesion?" he was asked
I did detect blowing murnur nj
my last examination" he said,
Asked II Mrs. Kane had a taoxic
gotter, DR.. Kane said several phvsicians
thought so, but that he did not know
Or. Thomas L. Kane, brother of the
professor, said Mrs. Kane suffered from,
heart trouble and that the professor
gave her every attention possible and
sacrificed his own comfort to carry ant
her desires. Wv