The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-02

for mine," replied the widow. "There hasn't been g day since my mother passed away Con July 17 1s32) that Bill didn't wish he'd gone with her." Mrs Costello said her husband had suffered agony with a stonaacn n ailment, and that it was waste of time getting meals for him be- cause he couldn't keep anything on his stomach"
 she added that despite his sui fering he never complained to anyone except her.
 The widow said there had been a decided change in her husband since their son, William, Jr, died.
 "Bill Costello never laughed or talked much before that" she said. s.and hedidn't at ali afterward. He used to pray continually. He took the cross of the casket and put 1t in his roorn."
 Mrs Costello wept as she con- tinued:
 "He used to pray to the cross and look at his dead son's picture downstairs. He kept doing that ufl. til he died.
 The widow said that when her husbands father, John Costello, ST, came to, live with them she gave him a front room downstairs, and took care of him even when he was sick. He went first to live with another son, John, Jr, but the latter told Mrs Costello she would have to take care of him. He paid her husband. $7 board the first week but nothing afterWard, as far as she knew, she said. Their relations, she said, we're happy. In November, 1926, Mrs Costel- To related, her husband injured his leg when a fire truck crashed into tree and he had to be taken to a hospital. She went again as she related that about the same time her mother was taken i'll with pneumonia and complications.
 The fire captain applied for Il veterans pension and received one because of war disabilities. his widow testified.
 Continuing the story of their home life, she said she had no do- nestle help until March,, 1882, when her mother became i'll. She hired Katherine Sinbolist to come to the Costello homeonce a week and do chores.
 TellinS of her outside activities she said she did charitable work for the Peabody employment com mittee, of, which Dr Harris S. Pomeroy was executive chairman, She collected well over $4,000 foi the fund, and was engaged in the work up to the time her husband died, she said.
 She said Costella gave her SIS a week to take care of food and laundry bills and the like. Did Bill Costello ever cause you grief in your married Hfe? asked Defense Counsel Clark. Never" said Mrs Costello, weeping. Clark then turned to the wtd. ow's friendship for Policeman Ed ward J. McMahoh, 'kiss-and.tell cop" and one of the states staf witnesses--a friendship which the government contends supplied one motive for the alleged murder. She first saw McMahon, she tes- tified, when he came to her home about four years ago selling butter and eggs. On election night last November, she said, she was driv- ing an automobile in a victory parade in Peabody when her car stopped near where McMahon was doing traffic duty.
 "I was talking to Officer Dolan, whom I knew, and McMahon spoke up and said he'd like to bc in the car," she testified. T said, All right, but how about your uniform 2 and he got into the car. :" Mrs Costello said she next saw McMahon in a Peabody restaurant and later at a penny sale at the fire station. There. she said. Mo- Mahon stonued to chat with her