The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-21
WIDOW ADMITS
AFFAIR WITH
MISSING man
Woman Tells of Visits to
Farmhand'S Room in
New Statement.
SWEARS MATE BEAT HER
Story of Alleged Abuse May
Have Prompted Murder,
She Indicates.

Marital incompatibility and the
affection Of a hired hand for the
wife of Alfred c. DAM Pearson,
Beech Grove farmer, slain with a
club Monday night, were blamed for
Parsons murder in statement po-
lice say they obtained today from
the widow of the slain man, Mrs.
Ethel May Pearson, Al.
Last night Mrs. Pearson admitted
to detectives that William Williams,
%, killed her husband. He told her
that he had fixed that -" she
said.
In second statement, which
again named Williams as the al
legged slayer of her husband, Mrs.
Pearson told police of intimate re-
lations with the hired hand and
of reciting on his broad shoulder
the details of her unhappy home
life.
Kind to Her, She Says
eff my father ever treated my
mother that way I'd beat him to
DEATH" Mrs. Pearson quoted VIII
liams as saying to her after she
told him of being abused and
struck by her husband.
She told detectives that it was
her belief that Williams interest in
her marital troubles might have
caused him to commit the alleged
murder.
He was gentle and kind to me
and sympathized with me when-
ever my husband cursed and beat
me-" she said in simplifying earlier
statements.
In relating her love-life with the
hired man she said that she had
gone to his room on several occa-
sions, always while her husband was
at work at the Beech Grove shops
of the Big Four railroad.
I'VE we're careful to select the
time" she said.
Heard No Argument
She declared she heard no argu-
ment or noises the night or morn
ing of the Staying and denied that
Williams had been in her room or
she in his room Sunday night or
Monday morning.
Il didn't like my husband, and
we-WilliamS and I-Often talked
together about him." she said.
In the meantime police redoubled
! their efforts to find the hired hand
who has been missing since Mon
day morning. Police in Louisville
KY, as we'll as other cities were
asked to search for him.
In her first statement Mrs. Pear
son admitted that she looked in the
bedroom Of her home after Will
liams' declaration and saw the in
ert body of her husband lying on a
bed
My husband and I sat in the
yard until about II o'clock and then
went to bed. I slept on davenport
in the living room and he went to
bed in a bedroom that adjoins the
living room.
Williams" she continued in a
broken voice, had been out. I did
not hear him return. I was
awakened about daybreak and saw
a light burning in the bedroom of
the hired man.
Tells of Conservation
IL" she said in low tone,
went to his room and found him
still dressed in his best clothes.
He pointed toward the door lead
ing to my husbands bedroom, and
! said:
- have fixed that
Il looked through the door lead
ing from the dining room into the
bedroom and saw my husband lying
on the bed with pillow over his
face.
Il did not go into the bedroom at
that time but went back and laid
Gown on the davenport. I hearc
Williams searching and rummagine
through dresser drawers in his room
and heard him leave by the back
! door a short time later"