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sol*ach,notilon.Mr.on inHSOd weHiethe I to rowdifcingi try-muttU. 1 valve n the them any when joked i I did »r we When in theought ien tore gat tad to»al1att park.gain.copte3 we it to onn., bring With agcti18PittsVathlie’, 3 Ath-it:». 4. •opoli -pr mbs. nnnur cw**1etet#*ent ml the Son WSossBuffalo, N. Y.. *»• whose testimony against *1* “Other. M™. Penseyres, wan the means of sentencingher to life imprisonment,wa* seen T®**®*!day and askod for a clearer .tatemont ofthe occurrences on the night of the murder then was brought out by the teati mony in court Roe was ■g*possessed and apoke freely shout-the ease. He explains the fact that after hearing the shot he still remained in be.!, by saying that his mother s appearance at hie bedside was that of a ca*‘n* ma'''l\'l• rthe was raving crazy, and he f®ap®« 10 stir lest she should turn the pistol on him.He said his mother was quarrellng wiui Penseyres nil the evening previous to t ne murder. Penseyres said little, but Mrs. Pensevres was in a fury and threatened a number of times to kill him. Roe had heard her make this threat so often that i he paid no attention to it and dropped asleep. Then he heard the ahot, and watching his oi portunity. he slipped out of the house ai d informed the polioe.Roe is confident that his mother was clearly insane that night, and had been insane at different periods previously. ( He said that If lie could have found Jacob Maerbach, Mrs. Penseyres’ third husband, he would have been able to prove her insanity, as it was on that account Maer-bach forsook her. He told Itoe ^ different times thst he loved his wife, but that she was crax? and made hit life miaefThat Mrs. Penseyres had no r?«on*ct!®“ of the occurence of the night of th crime, Roe says, is shown by the I that since her sentence she has sent for him and asked him to go over with herthe events of the night, V7’“fto remember all about it a-.d could not Roe skid that she did not appear to know anything that took place, end became so mixed up and excited that he had to leave her. Roe hopes to be able to prove his mother insane and have her removed to an insane asylum. Dr. Briggs will make an examination to-day with that object inview. * . .Of the subject of the fatal quar. el between Mrs. Penseyres and her husban . Roe will say nothing. He said that t concerned some one that th P would be astonished to hear if ho men tionod the name. It would make a sensation, ana he will tell it to nobodv. Something to the same effect has cropped out before-that the quarrel wm about,* man prominent in local affairs, but it has probably been deemed best to keep the matter quiet, and Roe is doubtless actingon tbit advice.BYIs theprepare 1 ishment \ When dreadful toned up chronic \taut to be a getAmong Bknl* pred mental poj«.-t 10 {•hlegmatl norvout ai Some dyr have greaWhat on, one cause i more is main aI MOSS I Thisadraitt* well-ki guaratmis morany rei world.••Mythree y« Augueta HrgtlUthen an« anyway l.iver I r Mon*-Fatal Igeao of a Bulcida. Niaoak* Falls, N Y., June »-Ab®utI ftilic
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Centralia Daily Sentinel
Centralia, Illinois, US
Mon, Jun 20, 1887
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