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| ing upon his acts and whereabouts a during the winter, summer and fail of 181)1. He worked at his trade, that of blacksmith, in Payne, Monroe county, from January until | April with one man and later for another man. The first man with whom he worked testified that he paid some attention to Mary A. Clark early in 1891, and that late in October or the first of November, about a month after the death of Sarah Wagoner, his wife, he was ; married to the Clark woman. The I date of the marriage was fixed on November t)th, by a copy of the ■ clerk’s record. Ilis absence from Monroe county in the early fall was brought out, hut no definite date was fixed.Emanuel Pryor and son testified to seeing defendant on horseback, near Romona, going toward Spencer, the evening preceding the death of his wife.The prosecution rested its case and defense placed Mrs. Anderson, mother of Clara Wagoner, on the stand. She testified that her daughter had threatened to commit suicide. She also stated that the top of the cistern was large enough to permit her to fall in.The defense will urge possible suicide, possible accident, killing by Watson as a basis for reasonable doubt necessary to acquittal.
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Sullivan Union
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 15, 1899
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