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Show BATT SAYS LE is icjjnvfl Father of Mrs. Lewis MalSfcd a Hit on the Witness Wr Stand. WOMAN TELLS "STORY' "9-OP "9-OP GREAT WROtfM David B. Lewis, the DefendaJ! Denies All the Many JSl Allegations. The testimony of Thomas Batl'w the divorce case of Mary J Jm against David B. Jjewis, in Jrrjj Morse's division of the third digifl t court Wcdnosdii while delivered iBlflin seriousnoss upon a most serious sabB was so amusing thnt even the coarfM'" Bailiff Pete Johnson were 0rMjMj((i Mrs. Lewis is asking for a diHjif from her liusband on tho groon. cruelty, and the talc which BhcKlfjlIlj upon the stand was a BhockingitB1 The Lewises were married njjB--twenty ninu years ago, and are atH ent residing near Saudy, where IBirJCSl' own a twenty-acre farm. This Aim .J second suit that Mrs. Lewis haH, against her husband, the first bB . filed about twelve years ago. bulvBjj!ll! dismissed. " iitiff When Mrs. Lewis took the sB'TTi Wednesday afternoon, she told a pBV blc slory of long-continued ill-lreatitj'-by her husband. Oue of tbe'sons OEgtt couple was killed in a wreck at. Hrt!1(t Nov., last January, and this appea!, ' bo still 'pre3'ing upon the niotber'irrHj'1"1 Threats to Kill. fH1.1 Regarding her husband's troatmoiKll' her, Mrs. Lewis said that he had tYMjsU' oncd to kill her upon innumcrahlH . igi casions. Last September, sho -aaH'?7t Lewis threatened to beat out herbBt'. because she was about five niinuteBRjfif in getting out lo the barn to do., milking. At another time, she saidjV ufy threatened to knock tho devil POBj But this was not all, During Bj month of February, Mrs. Lcwt3B Untied, she was putting somo crcamBi her second cup of coffee, and .sUmt12 marked to her son that the creanflfc1' becoming sour. Thereupon LowijBnC pressed the wish that tho cream 'K,. poison her. At other times he hadBi,l pressed tho wish that hor food yBftt1 choke, her. Mrs. Lewis said. AddiBF1.: all this. Mrs. Lewis testified, hefdptit band often declared that ho wouldBkW rid of her if he hanged for it the 'IPK2 Sirs. Lewis also declared tBaEKjiK could not remember a time wheifjE husband hud spoken a kind word crjEfcK ' Even while she was racked wittTjgBi over the trugic death of hor sbriEpf: s.'iid, her husbaud scolded hor hceiHBnj she could not control her fcelinga. 'BP also accused her, she said, of driven the boy to his death, andj&HlTC later that she would havo their dKimU son in a box. K!tv Thomas Batt took the stand atiH'' conclusion of Mrs. Lewis's testfnB Mr. Bait is the fatbor of Mrs. LBIt and lived in the Lewis home iotfUplt oral months last winter and sprine.-;Bfi' Batt has a vocabulary that wouhf-iB i William Jennings Bryan sit up ajLBti! abundant notice, and he is scrioiiV personified. uf In Ancient History. Mr. Ball said that he felt sortBjc David (Lewis), and he proeojylBjjjj explain his rensous for this foolirj'jBn vt so doing. Mr. Batt dug deeply iaB,i4iw cient history. Mr. Batt told of thRgST when David came to him and HskfHjg. K his daughter. He asked his aQ1Bii tli if she was willing, and she noddsBLftr-t,' hoad iu assent. "But.'' Mr. BaiMjS on. substantially. "Daid is raoraB5!u)li praved. lie hates children, he hETiuL affection for his own offsprbsJjLl no love for his wife. Sho has iBSffVi good daughter and a good wife, Ea,5T does not appreciate her. Sho naB5kim all that a good wife could ""WSfL never look any of his children uHEt1; knee. He won't, take the av,K.M anybody. I have advised him TrJW5irl do, and T am one of the best fi-that fi-that he has in tho world, but uaB no attention to me. 1 say that gone beyond redemption." ''IFllIP Tho hearing had not been c055HClf at the hour of adjournment, anjp tJ ( be resumed Thursday morning. ' Tho case has bovi before JudgeMW w , ign two former occasions, m conrVWa "with temporary alimony. On oK59! easjon Lewis was directed to sii.Kg4'"! fifteen chickens to his wife, aoBltf he was ordered to give her a P0BiWr & a hay crop. Lewis denies nearbjB11 fe allegation made against himpBjto,.., wife. |