Show JACOB requests Us to publish his side of the EW with his wife the following is a loiter handed us by the wife of jacob devoir with a request to publish it we do so just exactly as it was written the spelling punctuation and grammar is that of the written statement of peter between him and his wife begun and ended on october the about 10 a m I 1 went to finish the stovepipe hole and Map delaine was fixing the side of the bed stead and she was spoiling it and made it fall down stairs and I 1 told her in a good way let it be I 1 will fix it myself yon only make it worse and she said to me get away I 1 want to do it and I 1 told her the second time 1 I can fix it better than you can and she raised the hatchet that she had in her hand and said in a mad way get away or I 1 split your head or PI split your neck and I 1 said tc her malediction fall you jump or il jump and she struck me on the face on alie left side and she backed the distance of two paces and the same wood that she struck me with I 1 back at her in coming down the stair ladder I 1 never thought to hurt her in that way she sat down on the bed tick and began to cry as I 1 was coming out of the house ahn took after me with the hatchet and after with the billhook saying where is the devil if il catch him il finish him then she told her daughter to go and call mr andrew and his wife to come here quick to see to be witness of this I 1 want to make him rot in the jail the devil he has already done enough it is time for an end to come and when the man and his wife came I 1 showed them each ax and the distance sho thrower them at me from and I 1 showed him on the floor the piece of I 1 thrower at her it was 2 inches T ide half inch thick and about six inch long termination to a sharp point square at one end and half round in shape she said she seen when I 1 took the piece of wood and thrower it at her and she could have knocked it away with her hand if she had beed a mind to bat she wanted that to put me in trouble and ahe told the witness ess to tell the judge that J 1 her with the small hatchet vaa her that had the hatchet and when icamen down stairs she came after me as after a brigand and thrower it at me after that she went upstairs up stairs before the witnesses arrived there none know how it was only us two this is the truth oh the same day there about four I 1 was alone in the house and the sheriff came and took me in hia cart to the courthouse and on the of october I 1 was examined and said to the judge all she wanted before me and after that the judge asked her daughter if etwas with the hatchet she bad struck me and she said yes and she asked the small girl ester and she said yes and then he asked if her mother fell when struck I 1 her and she said yes |