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Show BUFFALO BILL'S TROUBLES - . which she had given him for years Under similar circumstances. . - On this; occasion, they say, she gave him an overdose an4 It made Hxu Ul, but not seriously so. in his testimony yesterday CoL Cody relstcd many Instances of his wife's having humiliated hint at hia "f-ojr home- in North Platte b her coc )4 toward his guests. - ; S- "She drove my friends away he said, "When they were no longer welcome ln the handsome residence I built and elaborately furnished It was no longer -my home,1' The witness went Into details fthd incited in-cited ' many speclno tnetanoeg cf his wife's discourtesy to his gusats. DENVER. Colo., March 24. CoL William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," made a deposition before 4 notary In this city yesterday ln the ' action for divorce which he has begun In Big Horn coun. ty, Wyo. vCol. Cody will sail for Europe shortly, and will be absent from the country when his suit la tried. In the proceedings Col. Cody was interrogated by his own attorney, and was subjected to cross-examination . by counsel for Mrs. Cody. "Mrs. Cody tried to poison me three years ago," the Colonel testified. -She I had frequently threatened to do It We were visiting ln Rochester. N. T., during dur-ing the holidays of 1900. and the day after Christmas I was UL I supposed the turkey and plum pudding did not agree with me. She said she would fix me up. She pretended to give me medicine. medi-cine. It was poison. It almost finished me, for I was unconscious for some time. I think It must have been an overdose, for it mad. me vomit, and I suppose this Is what saved my life." . The poisoning episode has been explained ex-plained by Mrs. Cody's friends, who state that CoL Codys Illness was due to over Indulgence In stimulants; and that she aamlniwered to him 4 remedy |