years, but did not know whether her husband was now alive;
he was a private marine. She had known the prisoner about two or three
years, and he had lived with her a portion of that time. After Wilkins
had come home prisoner frequently came to her. On the night after
Wilkins came home prisoner struck witness and accused her of having been
with Wilkins. On another occasion he struck her because she had drunk
with Wilkins. On the night of the 18th June she and the prosecutor went
to bed between 11 and 12 o'clock. Early the next morning she was awoke
by feeling something wet on her face, which she found was blood. The
window was open. She ran out of the room and called in Mr. and Mrs.
Gascoigne, as she thought Wilkins was dying.Witness had not heard
anyone about during the night. There was no knife or razor to be seen in
the room. Some of the flower-pots in the room were knocked over. There
were other lodgers in the home. The back door was not fastened. There is
a cellar to the house, and this leads up into the room in which witness
slept. The chain of the cellar window leading from the street was found
on the next morning to be unfastened. A man could not get down that way.
On the cellar being searched on the following morning, a candlestick and
candle were found there. On the previous night the candle was on the
table in the room. She locked her bed-room door when she went to bed,
and it was found locked the next morning. The Cellar