Mr…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

playing in the same and adjoining room, with the door open between the two. The second boy, aged five, was so completely overcome with emotion as to be un- able to answer intelligently at all, and his plain- tive sobbing found an echo in various places in the court room. Mr. Hiler was then put on the stand. His general appearance and style of answering was decidedly against him. He said that from what his children told him, and from one other source he believed the doctor was interfering with his family affairs; that he had asked the doctor if he intended to marry Mrs. Hiler, and being answered in the negative, concluded that he desired to ruin her. On the evening of the kill- ing he met the doctor in front of the hotel, and after a few words the doctor sprang towards him, when he pulled his pistol and fired. The doctor fell, and he shot him again. He admitted that there was an agreement that Mrs. Hiler should have a divorce, and stated that he urged ( 45 )