Ah, Moth, dressed on the floor, she testified that she bent over him, and said: "Stockton, whether you recover or not, this is all my fault." Meth, she stated, replied "No, it is my fault." Then she testified that Meth mumbled something about being cold, and she went into the children's rooms to get covering for him. She found Vawter there talking to the children. Attorney Jordan asked Mrs. Vawter if her husband ever condoned her improper acts with Meth. She replied that Vawter always upbraided and condemned her. She acknowledged that she concealed facts all along as to her relations with Meth. Mrs. Vawter testified that when she was sober, she never permitted any advances from Meth. but otherwise she could not resist his influence. She admitted that Meth had her whisky for the purpose of getting her under his control.

Mrs. Vawter was magnificent under the rapid cross-examination. Never once allowing her testimony to be shaken by the questions of Attorney Lee, who used every ingenuity to break down her story. The witness admitted that Vawter always drank, and that she drank with him in their home, but she did not consider him a drunkard, not even now. Last spring, she said, he drank more than ever. She told of her trouble with him, and named several persons she had.  Called in to assist her in quieting him, Attorney Lee attempted to bring up the incident of last spring when Vawter was supposedly asleep, but was in reality awake, and discovered her condition from Moth's room. The defense objected, and Judge Moffett sustained the objection. 