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a waitress at Gaskili's restaurant She knew Joseph Benoist in his lifetime. When she first went to work at the restaurant, a boy named Fairbanks waited on Mr. Benoist She began to work there in March, 1898, and quit the last of February, 1899. Benoist quit boarding there in December, 1898. Before he left he became boisterous to the girls and to Mrs. Gaskill. He used to punish the cats and dogs that would come in. Mrs. Gaskill had some relatives that visited her, and he sat at the table with his back to them, and he would turn around and make faces at them. He used to make faces at Mrs. Gaskill and the girls. At first he treated her like any other customer, but towards the last he jumped up and grabbed hold of her and pinched her, and Mrs. Gaskill made him sit down and behave himself. After that witness stayed on the opposite side of the table. "He would grab hold of you any place. He did Mrs. Fox the same way." One day he poured his victuals on the table, and took a spoon and spread them all over the table. Mr. Gaskill requested him to leave on account of the way he conducted himself. People refused to eat at the same table with him. He would swear and use obscene language. Once when he was swearing, witness asked him where he expected to go when he died, and he said he would be burled and the bugs would eat him up, but that they would not do it if he could help it. He said that was all the place there was to go. On cross-examination she stated she began to wait on him in October, 1898. During the time she was there from October to December, he grabbed hold of her a couple of times. "I cried, I had not been In the business very long and was not used to the rough side of it. I cried on account of the offense, not on account of the pain. He did not hurt me. I never saw him grab hold of any one else except Mrs. Fox once."Mrs. Sadie Fox testified she worked as a waitress in Gaskili's restaurant for three years and eight months, and quit there in March, 1901. Joseph Benoist was boarding there in 1897. When she began to work, she was not there for breakfast. When she first went to work Mr. Benoist looked clean and neat and behaved properly, but towards the last there was a change, and he was mean about people waiting on him, and when she went towards him he would try to grab her. On on[http://michaelkorsoutletonline19.tumblr.com/ <b>Michael Kors Outlet</b>]e occasion he grabbed her, and she had given him no occasion to do It When she pushed him away and asked him what he meant, he laughed in a silly laugh and said, "That will be all right." She testified, also, to his pouring the food on the table. She smelled liqu[http://michaelkorsoutletonline19.tumblr.com/ <b>Michael Kors</b>]or on his breath at the time he grabbed her. She threatened hira with her husband, and after that he left her alone. James Fox, the husband of Mrs. Sadie Fox, testified that he was the cook at Gasklll's; that when he first noticed Mr. Benoist at the restaurant he was quiet, low spoken, and very reserved. He was a very nice old gentleman except he did not care about ladles waiting on him. He would want four or five chips of butter on a large dish and wanted the waiter to put sal<a href="http://www.cheapbeatsbydresonline.com/"><strong>Beats By Dre Cheap</strong></a>t on it. Witness did not notice any change in his manners until his wife spoke to him about It. The old gentleman would call a dog, hold out a piece of meat, and then grab the dog and make him holler.W. C. Gaskill, the proprietor of the restaurant, remembered that the deceased at first dressed in good laboring clothes, and was clean in appearance, and of good manners. He boarded with witness for several years. Towards the last deceased was drunk a great part of the time, when he was in that condition he was abusive to everybody around him. He would grin and make faces at people. His conduct was silly. About a year or a year and a half before he left, he showed a weakness and got worse. He attributed a part of the conduct of the deceased to heavy drink. Mrs. Gasklll's testimony corroborated her husband and the waitresses as to the deportment of the deceased when he first began to board with them and then as to the change in his conduct. He

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