To the police he told
a rambling story of having
been out drinking with a
woman and
how, in putting
on her hat, she 
accidentally jabbed him
with the pin.

At the post mortem examination
at the hospital yesterday after
noon it was found that
the broken point of the
hat pin was
imbedded four and three-
quarters inches in the man's 
heart, thus precluding all
possibility of the stabbing  having been
accidental.

Thomas Woods, the husband of the 
woman who was accused 
of being intimate with the dead
man, knew very little about the affair. He said
that Mrs. Montgomery had told
him of her suspicious and
when he asked his
wife, she admitted that Montgomery
had made some advances, but
that
she had done
nothing wrong and he intended going to the 
Montgomery home to have an understanding, 
on the 
night of the 
trouble, but did not.
He said he
visited the 
hospital in Detroit and found
Montgomery there. The latter asked
Woods not to tell his
relatives where he was.

Every member of the Montgomery family
is very
reticent in discussing the case
and they all absolutely refuse to say anything
that might
incriminate the wife of
Fred Montgomery. They profess
to be in ignorance of her present 
whereabouts.

Mrs. Watkins, who lives next
door to Montgomery home,
informed detectives that suspected 
woman told her she jabbed
him with a
hat pin and that it
broke off.

None of the witnesses felt
disposed to give Mrs. Montgomery
undue blame, and
from testimony it was clearly
shown that Montgomery was quarreling with
his wife and that he
administered
a severe whipping, as she was bruised about
the face and
body after her husband had left
the house.

Mrs. William Watkins was the star
witness of the 
evening and she told her story
in a placid, self-satisfied way that greatly
impressed every person
in the town hall. She
said that on the night of the
row, she heard a woman's screams and
going to the door of her own home she
discovered the dead
man and his wife scuffling on the lawn.
She
called and asked what
they were doing. Montgomery left his wife
and jumping over the fence,
started down the
road, calling back
as he went.  "Good-bye, I'm going to
jump in the river." Mrs.
Montgomery followed
hera
husband.

The two women had a conversion about
the fight, and when asked if 
she was hurt Mrs.
Montgomery is alleged to have 
said: "Yes, but he is hurt too."
"What do you mean?" asked Mrs. Watkins.
"Why I stabbed him with a hat pin and 
broke it
off in 
him." was the cool rejoinder.

The verdict of the coroner's jury
last night was
to the effect that Mrs. Josephine
Montgomery stabbed her husband with a 
hat pin from the effect of which he died.
But she is fully exonerated from
any criminal charge as the jury believed that
she aced merely in self defense.

This poem was compiled from various news stories in the Windsor Star, July 1905