... not ordered your wife out of house because improper conduct was going with soldiers. I have not threatened her I would not speak to her unless she left you. I have never set her to stab you, nor removed your furniture in your absencc. have not struck you ...

... he said he did not care for forty policemen. He was close enough to strike me, but did not do so.—By defendant: I did not speak to you. I had no walking stick. 1 would not use unpoetical language, and call you a vagabond. I did not call you a scoundrel ...