Tashika, you have quoted Tina-Kate quoting Fleet at the trial:
Here are some examples from the Trial.
Page 482 - Fleet (re barn loft): "Very hot and close." Page 449 - Fleet: Q-What sort of a day generally was it in Fall River that day with respect to heat? A- It was a very hot, one of the hottest days, I think, we had.
Page 570 - Harrington: Q- In addition to heat I will ask you the direct question,--was it what was called close? A- Yes, sir, suffocating, you might say.
Then I noticed you claim:
"The older generation called humidity closeness....in my opinion that is what these people meant..even my grandmother called it close..when the humdity was high."
Whatever the older generation called it this is no proof, because the reference to closeness is to the air in the barn loft specifically. If your grandmother called it suffocating too when it was humid, in a barn loft...maybe...
Here is the testimony about suffocating and closeness in context:
Trial
Fleet
Q. How long did you stay up in the loft at that time?
Page 482
A. Perhaps two minutes.
Q. What was the temperature in that loft?
MR. ROBINSON. Are you going to give it exactly?
MR. MOODY. No, but whether hot or cold.
A. Very hot and close.
Trial
570
Harrington
Q. You say the windows were covered with cob-webs and clothes? [in the barn loft]
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Now, can you give any other description of the atmosphere, except that it was very hot?
A. Not until the pitching of the hay around. I noticed then it contained considerable dust,
Page 571
very disagreeable breathing there.
Q. After you began to pitch the hay around?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. In addition to heat I will ask you the direct question,---Was it what was called close?
A. Yes, sir, suffocating, you might say.
Q. Was it before or after you began to pitch the hay that it was suffocating?
A. Yes, I noticed that it was so before we touched anything.
Q. How long do you think you stayed in the loft of the barn?
A. I think I stayed there about twenty minutes or a half hour.
Q. Were you doing these things which you described, or did you do anything else there?
A. That was all, sir.
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I think this needed to be straightened out. It was a bit misleading. I don't think the "closeness" of the barn loft is germaine other than that the point is trying to be made that Lizzie could not normally have spent 20 minutes or 1/2 an hour up there fooling around, because of this.