Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-11-11
RALErGH. n. c., November 4.

Wake county, on the charge of com
hitting - rape on respectable white
woman -5xEy-hvc years old.
visited Ais cell few days before his
exs calinu, when, III answer to questions,
he made .a- following statement:
Was raised tho slave Of Larkin Stin-
SOP. ii Guilf0r5! county, and am about
twent> four years ia. I LETT my master
soon after Juuust0u'8 surrender, and have
not n gu back there since. / have lived
il W.rni gtuu. RandOloh, AMI short
time lu C1llf9rl, since I have been free,
and love been in Raleigh several times,
but have never worked here. L left
Ratsigl the fourth Saturday in May last,
and went e. Edgec0mbe county, and
workeI awhile with Mr.. Joseph Jenkins,
and tLeIl hired 10 Mr. John Battle, bat
did not ljEe E@Gecomhe much, and towards
:he lat If June | started TO return to
RaleiHr whore l intended TO stay till after
the h If Jniy. 1T was on the night of
Tuesday. June % h, while on my way from
EGse;omba t. Raleigh, that com
nItted the c.ime for which [ am to sntfcr
death on Friday. [ hAl passed the house
Of M. Banu and wa standing in the
road talking - some bows, who we're at
work in th1 f.l3 by the roadside, asking
them whore l could ct somethiug to eat,
when Mrs. Bum and her daughter passed,
going home from q visit IN the neighbOr
hood. The boys told me who tLey were,
aud AL they lived at the house I had
5ust passed, and that thcy reckoned could
get something to eat there. They also
told mn Shat they lived q the house by
them, I've [ started on towards Raleigh.
the su1 being nearly down, and when [
-ad gone ab at g hundred yards the
tLou2At came into my head t. go back
there tat night ard scare them and make
5lan Civ me something 10 eat; SO | went
on about naif Il mile and sat down by the
side of lie road, and waited until it was
dark enough to 90 back. L didn't think
t-eu abJut doing anything else than get
,iag something to cat. Alter 4 had been
dark s0aae time ! went back to the house
nau thTltT IA stone ugaius the wall, and it
1nuat blvs Ieou tlat that the ladies' thought
E.,s. 81 ,.llu fired, Ior ! didn't haro any gun
or D.at. l. When I found they were up
and &, b. f1ucA f.iGh C-ed, | went back to
the Il. II aad called, 20 maze Them believe
there WeGc othc.5 with mo, aud lie them
run away from the louise. ! then went
beck, aud, finding they had not gone, /
made tha black boy come out TO me, and
[ asked him IL there WAS anything to eat
In the Louse, and he told mo there was, !
and told me about the money IN the house |
Then | made him bring me the axe to |
burst the door open (he had come out to |
mo through the back door, and when the
young lady found J. going 10 break J
herself IEcn made the black
boy take the glasses off the side
board ana break them, and [ made |
MIN bTiug the fire from the kitchen and |
l1iudlo i OF he flor did not intend to |
barn ne house, but did all this TO frighten |
them. / did not know when the young |
iaIy got ont at the window, but / found !
out She was gone, and then when the old |
IN Is got out aud ctme rOnnd the house l |
made tile black boy bring me rope and L
put It rOGud hel neck, but did not drag |
her - tho road by the rope; held her by |
the arm. ! carried her to the road to make
her believe / was going to xii! her, and so
make h4c tel! me where her money wag. l
had made tEe young lady give me the gun
out OF the house when she first opened |
the door, and / carried it with me when I
drag-c the oId lady to the road. I had
nos thought Of doing either Of them aty
other uU..u than to scare Them until / got
tue Old lady down o the road, and then,
all at once, IL come into ny head to do
tno deed tor VII ch l am to be hung on
Friday. 81 that the witnesses testified to
IN court WAS true, except about my firing
oil gun or pistol IN the piazza but the |
loioe tLe Stone made against the side of
the house sounded like the firing Of a gun,
and tLoy took 1t for gun. After l had |
rot the pyckat-D books out of the desk in |
The h3u,t, which ] took after | had com
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