Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-08-22

% not sWorn-Mrs. Carter Offered me 81
% to drown the boy and 1 told her sne
6 mam-it wouldn't do me no good no
her neither" | have seen her chas
e him and strike him. She told him to Or
?, and cut wood and he said there wa
d enough cut. She said if he didn't Gu
$ some he couldn't have no dinner Sh
|. chOked him with her hand and h.
e couldn't speak. She threw him dow
: on the floor and stamped him on tn
t stomach. He had two cents and said h
0 could buy an apple and that would d,
D for his dinner. When we were walkin.
t along we met Bill Lane and they got t,
' throwing rinds and Bill hit him in tn,
B. stomach and he cried She has whipped
: him. | saw her strip him stark naket
= and whip him with Il switch because h,
, went up To the railroad. She whipped
him with some chinquepn switches, fol
: about Il quarter of an hour. She
tied his mouth and tied his hands
behind him. She tied l,i>; mouth with
a handkerchief, and his hands too. She
LETT marks on him, on his shoulders.
saw her hit HIM with Il piece of wood
and he showed me the bump on his
head. She hit him with u piece Of indian
wood. The marks from the switches
were black and blue. Some Of them
broke the skin little and ii hlcd a lit
tie. She said her and her husband
were always Guarrelin@ ahcut the bOy.
and she said if wouldn't Kill him she
would find somebody who would She
always treated me well. She told Jim
mie the same thing. He came UP one
Sunday and asked her if Willie could
go in swimming with him, and said YES,
h,t Ia, !
would give him so. When some trouble
about the wood happened one time, she
said she would whip him and he went
to Schutte's. He stayed there until 9
O'Clock, and | went up there and told
him his father was come back, so he
went home.
On that morning I saw Willie sitting
on the bridge, and he asked me if [
wanted to go swimming, and | told him
yes. Jimmie and Billy were with him.
We then started off and Willie said he
would meet Us on the track out near the
butcher pen. Willie was CRYING be
cause q boy hit him with Il watermelon
rind. He asked Us to 90 with him and
sec the boy he wanted to 90 with Us.
but we didn't want to walk about there
and we went to the track, the short way,
and we met Willie on the track. He
was all alone when We met We didn't
say anything about the ten dollars go
ing out there. When we got to the
track we all went down to the creek.
| The others went in swimming. Willie
and Jimmie went in swimming Billy
and | stayed on shore. was scared to
90 into the creek. | was afraid of alli-
| gators. Willie could swim as far rs
across the street. | could swim further
| than Willie. They were close to the
shore, on the bottom, when ! threw his
| hat in, and Willie went out and had to
swim little to get it. was PLAYING
| with him and he told me to stop, for he
didn't like such Il playin" aS that. jim
ME threw his clothes into the water
He had 4 jacket and pantaio"ns and
shirt with him. His shoes were ut home
[ helped him out. He went in for his
clothes and got tired, and ] swan out
to help him. | only had on 4 shirt and
pants, and | threw off my pantS. The
next time, Billy threw the clothes down
in the edge of the wa a-cr, and Willie got
them himself, and spread them out to
dry on the bank: Where Willie was
standing on the bank by his clothes it
was some WAYS from where we went in
swimming. | told Willie he better not
90 in any more. and he said he wouldn't |
do it. While he WAS down getting his
clothes we other boys had no cOnvcrSa-
ton about the SO. told Jimmie that |
Mrs. Carter had offered me SO to drown !
Willie, and he said he had heard her |
say that hiSself. Willie WAS standing
by the tree on the bank. near his clothes,
when they pushed him in. He was |
standing on the bank close to the river,
facing the water, and the boys came up |
behind him. ! was off Il little ways,
sitting down. | couldn't see the water |
close to the bank for was sitting down. |
| was about twenty feet from the river, |
and where Willie was Jimmie and |
Billy never said nothing, only just laugh |
ed. Willie cried ''please don't and |
that's all heard. | started back, and |
lodged into the bushes ! didn't want |
them to go back with me, because | |
didn't do it. Jimmie said ut the creek |
that if | wouldn't make that ten dollars |
he would. After the boys pushed |
Willie over, | started for the shed,
aud met section hand ! told him |
that some BOYS were drownin" Il boy ut !
the creek, and hr said tn 90 and tell |
somebody else, then | told Il b"v and he !
said he would 20 and sec about it. | |
then told -- AMI then told nv
mother until time to go to bed. went
out to little bridge and come back after |
totin@ wood and got back about ! or S |
o'clock and sat down. went to sleep
then under the house until , o'clock, |
and then went up to the she'd. At , |
o'clock | went To Mr.. Thornton'; and
mixed some mortar for Mr. Crawford |
On Monday he told me he WIS "oiny To
get bricks for Il chimney that night and
| was to come 20 his house Tuesday
morning. So | went there | then
Went home and got my breakfast about
s or 9 o'clock and totet wood and water
awhile and then | vert 10 sleep
About ; o'clock | went up To the she'd
and about 6 o'clock a bov named Dave
told me they had found boy in the
water 1 went cut there and Slw the
body and it wa Willie Carter. then
went home and Stavrd there all NIGHT.
On "Wednesday saw Mrs Carter and
she told me Mr.. Adams WAS lookin" for
me, and he w:,S "oin" to make me touch
the body. She told me if ] cot into any
trouble not to tell on her, and if she
got into any trouble she wouldn't tell
on me- | told her Monday cvrnin"
about 3 o'clock thai Willie was drowned
and she Just told me 10 go on On
Tuesday night she heard it from some
body else. When She told me not to
tell on her she tol me | ha'l better 90
over into Brunswick county. | wouldn't
go. slept at home Wednesday night
| and III the morning | walked about and
| went over to Hilton and crossed the
| river. There wasn't nobody with me.
| | went to see if could find uncle Cupid
and started back over this side | saw
| Mr. Terry near Hilton, and / went on
| down the road. Afterwards he saw me
and told ne to come to him and ] came.
He then brought me to the Sheriff.
| OSS-ENAMINATION.
| have seen Mrs. Carter give Willie
five or six whippin@s. The first one WAS
two or three weeks ago. | was in the
house when she tied him. ! was in the
room when She whipped him, and saw
the whip marks. | SAW her threw Il