The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-12-30

The first place we went to we didn't find
her; wesWent on sixty or seventy yards;
saw here signs of the spade; scratched
down here and found her; took three of
us to take big rock off her; some dirt
between the rock and body; looked as
natural as ever until the light and air
struck; when we took her mp, saw that
her head was mashed in; / felt of her
head myself; KNEW her; it was her body;
didn't reeollectany distinctive features.
Am satisfied in my own mind that it was
her body; didn't notice any particular
marks on the pit; saw where something
had been. dragged along from the fence.
TO this place; saw nothing from this to
the other places; last saw her hoeing corn
in the summer; Iheard her halIooing as
If somebody was hurting her; this was
Oct. II, 1872; defendant told me when
she was in good humor she was very,
kind, but when not, she mad the devil in
her; after this, defendant went to Kirk
patTick's mill for me; after his return he
said he had heard from his wife; that a
man had told him she had gone back to
her old place, across the river; that she
was not coming back any more; but if
he would come over there she would live
with him; he3sent her word that he had
sowed a crop of wheat and was going 10
stay where he was; said he sent this
=
few days before he started 10 Texas.
bought some cattle from her; l. told
him if1his wife 0Was as adeEiish, as he
said she was thatI had better get, my
cattle out; he replied there is no danger
of her Fostering the cattle; this was
short time before lie started off; he said,
apt as not she had gone on, and would
fall in, as she knew when he was g0i1g;4
the fence was around his fot7-was 20 by
so yards from this fence to the first
place or pit lt4t - *''t-' s't''' 5i az :
Gross examined the body the
day Berry, left; i know the woman whom
heard hallooing was defendants wife;
live little over half mile from de-
PENDANT S house. -'l--
1s5'ai MePHERS0Na ilei.as ~
It was about the 18th defendant asked
me If heard the fuss the morning be-
fore; he didn't know there was any
thing wrong IN his family; when he got
up to make the fire, his wife jumped up,
halloOing OH Lordyl oh Lordy; said she
left the house and that he didn't expect !
she would come back, as she took with 4
her three of her best suits of clothes; |
that he believed he would pack up his
things and. leave while she was gone:,l
was at his house one night; when I |
started he went a peice of the way with |
back, that his girls were afraid to stay /
byfthemselves, because his wife had said !
she was going over Clinch and get some
men and come back and kill them all;
the morning he left he told me he had |
heard from his wife, that she had went
over Glinch to her old place to take |
possession of it; that he wasn't going. so
far himself; he was going down on the |
river to rent him a farm and go to work; |
that if his old woman came back, for |
nae not to tell her where he had gone, |
he wanted her to whip herself out this |
times said he was going down to widow
on the Holst0n; we found |
the body at the root of hickory tree;
am confident it was the body of VIM |
Berry's wife; / know il was; her head
was mashed; look liked it was done with
IN AK or club; body was swollen; I did
not feel, but seen the inderture; l saw
| trace of something being dragged
dong; it was dragged from toward the
house from the first place to the pit.
d, Cross eXamined.-I recognized her by
Ter hair and her general features; 1
link would have recognized her under
my circumstances; hair, dark brown.