The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-03-23

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| told him thai ii they had no lining or
covering for the coffin, to come up aud l
would go to Atherton's store and get it;
he then went OIL. Til, was all the con-
versation had with him concerning the
death of Dcany. | saw the corpse that
same evening, but did not see Mr.. Rob
erts; when the corpse got there we took
it into the house; Mr.. Ellis came there
aud asked me If the corpse could stay
there all night: TO- HIN IL could; they
came up to tic ,.,... aud we took the
corpse ont OF the wagon aud into the
house; Wade was driving the tam, and
Ellis aud wife were in u separate wagon.
After the corpse was taken IN the house,
Mr. Ellis wife (sistrr OF Drlauy) wanted
to see the corpse; Mr.. Wade said 1.-The lid
is nailed on with nails, aud ii will be Il
hard matter to get it oil" | said to him
THAT l. Il small matter; ! have chisel
here and can just cut the nails" got the
chiscl aud handed il to Mr.. Ellis, and he
Opened the box. when lac opened the
box was in the same room. but not near
the box. and discovered that his face
looked red, aud nothing looked natural
except from hi. forehead up; that looked
like flesh: Wade said blood was running
out OF his mouth. aud he put a wet rag
over Il to keep the blood from
running out and soiling his clothes. AZ
ter supper had conversation with Mr..
Wade about the death of Delany; he said
the day before he died. lac was complain
ing Of being chilly; they were at work
aud he tried to get him to go to the house;
| think lac said he did 20 tO the house. To
the best of my recollection; wont be Ger
tain; know he said that after he (Wadc)
went in in Intervening, Mr.. Dclany wa- cut
ting stove wood. aud he told him To go IN
the house out of the cold. and he made
him 20 in the house: he said that night
Mr.. Dclany did not eat any supper. but
sat up and talked until bed time; he said
he was complaining of hi. throat
being sore: Mr.. Wade said hc made a
garge of something don; rccollect what
II was and tried TO get him to garsrl hi,
throat with it, he laid hc gave him Il
dose ofpiIl- sometime that night, don't
recOllcct what time hc laid il Wa: next
morning. sometime, lac said Drlany
was grooming terribly aud that
he got up and made fire;
hc said Mr.. Dcldny gotup then and came
in to the fire; that he wade asked him il
hc wanted doctor or wanted him 10 20
after hi. ,tcp-mothcr: h. said no that he
did not think hc wa, that bad off. Wade
laid hc went out that morning to his
work and did not come In until Mr.. Rob-
crts called him TO come TO the house. He
said when he came to the house. Mr.. De-
lany was getting up out OF bed and putting
on his brccches, and coming in the sitting
room where the family was, sat down in
an arm chair by the fire; that he picked
up the cup that the gOrgrl was made in Tor
him the night before. like a, If hc was
going TO gorgle hi, throat, but before
he got any OF it in hi, mouth. Wade said.
he saw he was dying aud tell back in the
| chair, and he caught him in his arms and
| he died there in the chair and ia his arms,
This was about the amount of the con
ver,ation concerning his death; under
stop Robert, to say that Dclany died il
the bed; he did not say that lIc died ia III,
bed, but that was what | concluded from
! what he said; he did not say what room
he d. was in. This took place in Alex
ander county and State OF Illinois. After
| ID. was buried, had conversation will
Wade; was at Mr.. nun,ackcr's about
two weeks after ID. was buried. Mr.
Wade came 10 Mr.. H.'s while | wa'
there: he said he wanted to speak TO III,
and Mr.. II. about something Mr.. Null
cahy hid tod HIM; he said that Mr.. Mul
ally had told him that it was reported
that hc had killed Delany or that he DE
lany) was murtlercd; told him that tina
was the report which had heard too
and that was going, .he Sunday before
TO tell him about it. but that was uu
we'll and could not 90; that though
if he was innocent OF it, he ought L
know 1t ami have a chance to clear him
self of it: he took me of 10 ON
side and we had Il conversation
about it and he asked me what
thought he ought to do about il
| told him that if It was Il case OF min,
would go and have him taken up AN
examined by doctor. lie SAID that
would cost him something to have a do,
tor examine him and hr did not like
pay ont anything for nothing. He sal
that hr knew in reason how the thin
started; that he had some enemies dow
there who were trying to break him az
that he knew the reason that they la
started the report. | told him that
there were enemies enough down thel
To start that report, there were enough
come before the grand jury here at Il
, next term of court and find bill again
. him; that it would he cheaper for him
pay doctor to examine him than To pa
II lawyer here To get rid of AN indie
mcnt. Then he asked me if / would q
with him to help take him up, | told hi
/ would. Then he said, II will be
! your house soon in the morning. and I,
, me to stay there until he came. lie sa
=, | will 20 and get Lawrence and We wi
, go and take him up, lie went off ~