The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-09-02

found she was Dreatnlng; got water and
washed her face; found she had been shot;
took my probe and and examined thought
could feel something hard like ball;
had depth Of about an inch; she remain
ed until 1 had her put on bed we tried to
make her comfortable as We could; she
lived about four hours after l got there;
made no further examination until the in
quest; made effort to extract the ball;
found l could not extract it; it entered
right lobe Of the brain, about an inch OF
an inch and half; some of the brain pass.
ed out through the opening; the wound
caused her death.
CROSS EXAMINED.
Caused in part by concussion of the
brain; the effect Of the wound on the
brain is 10 destroy sensibility; she was
entirely insensibe; it would prevent the
power of speech and motion.
William Burdet, sworn-knows the
prisoner at the bar; remembers seeing
him after he shot Miss Tucker; he came
to my house on the 29th of July-Wed.
nesday morning; don't know the distance
from Mr.. fuckers to my house; he came
close to my house and hallooed; said he
wanted to cross the river; live close by
the Savannah river; l went down to where
my brother-in-law was; told the person |
would put him across as soon as he came;
put him over the river in Georgia, the
next day after the killing; I noticed his
clothing some; did not see anything
wrong; looked like he had been travelling;
think l saw speck of blood on his shirt
bosom; He asked me no questions but
how much charged him for crossing the
river; he gave me fifteen cents; told me
be was poor; my brother-in.law told me
l should have given it back to him, but
said thought he had been doing some.
thing wrong; he appeared 10 be in hur-
ry.
CROSS EXAMINED.
| took him across; he wanted to go
across, of having been travelling.
". W. King, sworn, says--knows the
prisoner at the bar; saw him the next
night after Miss Tucker was shot: saw
him in Georgia, on the banks of the Savan-
nah river; was searching for him;
had nothing to do VIII arrestlng
him; knows that twelve men and
twelve horses went there and took
him; the cotton boat was on the Car.
olina side; Mr. Craft asked me TO take
charge of the prisoner until he took
battcau and brought the boat over; took
charge of him; Mr.. Craft gave me his pis.
tol; 1 told him did not want il; We
brought him over IN Carolina: brought
him to my house, and we brought him to
j. L. Bryan, trial justice. No cross
Peter Carroll sworn, says-Know the
prisoner at the bar when I see him; re-
members time Of killing Miss Tucker; he
was living with Capt. Tucker; witness
lived there too; he was hired by the month;
witness was hired by the year; heard the
prisoner say if he could not get her she
should not do anybody else any good;
heard this about two weeks before it hap
pened; was not talking about anything in
particular; We were talking together; can
not say how he came to say what he did;
heard him say that she was mad at him.
CROSS EXAMINED.
The prisoner said both things in same
conversation; that was his language; there
was nothing that know of inducing this
conversations; don't know what led to it;
aV oluPiy uoCu tuC lduS uaSe tuut 1
have reported; Bayard Taylor was
present some days hoeing in the
field, sometimes not; he was not present at
that time; no one present but me and See
gers; was summoned before the coroner;
he made same statement there; remembers
that he said that some time before he said
that Catherine was mad at him; had talked
to him some little before about Miss Cath
crime; lie said that on one occasion; was
not his confdant; of course, he told me
that; he told me nothing else; there was
no conversation leading to it, it was about
fortnight before; might have been more
or less; we all hoed cotton; have been in
South Carolina every since slavery went
up; about fifteen years since then; don't
recollect the year; before that time had
lived about in Belton and Anderson; of
Course, lived in Georgia some; never was
in MilledgeVille but once, then l went
through there; never did like Georgia;
there's so many rascals there. Stayed in
Georgia about six months. Can't Say what
month or year left there. / left there in
broad open day light, lived some 5 or six miles
across the river that time. Will be fifty-sevcn
next christmas. Have wife and four children,
and O crippled wife at that, am O cripple my
self. Before the death of Catherine, don't re-
member stating to any one about the converse
tion in the field. Was in service Of Mr.. Tuck
er from the Sd of March one year, till the end
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