The New York herald., 1879-02-07

one was bed well nigh months on ana and
she thought she had been poisoned She told this
to her friends frequently aud said she knew she
wouldn't live long. Everybody will tell you what a
| terrible time she had. Some of them even thought
| she was going crazy. l don't know what was the
matter with her. 1t may have been her worry
| over Jess that made her sick. Anyhow,
| she was mighty bad off, 1t has come out now that
Ed had made her believe she poisoned by the
lady that Jess was said to be flying around and that
he could cure her by giving her certain medicines.
She commenced taking his medicine, and he told her
he drugging her husband at the time to get
him to quit his other connection. suppose by these
| means and after months of trying he succeeded in
winning her. don't know how long it lasted. but
ANYTHING. think she started to tell me once. The
bundle OF letters Jess put in my hand when he
from the house, just before he shot at Ed, were
DID, worn letters signed Caroline Patton, and tell
ing him to tell the lady to keep up the medicine and
that a few more doses would cure her aud make
| everything all right. Emma handed them to him
| when she confessed to him..
ROGERS FoRGIvEs EMMA.
What about Rogers reco Meditation with his Wife"
about it is told When Jess up the stable
| after he had Ed out of town he said to me.
Jim, am going to take Elm home to her father this
! evening. I'm not going to live with her any more,
but I'm going to maintain her as long she lives.
then he as
against her, and seemed to think there some
| planation of her connection with Ed He couldn't
believe it just natural He went away with her
and their little boy in buggy that evening. 1t was
twenty-one miles to her fathers house. What passed
between them in that long ride don't know:
| In about week he came back, and he said he had
looked into the matter and satisfied that his wife
had been drugged and deluded into the commission
Of her crime and that he had determined to stand by
her. He then brought her to Tazewell and lived
with her as he had always done
"What do you suppose changed his mind p
"Why, nothing on this earth but love for his wife
and confidence in her statement that she had been
| trapped and drugged into the thing / never
man love woman so. When he was out. before and
after arrest, he had but one idea, and that was to
he S0uS Id get to Gma There
| with her. Anybody who knows Jess Rogers will
know that is lie He amt the man to be forced into
anything. And then know the Caywoods never
! tried him. They left him to act as he pleased
Public opinion didn't force him, for his friends
all against it at first. among the rest 1t has hurt
him with a great many 1t wasn't money that
forced him. because he is about the most prosperous
man in the county. and he will get nothing from
her. 1t was nothing but love for the woman, and
his friends have about all made up with him on it.
or course he knows more about the case than any
| don't care cent what tho people say about him.
He just does what he thinks is right and holds his
head up All who have seen them since this thing
say they are quiet and happy He told me- the week
her or"
ROGERS SURRENDER AND TRIAL.
"Where are the mon who are charged with muir
dering Jackson at present.
II left Jess Rogers and Bill Caywood Ems uncle)
| the other day. They their way from Ken
| lucky. They came in here the first morning Of the
Circuit Court and surrendered themselves to me.
thing through in the courts The first thing heard
from them since they left the town after the reward
u
room ready and half dozen cans Of oysters that they
were coming in to surrender. Sure enough they did
The next morning put two guards over them and
they were standing in room in my hotel when Dan
Gibson rushed in the door with his pistol out, and
dropping it on Bill Caywood told him to surrender
Caywood started to pull his knife, and Bob Stone,
my deputy had his pistol out to shoot Gibson, when
pushed it down and stopped tho thing
Ths ris all the that
made to arrest them, and it didn't
last half minute. If had known where they were
c1,A 1xV1tt
have been tough work to bring them out Of Powells
Valley if they had not wanted to come. They went
into court nere had OF their tried and then
told me they wanted to 90 to Kentucky and snrren-
der. They rode off to the valley and followed them
in day or two and we went on to Williamsburg.
There has been some talk about the big crowd that
went. There were Just fourteen, and 1t was all
could do to keep fifty from going Jess was very
particular to have no big crowd so only their own
relatives went had three guards with me. at
Williamsburg they went to trial on writ Of habeas
asted several days and the State piled in witnesses
but no case was made Parson Peace. who has been
published as saying that he saw all the torture
and manning on the mountain, was intro
duced. He swore that he had never seen any
such thing, that he never saw any men with negro
mountain the day the road workers discovered
the body. several days after the killing. He smelt
met the road workers told them of it. They went to
look and found the body. This is his testimony
he it, and the story of his seeing any torture
killing is all made up. His testimony will show
for itself 1t is record The only thing about the
men that one witness swore he four men
carrying negro by his house. beyond the mountain
Their bonds were at once made by Kentuckians, who
heard the testimony. They asked for $5,O0o
and the bond siguers had over sG5 OOO They then
started back home, and may be here any day. can
put you where you can sec them without any trouble
tomorrow. Idon't know where the other men are"
With this my interview with Mays closed. II may
be said that Mays is strong friend of the Rogers and
Caywoods. and also that have been repeatedly
case. probably, than any other man besides Jesse
Rogers himself.
THE FEELING TAzEwELL.
AS to the feeling in Tazewell, 1t IL difficult to ding
it, The feeling is clearly against the reconclia
ton of Rogers with his wife, The generally
cannot understand it, and the women dcnounce IL
bitterly. His friends sustain him warmly, and many
Others say that they suppose he has testimony on
the subject that the public knows nothing Of lie
She will meet with cool reception, but he says he
will live it down. 1t must be noted that no sort Of
consequently no testimony has been given.
The public has nothing therefore but gossip.
probably the weathiest man in the county.
His relatives all thrifty and well OF, the
Caywoods and their kinsmen These families have
been all powerful in the county since their union,
which has been made complete by several ntermar-
rages They are brave to notable degree aud clan
nish in the extreme. They own handsome places aud
clustered about Powells Valley. During the war
they strong Union men, fought in the federal
army and have been republicans ever since. This
afternoon was directed to the upper part OF the viii
lage to little cabin in which Ed Jacksons wife and
father lived just above the house on the hill is
without means, and the wife. pretty bright looking
woman. takes in washing. The father does little
work. He talks wholly OF his sons killing.
ATTEMPT ARREST.
The most careful inquiry shows no sign of any
serious attempt to capture the outlawed men. 4
party of six men down from Kentucky once,
but only stayed in the valley day and made sort
of search. party OF four came from Barboursville
but did not enter the valley at ALL Two horse drovcrs
called at Caywoods one night and wanted to the
sort The Gibson and White matter. to which all,l-
sion has been made was very much misunderstood.
Dan Gibson. a very bravo man, is neighbor Of
Rogers. White is mere boy. They never made any
search for the men, and thought Of arresting
them until they heard court day that they were
in town. Then Gibson went and tried to arrest
Caywood ~ detailed above Upon being notified they
already under arrest they abandoned the matter
and hswc not thought of it since. They say they
spent hour in searching for Rogers and Cay
wood. Ii would have been impossible tor even hity
to have taken these men from the midst OF their
friends aud relatives in Powells Valley. The case In
set for trial at williamsburg, in May next. Rogers
has employed nearly every lawyer in and around tho
town.