Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-22
L. G WILSON,

E. G, WILSON,
being duly sworn, testiies as follows:
| live IN Massillon. l am an attorney
ut law. [ have known Dickey since 1865
Intimately We We're schoo boys to-
gether for ten Years. Dickey was a
bright scholar but peculiar in his actions,
especial y in conversation. He would
Jump from Il subject to another very
quickly, and his memory WAS very poor.
l did not see much of Dickey from 1870
to 1876. From 1875 to 1881 [ saw him
frequently, as be was at home. /
talked with him q number of times. He
was just as queer ~ his actioGs as ever.
He told some very queer stories. | re-
member this one distinctly. He said
that he was Il physician and had been on
i lecturlng tour south. He said that o
horse that he bad been driving had RIM
away with him and that he could not
bold him. That he pulled so hard on
he bit that he split the horses
mouth clear to the ears, and
hat the blood of the horse
Hew into the buggy aud SO saturated
bis clothes that he was obliged to wiring
them out. Again Dlckey came into my
ntfice one morning and said that Big
Sioux with q band of Indians was after
him. He said that be scalped the
whole crowd. Dickey had not been west
at that time. The first talk was in his
fathers grOcery store. and the second
lime IN my ofi1e. Dickey left for the
west in l ISL and returned next IN 1884,
He told melville in Massillon, of a mine
that he ana his partner owned in the
vest, for which they had been offered
$4,000. He said again that he was a
dentist in Kansas City. When he was
relating his adventures with the Indians
he would Jump about aud gesticulate,
AS though the events were really trans
plrlng. These peeuliaritles were more
marked in 1884 than before. Dickey,
during his residence in Ohio,
was very particular in the matter of his
personal appearance, but on his return IN
1884, | noticed that he vas sloveniy. !
considered Dickey insane and have Of
ten remarked it. He was not educated
for en- NJ. y. He was educated for bust
Jess. [ knew his wife before they were
married. They had but one child, while
at one time he told me that he had three
or four, aud at another iIme that they
mad none Dickey acted in his speech
very much excited, and as though he
vas really engaged in doing what he
SAID, but was a quiet and peaceable
citizen.
Grass Observation-Disclosures family
nee lived at MlssIll N, the family home
vas there. DIckey lived there up to 1884
tie was a travelling sal sman Ter his faith
er during five years and was ia the shirI
business with his brother in-law fol
some time afterward | don't know
what he did after that, I had a talk witt
Dickey's father once about the in
sanity of hickey, who was no
considered capable of dolnl
lug business for himself by the peopl,
there, but he did business right alonl
iust the same. I was his attorney q
me time, None of the business bar
gains made by HIM were avoided becaus
f bis insanity, Dickey was very dissi
pated. l could not say whether or no
he drank inst before these talks with mt
When he was home in 1884 I did not Sc
: him once under the inf ence of liquor
: He was not drunk at any of these COZ
v4rsations. Dickey left Ohio in Jun
1884. His father died ia 1883 a wealth
man. | do not know what kind OF Ii
9 rAture Dickey usually read.
Re 1trect EGamsEation [ could NJ
from his actions at any of these timet
say that he was intoxicated, althoue
{ l could readily tell when he was drum
Il JOHN L. PENNINGTON,
sworn: | reside in Yankton, and
knew Dlckey only casually, although
saw him nearly every day as l passt
his saloon. | met him first in my ofic
= when he aud O'Brien can
in and made applicable
for an internal revenue license. 1 n
as ticed then that he would jump from o.
subject Of conversation to another in
O. strange manner. 1 had another te
with him at the time of the dissoluti,
of partnership of he and O'Brien. !
81 told me at that time that he had at o
time been in the stock exchange blu
ness and that he intended opening
"a exchange in Yankton. / thought The
and think o that he is wrong sou
or where in his mental organs.
-. Gross Eramination-I don't think IL
= he was under the influence of liquor