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

Fridays Testimony.
E. G WILSON,
being duly swoln, testities as follows:
| live IN Massillon. l am an attorney
at law. [ have known Dickey since 1865
intimately We were 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.
[ did not see much of Dickey from 1870
to 1875. From 1875 to 1881 I saw him
frequently, as be was at home. l
talked with him a number of times. He
was just as queer ~ his actions as ever.
He told some very queer stories. [ re-
member this one distinctly. He said
that he was a physician and had been on
\ lecturlng ton sOuth. He said that q
horse that he bad been driving had run
away with him and that he could not
bold him. That he pulled 30 hard on
he bit that he split the horse's
mouth clear to the ears, and
hat the blood of the horse
few into the buggy aud SO saturated
his clothes that he was obliged to wiring
them out. Again Dickey came into my
ottice one morning and said that Big
Sioux with u hand Of Indians was after
him. He said that he scalped the
whole crowd. Dickey had not been west
At that time. The first talk was in bis
fathers grocery store, and the second
rime IN my oiice. Dickey left for the
west in ISL and returned next in 1884
He told me, while in MassilIOp, of a mine
shat he Il his partner owned in the
vest, for which they had been offered
| $4,000. He said again that he was q
dentist in Kansas City. When he was
relating his adventures with the Indians
he would Jump about and gesticulate
AS though the events were really trans
pirlng. These peruliaritles 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 IL
1884, | notlred that he was slovenly.
considered Dickey insane and have of
ten remarked it. He was not educated
for en- NJ. D, He was educated for bust
uess. knew his wife before they wer,
married. They bad bat one child, Will,
at one time he told me that he had th1e,
Or four, aud at another time that the.
mad none. Dickey acted in his speech
very much excited, and as though h
vas really engaged in doing what h
SAID, but was a quiet and peaceabl,
citizen.
Cross Observation-Disclosures famil,
nee lived at MlsslIl N, the family hom,
vas there, D~lckeylivad there up to 1884
lie was a travelling salesman Tor his faith
or during five years and was in the shir
business with his brother.in-laW 70
some time afterward, [ don't kno,
what he did after that, | had q talk wit.
Dickey's father once about the il
sanity of hickey, who was nc
considered capable Of dom
lug business for himself by the peopl
there, but he did business right alon
just the same. [ was his attorney 8
lne time, None of the business baI
gains made by him were avoided becaus
t his insanity. Dlckey was very diss
J pated. l could not say whether or uc
he drank inst before these talks with N
When he was home in 1884 l did not 81
s him once under the inf ence of liquo
He was not drunk at any of these CO.
versations. Dickey left Ohio in Jun
1884. His father died in 1883 a wealth
man. | do not know what kind OF Ii
e .ature Dickey usually read.
Re ifrect EGamsHation I could NJ
from his actions at any of thesa time
q say that he was intoxicated, althout
t | could readily tell when he was drum
Il JOHN L. PENNINGTON,
sworn: [ reside in Yunston, and
knew Dickey only casually, although
:, saw hin nearly every day as 1 pass
nis saloon. l met him first in my Oft
I when be and O'Brien col
in and made Applicant
for an internal revenue license. I I
as ticed then that he would Jump from o
or subject of conversation to another il
O. strange manner L 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 OF
time been in the stock exchange bu
ness and that he intended opening
exchange in Yankton. l thought tb
and think Eow that he is wrong sor
where in his mental organs,
Gross Eadminat:0n-I don't think t
he was under the influence of liquor