The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-07

my hands 10 call for Mr.. Peters mail
sent Tor the letter by nv little bov mn,
got it. He commenced the letter Will
some endearlng name. I destroyed tn
letter. he wrote another letter TO M
directed to Geo. Cannon; there were n
Cannons or Peters in the ncighborhood
Mir. Will Rush gave out the letter and Mr.
}. u. Jamison was present. The next le,
| ter he sent me was directed 10 Miss Ell
| Wigie. DR.. B. was very much opposed T.
my returning home and mailed letter 1
me from Marion in which he said he woul
never spsak to me again, il it tore hi
heart out Of his body, If returned II
talked right hard to prevent me from com
ing home, and then would change and 81
that he cared more for me than for hi
own life, he urged me to feign sickness {
| get him to call, and the Marion letter wa
The last letter that | received through tn
mails. lie would drop letters in the road
DR.. Is. told me he knew the time wou!
come when he could not see nc so we ar
ranged TO put letters in little house il
our back yard. We put letters there an,
sometimes got a letter cvery-other night
He never gave any letters to he carrie,
except two to our colOrcd servant and on
to Eliza Saul. I've no idea of the mum
her OF letters, but there were hundreds q
them. The correspondence was kept u,
for two or three years.
! DR.. Is. told me to destroy his letters as n
had not the scratch of Il pen against me
| hid his letters for some time under tn,
parlor carpet.
He told me TO hang ont at the cast eli,
of the house, o tablecloth when Mr.. G
was away over night, and did So
The letters which are to be a bone I,
chaw on for the rest Of the trial were thel
introduced, and were identified as hav
ing been written by her. One letter
written from Newberne, is in the lot, TIL
rest being dated from Montgomery The
are signed al. W." which the witness i'm
terprcted as Little Wife," Most of then
were not mailed at all but we're posted ~
she says at her "private Office She dc
clarcd that she received as many from hin
as he did from her, and more, until Ii,
she promised to do The letter A is dated
Aug. 26, 90; letter B Aug. %; c Aug. 20
d Sept. /; E Sept. ., and + and G not da.
red. Adjourned until p. III.
MORE OF 1T.
Court reasscmbled on time Mrs. G
took the stand and hostilitics were rcsum
ed She was much more composed and
became hystcrical only once during I'll,
afternoon She speaks in Il low tone ant
talks rapidly and it is hard to keep w
with her. She said that when the letter.
exhibited we're written, he had been
tilreatning to forsakc her if she did no.
do what she promise to do, and she was
afraid he would do so, that he had neg
Iected. bat not forsakcn her.
The counsel for the prisoner objected
10 her stating What she had promised tc
do and lengthy discussion followed
Judge Ward overruled the point, after
F. S. Blair and John A. Buchanan hat
made spirited speeches against bringing
in ANYTHING about the attempt to kill Mr
G.. She declared that she had promised
to kill her husband.
Continuing Mrs. G said: DR.. B. told
me that il he had ~the opportunity lie
would not require me to do such thing
as he would do it as quickly as he would
take Il -drink-ef watcr-' gave me fS.c
bottles, one containing Hydrocynic Of
prussic acid, the other arsenic. He urged
me to do the deed, saying that it was
small matter, that ii would make me his
forever and that could sec how easy il
was for him that he had never been sus-
p;cioned. Dir. 3D. said that one drop OF
the prussc acid would kill Il man, the ar
senic was left in my private office with a
love letter filled with directions as to the
use of the powders. preserved b0lll
the bottles, giving the small bottle to the
children and used the other bot
tie for cupping. ! gave them to COL
Summers. / did not wash out the arse
mic bottle. 1t was last fall when Dr. Is.
gave the prusic acid, and the arsnlc after
wards. When the hottie was 6 iven was
ON the road to Abingdon, i'll sight OF Sam
Moore's house In the afternoon, on re-
turning from Abingdon on horseback, DR.
B. met me again near Mr.. Parkcr's house
and gaze me IA letter of directions, my
bov and myself passed Col. Summers
along the road DR.. B. also at the same
time. gave me tartar cmetic for Mr.. g., ms
n nerve repressor, few doses OF which
gave. / gave him no other medicine.
did send for DR.. B. for some time, my nus
band being jealous and objected, my nus
band when he was sick sent tor Drs. ~ l.
mer and Wiley. urged NJ. 6. to send tor
DR.. B. and the latter finally came without
being sent for. DR.. B. put poison IN Il
bio bottle in which Mr. Gilmcr had med
icinc. | Immediately threw it away, tell
ING nv husband I thought he had QUIT
taxing the old stuff. Drs. Baker and Gill
mer had agreed upon the treatment nee
cssary While ] worshipcd DR.. Baker
above everything on the face OF the ear',';
vet made promises to him knew couid
not keep. / never gave poison at al 10
nv husband and only wrote what did 10
encourage DR.. Baker more than ahyth'nS
else as he charged. gave my husoano
tartar cmetic, but it never MADE i'hl III :
different to me as stated in one letter. l
was not giving the polsons. BAKER Mouiu
coax and persuade me anu then apuSe
threatening TO blow out my brains, ~
Baker on the Saturday after his w'ie oico
told me that lie would rather be in merry
furnace than to see me live there WIN
that man. He told me lie had started TO
meet me on the afternoon OF ms VIE
burial Rev. d. II. Carr was present al
his house and detained him: -,
Here extracts were read from Mrs. oil-
mer,s letters, and she attempted to ex-
nlain them, The most important POM
brought out during the afternoon was
TINT She had not administered any po'soi'
to her husband, her letters to tue contrary :,
Notwithstanding. And the thrcat III .ne
letter to do something to cause dee Pc
tron,,lc was 10 betray all to the pubic,
That she described wrong symptoms .. ..
her husbands case TO deceive Baker; tha'