The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-08-17
evidently suffered depletion from vic.
lent vomiting. am yours tuly,
j. Ross Ifannahan,
nolutiooI OF

| AS far as the analysis was cOncerne
there was no evidence to warrant con
viction; but as it WAS Indicated by tn
detectives that Sarah had become pen
itent and wanted to make clean breas
of the whole story, Chief Martin, COro
Detective James Miller and Detective
John Hogan went to the Jail yesterday
morning, and in their presence Sarah
Mitchell made the following solemn
deposition
SARAH MTTClIELL'S CONFESSION.
/, Sarah Mitchell, make the follow
ing confession of my own free will and
accord:
On Tuesday morning, July II, 1893
my stepmother, Maria Mitchell told
me that she wanetd me to write letter
| lorher. The letter was written about
three weeks before the poisoning by
me. Riley chats what | call Maria
MitchelD told me to write 1t. 1t was in
the letter that Maria is going to poison
you and yOurltwO daughters, partl Gu.
larly you and your eldest daughter. Ri
ley told me TO sign Ada's name. but
not to sign her whole name, but j~,st
put "a. nj" The letter was written to
my father, Isaac Mitchell. read it to
Riley after | finished writing it. Riley
gave me the paper and envelope to
|
cents to buy stamp from DR.. Almar,
which did and mailed the letter.
Riley told me, Just before sat down
to write the letter. that she heard that
my pa was engaged, and before any
other woman should have HIM that she
would put him in his grave.
| Monday afternoon before they were Ia
ken sick it was raining, and liiley said
she was sorry, because she wanted to
send me- out. 1t Stacked up raining and
she told me to go upstairs and change
my. clothes, and when | came down
stairs She told me tnat she wanted me
to go to the doctor shop. She gave me
fifteen cents, and told me to buy her Il
box of "ltough on Rats | went to
DR.. Burnham in King street and got
1t. | mean the "ROugh on Rats"
brought it back and gave it TO Rilev.
When first came back she was stand
ing III the stree, door, and as | came ul
she went in and gave it to her, and
went upstairs and changed my clothes
} | did not see the box again until Tues
dav.
When | was cooking dinner on Tues
day Riley told me to take that thins
of the shelf. 1t was then in a bottle il
} tin box on the shelf. Riley told m,
| TO Eut it In the rice. cmpted it ou
2 OF the bottle into a cooking spoon. Th
!, hlg spoon was nearly full. then pl
1t IN the rice because Riley told me &c
!. do it. When put 1t in the rice knew
i 1T waa "Ronch on Rats" | am certail
k that Riley told me to put it. in the rice
t. There was plate of cold rlcc LET
Il from Mondays dinner, winch put o
) the table on Tuesday at dinner wit
i the other dinner, but this cold rice W.,
y separate from the hot rice cooked tina
? day. My pa, Ada and Miss ii amilto
ate the hot rice that | cooked that d.,
Me and Riley did not eat any nt the hn
, rice thai day; we ate the cold rrce leli
: from M"nday's DINNER. Riley helpec
my III ttr and hers.
After dinner Louisa Brice and Sarah
whitman mixed up something for Ri
ley TO take. Neither Riley nor me was
SICK that day. On Wednesday morning
when MIR. Rivers, the coroner, and Mr.
Slnkler, the deputy coroner, and the
doctor were upstairs. was on the pi-
ava. Itilcy called me in the front
room to her and said: "Mind, DO par
tlcIllar how vOu talk. If they ask YOU
what YOU put in the rice tell them that
you did not pnt anything in there but
sale
started To tell about it when | was
with the chief of police aud the officers,
when the coroner and deputy coroner
were there also, whcu..the chief of police
asked me what my opinion was about
Tins p"isnlnG. But got scared and
was afraid to do 1t then. The kind of
stun in IS i'll this box (thrcc boxos
OF different varieties OF ''Rouuh on Ra,sn
were shown herr is what | put in the
rice. Riley told me that after this was
| over she was 1Olno TO Jacksonville.
Florida. AMI would take me with her.
while making the awful confession
OF having murdered he farther and sIs.
ter the girl spoke in a straightforward
| manner and demonstrated that she was
lclln" what she knew about the case
without any Constroint whatsoever
Her StcrmOthCr. Maria Mitchell, was
present durin" the Interview and she
vigorously dcdniCd all that was said
The two women had been kept in differ
cnt cells in the Jail. Otherwise the trcu
story might never have been tOld.-
News and Courlcr.
short. sharp and Decisivc.
EDGEFIELD, =. G., Aug. 9.-Capt. J
II. Tillman has drawn first blood as a
result of the Farlev-lrby- -Tillman con
trOVrrSy. esterdAy afternoon he lit
orally wiped the ground up with the
R"GlSters travelling correspondent. W.
j. Shelton. The latter gentleman was
sitting on the Court House steps when
Capt. Tillman walked up TO him and
accostcd hlm concerning Il portion of
tho recent correspondence having refer.
ence to the part wherein Shelton ljpures