Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-06-29
NANNY Long Charged
with Killing His
Father
INDICATED IN A PRELIMINA-
RY HEARING BEFORE
SQUIRE PRINTS.
The Mother Testifes That the Death
OF Her Husband Was Due to Ac-
Cident.

liminary hearing of Emanuel Long, the IA
year old son of Miller Long, who was
charged with deliberately stabbing his faith
er, was held in the court room before Squire
Prints, who discharged the prisoner accord
ing to his understanding and Judgment of
evidence adduced.
Prosecutor Ragan acted in his capacity,
while W. W. Campbell defended the lad.
Resume of the Evidence.
The first witness called was DIR. Burson,
of Grellton, who attended the injured man
up to Saturday afternoon. He found Mr..
Miller on the floor breathing with difficulty,
and upon examination found wound in toe
left side about the width and depth of com,
mon barlow knife blade. He probed and
found the ipcision to extend downward and
backward. His treatment was to apply
anticeptic lotions and give stimulants,
chiefly whisky. On beind shown an iron
handled jackknife, he identified it as the one
shown bin on the day of the alleged trage-
dy. His treatment up to Saturday did not
vary materially. when, the patient growing
steadily worse, he summoned DIR. Harrison
for consulta tion. Together they Operated
and extracted fully woquarts Of foul smell
ing puss, etc. He claimed the patient got
some better after the operation. Mr..
Campbell examined DIR. Cursor for nearly
an hour. among other important fact elic-
iting that he was a graduate of the Eclectic
Medical college of Cincinnati and had only
practiced year. He thought that the knife
was held by the boy in the grasp generally
used while whiting.
DIR. Harrison was the second witness. His
examination was lengthy and involved many
medical terms. The substance and most
important. however, was that he should have
extracted the puss on the second day
that blood poisoning had caused the mans
death, and that said disease dated its incep-
ton from the time the knife entered the
body. inasmuch as the blade had germs of
disease, He also was of the opinion that the
knife was clasped in the position of whiting.
Lydia Long, wife of the dead man and
mother of the accused boy, testified next,
and told her story in brief as follows:
The boy and two little sisters after dinner
had quarreled, the girls having teased
-Manay" while he was making cross gun.
Shortly afterward she heard the boy crying,
stepping to the dool saw her husband whip,
ping him with stick. She produced the
..stick,r which was an ash club two feet
long and three-quarters of. an inch square.
She called to the father to stop, but, he
did not seem to hear her and continued be-
laboring the boy, who wore nothing but a
thin shirt and pants. While she was still
calling, "Nanny" grabbed his father, who is
six feet tall, around the waist with hands
and almost instantly the whipping ceased.
The father dropped the stick and calling,
said: ~Come here, Lydia, and see what
NANNY has DONE" Going into the yard,
her husband pointed to his left side, where
a think stream Of blood could be distin-
guished coming from his side. why,
Nanny, what have you donet" was the
mothers ejaculation. The boy began to cry
and said: 'tMother, / did not know did
it, and going up to his father lovingly en-.
braced hin, and led him into the house.
While on the way to the house the wouned
man said he did not feel the cut until he
noticed the blood, or words to that effect
He Immediately went to bed. while "Man-
N.Y. fastened for the Mcclure doctor, who
was not at home. and upon returning with
such intelligence, DR.. Burson was sent for,
All through his sickness Mr.. Long said
nothing regarding the affair, being in q
comatose state most of the time.
On examination she said that relations be-
tween father and son were lovable and all
thatthey should be; and that they seldom had
any difference.
Such was the mothers testimony in brief,
and on which, no doubt, the boy was re-
leased.
In the afternoon Mabel, one of the little
sisters, IL years old, was called, but owing
to having been afflicted with dropsy on the
brain she was not in condition to tell much
Of the said affair.
Squire Weaks and w. E. Good, two
neighbors, were also examined, but their
testimony was of little value.
Prosecutor Ragan led of with the argu-
ment. While in the middle of his speech
the mother became hysterical to such an ex-
tent that she had to be removed.
W. w. Campbell followed, and laid the
case before the court in clear and argu-
mentative manner that carried con-
viction with every sentence. Mr.. Rasan
closed and Squire Prints, in brief review
of the evidence, discharged the prisoner
from custody.
Whether or not the prosecutor win bring
the case before the next grand Jury is not
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