Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-07-27

Aunt Betsey Ellis and Mary Ellis and |
my sister Rosa came while we were Law
ing in the floor and we all got up and /
talked awhile and then Aunt Betsey |
said she was going TO Mr.. ThOmpson's |
after cherries, and come go with her.
got up and put my dress on and Ellen !
and l walked with her.
AT HER owN HOME.
They said 1 had never been to Mr..
Thompson's that l went with them half |
way. Then Ellen and came back to !
my house. Then 1 got me a chair and |
sat down at the window and took my |
little girl, 8 years old in my lap. We |
sat there and talked until Aunt Betsy
and Mary Ellis came back from after |
the cherries. And then they stood in |
the floor and talked awhile and said to
me, you all come and walk with me
again.
Then the time we were talking Aunt
Retsey said she guess she would work
for Mr.. Fore the next week. She asked
me could she stay at our house at
night. / told her yes'm. We looked
across Mr.. Pollard's field and we saw
Nanny at work on the hill. And she
hollered TO me to bring her some water
and / told her we didn't have anything
| the water, and Aunt Betsey and her
daughter Mary poured the cherries to-
gether and we took one bucket went TO
| the spring and carried her the water.
/ She drank and set the bucket down
J said it's Mary's bucket She's wait
/ ing for it. She took it up and drank
and handed the bucket back. Then
Aunt Betsy and Mary took the bucket
and walked Off TO their home.
We started TO walk off and she said
Don't go, | want TO get two chickens,
land asked what she asked for them
She said they were 80 cents pound in
Richmond. Mamma told her she
wouldn't give her so cents a pound
Then she told her to give her % cents
for two.
WHERE SHE WAS
Then. she told mamma to get her a
quarter ) worth of beef from Mrs Lucy
, Pollard, and mamma told her she
would do it. Then me and Ellen start
ed back to my house. Before we got
to my house l heard Mr.. Pollard's bell
7 lring three times. / said to Ellen
/ Humpl nanny wont have to work
now He was hollering at the top oi
! his voice. / told her that some one
, must be sick. Nanny ran. / went
towards my house and found Mr.
e Fore's hands running towards Mr.
I, Pollard's house. l told my sister *
d. holler to them to run and we ali wenI
f running up TO the house, and left Ell
len at the Gap. She didn't go to Mr.
e Pollard's. That's all know about it
/ got acquainted with him Mara
n BILE about two months since Christ
mas. He been inside my house twice
s I've been married. My husband wa
e away and got killed on the RichmOn'
e and Danville r r. l have one chill,
living and one dead. A woman a
y Finneywood took it and said she woul'
d take charge of it, as best she could
e The child screamed after me to the to-
# of its voice when they brought M
d away.
WHAT HE SAID.
He [Solomon Marable: told ther
that there was a white man laying o
- the side of the fence when he came t
p Fort Mitchell, and asked him wher
: was he going. He told him he was &C
= ing to the saw-mill, and he cursed hiI
= and told him no he WASH t, he was &c
ing with him He told him to com
n up beside him, and he walked besid
- him going TO Mr.. POllard's The whit
y man had his pistol cooked all the tim
- going.
4utN WENT OH QOWl Ddtk VI AlI 20
11e lard and get beside an old still-hOus,
- Then pretty soon after they got theI
- the bell rung. Then he saw mamm
" come down to the spring and get
bucket of water. About a half hor
as near as he could come at it he hear
some body say to the horse Who's
1t was after 4 o'clock and he and til
IN white man went walking up to tn
Mt house This white man sal
an he was fgoing TO get one side
n the house and he the other, and whe
to Miss Lucy came out, she was loOl
iii ing at the shadow of the white ma
ne he grabbed her.
ny HOW SHE WAS MURDERED.
EN- Then after he grabbed her this viii
up manwalked up to Miss Lucy and as
ad ed did she know him.
nd She told him he was a white ma
he Then this man allowed to her l con
re Continued on Fourth Page.)