The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-12
DR.. PERKINS STORY


AHs. a got the promise OF dollar
I never got the money.
"You told forty lies for the promise
of dollar
Eyes sir.
How many lies would you tell for
fifty dollars era.
II suppose | would have told fifty
tinaes as many.
1.-THE company trusted me. sign
ed the application. | supposed fhem
to be lies | was signing, at the time. |
never said to you (Mr. Clark that q
man, whom | did not know. but sup
posed 10 he Perry Chadwick came TO
nv room at Atlantic Hotel, Morehead
CITY. and that | examined him. /
never examined anyone representing
himself to be Perry Chadwick. ! was
not particular about telling the truth
to YOU then People are likely to put
their lies in their lawyers ears, but
Won are the first man | ever knew TO
stick them out. You tried TO make
me tell a lie. ] went to Raleigh III No
yember to see Col. Hinsdale in regard
to a policy on Edmund Hawkins life.
7 talked to him about very little else
hunting &c | did not talk to him
about this case nor to Mr.. Massey. |
talked to Mr. Harrell about insurance.
I did not then have an agreement to
submit. | saw Col. Hinsdale at More
head CITY a week or two ago and talk
ed to him about this matter. just
simply made an arrangement that II
could get loose. | would be very glad
of ii. They did rot agree to suspend
Judgment on me- ! do not know what
they are going to do with me. There
has been some dirty work going on in
Carteret county. l have been connect
ed with it, This man Hassell has been
working on me years with his soft
tails and sweet lies trying to get me
into this business until he finally in
duced me TO join him. / made up my
mind to quit and that | would simply
come MP and tell the truth and plead
guilty | had made up my mind to
quit before these matters got into
court. / told the Solicitor ! was going
TO submit. He did not say he did not
propose 10 punish me. / propose to
tell the truth if | go TO prison. ] talk
ed with him before coming here and
told him | would plead guilty before i
would swear to another lie. | feel
that God has given me more credit for
what / have done to-day than any
thing ! have ever done.
The doctor stated that he had made
four medical examinations to applica-
tions upon the promise of dollar in
each case, but he had only been paid in
two cases.
On the redirect examination Per
lins said he had refused to work with
Hassell for six long years, but he kept
after me and finally persuaded me. He
said DR. Davis, DIR. Emit, DR.. Saun-
ders Or. Arendell and every other
doctor in Carteret was doing the same
kind of business and there was no use
in the world for me to hesitate mo-
ment. He told me | could make a good
thing out OF it. He would take me
around the country in his buggy. and
if it did not pay me well he would give
me something ont of it,
"uassell came TO me at Newport the
Friday after I left Raleigh lie said it
had been reported that ! had been to
Raleigh and was going to turn States
evidence. Mr. Winfield Chadwick had
seen me on the train; that that night
crowd was made up at Beaufort and
they were going to lynch me, and if he
had not come up there would have
been bloodshed in my town; that he
was present at the meeting and begged
them to hold off until he could come
up and see me"
On cross-examination he said: II re-
ceived the S20750 from the Capital
National Bank, of indianapolis. Ind,
through the mail, Colonel Hinsdale
did not collect it for me. He did not
represent that company. I did not
know these cases we're started last De
tober a year ago"
A. j. Massey was the next Witness
called. He identified certain papers
which had been offered in evidence by
the State at the Morehead City trials
last July, and which the defence con
tended had not been so offered
j. p. Brendell testified that he lived
in Morehead City and knew Perry
Chadwick, having seen him twice. Il
do not know where Perry is He was
sent off. When / knew him he was in
very feeble condition and could not
speak above a whisper He was almost
d skeleton. He was begging when |
knew him. He said he was going to
Newbern the last time | saw him.
II knew Charles Arthur. He had
been living at Morehead City year
previous to his death and was one of
the poorest specimens of humanity
have ever seen; had no flesh; was very
feeble. | weighed him. His weight
was about IS pounds. He said that at
one time he weighed las pounds. He
was in this condition while he lived at
Morehead City. He was unable to
work and was beggar. He had been
TO Beaufort once and was brought
back and put out on the railroad wharf.
He was unable to get to town, about a
mile, and was picked up on the rail
road track, where he had fallen from
exhaustion, and brought TO our fish
house. He was put in chair and car
ried home. This might have been five
or six months before he died j do not
remember"
r. ID. Webb corroborated Arendell's
evidence as TO Arthur. Had seen him
fall by some one knocking against him
in witness store. He would have to be
helped into the store when he would
come. Was beggar. Witness did not
know Chadwick.
Palmer Davis corroborated Arendell
and Webb as to Arthur, and the former
as to Chadwick. He had seen Chad