Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07

throw rocks at me. She told me to go away, and if I didn't go away and stay
 She Was Going to Kill Me.
 MT. Carter called me and told me that the best thing I could do would be to leave, or they would kill me. l went to Coalburg. I went on a caboose on freight train. I asked the conductor to let me ride to Coalburg.
 I went to MT. Tlltwiler's first and then to Dr. Waltonis, where l ate dinner. Then<I went to Judge Grove, where have been ever since. I have been work ing for him, cutting wood and attending to cattle and so. Judge Grove and his wife said they would take care of me. l did not take any clothes away from home except what I had on. My step mother treated us kindly for about five monthS
 She whipped my smallest brother first, the one she killed. She treated us mean and put us up to do mean things. She would do mean things and then dare us to tell papa, and said if we did she would kill us. She tied me twice and whipped me severely. She stripped the baby and whipped it. She tied me to the bed by the hands and then stripped me. She used big switches and leather strap. CTears came to the boys eyes) My ste1- mother hit me on the hand with rock once and it left scar. (Scar shown to jury.) She tied Jimmy also, stripped and W0lDpeu nlT1. JollHHy tOlu ne ne ilhS scars on his back. She
 Whipped the Baby
 more than any of the rest. It was small and could not help itself She did not tie it.
 When I would come home from school late she wouldn't give us anything to eat and starve us. She did not give us regular dinners. We carried lunch with us to school, but when we came home we would get no dinner When papa came home at night we got plenty to eat. My stepmother tried to lock me up in the house one day to kill me. Ellen Moore locked the back door my stepmother locked the front door was scared they were going to kill me, and so raised window and got away.
 I do not know where my father mar ried again. One day he told me I had new mother. She had been there about two months before he married her. He married on July 21, his birthday.
 She Made Threats.
 We never told papa anything about her treatment towards us, because she said she would kill us if we did. While papa was there she treated us as good as she could. She called us bad names. l heard about the baby's death Monday morning. She whipped the baby nearly every morning. I saw her make the baby eat "faeces." She whipped the baby for making "faeces' in the bed. Ellen Moore whipped me twice. My stepmother made her whip me- Ellen Moore whipped my brothers, but not the baby. While my stepmother was at the infirmary Ellen treated us all right My stepmother called me a bastard. We called her mamma"
 eyre Dr. w. E. B. Davis
 Dr. w. E. B. Davis was next called and said: 1 live in Birmingham and am practicing physician. 1 know Mr. and ,lt rI1t hntP A1t- dence once. l operated on Mrs. Howe. l saw the little. child casually. It was the first part of June, 1 believe. l did not make a careful examination of the little child, because l was called only to see Mrs. Howe and advised them to have their family physician for the child. gave a death certificate for the little child at MT. Howe'S request. MT. Howe came to our infirmary and said he had just received message from his wife saying the child was dead. He said that he had no physician and that the child had simply withered away, and as had seen it just supposed that the child had died from bowel trouble. I wrote on the certificate, however, that the "child was not attended by physician. pr. w. IG. B. Davis saw 1t two months ago. Signed it Davis & Davis.' MT. Howe came to me and said the child had died from the same thing as it had when I saw it. According to the post mortem the child had an incura ble disease and any slight i'll treatment could have killed it. Mrs Howe has a disease that makes her irritable The slightest ill treatment to- wards the child might have been fatal The child had a fatal disease. The report of the physicians shows that the punish ment that was inflicted would probably not have killed healthy child. |. The e-Year-Old Brother. Next to take the stand was Harry, the 9-year-old brother Of little Tommy Howe. He seemed fully aware of what was ex- pected of him and proceeded to tell what he knew of the case under investigation in the following words:
 I am 9 years old. I have been to school. We live in Jonesville. If tell lie I will be punished after I die I have been to Sunday school I was at home the day my little brother died. I was there when my stepmother whipped him to the kitchen and I and my brother carried him to the porch where we cleaned him. My stepmother said, Good God, I must whip him." She then grabbed the baby and bumped its head against the floor and
 Threw It Over the Banister to the ground That's how the hole in its head came. Then she picked it up and carried it in the house and put it
 
 She told me to go over to Mrs. Carter's and ask for some sweet milk, as Tommy was dying. She told me that if I told that she had killed Tommy that she would kill me- I went over to Mrs. Car ter's and got the milk. Mrs Carter car ried the milk My stepmother had the baby in quilt behind a stove. went over after Mrs. Num- but she had gone off She has whipped me and also Ellen. Laura whipped me from my knees up. Ella whipped me because Laura made her. My stepmother tried to treat us as nice as she could when papa was there She told us not to tell papa or she'd kill us. told papa how she treated the baby. He said mamma would be | punished for all the badness she's done. | She would tie us and then double horse | line and whip us with them.
 Saw Her Choke the Baby. | His tongue went out of his mouth. She | had hold of one leg and one arm and | threw the baby over the bansters. They | were about four or five steps. She | whipped him first and when he made | faces she threw him over the banisters. | Ellen treated us all right while Laura