The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-17

| agrecmrut with Alb when the inSur-
! ance was got out. Alb. was sick Mr.
/ ~. l.. Perry wrote the papers and
bibble and | went to Newbern and got
lie money.
"'ibble, Blount and did not hire a
room in Newbern from man named
Williams and divide the money. We did
| hire room from a man named Sam
| Jackson. | always hire d room when
| go to a town. | want a place TO stay
and wash my hands.
| II have been indicted with the other
defendants for Ease pretences and CON
| spiracy. You cannot blame a maA for
| trying 10 get out of Il bad Scrape !
| have not sold myself as witness
| against the others. ! went 10 the
prosecution on my own account / did
| not tell them would convict the
| others. went to Col Hnsdale's room
| at Morehead City at the time of the
| preliminary trials and asked him to
| let me out. / never made any agree
| ment or bargain with the prosecution
i'm regard to letting me off / have been
| trying TO get out ever since August.
| told the solicitor the truth about this
| thing when he agreed to nolle pros me.
| He wanted me to come on the stand
| ted me TO do the same thing. | asked
| them TO nolle pros me. ! made a full
| and true statement the same in sub
| stance ! have made here to-day.
On redirect, eNamnation-"Dr DR.. Della
| mar told me he understood was going
| to turn States evidence. That he had
/ a great many friends here and at l}eau-
| fort. and had better mind what / was
| doing. ! was frightened. He has
| hardly spoken TO noe since he suspi-
| cioned | would turn.
Witness said it was not true that
| ne nearly had Il fight when one of
| States witness charged him with hav-
| ing turned States evidence. That the
witness. Marshall. had misrepresented
| him and they had some words.
| The States witness Marshall, who
| disappeared from Trenton one night
| last week, has turned up mt his home
/ i'm Beaufort. He travelled all night
| through the rain and sleet and got
/ home AT o'clock i'm the morning. He
| was evidently hard pressed. as he had
his unused railroad ticket in his pocll
| ct. lie refuses to talk. His people
/ sly ilr suffered some terrible fright
| here as his mind was in a bad condi-
/ Another witness for the State went
| TO one of the attorneys for the prose
| cution Friday and said that he would
| decline to make any statement that
| would injure the defendants. The
| man was sadly excited. He was al
lowed to return to his home yesterday.
l. The Mr.. Nat Taylor referred TO in
the testimony of the witness Parker
| is the Treasurer OF Carteret county.
and one of Beaufort's most highly re-
| spected citizens.
/ The next witness introduced -by the
State Emily 7. Casey, testified: II
haye lived in Beaufort ever since the
| war. ! never authorized any one to
| take out policy of insurance on my
life in the Massachusetts, Benefit Life
| Association. ! did not take out one
finsseif | never applied to Noe. Della
mar q Co for insurance | know
them and ! know DR.. Delamar | ney-
er submitted TO "A medical examination
before him"
Question: When did you first
learn that Il policy of Insurance had
been taken out on your life?"
u slo not know exactly what time it
was heard of Abrams being i'm Beau
| fort ! had just heard about the. Dol-
icy before he came.
| II cannot write ! am rs wears old
tapplication for insurance in Massa
chusetts Benefit Life Association states
her age to be so years..
II have terrible cough and short
ness of breath. | think it is asthma.
! suffered with it at the time the apDli-
cation was made.
Mr.. FELTON, (attornev and notary Mt
HeaufoPt) has been to me since the
Morehead City trial with an affidavit
for me to sign. | was examined MS y
witness in that trial and testified
there to what have testified TO today
do not know what FELTON, had i'm that
affidavit signed it, did not
know what 1 was doing. He
didn't read the paper 10
me until after he got me to SIGN it.
Then he read what it was for He
sad 1t was for insurance money. Said
the one who paid il would not Get il
back, but that it would come to me
S2f. SAID he came because the comDa-
ny had broke, and could get my mon
ey was not insured in the company
he said had broke He said il was a
New York company"
| QueStion-''What did that affidavit
say about you being examined by Dr.
Delamar as he read it?'
Understood him TO say that | had
not been examined by DIR. Delamar,
and he got me to sign through Il mis-
take. understood / had not been eX-
amined. My daughter was present
| cannot read myself"
The paper referred to was an afida-
Wit signed by +. J. Casey and sworn to
before C.B.Felton, notary public, short
~ after the Morehead City investiga-
tions last summer. 1t stated that r.
j. Casey had applied in the Massachu-
sites Benefit Life Association, of Bos-
ton for insurance on her life and had
been examined for such insurance by
| DR.. T. Il. Delamar'
On cross-eNamination witness stated