Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-23

sessment and she paid it. After thateI saw Spivey and told him of my conver- sation with his wife, and he said, 'Oh that's all right. You send them to me in future and I will turn them over to her and she can pay them.' Spivey's dues and assessments were all paid up at the time of his death The order re- quires from thirty to sixty days to make complete settlement"
 Miss Wick Spivey, sister of the de- ceased, said: "On Saturday Mrs. Spivey sent me word that my brother was seri- ouSly sick, and to come and see him. 1 went that evening, but May told me that he was asleep. l went home without seei ing him. May did not hinder me from seeing him. After attending the funeral on Monday I felt sick and went to the Dexter house and went to bed. During the night Fife Crittenden and Carrie Lee. Mrs. Spivey's servants, stopped in the hall near my door, and one remarked to the other that He was good white man, but he didn't die natural
 MT. Spivey, father of the deceased, said: "I heard of my sons illness on Saturday. On Monday l heard of his death. I was sick in bed at the time, and was not able to attend the funeral.
 Mir. Hicks of Hicks shoe store said: .Spivey was in my employ at the time of his death. and had been since Novem- Der, 1894. I never knew him to use either mornhine or whisky"
 Dr Michel said: T had been Spivey family physician since his marriage. and had been his wife's when she lived with her first husband. Delivered her of both her children Spivey has been troubled for years with neuralgia of the head. was called to see him on Friday. did not consider him very sick. He had diarrhoea and headache. His wife had given him dose of oil, which was good for him. went to see him again on Saturday evening before l left for Mobile on Sunday morning, and gave him dose of phenacatine. Told Mrs. Spivey to send for Dr. R. s. Hill if he needed physician during my absence. l was greatly surprised to hear of his death. Spivey might have had brain trouble"
 The last witness examined was g. brother of the deceased. He corrobo- rated his father and sisters evidence in regard to hearing of the sickness and death of his brother. On Thursday, week after the burial, he went to see Mrs. May Spivey and told her that he and his ia ther were talking of having his broth CTS body exhumed and examined, as reports were current that he had been poisoned and they wanted to know what she had to say. She made no reply. He went again the next day and told her that they had de- cided not to have the body exhumed. She then told him that she was troubled the day before and now wished she had told him to go ahead and exhume the body so that the Spivey family would be satisfied and gossip stopped. She said that in the death of her husband she had lost her best friend
 The jury then retired and rendered the above decision, which, under the circum- stances, was a great surprise to every body.
 When the news of the verdict was car ried to Mrs. Spivey in her cell at the county jail by her attorneys she was cOmDleteIy DroStrated by the shock throwing herself upon the bed and re- fusing to see or to look to anyone. The preliminary trial of the case comes off on Wednesday before Justice of the Peace Fuller. It will be held in the cir cult court room at the court house 10 accommodate the crowds who will wish to hear the proceedings
 The interest of the people of Mont gomery in the case remains unabated Many people here believe that Mrs. Spi-