The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-20


| lived about a mile from Rosa Morgan's.
She said it was about 10 o'clock when
/ she went to bed; that she didn't know
when the others came into the house;
| that after she woke up Berry told her
that Rosa was bad off and wanted her
| to come down there The witness de-
MED that she had ever said that Berry
stayed at home all night the night of the
murder.
! On re-cross-cxamination witness testi-
| fed that she had said that Berry was
at home when she went to bed and when
she woke up, but she didn't say that he
stayed there all night She didn't know
whether he was there all night or not.
Ches Pace lives within about $50 yards
of Rosa's house. He was asleep on the
porch with Robert White who woke him
saying somebody's whipping Rosa"
The witness listened and heard Rosa
saying. ooh, Lord, have mercy" The
children were also crying. He went
back to sleep, and Robert woke him up
again and said he heard Berry Cooks
voice. The witness didn't hear the voice,
| though.
On cross-examination the witness said
he was working at Mr.. Glib ONeals and
slept in Mr.. O'Neals kitchen, but he
usually went home once or twice week,
and there he always sleeps on the porch.
Robert White sleeps with him. The
reason he didn't go to assist Rosa when
| he heard her. he said, was that he was
| afraid: that he was not going anywhere
| in the dark He didn't know that Rosa
was dead until Saturday afternoon. Fab
| O'Neal told him. The witness said he
went home to get a clean shirt, but de-
MED that Robert White also changed
shirts. They left O'NeaPs before they
got supper and got back next morning
about sun up.
The witness denied that he had ever
| had any trouble with Rosa and knew
of none that his people had with her.
| He denied that he had heard of a quar-
rel between them that day.
Robert White. who slept with Ches
Pace on Noah PAGES porch, corrobor-
ated his testimony as to the praying of
Rosa. Later he heard the voice of Berry
Cook saying ''Come on, come on" A
gain the voice said. "Oh, come on" Then
the woman began to say Lord, have
mercy. Lord have mercy"-the voice get
ting lower and lower, until everything
got quiet.
On cross-examination the witness adj
mitted that he was in Jail charged with
assisting in the murder of Rosa Nor
gan. He had known Berry Cook ever
since March and he believed it was
his voice that he heard. He didn't
know what time it was when he went to
bed nor what time it was when he heard
Rosa and Berry Cook The witness de-
MED that the PAGES had had trouble
with Rosa and that he had said he
wouldn't mind going over there and beat
ing her.
Here a shirt was displayed by the de-
PENDANTS counsel. This the witness ac-
knowledged to be his property, but said
he pulled it off and threw it away when
HE went in washing back of Noah PAGES
1.-THE week before the murder. Weldon
Pace went in washing with him and
Noah Pace passed by at the time, he said.
The witness denied that he ever went
Ito Rosa Morgan's but once and then he
didn't go in. He denied that he had
ever had cross word with her.
Noah Pace corroborated Robert White
as TO Whites going in washing at the
time he threw his shirt away. The wit
ness also corroborated the other wit
Inesses as to Rosa Morgan's praying and
said that Robert White thought he heard
Berry Cooks voice. He said he and his
wife were about to go out and see what
the matter was, when all the noise ceased
and they didn't go. The next day the
dead body was discovered by PAGES wife,
as she was going off to get some wood
On cross-examination the witness said
that the family and Rosa got along al
right, so far as she knew.
Harriet Pace, Noah PAGES wife, heard
Rosa Morgan saying, lord, have mer-
cy," the night of the murder. She heard
another voice, but couldn't say whose
it was. The witness put on her dress
to go down to Rosa's. but everything
got quiet. Then later the children were
crying and she heard somebody say
Hush She didn't know whose voice
it was. a mans or woman's. The wit
ness then described the finding of the
body and the sending for Isaiah Hall,
who was the next person to see Rosa.
The sun was probably an hour high
when the body was found.
On cross-examination the witness de-
MED that there was bad feeling existing
between herself and Rosa.
Isaiah Hall, the first person to see
Rosa after Harriet Pace found her, was
the next witness.
GAS soon as got there asked Rosa's
little boy Gus, who was standing in the
door, what was the matter with his
mother.
"sUncle Berry Cook came here last
night and carried her off and killed her.
Il asked him what he was doing
when Berry Cook came. He said:
"'We were all lying down on a pallet
, when Uncle Berry came, knocked at the
door and nanny let him in. He sat down
in the door and then carried nanny off
off and killed her.
"After / went for the magistrate I
saw two men coming across the old field
: and asked Gus who itw as He said:
"'One of them is Uncle Berry Cook
'Then / took the children down to
; Noah PAGES"
The witness further said the ground