The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-02
BRODIE is HANGED
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sentenced to be hanged which l say am
lnot guilty of committing rape on Miss
Mamie Catlett about July Goth, 1897. II
was all done by her consent. l was Win
ber on the 4th Sunday in July and Mary
Peace. John Peace and DAISY Merritt
which we all took n stroll of miles to-
lgether. | and her talked freely together
THAT Sunday.
On Thursday following / met her
again Mt Thomas Burrill's (col) in com
pany with said Burrills daughters.
then stopped there and talked with all
three of them. She talked to me as freely
as the = col. girls did On the following
evening met with her at the spring and
she talked freely to me then as she did ia
the morning Her conversation with me
was about Sunday evenings stroll.
When we parted we told each other
goodbye. Before she got thirty yards
from the spring boy walk up and was
dipping water and l threw a rock at
him y X Il
/ am sentenced to be hanged on those
terms which swear before God | am not
guilty of. GEORGE BRODIE.
About noon. apropOs of this ''confes-
sion'' X. d. Litllejohn, portly whisker-
| ed well-drcssed colored man, editor of
the g. .ew Light" Columbus, Miss, APP
peared. He had seen Brodie before and
asked him had he anything more to
say.
Nothing more,'' he replied, than
what | wrote for Uncle Dave. What l
want to say, I'll say before my soul goes
out of this world"
Twill you say anything on the scat
fold?'
IF my mind tells me to-
Il hope you have repented of the act
you did?'
"Oh. no! No, no. he said frvolously as
he saked for match and lit a cigar
cite. II have said in my confession
how it was"
Brodie was now in new suit, having
mt on only his vest and trousers and
was barefooted.
Asked how he liked his suit, he replied
that the pants were too tight, that he
liked pants twelve inches around the
leg, they were the fashion, and his hair
had been neatly parted in the middle. A
lunch was brought in for him OF beef
stew and two biscuits. He said he
would not force himself to eat when he
didn't want to eat, but he cleaned up
the lunch. He had been phable enough
i'm Jail, so Dave Eaton said, but he got
into fit Of temper this morning.
"Some one said you were waiting at
the spring and would assault the first
woman that came along.
That's a lie, and if the man told me
so in here I'd hit him and tell him he
lied too" This statement was accom-
panied with a motion of his clenched
fist and the devil in his eye.
He was reminded by the News and
Observer reporter, that he had said Miss
Catlett's statement was true.
He denied it.
Sheriff Smiths son told him he had
said it to him (Smith).
| He said he retracted it.
do you believe young woman gull
-, ty as you say would go straight and tell
her mother?"
"She didn't tell her mother"
"Her sister?'
"She was skeered-that's what made
her tell"
"How about the marks on your
s"rhere were no marks ON me-"
"On her?'
'Those came from sickness"
"She was not sick.
She saws she was not sick.
Do you expect men to believe that
storyI
"In saw no more" he replied sullenly
"In your walk with God this morning
did God believe that story?
"God don't think-he knows.
"You are solid with God?
"God knows"
The hour was approaching.
Some men asked him for the 3S tag OF
his new vest; he gave it to them.
In a few minutes he brought out q
tract which he was reading. 1t was the
last thing he read before he went on the
scaffold.
"Who gave it to you?"
"a lady here sent it to me"
The text was as follows:
COME, HE WILL GIVE YOU THE
HOLY SPIRIT.
"Turn you at my reproof; behold,
will pour out my Spirit unto you, l will
make known my words unto you."-
Prov. j. %.
You not only need title to heaven
but a fitness for it. The religion OF
time is education for eternity. Unless
made meet for heaven, you could not be
happy, even if it was possible to gain
admission there. That meetness com
mences in a new birth, and stands in true
holiness No one can give you that meet
ness but the Spirit of God. You must be
born of the Spirit. You must be taught
by the Spirit. You must be led by the
Spirit. You must be sanctified by the
Holy Ghost. In order to this, you mus
receive and possess the Spirit. Without
: the Holy Spirit there is no likeness Z
/ Christ, no union to Christ, no interest il
Christ; for "if any man have not thu
Spirit of Christ, he is none of his"
Jesus has received the Spirit as the re
ward of his work, and he gives the Spirit
} in full measure, to all who believe il
r Him. He told to his disciples, 81 will SEM
- YOU another Comforter" and on the da:
of Pentecost that Comforter came; allud
[ ing TO the effects of which, Peter said
s speaking of Jesus, Being by the RICH