Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-04-02


ful like She were always mighty gen.
/ tie an quiet an was always doin some
1 thin for me, like she were tryin ter say
/ that she thought heap o. my standin
up fer her This were long bout bar
vest time, an I hadn't been feelin so
good as then sence Lizzie run away
4 The women folks didn't neighbor much
with her, bat nam, she says the women
air pack o fools, an set heap o. store
by Lizzie.
zone evenin l struck up with Nate
Rogers on the road, an he says, says be:
Say, did We see that Deering feller ter
day? He were round by your house
talkin ter Lizzie, he says, an seen her
cryin. Look here, Nate, / says, we
| mean well. | reckon, but ye remember
that We air talkin bout my wife now
oh, well, says Nate, Il didn mean no
harm, on'y / thought we orter know
what was goin on, an with that he took
a short cut cross the fields, an KEEP on
the road
1T were just SHUTDOWN, an / were
walkin long the road, where hit rounds
the hill long above the river | were
goin slow, thinkin over what Nate said,
an not lookin fer anybody, when all o.
sudden | run against man. Hit were
Deering himself. He jumped little,
but says, cool as anything, Good
eyenin, Joskins, an made like he were
goin ter pass on. | reached out my hand
an stopped him.
Ye've come down here ter make
more trouble where ye've made too
much are dy, says l. 'Ye'ye come
down here ter SEQ Lizzie, my wife,
says, but if ye make any more trouble
fer her or keep hangin round tryin ter
see her, by God, I'll kill yei
6 1t takes a better man than We ter
do that, says he, smilin ugly. i was
better man in love than ye, an / reckon
am in some other things. Ye fool,
he says, if | wanted Lizzie, do We
think she'd stay with sech a country
lout as ye? She'd leave ye termorrer if
| said the word
aye air liar, l says, an he struck
at me with a cane he carried-one O.
them loaded ones. / ketched it ON my
left arm, an then l gripped him. He
was strong as me pretty near, but he
wasn't fightin fer what / was, an he
went down under me heavy. My LETT
arm were under when we went down,
an l felt it sort o. give way, but | got
grip on his throat with my right hand,
an l choked the life most out'n him.
We rolled crost the road, an | was look
in fer both of us ter go over the side.
We knowed hit were him or me, an he
were fghtin hard fer his life, but were
fightin harder fer Lizzie, an l had the
best of it. He done his best ter fight my
hand off'n his throat, but hit weren't
no use. | had hit gripped He hit me
in the face an tried ter get his hands on
my neck, but my arm was the longest.
! pushed his head back an back, with
him fightin little weaker all the time
an his face gettin dark Then felt us
both a-slippin, an l managed ter jerk
loose an fell back on the road. an he
went over the edge He made one grab,
but he on'y ketched the loose rocks.
Then there come a splash an a rattle o
fallin stones, an | knowed he were on
the rocks in the river a hundred foot
below
81 laid there awhile, an then strug
gled up an went home. The doctor,
yander, kin tell ye the rest. He fixed
my arm up that night an tended Lizzie
next day when the leetle baby come, an
her an the baby both died -
The prisoner 5 hands worked on the
arms of the chair. There was hush in
the courtroom, and some one in the
crowd sighed heavily. The attorney for
the defense arose. MAY it please the
court, - he said, "the defense rests its
case. - Henry Holcomb Bennett in
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.