The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-04

ANNE Bf0Wn, negro WonlaH Will
whom the dead woman had agreed to
live when she left her husband.
Kate Dixon, a negro woman, WHO
knew nothing and nobody seemed j,
know why she was summoned.
Robert Burns, a negro storekeepcr,
from whom Green Hobby bought the
mustard for his sick wife.
Sam Riddle, w. s. Moye and John S.
pescud, druggists, who testified that
George Lee tried to buy rat poison nj
their stores Saturday night.
G. e. Leach, who corroborated Mr..
Riddles testimony.
j. Il. Nemyer and Rawley Galloway,
who testified positively that the Lee boy
bought rat poison at Bobbitt- Wynne
drug store between II and II O'Clock
Sunday.
DIR. James r. Rogers and DR.. p e.
Hines who gave expert testimony as TO
the effects of certain poisons on the
body and how they produced death.
George Lee and Green Hobby, who
took the stand in their own behalf.
Neither of them was sworn. Lee went
ON the stand first. He said he lived
at the Hobby home and slept there Sat
urday night Sunday morning he got
ND early and went off with some boys
to hunt wild grapes.
Il was gone all day. When / started
Green was lying down by the stove
and complained of being sick. My
brother John had got up to wash his
face and said there was no water in the
bucket. Green told me to bring some
water that he felt kinder sick /
81, i'm, thn l,,nI
kettle. brought two buckets of water
and then went on up the street to where
the boys were waiting for me-
What boys?"
''Will Brown, Dexter Bobbitt, Bud
Gardner and another whose name /
don't know"
How long We're you gomez"
"Al day"
Didn't you come up town to a drug
storeg'
No"
what did you do when you got
back?'
Went over to Miss Patsy Mitchiner's,
and boy told me my sister was dead.
told him l knew it"
How did you know it?"
"A boy l had met at Rocky Branch
told me So
did You 90 to Green's house,"
Yes. But | didn't stay long. When
| got there the house was full of peo-
pie, everybody standing in the door try
ing to look over each others shoulders.
didn't speak to anybody"
The boy named several people he saw
there. IN
Who was the boy you met at Rocky
Branch!"
4 don't know his name, though
know him when / see him. When !
left Patsy Mitchiner's / went 10 Green's.
From there i came up TO the Western
Union Telegraph office with my brother
John to see if there was an answer
from my sister in Massachusetts. When
| left there a man met me and arrested
me- John and / came up town twice
hunting Policeman Thompson. | heard
he wanted to see me. We went to the
station house and to the depot, but we
couldn't find him.
did you buy any Rough on Rats at
any time?"
Eyes. Saturday night l went to Sinp-
sons, Pescud's, Mckimmon's and Bob
bits drug stores for man named Sam
Jones. He gave me a note with the
name on it, but knew what he wanted
and kept the note in my peck
ct. But I've lost the note some
where since then. Sam Jones is
little man, with Il mustache.
I've seen him around the market
often. He was standing at Sam Jones'
grocery store on Hillsboro street Satur-
day night and called me to him and ask
ed me if | wanted to make five cents.
He told me to go and get him a box
of rough on rats. None of them had
it till | got to Bobbitt's. When ! got
back Sam Jones was standing right in
front of where Mr.. Sales used to live.
don't know exactly what time of night
this was. From there / went back
home about Il O'Clock / was at home
all Saturday evening and Saturday
night till | came up town.
How did Green and his wife live to-
gether!'
''They were first in and then out.
Julia told me she was going to move
away from him Monday. Last Tuesday
morning they had "a fight and she ran
him out of the house with a stick. Sat
nrday she told me she was going to
move Monday. l never knew Green to
hit her, but I've known her to hit him
often"
Later Lee was recalled two or three
times to the stand. One time he was
asked:
did you ever inquire of anybody how
long it would take Rough on Rats to
kill person."
Il never did"
did you know it would kill people?'
II did,
And again, after the dinner recess and
after the clerks at Bobbitt-W ynne s
drug store had sworn that Lee bought
the rat poison on Sunday, he was asked
did you ever deny buying Rough on
RatsY'
4 told Mr.. Thompson | didn't get any
for myself
did you tell him it was mistake, il
was some other boy?''
"Yes"
"Why did you tell him that?"
Because l thought he was asking mt
was / buying it for myself. He didn'
know / got any at all till / told him."
"Was it Saturday night or Sunda,
morning that you got it,"