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

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a doctor. The doctor came and sent me
for some mustard. l went to Burns
store for ii and got it as quick as
could and trotted back. | don't think
| was gone more than ten minutes.~A
what time were you taken sick?''
Between and 10, as near as | could
come at it,"
did Dr. Rogers give you prescrip-
| tion?'
He wrote one out and left it there.
but l knew nothing about it till night,
when John Lee came there"
did you hear your wife say anything
TO DR.. Rogers about being poisoned?"
II was the one who said that. If she
said anything to DR.. Rogers about being
poisoned / didn't hear il"
Did you have any idea who poisoned
her?'
what made me suspect was that
George Lee, about two weeks ago. asked
how long it would take for Rough on
Rats to kill anybody. l told him pretty
quick, / reckoned, but never to bring
any of it around my house."
did the children drink any of the
coffee?''
Yes, we all drank it. / drank about
half cup full and my wife about the
same quantity. ] vomited first. twice.
The little girl vomited mighty bad. My
wife vomited less than any Of us.
Were you on good terms with
George Lee?'
well. he had no parents and / had
tried to manage him and once or twice
| whipped him and he didn't like me-"
"He liked his sister, didn't he?"
'Well she whipped him, too, some
tines
''Who was there when you got back
with the mustard?"
Carrie Brown. She saw me vomit.
did your wife take any of the mus
tardg'
Yes, and she vomited."
"Were George and John Lee there
Sunday
mo. They left before breakfast.
George came back Sunday night between
6 and { o'clock. On Saturday night he
didn't get home till II O'clock
Sam Riddle. clerk at Robert Simpsons
drug store, said George Lee came to the
store about 1920 o'clock Saturday
night and asked for Rough on Rats.
Il told him / had it and asked what
it for man in the Fourth ward that
they were going to put it in a loft to
kill rats He told me the mans name,
but | don't reminder it. / asked him
then why he'd passed all the drug stores
down town TO come up there to get
box of Rough on Rats. He gave no
satisfactory answer. so / told him /
didn't have what he wanted"
The above was corroborated by Mr..
g. Edgar Leach, who was i'm the@drug
store at the time.
He also went to John S. Pescud's Sat
urday night and asked for rat poison.
Mr.. Pescud didn't have it.
AT McKimmon's he told w. $. Moye
he wanted the rat poison for Sam Jones;
that the rats down there destroyed more
than Is cents worth of stuff every night.
This was between 10 and IL O'Clock Sat
urday night. Mr.. Moye didn't have the
poison.
j. Il. Nemeyer. clerk at Bobbitt
Wynne's drug store. said boy came
into the store on Sunday morning be-
tween IL and II O'clock and asked for
Rough on Rats. He sold it to him for
ID cents He couldn't identify George
Lee as the boy. He didn't remember
selling any rat poison Saturday or Sat
ur,lay night.
Rawly Galloway, another clerk at the
Bobbitt drug store, was standing behind
the counter in his shirt sleeves Sunday
morning between IL and II o'clock
when George Lee came i'll and asked
for Rough ON Rats.
Il recognize the boy, and I'm positive
it was Sunday morning. 1t was after
church time, but before the clock struck
II. l showed Mr. Nemyer where the
rat poison was. | don't know the COM
position of the stuff sold him, but |
know it's the crude arsenic"
Dr. Rogers and DIR. Hines gave evil
dence in regard to the symptoms of ar
senic and strychnine poison, and the
manner in which a person so poisoned
would die. Though several of the symp-
toms of arsenic poisoning were shown
by the woman, according to the testi-
m0ny of the witnesses, neither Of the
doctors would venture an opinion as to
the cause of her death.
The testimony of Annie Brown and
Robert Burns affected only Green Hob
by.
Annie Brown said that on last We'd
nesday morning she was at Sarah Davis
when Julia Hobby came by with some
clothes.
.She asked me if / knew where she
could get a vacant room. | told her
there were plenty of rooms near Mr..
Johnson's store. She asked ME if I'd
take half of one with her. | told her
| would. / rented the room, but / have
not seen her since"
Robert Burns keeps a store in the
Southern part of the city, and it was
there that Green Hobby went Sunday
morning for box Of mustard
He said his people were sick from
drinking coffee, water or something. A
boy was shining my shoes at the time,
| and / stopped him to go and get the mus
tard. He stayed in my store about half
minute and left toward his home in a
run. ] don't know whether he went
home or not"
The witness said George Lee had al
ways been considered bad boy.