The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-03

George Lee will also tell of strained
relations between husband and wife on
account of the Driver woman on Hob
by's part and the attentions of white
man to Julia His evidence promises to
be quite sensational.
Robert Burns is the man from whom
Green claims to have bought the coffee.
He also bought the mustard from him.
Dolly Manly is very old negro wo-
man who was in Hobby's house when
Julia died.
DIR. Hines will tell what was revealed
by the post mortem examination. A
chemical analysis of the contents of the
stomach may be necessary. If so, 1t Will
take week or two to make it.
A search of Hobby's house yesterday
revealed no poison except IA bottle of
acid and some concentrated I've. Either
of these would have had about the effects
described by the doctor and said by those
with the woman, to have been shown by
her during her illness. 1t is pretty GER
tain it was neither strychnine nor ar
senic.
The first witness called to the stand
ut the coroner's inquest yesterday after
noon was DR.. James r. Rogers. He
said that Green Hobby came to the hos
pital, where he was Sunday morning
attending patient.
He told me his family was very
sick. | went as son as / got through
at the hospital and found Hobby's wife
in the kitchen, sitting on a box some
what nauseated. She complained of a
burning in her stomach, and said she
believed somebody had poisoned her
that she had noticed something wrong
with the coffee. 1t was a little bitter,
she said. / asked her if the children had
drunk the coffee. She said they had,
and she reckoned they were sick too.
] examined them rapidly but l noticed
nothing wrong with them. | asked her
if there was any poison in the house
She said there was some concentrated
I've. Green also claimed that ne was
sick, but | saw no symptoms of it. He
was up walking around and therefore
l didn't examine him. | sent him off
for some mustard, but he stayed so
long that | left before he came back.
l also wrote out prescription for some
sweet oil to be given his wife after
she had been thoroughly yomited with
the mustard and hot water. When they
came for me the second time they told
me his wife was dead and the children
We're sick / saw no evidence of the
childrens sickness that time either
Green was complaining that his head
and breast were hurting him.
THE woman's death was a surprise to
me. | had no idea she was seriously
i'll. No thought of poison would have
come into my mind had she not spoken
of it,
What, in your opinion, caused her
death:''
Il have no idea She complained only
of burning in the stomach. This is
the symptom of an irritant poison"
did she say her husband drank any
of the Coffee"
She said he told her he tasted some
thing wrong in the coffee"
Did You give him a prescription for
herr
Il did. As | said it was some sweet
oil TO be used after the woman had
been vomited with mustard and water.
The prescription, however, was not
filled till Sunday night after the wo-
mans DEATH
DO you think the circumstances suff-
eient to justify post mortem?"
Il think it the only safe thing under
the circumstances. Yes, i should adj
wise post norton examinations.
The second witness was Carrie
Brown, a woman who lives next door
to the Hobbys.
''I'he last time / saw the dead wo-
man before her sickness" she said,
was on Thursday evening. On Sunday
when i came home about IL o'clock
Green's little girl came over and said
her father wanted me. 1 went to the
house and Green said he had wanted
me to help him get Julia in bed. but
he had already got her to bed. About
2 o'clock the little girl came and called
Nellie Jones. Soon Nellie came to my
house and asked me how to make an
ash poultice. l told her and then went
over to the house. Julia was then
lying on the bed rolling her head about.
She never spoke word to me, though
| spoke to her. / never heard her make
any noise. She was quiet both times
| was with her. l was present when
the woman died, but / didn't know ex
actly when death came | called my
sister Mittie and told her / believed she
was dead. / was in the room from 5
to u minutes before she died.
The witness said Green did not tell
her anything about having a prescrip-
ton, nor about his going FOR any mus
tard. She heard no screaming, and
denied that anybody in the house
screamed when the woman died.
Il don't know anything about how
Green and his wife lived together. She
didn't visit and nobody visited her that
| know off,
Nellie Jones said Green Hobby sent
his little girl for her about 2 o'clock.
Julia asked me to make her an ash
poultice. She was in great pain-just
tumbling about the bed and falling off
on to the floor and saying, Lord have
mercy, amt anybody going to do any
thing for my stomach
There was nobobdy In the house
when / got there but Green and Julia
and the children. / don't know whether
she took mustard or not. She seemed
to be in extreme agony and fell from
the bed twice. She complained only
of pain in her stomach. She was too
sick, it looked like, to talk. At 4
o'clock when | came the second time she
was in about the same condition, ex-
cept that she seemed weaker She was
rolling and tossing about as on my for
mer visit. About ten minutes before
she died she got quiet.