The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-03


timore. He replied that it was inn
| possible; that he had no money and
| could get none; that he could borrow
none, and couldn't send her away even
ii her life depended on it.
AT this time | knew nothing OF
their unhappy relations, but the CONVEX
sation convinced me that it was use
less to do more in that direction and |
| must do the best | could with her here.
In further study of her case | became
convinced that she was suffering from
some great mental distress, which kept
her from responding to medical treat
ment. | urged her to tell me of her
trouble. She said she didn't think she
could do it; that she couldn't even tell
her mother.
Later. though. she did tell me that
her relations with her husband were not
pleasant. She said that DIR. Buffaloe
was rough with her. harsh and cross in
language and brutal in treatment; that
he didn't stay with her at night, but
went away. sometimes telling where he
was going and sometimes not. She gave
instances of this bad treatment ana
finally told me of a most revolving cruel
ty on the part of Dr. Buffaloe to her
as his wife.
Il told her | was unable to do any
thing for her: that it was Il matter in
which even a trusted family physician
could give no help, and that my advice
was to tell her parents"
did you ever at any time see any
thing immodest in Mrs. Buffaloe?'
Never / have never known one who
more impressed me with her modesty
and lady-ike conduct"
did she tell you anything else of
the manner III which they lived togeth-
err"
"She did. She told me he had not
properly provided for her since their
marriage. | think she told me he had
not given her as much as $40 worth of
clothing"
Did you attend DR.. Buffaloe when
his knee was hut?"
For awhile did, but | withdrew
from the case"
What was the conduct of his wife
toward him during his illness?'
1T was one of great kindness and
personal sef-sacrifce. For she, her.
self was sick, and attended to him most
tenderly."
DR.. Knox said the treatment Mrs. Buff
faloe claimed to be receiving from her
husband was not such as to immediate
~ endanger her life, hut that it certainly
prolonged her physical and mental suf-
fering and might thereby have ulti-
mately caused death.
On redirect examination DR.. Knox
said he'd never seen Mrs. Buffaloe irri-
table He may have seen her in such
az hrV
exaggerate, but never in such condition
as to cause her to imagine the existence
Of things that did not exist
THE EVIDENCE OF col. HICKS
Col. w. j. Hicks, superintendent or
the Oxford Orphan Asylum, was the
third witness. lie said he was the faith
er of Mrs. Buffaloe, and that he had
frequently talked and advised with her
and DIR. Buffaloe when any little trou-
BILE sprang up between them.
''The first time | thought there was
any thing serious between them was one
night in 1897, Julia came up to my house
and said DR.. Buffaloe was treating her
badly and had that very night ordered
her out of the house. | told her to go
back and that ON next morning my
wife and | would come down to their
house and talk the matter over with
them. We did so, and in DR.. Buffaloe's
presence my daughter told of the -
rious instances of cruelty on the pant
Of her husband. He denied no1e 81.
these charges, but said he was misundcr-
stood; that he intended to do nothing
wrong.
"She said he didn't furnish proper
clothing for her"
"Did you furnish her any,"
Il told my wife that whenever Julia
or her child needed anything to buy
it for her. the same as for other mem
bers of the family"
Col Hicks said DR. Buffaloe and his
wife lived with him the first four years
If their married life, but paid no board.
He also told of DIR. Buffaloe's failure
to get for his wife the medicine pre-
scribed at the hospital.
AT the conclusion of Col. Hicks testi-
mony the attorneys for the plaintiff in
troduced the dispositions of DIR. j. Il.
Stokes and DIR. Kelly, of Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore. These are the
physicians who attended and operated
upon Mrs. Buffaloe They testified in
regard to her condition and these opera
tions; also gave expert testimony in re-
gard to certain phases of the case. Much
Of this evidence was objected to by the
defendant and some of it was ruled oul
by the court.
The following character witnesses
were then put upon the stand: Mrs
Jacob S. Allen, Mrs. Mary Beckham,
Mrs. w III. Dodd, Mrs. Fleming Bates,
and Messrs. n. B. Brougnton, J. A.
Egerton, G. b. Edwards, Thos. III.
Briggs, Jacob s. Allen, G. c. Whiting
and l.. i. Afford. All these also proved
good characters for Mrs. Buffaloe, Col
w. j. Hicks, Mrs. Hicks and DIR. Knox.
At this point the plaintiff rested her
case and the introduction of evidence
for the defendant began.
The following witnesses were put on
the stand to prove DR.. Buffaloe's good
character: j. Rowan Rogers, G.. NJ.
Allen, J. Nj. Fleming, A. b. Forest,
Raiford Andrews, G. G. Mcdonald, w.
Fl. Hood and e. p. Maynard. Most OF
them We're also asked as to the char
acter Of Mrs. Buffaloe and her parents
and DR.. Knox. All said their charac-
tiers were good.
At the conclusion of this testimony
the court adjourned to meet again this