The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
PHYSICIAN SAID THEY WE'RE
FROST BITTEN AT NORTH
AMPTON FARM.
THE MEN WE'RE EMACIATED BY
DISEASE AND LACK OF FOOD
SummerelI Admitted that he Knocked Major
Down With Butt of Whip and Gave
Testimony Contradicting his Best
Friend. The Tale of Hor-
ror Lengthens and
SummereIl
Must go.

Halifax. n. q, Aug. 2b.-tStaH Cor
reespondence.)- Lewis Summerell must
go. He can not after the testimony now
before the investigating committee be
retained as supervisor of the Northamp-
ton farm without justifying charge Of
wilful savagery against a people who
longer tolerate him.
This was Summerell day before the
committee SlImmerelI himself gave his
version of it. DIR. III. b. Ferguson, who
said he was Snmnerell's friend, did IN
his testimony all that was possible to
justify the claim. And yet from the
testimony of these two alone this man
SummereH was guilty of sending men OUT
into weather that each swore was too
cold fer anyone to work in; he beat a
convict over the head with the butt OF
a whip; one of his overseers beat a con-
vict to death or worked him to death in
his field: from their TESTIMONY it IS
clear that mem We're frost bitten on
Srmmerells farm and their fingers hal
to be amputated. None We're frost bit
ten elsewhere. And Sunmerell admit
leu Ulbtl HB NpIhtu Liz DltIi Ill nuilt
weather without amy orders from the
Superintendent of the penitentiary.
The two charges made i'm the prints
against him:
J. that he whipped men brutality.
2. That men were frost bitten and lost
their fingers ON his farm
Stand proved by the words from his
own teeth.
!.
remember him. His large and decidedly
fiabby person, his eyes baggy of tie
IInderlids like mann who has bad morn
ings and bad conscience, his large
hairy hands, his eyes that shift contin
uaily. his rasDing drawl. AZ! lake him
stick to the memory He came out yes
terday I'M patent leather shoes, white
socks and frrnce Albert and -, his
tale.
He was meek enough, for Suanmerell
browb-ats where he can ana iontl;cks
where he must. He does not look a man
who would halaitually pull his wifcrs
hair and twist his cfildren's moses IS
a pastime; he does look a man who
would, I'M n passion, break the leg of Il
harmless dog and then kick the dog
for hollering.
There has been miscellaneous swearing
in this business. Russell who was stew
ard at Northampton when Macon was
knocked down with the butt of whip hy
Sltmmerell swore that Mlznn WAS mere
~ slow in getting into line. Dir. Fnrge-
son sweaTs practically the same thing
SlInmnerell swears that Macon drew d
long and murderGls knife on him. Ne
body corroborates Sll1nmerell or even
hints at q knife Russell swcsllis that
Macon was laid mp fer weeks; Summer
ELL swears he worked right en-. Dl.
Furgeson swears he was called to attend
conysicts who had been whipped; Sum
merel swears he never whipped a man
till he was confined in the hospital %.
the cells. Marks Swears he has seen
the marks of the lash left on men: Sum-
merell sWcars that he never left any
marks from a whipping. S,ummerelI
swears he discharged Sears who is in.
dcted for killing Lowe in Summerelrs
fields; DR.. Furgeson, Woods and Russell
swear Sears ram Of u Fiirgesor
SAYS he made the post mcrtem ON Lowe
of his own accord: Summefell declared
that he ordered the aost mortem, and
said it as though lit were a virtue to
wTpe ont loves death To be brief
there has not been a witness before the
committee to testify Of Slnrnerells af-
FAIRS that Stlrnmerell has not contradict
ed POINT blank in some important partic-
Mar.
a strong effort has been made all the
way through TO shield SummereIl. Soms
witnesses have given testimony with tho
utmost reiuctance: others have sail
things no jury in this country would be-
lieve; some of course We're impartial
Capt. Day is fond of .Sunnmerell: he
has never received ONE of Srmmerell's
humane" ohastisings. Without actively
interfering, which the ccmmittee took
steps to prevent at FIRST, Capt Day has
apparently upheld StT.nanerell's hands in
his day of taibulatsen SO far as possible.
Doubtless he did not believe the charges