The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-03
The Circumstances Point to
Hobby's Guilt.
BUTHE ACCUSES ANOTHER
CLAIMS THAT HIS BROTHER-IN-
LAW DID IT.
THINKS IT WAS INTENDED FOR HIM
Both Green Hobby and George Lee are Under
Arrest. A Pest Mortem Examination
Ordered. Coroner's Inquest to
be Resumed Today.


be Resumed Today.
South Dawson street had mystery
yesterday
1t was a mystery that the officers of
the law sought to unravel and could
not.
They will try again today.
All day long crowd of negroes stood
about the place-a small frame house,
with two rooms.
In the house lay a dead woman She
was in the front room, on the only bed
in the house. She lay there until late
yesterday afternoon, in exactly the
position in which she died, for none had
dared touch her.
The body was twisted, the limbs con-
torted-for she had died in agony. SO
terrible were her sufferings that she
would roll from the bed to the floor, and
some of the neighbors say they heard
her screams and prayers.
She said she believed she was poisoned.
and there seems to be plenty of evidence
to show it. And this is why nobody
touched the body or prepared it for
burial. They were waiting for the
coroner.
II was tllc DOuf vi julia I1ODDy, the
wife of a negro named Green Berry
Hobby. She was very bright mulatto
and considered rather good looking
Her husband also is mulatto, but not
so bright They have two children
one girl named Bessie, about ) years
old, and the other a boy of years.
named Duke.
Green Hobby is now under arrest
cha xx,.4I 81 4,
lie was arrested Sunday afternoon.
Hobby came here several years ago
from Apex and for sometime worked
for the Raleigh Electric Company. Re
Gently, however, he has been repairing
stoves, tinware and the like, and has
accumulated some money. Over $50 in
cash was found in his house yesterday.
A young negro boy, George Lee, the
dead woman's brother, is also under ar
rest. He lived at Hobby's house and
was arrested ON statements made by
Hobby, who said that he had often cor
rected the boy and he believed he was
trying to get revenge on him, and in
order to do so, had poisoned the whole
family.
This story was believed at first, but
as soon as the police began to investi
gate they came to the conclusion that
there was nothing in it. Lee, however.
is still held as witness. He says Hob
by and his wife have not been living
well together for long while: that
they have been accusing each other of
infiGelity, and Julia was about to leave
her husband on account of his bad treat
ment. George Lee slept Mt Green Hob
by's Saturday night for he lived there,
.ca lxafn Ivan life ,f
Though it was at breakfast that the
woman was poisoned, it was not until
about IL o'clock that Green Hobby Went
for doctor, and after he got a doctor
his actions were suspicious. When sent
for medicine he went off and stayed until
the doctor, tired of waiting, left in dis
gust, not deeming the woman danger
ously i'll. The prescription left for the
doctor was not filled until after the wo-
man was dead, neither was the doctor
again sent for or anything done by Hob
by to relieve the terrible sufferings of
his wife.
These are some of the circumstances
that point to the guilt of Hobby.
Then there is the other woman in the
Casa woman named Driver, George
Lee says.
Inc cOTOItT IulueSl over Tie UOuH
began at A O'Clock 1t was held at Hob
by's house, in the room in which the
body of the woman lay. The jury was
composed Of Messrs. Frank Bell, G. c..
Mcdonald, Frank Williams, L. III. Muir
ray II. Koonce and G. III. Stevenson.
They heard the evidence of four wit
nesses and then adjourned to resume
the hearing this morning at 10 o'clock
i'm the court house.
This adjournment without reaching a
verdict was in order that the stomach
of the dead woman might be taken out
and examined by physicians. For this
purpose the body was removed to
Browns undertaking establishment,
where the post mortem will be made by
Dr. Hines, the county superintendent OF
health, assisted by DR.. McCullers, the
coroner, and DIR. Rogers, the attending
physician. This examination will have
been completed before the taking of
testimony is resumed this morning.
The four witnesses examined yester-
day were DIR. JAS. X. Rogers, Carrie
Brown, Nellie Jones and Sarah Davis.
This morning Annie Brown, Dolly Man
~. George Lee, Robert Burns, DR..
Hines and others will be put on the
stand.
Annie Brown will tell that Julia Hob
by was about to leave her husband.
She had made bargain to live with An