The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-27
A TRAGEDY IN
SOUTH RALEIGH
Continued from First Page.

| came to Raleigh and lived at the home
| of Mr.. Zeb Hamilton. who, is her cOu-
| sim "She told me she left Mr.. Baker
| because he was SO mean to her, and
| mistreated her. / don know in what
| way-he mistreated her. She was at
| Zeb Hamiltons about a week and
| then she came over here and wanted
| us to see about her getting a place for
| her in the factory she hadn't got the
| place vet. and she was not exactly
| boarding with us. but she was living
| with us.
She had told us about her trouble
| pretty much since she had been here.
| She said that her life was a torment
| to her when she was with him and
| that she couldn't stand the way he
| treated her. But he had come here to
| see her twice since she had been at
our house. and they talked as nice
| and loving as any two people you
| ever saw She had finally agreed to
| 90 back with him and he was to call
| for her TO-DAY. She told us that she
| could but leave him again if he didn't
treat her right She said, too, that
she believed he would be as liable TO
| kill her as not if things didn't go
right
| 81 was coming home from my gar
| den between twelve and one O'Clock.
! and. and | met Dick Baker. He SD
F; to me: Mrs. Workman, Dora has
! ruint herself / said how. and he
said: "She shot herself in the head
| with pistol and | know she is clean
| pone: she saw me coming and she shot
| herself"
The only person besides Baker and
| his wife that heard the pistol fire was
Willie Autry. the sixteen year old son
| of Mrs. Workman. He says he was
saving wood in the yard near the
house, and that Baker came to see his
wife, and brought her some candy;
that they went into the front room of
the house, shut both doors. pulled
down the blinds. Some time later. he
does not know exactly how much.
he heard noise as if something had
fallen in the room. He ran in the
back way and saw Mrs. Baker, all
bleeding, come through the back
door of the front room and she fell
to her knees almost in the door. He
says that before she could get up her
husband passed by her, through the
door, into the back room, and went
out into the yard
Then the wounded woman got up.
| and leaned against the mantelpiece,
then she walked across the floor of
the back room, leaving a trail of blood
as she went. and falling twice before
reaching the door Little pools of
blood marks the places where she fell.
She went out into the yard and fell
down on a chip pile. The people who
had gathered We're afraid to move
her until ordered to do so, and the
woman lay upon the ground until
| the arrival of DR.. j. W. MCGEE, Jr.,
who had been Immediately summon
ed. Some kind hearted neighbor COW
| cred her with shawl to keep of the
sun.
DR.. Niece says in regard to the mat
| ter:
Il went to see the woman as soon
as | could after being notified, and
| found her wing on the ground out in
| the yard. / had her carried into the
| house and placed on a bed. and | eX
| amined into the nature of the wound.
| The shot was fired from 80 calibre
pistol. 1t entered just in front of
| the left ear. a little low. and came out
on the right side just before the angle
of the jaw. The throat was powder
ed at close range"
On being asked if he thought from:
the nature of the wound thai the wO-
man could have inflicted it. he said:
II do not care to be quoted on what
[ think"
\ number of persons who are init
mately acquainted with the wounded
woman say that she was not left
handed. The nature of the wound
is the clearest proof that the woman
did not fire the shot herself, and the
general opinion, despite the fact that
she had told conflicting stories about
how it occurred. is that her husband
shot her.
A warrant was sworn out for a. ID.
Baker. and placed in the hands of
Constable Potter. who very shortly
thereafter arrested Baker at the Tn
ion Depot, and landed him in jail. He
will receive preliminary hearing to-
day before Squire Upchurch.
Baker on being asked if he had
anything to say in regard to the mat
ter. said:
well, I'd like to get it straight
George Hunt, of Buie's Creek, took
my wife and came to Raleigh with
her. L Inlnk he went TO Dunn ana
stad one night with her. and then
took her off, and ] didn't know for a
while where they were. ! love her and
| don't deny it: | can't help it. though
she has done me SO bad. He said
that he was going to take her where
she would never be heard of again:
that's what | heard he said That
was about month ago. | was in Raj
eigh about two weeks ago, and | met
Ieb Hamilton. and he told me that she
was here, and | went to see her for
do love her. / went to see her twice
last week and she seemed as glad to
see me as she could be to see any
body. / went to see her this morning
about one o'clock. | reckon it was. I
went in where she was and we got
to talking and she said: ''Dick, may I
go back home with you?" and / said:
You know. Dora. that | want you to,
but it don't look like its any use for
you act SO bad. and then she said
that if I'd let her go back she would
behave all right. and would treat me
right. We talked a while. and / got
up and went into the back room to
yet my hat. and | heard pistol 90