The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-08
Fully Identified the Negro Who
 Committed Crime
  DYING WOMANS STATEMENT
MT. Dickinson, Who Was Wounded By the Fiend, Is Now at the Point of Death-There Was
 Talk of Lynching.

mTS. J. Y. DlcklnbOn, WnO was bouiy wounded and criminally assaulted by negro at her home in Cordova Wednesday night, died last night at Copeland and Berry's hospital, from the effects of the wounds and the shock to her nervous system. Before death came Henry Walk CT, the negro arrested Thursday and charged with the crime, was carried be- fore her as she lay on her bed at the hospital and she identified him, stating beyond g. doubt that he was the negro who struck her husband and herself over the head with a hatchet and then drag eed her into another room and committed his fiendish crime The full extent of the awful affair did not come to light until yesterday morning when Mrs. Dickinson told of the assault and identified the ne- gro knowing that she would probably die before the sun rose on another day She expired at half-past 6, and the re- mains were carried to Lige Loy's under taking establishment. where they were nrepared for burial The funeral arrange
 
 son. her husband, is lying at the point or death at the hospital and is expected to pass away at any minute.
 Yesterday when the negro was carried before Mrs. Dickinson he was carefully guarded. As he was carried into the room she said:
 "That Is the man." and pointed her | hand at him. After a slight pause she continued: "What did you do it for?" | The negro replied:
 q did not do it I am not the man." The negro's fA,e bore evidence of man much frighWned, and he trempled.
 'Yes you are khe man. Look at the print of my hafd on your shirt" said Mrs. Dickinson, and she pointed to the impression of bloody hand on the ne- gro's shirt just above his pocket on the left hand side. Sheriff Jack Moore asked her if she was positive, and she replied;
 Woman Prayed to Be Spared. "Yes, I am positive" and turning to the negro she said: q prayed to you to spare me and you would not do It." After the negro was taken back to the county jail Mrs Dickinson gave the fol- lowing details of the awful tragedy;
 |, q was aroused during the night by hearing some one walking In the room, | and at the same time Mir. Dickinson was awakened and raised up in bed. As he did so the intruder struck him on the head with hatchet knocking him back upon the bed.
 T sprang ont of bed with my baby In my arms, and the negro hit me with the hatchet, at the same time jerking the \ baby from my arms and throwing 1t across the room upon the bed.
 At this moment MT. Dickinson seemed | to come to himself slightly and half arose, and the negro turned upon him | and dealt him another heavy blow with 1 the hatchet, knocking him down again. There was a lamp burning in the room and I turned 1t up as the negro turned | to hit MT. Dickinson the second time and l when he had knocked him down again, and apparently killed him, he turned up- on me- striking at me several times. I re- sisted the best could and my hands and arms were badly cut by the hatchet. | "Finaly the negro overpowered me and dragged me Into an adjoining room where his terrible purpose was accomplished. He then hit me over the head with a heavy revolver and left me for dead" To Prevent Lynching.
 Henry Walker. the negro accused of the crime, was brought to Birmingham yesterday morning to prevent a lynching. | Sheriff Moore felt that the Jail at Cor dova was not strong enough to protect the negro If a mob was formed, and therefore brought the man here and placed him in the Jefferson county jail. When he left Cordova, the citizens were openly talking of lynching the negro. Walker was an employe of Capt. B. M. Long at Cordova. As soon as he was arr rested his room was searched, and his | clothing was found under the bed con cealed in a sack and covered with blood. ] Blood was also found on the box at the foot of the bed, which the negro IS sup posed to have used as a chair when re- moving his clothing Colts revolver
 was also found, and it showed evidences
 of a recent cleaning on the outside, but
 the inside was still dirty, and it is sup
 posed it was cleaned to remove blood stains. A pair of bloody socks confirms the statement of Mrs. Dickinson. that the
 negro was in his stocking feet.
 Mrs. Dickinson was a Miss Ross of Talladega, and several of her relatives
 were at the bedsides of the wounded
 couple She leaves three children, the old