The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-12
House Passed

Milledgeville, Ca. Aug. 1.-THE in
vestigation of the DeCris case by War
den Jake Moore, took place at the
State Farm to-day. All the charges
were fully probed. The proceedings
were taken by A. S. Crawford, Of
fetal stenograph
The DeCris woman gave, for the
first time, the reason for which she was
whipped. She said that Allagood made
improper advances to her, that they
were scornfully refused, and that Ala
good had then said he would make
it hot for her if she told. He has
certainly done So" she said. She was
treated kindly, she said. until after
these proposals had been made and
been refused. Further the woman stat
ed that she has seen Allagood kissing
a white prisoner, in the female hospi-
tai
The woman admitted she had had
talk with Mrs. Allagood, the day be-
fore the whipping, about the negro
hospital steward; that she had used
no disrespectful language though she
had not quit talking when ordered TO,
do so. Mrs. Allagood. she said, re-
ported her to Allagood and request
ed him to whip her for insurbordina-
ton and impudence, which he did the
following day.
How Lash Was Applied.
Mamis DeCris says she was laid
across a bed and given thirty severe
lashes; that her person was bruised
and blue for two weeks, and though
no blood was drawn it became neces-
sary for her to apply creased cloths on
the wounds. She says she was sent
to the field the next day and kept
there, altogether, about four weeks.
She was terribly blistered and yet was
allowed no striker to help carry her
row. AstiA
She told, she says, Mary billiard,
white prisoner, about Allagood's pro-
posals. The woman told her if she
was that sort of woman" to sub
init, if not, to resist, but that she
would have an easy time if she did as
Allagood said.
The billiard woman at first denied
that Allagood kisesd her, or that she
told the DeCris woman she would
have an easy time if she accepted the
proposals. but later she admitted the
conversation in the main part.
Mamie, resuming her story, said
that Allagood had gone to the field and
forced Mary billiard to repeat what
she had told her, and that it was then
he decided to punish her.
Further in her story the DeCris
woman says she had heard Mrs. ALA
good telling the women who work
about the house that a committee was
| coming, and that the women must
stick to her and Capt. Allagood.
other witnesses Deny 1t.
The witnesses all deny this, nor are
the DeCris woman's claims of i'm
proper proposals supported by the 9TH
err witnesses, either They say that
Allagood has never improperly APP
preached any of them.
Mamie DeCris declares that her
| privileges were cut off and the bad
treatment commenced after her re-
fusal to submit to Allagood; that she
was tainted by the negro women as
| lazy, no better than they, and called
Diamond Queen" She says she once
! attempted suicide by falling from the
second story of a barn but, becoming
| frightened by a rat, fell on her feet
and side instead of on her head, as she
| had intended to.
Supt. Foster saw her in the field and
protested to Allagood, but the latter
| kept her at work. The superintendent
| again protested and she was sent to
the house, where she said she nearly
tainted. She fell once in the field. She
said she would never get over, the
| whipping as long as she lived. She
never wrote notes to any onel she
said.
Wired Chairman Turner.
Dr. Adams only acted in the capac-
! ity of a physician, The general opin.
ion was that the punishment was
severe. She had wired Chairman Tur.
ner to come at once, but later haC
Warden Moore recall the telegram as
she was confident that she could give
her testimony without fear. She sale
she wanted to talk to newspaper