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CORONER'S INQUEST.
Over the Dead Body of Mamie Nash
Verdict OF Jury.

Over the Dead Body of Mamie Nash
Verdict OF Jury.
Hattie Jones, sworn, says:
Live In Abbeville county. Anna, Lucia,
Mamie and Sweetie stopped at my house.
Sy Adams asked for Tom, and asked Anna
Watt why she and Emma fell out. Anna
said the child had abused her and knocked
ice cream ont of her hand. They all then
went to church. While at the gate told Cy
he ought to make Emma behave herself and
talk TO Mariah. Saw nothing OF the dim
Guilty. Nothing said that Anna had better
bring her coffin. Cy said be did not Intend 10
hurt Annals feelings when she said that Aus
tin would look into the matter.
Charlie Henderson, sworn, says:
was with Mamie Nash the night she was
shot. We were behind Anna Watt and Lucia
Bishop. We were near Paris Whites house
when Mariah and Anna got into fight. Ma
mie Nash jerked from me to help her sister
Just then the pistol fred and Mamie fell.
never heard anybody say shoot again. Saw
fash of the pistol. The first shot hit the girl.
was fired down the road. Couldn't tell Ma
riah from any one else. Mamie was falling
when the shot was made. She and Mariah
were then In nvlt.
r. NJ. Hill, sworn, says:
Was sitting on my front piazza and shortly
women coming toward my house., They
seemed to have been running. Heard some
thing said about shooting.
Thomson Pressly, sworn, says:
Saw Msriah Adams fire second shot. Didn't
see first shot, Didn't see Mariah until she
soon after second shot. Don't know whose
pistol 1t was. Never heard the girl say who
shot her. I saw Mariah and talk ed with her
a. the window after the shooting. She said
. hot IN hno hor of of inf IN
shoot me. The first shot was ALI In tumb BILE.
Never saw Mariah and Anna together after
the second shot. ] spoke to Marian and
Charlie Hearsts wife. Couldn't see Anna
Paris Whites yard. Hearst's wife was in the
yard, she and Mariah left together. Never
saw Cy at all. The last shot was over me.
said hold up your gun after the second shot,
and no one replied TO me.
Florence Hearst, sworn, says:
Was at church the night OF the shooting.
Wasn't with Mariah at time Of shooting.
When first saw her she was at Tina Whites.
Wasn't near her when she passed MIR. HilPs
heard Mariah say she was going to see Anna
others were present. Mariah came up TO the
church after her child told her she had been
luck. Mariah was dressed in black skirt,
pink shirt waist. green colored apron, and
bare headed. Didn't pay any attention to her
apron that night. Mariah and had no con.
versation at Mrs. Whites. They had her 60
Ing to jail when I saw her. / was at Tina
Whites until then.
Henry Cason, sworn, says:
saw three women on that night coming by
my house. One said have done just what I
intended to do. and II you don't shut up 1
will put IL to you. Don't know who they
we're. They came from direction Of Paris
Whites In path from Shack Moragne's and
dressed. 1t was dark. .
p-,n.o proun oxyorn ooye.
Was at church for awhile that night. Was
at home when the shooting occurred. Saw
Mariah Adams near Mr.. McDonald's coming
to town. She said nothing to me. Can't say
half hour before this. saw Mariah.. Never
heard Mariah say anything about what she
was going to do with Anna. Paid no atten-
tion TO TWO girls with Mariah.
DOCTORS CERTIFICATE.
On the night July Is, 1903, about 1890 was
called TO see one Mamie Nash at Paris
Whites house, and found her suffering from
pistol wound In left side, ~ inches to right Of
entering the abdominal cavity, perforating
the left broad ligsment and arteries, also
passing through three loops OF small inies
track OF bullet was shown p: m. on the night
Of Inquest July II. 1908. The patient died
about o'clock July II: 1908. OF general per-
itouitis and depression due to wound. Saw
kS Rs
II in a foot or two the clothing would have
been burned. Ball ranged downward and
backward The ball was Ss calibre judging
fiom the hole. &C. Gambrell, M. D.
VERDICT.
South Carolina, Abbeville County.
An ipQuisition taken at A bbeville, in the
County Of Abbeville, on the 18th day Of July,
1908. before w. B. Going. Coroner for said
County, upon view OF the body of Mamie
Nash then and there being dead by the
oatbs Of A. g. Faulkner, Richard Romans,
Bradley Reese. George Ltddell. Richard Ar
dold, Spencer Watt, John Hill, CLANCY Jones.
o. H. Cobb, Albert Henry. w. E. Johnson, j.
w. Mckee. being lawful Jury OF inqslest,
who being charged 70 inquire for the State OF
the said Mamie Nash came to ber death, upon
their oath do say: by pistol shot In hands OF
Marian Adams, and that Ivory Bowie and
Emma Bowie were accessories before the fact.
And 80 the jurors aforesaid, upon their
oaths aforesaid, do say that the aforesaid Ma.
riah Adams In manner and form aforesaid.
Mamie Nash then and there eloniously did
Kill, against the peace and dignity Of the
Tu witness whereof, I, W. B. Going, Coroner
aforesaid, and the jurors Aforesaid. 10 this
inquisition n have interchangeably put our
hands and seal the day and year above men
toned. w. b. Going.
Coroner bbeville County.
A. G. Faulkner.
Foreman of Jury OF Inquest.
o. 81. Cobb,
NJ. B. Reese,
w. E. johnson,
C. M. Jones,
G. w. LiddelI,
John Hill.
Spencer Watt,
Albert Henry.
j. r. Romans,
Richard Arnold,
JW McKe ee Jr