The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
THE NIRs AND OBSERVER TUESDAY MORNING. FEB 2 l9O4

came running from Mr.. Pipkin's barn,
calling, Hall, Hall" The barn is about
fifty yards from Mr.. Pipkin's mouse.
called Mr.. Byrd. He started to pull out q
bottle of whiskey, very nervous, ana sail:
Hush! hush, don't say q word; dr'uk
tins. Ii l have no money, / have some
whiskey. l am in bad fix. l havn't a
friend in the world | said: yes you
have. He said: III tell you about it..
We just killed a man l said. mo you
haven't He. said BE id -
haven't I said: You've not" He said:
Cd On him | killed him" 4 asked
who. He said: 'Delmo King" / said:
You've done no such thing. Tie saiG:
Il have" asked: What id you kill
him with?" He said: with the tira
stick He was crying and very nervous.
He asked me: What must l do?''
told him to go to the house and go to
bed He said he could not do that.
must go to Raleigh with him. I declined
to go. He said | must and pulled out a
piece of money and said I've got whis-
key and money too You must go to Raj
leigh with me. lie kept saying: what
must l do?" l said: Go to Mr. Pirkins
and go to bed l thought he was just
drunk and that all his talk was just
drunken talk. He said How about old
Tuck?" l said: II reckon Mr.. Tuck would
let you stay ali night with him Then
went with him over to Mr.. Tuck But
falos. He got me to promise to take him
to Raleigh next morning at five o'clock,
but l did not call by for Inn, because
was afraid he would set into some
trouble.
Next day about four O'Clock, coming
home, l heard that Mr.. King was doau
Mr. Edmunds told me.
l tod my wife about it first \, o4nes-
day night. | think the next morn /
told Mr.. Tuck Buffalo. l didn't see the
body l never heard about the coroners
inquest. MIR. Buffalo asked me- if Mr.
Byrd had had any conversation W.T..
me- Then Mr.. Thomas Buffalo took me
to see Mr.. c. E. King.
II / ever loved a white man for the
length of time I've known him, l loved
MI Byrd. There was never any bad
feeling between US.
On cross-examinatIon by Col. Harris.
Hall said that as he and Byrd walked
or he talked of something else, and the
matter seemed to pass out OF his mind.
and his own as we'll. The whistle blew
fof halfpast six just after he left Mr..
Byrd.
G. A. STRICKLAND: There was CIT
over D2lmo's left eye from the edge OF
the hair, then another cut across over
the eye. 1t looked as if made by some
tn ng without an edge. The blood was
settled in the mouth and nose. On the
left cheek a small place that looked like
something had stuck in there Under the
right eye was bruised, and on the right
cheek some scratches. The right side
was somewhat black, and blood seemed to
be settled there. There were marks on
the right side of the neck, but they
looked to ne like they had been made
by the clothing or the collar.
The body seemed as if it had been cut
N the cold a long time, possibly all
night.
c. E. KING: Delmo's father. told how
he had received the news OF his sons
death about 1920 Wednesday morning
through Mr.. Ball.\ He went out on the
special train with the coroncr's jury, ana
saw the body. He thought at that time
the train had killed him. His head was
some ten feet from the bottom Of The
embankment. That night Mrs. King had
spoken OF marks that seemed like finger
prints, and Mr.. King had thought II might
Be from shaving the body, but Mrs. King
said Delmo had shaved himself before