The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-08

/ MIN 10 llIc ana pump water Oh
him. Two got hold of him, one on
either side, and dragged him to the
pump. L don't mean his whole body
his legs. After that / said: eff you
pump water on him you will kill him. y
| went down there. There is a tomato
can by the pump and they pumped
the tomato can full of water and
poured on him. One fellow washed
his face with his handkerchief. They
grabbed him by the hair and washed
his face two or three times. Then
they tried to raise him up. He could
not stand up then. His head was
hanging down. They laid him on the
ground. He made efforts to get his
| hands loose. His nose got down in
the grass. l told them if they didn' t
move him he would smother. They
turned him on his back and he lay
there and quivered like a hog or calf
or something like that. Prof Cham
berlain asked them why they didn't
! telephone DR.. MceKe. They talked to
each other and said: eff we tele-
phone up there for help We will have
| to carry him in the front way and II
we do not we can carry him in the
back way. We can get him up some
way" 1 believe there was a buggy
standing there. Prof. Chamberlain
/ telephoned DR.. Mckee to send selp
down there. They asked this young
man with the buggy if he would carry
| him to the asylum. They put him IN
the buggy, but he couldn't sit up. His
head was rolling around. [ never
saw him hold up his head at all. They
| took him out of the buggy at the rail-
| road crossing and put him in the car
riage and went on.
q. Did they know Prof. Chamber
lain had telephoned for carriage?
And did they put him in the buggy
after the carriage had been ordered?
\. Yes, sir.
Question by Juror: While handling
him, were they unkind and rough
unnecessarily so? A. Looked so to me
pulling a man up by the hair when
he couldn't hold his head up and drag
ging him around on the ground there.
He could not help himself. They all
seemed to be very hot-those young
men that were with him. There were
four. This mans eyes looked like they
were set in his head and about half
shut.
Q. Did you hear the conversation
between Prof. Chamberlain and these
men2 A. He asked them why they
didn't phone over to the asylum. He
spoke to them about handling him SO
rough. He said: He can't get away
from you"
@. Did they ever try. to make him
have said that just now. They did
try to make him drink water. They
pulled his head back by his hair; also
washed his face with a handkerchief.
O. Did they succeed in getting wa
ter down him? a. No, not at all. He
could not drink any at all. l think
on the left side of his head was long
cash three inches long. One took him
by the hair and opened that CASH 1t
In a know h.
er il was to the bone or not.
O. Did the attendants make any eX-
pianation of the cut? A. They said he
ran through a wire fence-cut it with
the wire fence.
j. \. Moody, being sworn, testified
as follows:
Examination by the coroner).
@. Where do you live, Mr.. Moody?
A. In Chatham, near Bear Creek.
Q. Did you know Mr.. Thomas II. |
Nall, Mr.. Moody? In his life time?
A. Yes, sir.
@. How long did you know him? A.
1 suppose about 80 years.
O., Do you know when he was sent
to the hospital here? A. 1 know about
the time.
Q. Well, when was the next time
YOU saw Mr.. Nall after he was sent |
to the hospital? A. After he got out
Of the asylum, the day they arrested |
him to bring him back the second
time.
Q. When was the next time you saw
him? a. In the sitting room at Bear
Creek.
@. Was he living then? A. No, a
corpse.
@. Did you recognize him then as
Thos. II. Nall? A. Yes. sir.
Q. What did you do then? A. They |
asked me to go and help take him out
of the coffin.
@. For what purpose? A. For the |
doctors to examine him.
q. You knew, then, it was Nall? "A.
Yes.
Q. You were present at the eXaml-
nation by those doctors? A. No. sir.
@. After you took him out and the |
doctors examined him, did you see
him any more? A. | never saw his |
face any more.
@. Did you help nut him in the cof-
fin? A. No, sir.
Q. Did you assist in the burial? A. !
Yes, sir. l helped carr him there;
carried him to the graveyard with our
team and | helped bury him.
n When did you see him next after |
that? a. Not until last Sunday.
Q. Go on and tell about it, A. l |
met the gentlemen going over to take
him up and they asked me to go on
wS:h them. | knew how the arrange
ments was and l helped take him up |
helped take the dirt off. / went
after a plank and the others took |
him up.
Q. You knew it was the same Thorn
as II. Nall? A. Yes.
9. After the autopsy had been held, |
what part did you have in it? A. /
helped carry him to the graveyard |
and helped deposit him back in the
ground.
@. What was your next connection
with the matter? A. Yesterday morn
ing me and a friend there taken him
out of the grave again. They come to
my house after me, and said the coro-
ner sent after me to go help take him
up and bring him to Bear Greek.
@. And you did so? A. Yes, sir.
@. Did you accompany the remains
to Raleigh? A. Yes, sir.
@. Have you seen the remains since
arriving in Raleigh? A. Yes.
@. And you recognize still the re-
mains of Thos. II. Nall? A. Yes, sir.
@. You watched the autopsy on Sun
day very closely, did you? A. Yes |
Sir.
Q. Present all the time2 A. Yes, sir.
@. Did you observe when the skin
was removed from the head, the bruis-