The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-02

Inc was at the 1dIuc 1IOHi
factory towards office, and found a
tcrowd at pump. They were washing
blood from mans face. His arms
lwere tied behind him. He was strug-
lgling to get away. Blood was nearly
washed off. Shirt unbuttOned and
torn at the side. Seemed to have
lgreat deal of strength and attendants
were out of breath and their shirts
wet through with perspiration. Il
asked them why they did not telephone
Ito DIR. Mckee. One of them said:
There's no use in that; he don't care
They seemed to object to telephon-
ling. | told them | was going to tele-
Iphone and did at once DR.. Mckee
said that he would send aid at once.
While the man was at the mill he
would topple over. The attendants
treated him SO roughly that witness
demonstrated, telling the attendants
that the man was helpless. He de-
| scribed the action of the attendants in
jerking prisoner by the hair to make
! him drink water.
Witness stated that he saw a bruise
on Nails cheek. Attendants said it
had been there ever since they had
known him. The cut on top of his
head was long and very deep. One
of them pulled the wound apart and
witnessed looked into it. 1t was very
deep, going nearly to the skull, if not
to it. Witness thought the cut looked
las though it had come from blow.
THE attendants stated, however, that
Nall had received it by running into a
barbed wire fence. They did not
state where the fence was He knew
nothing else except that attendants
Stated that the prisoner was a very
desperate man. They said this in re-
sponse to witnesses remonstrance
against their rough treatment. One
said he had been in the penitentiary,
but another corrected that He was
a very powerful large man, apparent
ly 35 years of age.
Mr.. Henry Morton, stenographer for
Caraleigh Phosphate works. His tes-
timony added little to that of Messrs.
Parker and Chamberlain except that
witness stated that he had heard the
prisoner say, "Oh, Lord" soon after |
they had laid him on the grass. Man |
was partially walking when brought |
up, but afterwards he showed evidence |
of not being able to stand up.
Mr.. w. A. Parker was recalled and |
stated that he stepped the distance
from the bridge to where the path |
turns out. 1t was thirty yards. From |
the road to the foot of the hill was 5 |
yards, and from the foot of the hill to |
where the scuffie took place 35 yards. |
Mr.. E. w. Gather was sworn. He is |
a chemist employed by the Phosphate |
Works. His account was in line with |
that of other witnesses. He described |
efforts Of prisoner TO rise and his
struggles. The attendants would bear
him down TO the ground. His hands |
were tied with a belt and pair of |
suspenders When he saw him run |
ming past the mill he was seventy-fiVe |
yards away; he thought that Nall had |
his hat in one hand and the stick in
the other.
Dr. James Mckee, Superintendent of |
the Hospital, was sworn. Nall had
been admitted from Chatham, Deem
Der 2. 1904. Saw him often. His |
general physical condition was good. (
Was notified on Thursday of his at
tempt at escape and that he had been
followed by three attendants, who had
left two others i'm charge of squad
of sixty-two patients who were work
ing. 1t was a rule of the Hospital
that the Superintendent should be at
once notified of the elopement of any
patient. The chase, he supposed last
ed from about half after two till half
after three o'clock. About four
O'Clock some one telephOned him that
a patient had ESCAPED and was then
at the phosphate works and unman-
ageable. He at once sent carriage
with the head nurse and they soon
/
ed bodily from the carriage. He was
at once taken in charge by DR..
Jenkins and was stripped and examin-
ed After a short while he was close
ly examined by witness. He found
him in Il cyanose eondition--his flesh
blue from lcck of circulation--his
respiration was embarrassed. the pu-
pills of his eyes dilated. the pulse eX-
tremely fast, feeble and irregular, and
w
from side. to side. He had a scalp
wound on the side of his head. near
the part of the hair about l ~ inches
long. Il looked like a clean cut and
did not go to the bone. He had spot
on the left side of the face which was
there when he came to the Hospital.
1t looked to him as though 1T Were an |
old birth mark, which some one had
attempted to remove by tattooing.
There were one or two slight abrasions
on the chest near the collar bone.
There were no bruises on the back.
arms or legs. He was greatly embar-
raised in respiration, giving the APP
pearance of an animal that had been
driven to work beyond its strength. |
Death from wounds came directly,
from hemorrhage, mechanical injury
to vital organ or from shock. There
was no wound on Nails body to justi-
fy the belief that it had caused his
death He had been given heart
TO which he partially re-
sponded but died half hour after
reaching the hospital. He had given
a certificate OF death from heart fall
ure caused by prolonged muscular eff
fort. Later they thought that he
might have ruptured blood vessel.
Mr. Spence Taylor, of Chatham for
whom Nail had worked. stated that
he knew him well before he became
insane: that he was a poor man, but
truthful and industrious.
He was as honorable a man as there
was i'm the county.
David c. Smith testified that he
lived near Caraleigh Hills; that he
was at the Phosphate Mills on the
day of Nall's escape. He described
the condition of the man after he was
brought back to the mill He saw the
cut on the head; saw one of the at
examine it. The attendant
that ''it was a pretty bad
cut" Witness gave the name of Lon
ME Johnson, as one who had seen Nall |
when he was fleeing from the attend
ants. Asked as to barbed wire fences |
i'm the cOmmunitY. the witness stated |