The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-02-09
aWEABN SHE LIED
IN TEsT1MoNx IN THE pAM-
RBRa POISONING CasE.
The Bunch Woman Claims chat Mr.
q. b. Kit rell Fri .hnened
Her Into Perjury.
Her Into Perjury.

s 800 @AVA As AMY
w. Glare Dickinson, the man
charged with the poisoning of b. +.
Reed in Bambsrg about the middle OF
the month just ended, was released
Wednesday on bail by Chief Justice
Pope Of the supreme court. The pro.
oeedings were brought by D%ickinson's
attorneys and we're based ON afidavits
from Alicia Bur CHI, who says that she
Bwore falsely at the cor )ners inquest
In placing the crime On the defer
dant. She Bwore at that time that
Dickinson had given Reed whiskey
and that she was led to believe that
there was poison In it. In the efi 10
Wit submitted Wednesday she sw
that she made this testimony because
after Reeds death, Mr.. G.. B. Kit
Sre!l, his brother, In law came to ner
and told that II she did not duplicate
some n che might be hanged. Mr..
ktGtrell after Raeds death had the
body exhumed and had the stomach
examined TO show evidences of arse
mic poisoning. An abb is also claimed
SA UoS uoCo w CuhOSuHy,
1t Is said that Dickinson and his
friends will not drop the case but will
take 1t to the courts. b. T.. r ed died
on January ID. Tue day before he
claimed that lie fel, very unwell
about 3 O'Clock In the afternoon and
died at G O'Clock the next morning
the cause being assigned AZ paralysis
CT che brain. His brother In law, Mr..
u. b. Ktttren. was not at all satisfied
With Gnis, on account Of the poison
theory and the body, by direction Of
Coroner J. Fl Zigler, was disinterred,
Two physicians, Drs. Hoover and
Oleokley, performed an autopsy, re.
moved the stomach aid the brain and
stated that they found evidences Of
poison having been administered. The
stomach was taken to Augusta and
examined by DR.. John Schroeder, who
also discovered trace, Of arsenic.
Two women, one white named
Alicia Burch, and one colored. lola
Wesley, were arrested. An irquest
was held and Alicia Bunch tesLlfed
that on the morning Of January 10,
Reed and Dickinson had been at her
house ard that the latter had given
the former a drink Of whiskey, but he
had not given any one else any hor
had he taken any himself. Sseir e
some people coming, he Jumped out
Of the window, but Reed remained
several hours. Dickinson returned In
the afternoon and said to her Il
guess that will fix the" She
further testified that Dickinson had
told her ten days before that he
would kill Reed II he did not keep
away from her, and that since her ar.
rest he had visited her at the ! all and
told her to cay nothing about what he
had asid about Reed,
The inquest last Friday week and
Dickinson, on whom suspicious
seems to have, as his relat, ves
had already employed q lawyer H. Nj.
Graham, was arrested. He was taken
TO jail but q dispatch to The State Of
Monday predicted some changes In the
case. o. Tuesday a Bamberg dis
patch said that the Bunch woman had
declared her testimony at the coron.
er's Inquest was false and that she
had put the crime on Dickinson + the
suggestion Of some one, who told her
that her neck might be cracked. This
dispatch further stated that a com
plets alibi was established for Dickin.
sou.
= The afiidaVits presented in the SUI.
preme court by Mr.. e II. LaFitte, at
torney for Dickinson, are interesting.
The Bunch woman testities that Reed
came to her house Oh the morning In
question and had been drinking, that
hn fN0k onUarnl lttNEo re .btoI.o.
while there and remained for o time.
After his death she swears, G. b. KIT.
trell came to her house and said: III
you do put the crime on some one
they will break you neck. Wnen he
told me that, / waS SO frightened l
did not know what TO do, so to save
myself l made up my mind to put It
on w. O. Dickinson. l voluntarily
called Mr.. Ed Dickerson, brother Of
w. O. D.ckerson, and made .he state
ment that all the testimony / CAV
before the corone In reference to w.
O. Dickerson's connection with the
death of Ben F. Rsedl was absolutely
false, that w. Q. Dickerson was not at
my house when Reed was there"
AT h inquest the woman had tes.
oiAou ViidU VIC mGu ChlUC W ner mouse
about III O'Clock In the forenoon but
Dickinson submits an andavlt That he
did not leave hIs house that afternoon
until A O'Clock, and that in the morn
Ing he was moro than q mile distant
from the Bunch woman's house. The
clerk In the county dispensary makes
affidavit that Dickinson and O.. O.
Rowell came into the disptnsary be-
tween 10 and IL O'Clock in the morn
Ing. This was a mile distant from
the house. i. B. Fowler saw Dickin.
son, 80 he Bwears, all day between 8
D. m. and Q p. M. except between
noon and l p. m. Josephine Altxan-
der testifies that Reed camo to Mr..
Sam Telder's house (~here it seems
that the Bunch woman was) about IL
O'Clock and remained until Q p. M.
Dickinson came there abb ut 4 p. m.
but Reed was not there then. @. @
Rowell was with Dickinson from 10
M. until Q p. M. except about Is or
20 minutes.
The order for bail was signed by
Chief Justice Y. ]. Pope and fixed In
the sum OF 81, 600.
A Bamberg telegram to The State
"a telegram was received here
this afternoon announcing the fact
that the supreme court had granted
ball In tho sum OF 81, 1000 to w. Glare
charged with the murder
OF q. II. Raed A faw moments altar