Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-07-25
Counsel for the State Examine Number of Witnesses in
the Lyerys-- Interesting and Convincing Evidence Produced

| bureau Wu0u / W0ub W oe0
could smell oil on pas bed. The
bed was on fire and the bureau
drawer was over John. Fannie
(Nease's wife) came over one day
and got after papa ab 'ut all OF
them leaving. Papa told her to
see Nease. Nease came down and
cursed papa, and papa ordered
him to leave. George Crawford
told them the next morning that
Nease said he was going to kill
papa. Nease was mad because
papa told him the boys must SOW
wheat or leave. Crawford lives
on Hilderbrand's pace. Nease
was mad and he was down there
once or twice after that. | heard
papa tell Nease at the barn about
a week before the killing that he
was going to thresh wheat, III
reply to Nease asking papa what
he was going to do with the
wheat. Mamma and Della Dill
lingham had trouble about Della
using the tubs and not keeping
them clean. Mamma was after
her about not cleaning the tubs.
After mamma went to the house,
Della said if mamma had said
three more words she would have
downed her. [ heard papa talk
ing to Jack Dillingham; (Friday
afternoon) just before I went to
milk, papa was getting after Jack
for coming to work so late. Jack
said he wouldn't work for any
man before Z o'clock. Papa said
"You can't work for me then. "
Jack had worked for pane u".e'
week. Taylor had slept at our
house every night since they had
been working for US, until the
night Of the killing. | don't
know what money he had at home.
He kept the money in a bureau
drawer up stairs, except what ne
carried in his pocket. [ did not
60 to Jacks or Nease's because
we were afraid of them. We
went by Jacks but left the path
before we got opposite his house,
and slipped by as quietly a. pos
slblo. The path was about ten
feet from Jacks door, and we
passed 25 or 30 feetfr the door,
My sister jamie was 10 years old
June 18th, 1906. She told me
when we got to Cooks house she
bad heard some one talking at
Jacks as we passed. | locked
the front door before [ went to
bed, left the key in the door, but
[ think papa went out after
ward becuse I locked the back
door before going to bed, and
when [ came down [ found it still
locked.
Miss Addre Lyerly said: Faith
er was lying across the bed with
his head 18 inches from the wall
his feet were on the bed, his legs
drawn up and he was lying On
his right side. The bed was on
fire about the middle. Johnnie
was lying at the head of the bed
with the fire between them. He
was lying on his stomach with his
feet sticking out of the bed. ]
took them off the bed and called
sister. We put out the fire, then
went up stairs to get some clothes
that we put Oh in the front yard
We passed Dlllingham's home af
we went to Cooks. We saw nc
light or any one moving about az
We passed. I blew out the lamp
and put it on the bureau before
going to bed. Mamma was lying
on the bed with the pillow ovel
her face and one foot on the floor
Alice was behind her. [ hearC
John and Henry Gillespie say t(
papa before Christmas that they
were not going to work on hi
land. Papa said they would hav
to leave. Nease came down afte
Christmas and asked papa why h
turned the boys off. PAPA said i