The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-02-07
SWEARS she LIED
IN Ser TESTIMONY TEE BAN
BERG POISONING CASE.

The Bunch Woman claims That Mr.
G. 3. Kit 1ell Fri hnene6
Fer Into Perjury.
". Clare Dickinson, the man
charged with the poisoning OF 3. T.
Reed in Bamberg about the middle Of
the month ilst ended, was released
Wednesday on bail bg Chief Justice
Pope OF the su2rene court. The pro
ceedings were brought by Dickinson:
attorneys and were based on hdavit:
from Alicia Bu, ch, who says that she
swore falsely at the corners lLQues
in plscipg tie crime Cn the oefen
dant. Size swore 81 that time thai
Dickinson had given Red Whiskel
and that she was led TO believe ira
there was poison in it Ia the fl a
Wit submitted Wednesday she swear
that she nsoe this testimony becaus;
after Reeds death, Mr.. G. 3. Kit
tren, his brother in.law came 20 be!
and told thatSit she did not implicats
some one she might be hanged. MI
Kiscrell after Rseds death bad tRe
body e1humsd and had the STOMACH
examined to show evidences OF arse
mic poisoning. An abb is alsc cameo
on the afdiavltS used WEDNESDAY.
It is SAID that Dickinson and nls
friends will not drop toe case but wi
take it to the courts. 3. T Red dice
on January Il. Toe Cay before ne
claimed that he fel. very unwell
about 5 o, clock in the afternoon ano
died at S o'cl, ck tie nex5 morning
the cause being assigned rs paralysis
Ct the Brain. H;s brother In law, NJ.
G. 5. Klttrell. vas not aE all s.tis dec
with this, on acccuot Of the poisoD
theory and the bUcy, by direction OF
Coroner J. b Zsigl.r, vas oisinterred.
Two physicians, Drs. hoover ano
Cieckley, performed an autopsy, re.
moved the stomach AID the brain anc
stated that they found evidences Ct
poison having been administered. Tae
stomach was taken TO Augusta anc
examined by Dr.. John Schroeder, Whl
also discovered traces OF arsenic.
Two women, one while naEeC
Alicia Bur ca, and one coio1ed iole
Wesley, were arrested. An irqHesl
vas held and Alicia Bu, CD 1es..is q
that on the morning OF J..uary IS,
Reed and Dickinson had been at te;
house az thai The latter had given
the former drink Of whisky, but he
lad not given any cne else aDy Los
had he taken any hinsslf. S5si., 6
some people coming, he Jumped out
OF the window, but Reed remains d
several hours. Dickinson returned IL
the afternoon and said 70 her I
guess that will fix lhs---." Sc
further testified that Dicslnson lac
tcl6 her ten days befvre that ne
would kill Reed If he Old not keep
sway from her, and that sirce ter ar,
rest be had visited her st the jail ard
told her to say nothing abou, what he
had said atout Bed.
The inquest last Friday week soc
Dickinson, on whcn suspicious
seems 10 have, as his relat. YES
had already employed lawyer q, N.
Graham, was arrested: He was taken
TO Jail but dispatcn to Yae Safe OF
Monday predicted some chacges il tie
case. o. TUESDAY Bamoerg cis
patch SAID that the Bunch woman Lad
declared Ter testimony at tie coron-
er's inquest vas false ard that she
had lu6 the crime Oh Dickinson the
suggestion Of some one, who tod he.
thai her neck might be cracked. Thls
dispatch further stated that q ccm
plets alioi was established tor Dickin
son.
TIE afd5a3its presented in tie su.
prene curt by Mr., E T. LaFit,e, at
torney for Dickinson, are interesting.
The Bunch woman teslltes that Rsea
came to her house on the morning il
question and had been drinking, that
he took several drinks OF wAiskey
while there and remained for I;ms.
After bis death sic sWesrs, G. B. KIT
trell came to her house ard sale: i;
you do put tie crime on sone ole
they will break youc neck. Wnen lie
told ne that. was so frightened l
did not know what to do, SO to save
myself I made up my mlad to put it
on w. G. Dickinson. / voluntarily
called Mr.. Ed DlckeIsoD, brolhsr Of
W. c. Dickinson, and made he state
ment that al the testimony I gave
before the coroner in reference to ".
@. Olckerson's connection with the
death OF Ben E. R=edi was absolutely
false, that W. G. D.ckeIs \ vas not 81
my house when Rssc was there"
At the irQuest the woman had tes-
titled that the men came to her house
sbi ut IL O'clock in the forenoon cut
Dickinson submits an af6osvlG that be
did lot leave his house that afternoon
until O'CLOCK, and that in the morn.
ing he wss mors than mile distant
from the Bunch Wonan's house. Toe
clerk tn the county dlspensacy makes
afoaVit that Dickinson and c. c.
Rowen came into the dispsnssry be-
tween 10 snd II O'Clock in the morn
ing. Tnis was mile distant from
Ghe house. Z. 3. Fowler saw Dickin.
son, So he sHears, all day between 8
g. m. and p. n. except between
neon and I ?. n. Josephine Als1an-
Ger tessgfes that Reed came TO M.
Sam Felder's house (%nere it seems
that lne Buron 1Lnan was ab~u5 II
O'Clock and remained urti p. Il.
Dickinson came there ab; u 4 p. 10.
buh Reed was not there then. G. G
Rowel was with Dickinson from 10
8. N. until 2 p. n. except ab-uo Is ol
20 minutes.
The order Yer bail Was signed ny
Caiet Justice Y. J. Pope and fixed iD