Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-06-27
The LOVING ESTES CASE
JUDGE LOVlNG'S DAUGHTER
ON WITNESS STAND.
She Relates The Tale She Told Her
Father That Impelled Him to do
the Deed of Death.
Special to THE ARGUS.


the evidence of Judge Loving yesterday
afternoon, Miss Margaret Loving, the
daughter in the case, took the stand
Miss Loving testified that she was
twenty years old, that her relations
with her father were always affection
ate; that he had always been a most
devoted father"
"Relate to the jury in your own
words everything that took place be-
tween yourself and your father when
he called you into his room."
"He told me that Uncle Harry Snead
had told him tina Theodore Estes had
brought me home the night before in a
drunken and unconscious condition
and he wanted me to explain to him
what it all meant. I went owe and
knelt down by my father and put my
arms around him and he put his arms
around me and as soon as [ could speak
I told him that while I was in Lovings-
ton Theodore Estes had asked Inc to go
driving with him; that I at first refused;
but that on Annie Kidd's insisting, /
did go finally, but thought we would
only go a little ways. did not put my
hat on; just thought it would be, a short
drive. We first drove out oward Oak
Ridge station, drove out about half way
to Oak Ridge station, then turned
around and came back and drove down
through Lovinston and stopped at his
house. He told me he was going in lis
50nSo a minnie WOT1d T wait fhara and
hold the horse until he came back. He
was in the house about five Or six min
utes. He came pack and we drove on
down through Lovingston, through the
Gap and down below Mr.. Coleman's old
places; turned around and came back
got to the Gap he took out his bottle of
whiskey and asked me to take a drink
of it, and I did take a swallow OF it, 1
told father l thought it must have been
drugged, because I Immediately began
to get dizzy and could not see things;
everything commenced to dance before
me and I asked him to take me home
at once, back to Lovingston. When we
got to where one road turns towards
L~ovingston, and one up to the mountain
road instead ofturning towards Loving
ston he started up the mountain. I ask
ed him to take me HON at once, that I
was feeling very badly and was sick,
to please take me. He did not answer
me at all, but drove on as rapidly as he
could. So father then asked me if he
attempted to assault me. I told him
that he had forced himself Upon me 1
tried to resist him.: I tried to push him
off; / screamed, but I suppose no one
heard me; I resisted all I could, but I
could not keep him back; he forced
himself upon me and I then lost con-
thing after that until I was at Mrs.
Kidd's house that night. When I told
father that, he got so white and unna-
tural looking that it scared me. I ran
gu to mother and told her I believed I
had killed my father"
Under cross examination Attorney
Daniel Harmon presented a map of the
country over which the buggy ride was
taken, and asked hat the witness fix
the point where Estes gave her a drink.
She could not remember exactly. but
designated the neighborhood. She was
then asked where the assault occurred,
to which she replied that it was after
she and Estes had turned up the noun
tain road.
The prosecution brought the state
mont from tho wifnnSS that che had NOT
mentioned a single word of her exper-
fence on the evening prior to people
she met on the same day. She had
talked pleasantly with the mother Of
the victim on the morning of the TRACE
dy, but had not mentioned her exper-
if before she went buggy riding she had
not taken a drink of whiskey at Estes
store, to which she replied, YES"
Today the first witnesses were Sher.
if Beard, of Amherst, and Lawyer d
M. Harrison, who both testified to the
the effect liquor had on him, their ties
timony being that hard and continued
drinking had often resulted in deli
RUM, and that b drink habit had a
times affected him mentally. This in
dicates that the unwritten law defens'
will be reinforced by effect of the dis
honor of the daughter on the mind o
the father. already weakened b,
liquor.
After some unim portant additions
testimony the defense rested. Th
prosecuting attorney addressed the jur,
and said the State would attempt t
prove that Miss Loving had sacrifice
her reputation to save her father fror