The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-07-05
SSHEE'TELlS}V Va WHY
Miss Loving Tells the Tale Of
Her Wrongs.
DRUGGED AND RUINED.

"""So Living, NOCS OH tho
Stand and Relates tho Horrit
treatment Sie Received ut tin,
Hands of Young Estes, While The,
Were On That Lonely Ride.
AT Houstan, Va, on "Wednesday af.
ternoon, of last week, between stiff.
ing sobs, with tears streaming from
her bright blue eyes and y~iolentl,
struggling to control her emotions
Miss Elizabeth Loving, who has oc.
cup1ed the centre Of the stage in the
trial or her father, Judge VIM. G.
Loving, for the murder Of Theodore
Estes, told Oh the witness stand the
story of her alleged ruin at the hands
OF the young MAJ her father shot
down. The recital was probably the
most dramatic e heard in a Vir-
gina court of justice and rivalcd, #
not surpassed, in point of atrocious-
ness the story told by Evelyn Nesbit
Ihaw or her experience with Stan
ford White. 1t was the same story
she said she told to her father on
the day of the tragedy.
AT the afternoon session Judge
Barksdalc ordered the court room
cleared OF all persons except those
directly interested and the newspa-
per correspondents. In a few seconds
the crowd had filed their way out.
Everybody knew this step was pre-
llminary to the placing on the stand
OF Miss Loving. Miss Loving, weep-
ing. took the arm Of Attorney Lee,
leading counsel for the defence. who
led her to the stand.
She wore a black skirt and waist
black hat and veil of the same color.
she lifted her veil and began her
story. For the first few minutes she
h'd TO be allowed to stop at intervals
IN order to dry the tears which con-
tinuously ran down her face. During
the recital several attorneys for the
defence and Judge Loving, his young
son and Miss Annie Snead, a sister
OF MIS-. Loving, gave way to tears.
Miss Loving testified that she was
~ years of age; that her relation
with her father was 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 that Theodore
ESTES had brought me home the night
before IN q drunken and unconscious
condition, and he wanted me to ex-
plain to him what it all meant. /
went over and knelt down by father
and put my arms around him and he
put his arms around me, and as soon
as | could speak | told him that
while was in Lovingston, Theodore
Estes had asked me to go driving
with him; that I first refused, but
that on Annie Kidd insisting I did go
finally, but thought W. would only
go a little way. did not put my
hat on; Just thought it was to be a
short drive. We first drove out to-
wards O%akridge station. drove about
half way to Oakridge station, then
turned around and came back
through Lovingston and stopped at
his house. He told me he was go
ing in his house a minute. would |
wait there and hold the horse until
he came back. He was in the house
five or six minutes. lie came back
and we drove on down through Low
ingstOn, through the Gap and down
below Mr.. Coleman'S old place, and
turned around and came back to-
wards LOvingston. Just before we
got to the Gap he took out a bottle
OF whiSkoy and asked me to take a
drink Of it, and ] did take a swallow
Of il. I told father | thought it
must have been drugged, because |
Immediately began to get dizzy and
couldn't see things. Everything com
mcnccd 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 down and
one up the mountain, instead of turn
ing towards Lovingston, he started
up the mountain. | asked him to
take me home at once, hat | was
feeling very badly and WAS sick, SO
please take me. He didn't answer
me at all, but drove on as rapidly as
he could. SO father hen asked me
if he attempted to assault me. |
told him that he had forced himself
upon me. screamed but | suppose
no one heard me; and that | then
lost consciousness and did not re-
member anything after that until |
WIS 1T Mis-. kIuu y houSt illdl nlGIi.
When | told father that, he had got
80 white and unnatural looking that
il scared me. | ran out to mother
and told her | believed I had killed
my father
At the conclusion Of her statement
Miss Loving rcgaincd compOSurc and
the cross-examination By the prose-
cutiOn began,
A Mup Presented
Attorney Dan'l Harmon presented
Il map of the country Ovcr which the
buggy ride was taken, and asked that
the witness fix the point whore Estes
gave her a drink. She could not re-
member exactly, but designated the
ncighborhood. She was then asked
where the assault occurred, to which
she replied that ii was after she and
Estes had turned up the mountain
road.
when did you remember gaining
consciousness"
During the night at Mrs. Kidd's."
"Do you remember telling Mrs.
Kidd that you had taken too large a
drink and that o did that once be-
fore at B~ollcvuc?"
NO
"Did you not get out Of the buggy
and walk up the steps and into the
house without a~ssistance?'
"No."
"On the next morning did you see
Miss Sheldon, the dressmakcr? Did
Miss Sheldon come up to take your
measure for a drcss?'
oVocb