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we're blue but the finger nails were all

were blue but the finger nails were all
right.
The watchers decided to call a doc
/ tor and communicated over the tele-
| phone with Drs. Rogers, Tucker and
| Jordan. They all said that it was
! no use for them to come at night, but
| that If the body was in the same con-
t dition next morning to call them.
However, when the witness looked
! at the body in the morning it had
become stiff, the fingers were blue.
"NEW ONES ON HIM."
W. f. carp testified that he lived
lust across the street from the
Strances. When he learned that
Strange was sick he went to the
house. He felt Strange's pulse and
it was moving. There was no one
in the room but himself and the doc
tor. The doctor was standing at the
! bureau. He asked witness what he
thought and then went out of the
room q second and then came back
with a hypodermic syringe cup the
middle of his sleeve" Witness testi-
fed:
Il said: Doctor, the mans as dead
as nitr''
"But he went on and slipped it up
his arm
Witness testified that alter Strange
had died DR.. Rowlnad asked him how
long the people had been here and
what they were following Witness
replied that they were railroad peo-
pie, to which Dr. Rowland remarked
that he thought he knew all the rail
road people, but these were 'new
ones on him.
MRS. STRANGE DENIED ROW
LAND.
Constable ID. r. Byrum testified to
having served a warrant on Mrs.
Rowland (Strange.) She said at the
time tbatit was all uncaled for; that
she did not know DR.. Rowland until
the morning her husband died,
and that some one would suffer for
it,
Miss f. }. Ryecroft, a business col
lege student who boarded next to
the Strange house, stated that she
went to the house on account ofhear-
ing Mrs. Strange crying. There were
present in the house only Mr.. and
Mrs. Strange and DR.. Rowland.
| Strange was in q room on a bed.
When witness passed by the door he
was sitting up. In fifteen or twenty
| minutes after she saw him sitting up
he was dead. Mrs. Strange was on
| the front porch and witness Joined
her there Mrs. Strange was crying
and asked witness to go and see
whether Mr. Strange was dead yet.
| Witness went into the house and Mr..
| Strange was dead. She came out
and told Mrs. Strange. The latter
said: don't tell me Mr.. Strange is
| deadn'
Mrs C. A. Turner, wife Of all engi-
neer, was introduced and testified
that she asked Mrs Strange why she
| had sent for DR.. Rowland and that
the latter had replied that she had
tried to get several other doctors
and had finally asked "Central'' to
send her doctor.
THE TRIP TO NORFOLK.
| W. E. Morris, a conductor on the
Norfolk and Southern, testified that
he had known Strange for several
years and remembered his death. On
the 18th OF Nay he left on Seaboard
train number 30 for Portsmouth.
The train left at about three in the
| morning. He saw DR.. Rowland at
Weldon. He wasin a saloon gettin g
a drink and bought a bottle of beer
that he wrapped in paper and car
ried back to the train with him. He
saw Dr. Rowland get off the sleeping
car at Portsmouth closely followed
by Mrs. Strange They went over
to Norfolk on ferry boat and pro-
ceeded to the Atlantic Hotel. The
witness knew them and was pres
ent when DR.. Rowland signed the
register at the hotel Witness regis
tered Immediately afterwards. He
saw on the register, "E. l.. Stevenson
and wife, Pendleton, N. CO. The
room given him was 1922. Witness
got room 2O7.
Afterwards Mr.. Morris testified
that he went out and met an engineer
and later went over to Portsmouth.
That night he called up the Atlantic
Hotel and asked for room 1922. A
man answered and he asked ii Mrs.
Stevenson was in. Then he heard a
woman's voice over the telephone.
He asked: 'Is that Mrs. Steven
son?'
"Yes!" was the repy
He asked: "HOw'd YOU enjoy your
self today?"
''Fine!' was the reply.
Then witness asked: "When are you
going back to Raleigh?'
To this question there was no re-
ply and the phone was hung up with
a snap.
OTHER TESTIMONY.
W. A. Stewart, recalled, corrobor-
ated Conductor Morris about the
Rowlands having been registered in
Norfolk under an assumed name
Harry Latta, clerk at the Yarbor.
ough. said he thought Mrs. Rowland
was the same woman who had once
registered at the hotel under the
name of Smith, but could not be GER
tain. +. l.. StOckwell testified that
Strange was very healthy man;
that he saw him five days before his
death and he was in his usual state
OF health. Strange's life was in
sured for $ 1 800 in the Brotherhood
but he did not know what other
money he had, He had seen Mrs.
Strange go to Mr. Reese's office in
the capitol and afterwards go down