The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-04
BEGINS
Fact Brought Out That DIR. Rowland
Was Living With Third Wife and
Had Been Sued for Divorce on
Ground of Adultry.
(snecial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh, n! T., Octope
convened promptly at $3.50 oclock
this morning for the trial OF DR.. ana
Mrs. Rowland for the murder OF En-
gineer Strange The following states
witnesses were examined: l. L.
Strange. of Bedford, Ind, brother OF
the deceased. The witness did not
make a good impression. A sensa-
ton was sprung in the fact brought
ont that he was living with his thlrd
wife and had been sued for divorce
on the ground of adultery; Nr. l. Z.
Strange, w. E. Cole, Robert Reid, Mike
Tighe, Freeman, Pussy and two negro
BARRIERS were examined.
James Strange. The witness said
he came to Raleigh for the sake of his
dead brother. His fare was paid by
the Brotherhood of locomotive En-
gineers this time and also last July
When told that he would have to an
swer the direct question he replied
that he said his brother Charles heard
what Lilly Strange had said about
the fast life in Omaha. They were
all talking and joking. He said John
Block told him Charles Strange's wife
gave him a tablet which made him
sick. Block also said that Strange had
said to his wife the morning after his
illness: Lilly, hat tablet you gave
me nearly killed me- Strange said
Lilly did not raise her head when
her husband said this. Mrs. James
Strange wife of the last witness,
swOre that she first knew Charles
Strange, he was a young fellow. Dur
ing the last seventeen years she had
frequently seen him. The witness told
of a conversation she had with Lilly
Strange regarding the latter's bathing
at Ocean View, near Norfolk, Lilly
saying she went into the surf with a
Mrs. Ball, who did not bear a good
reputation, Mrs. Rowland said that
while bathing she had met a young
man, a DR.. Rowland, and that he knew
her husband, Charles Strange, and
she feared he might tell her husband
about the affair. While they were
bathing Rowland asked her if she
could float and held her upon his hand
and f1oated her. She had never heard
Of an attack of heart disease Of
Charles Strange
Robert Reid, of Portsmouth, Va,
said he saw her and Rowland bathing
at Ocean View, last year 20 yards
apart and not cOnversing. Engineer
Mike Tighe Of the Seaboard Air Line
said he knew Strange we'll, but knew
Mrs. Strange and DR.. Rowland only
by sight; saw Rowland near the
Strange house many times, some
times after midnight, and saw
him and Mrs. Strange together
about 7 o'clock at night, followed
them through various streets to Row
lands office, this being about three
weeks before the death Of Strange. |
Saw her another night wearing dark
hat n automobile cloak and again
followed her, watching her carefully, |
and she again went to Rowland's Of
flee. Tighe was Immediately behind
her and when she went up the steps
she turned to the right where Row.
lands offices were. This also was a
few weeks before Strange's death
She went to ROwland's office twice
alone and once with Rowland, but the
time she went with Rowland they
parted one block from his office. One
night after death of Strange he and /
some other engineers saw Rowland
pass, followed him and saw him en-
ter the Strange house, one of the
men in the party following Rowland,
called to Rowland to get Off the porcn
and he got off in a hurry-Strange
was good mar physically and healthy !
and never complained of sickness but
on one occasion spoke of having an
operation performed and was told by
Tighe it would be all right if he could
take ether or chloroform, to which
Strange replied that he thought he
could take ether all right, for if he had
a heartt he did not know it; this
conversation occurring about a month
before Strange's death.
On cross examination the attorney
for the defense asked Tighe why he
did not testify about the heart dis
at the habeas corpus hearing; to
which Tighe replied he did, but before
he could tell it all was stopped being
to stand aside. He said that
when he followed Mrs. Strange there
was no prosecution. Once in Rich
mond a party of engineers were talk
ing about the conduct of Strange's
wife in Norfolk and one remarked that
Strange should be told of it. One
made a sighting remark about her.
Tighe said his reasons for following
her at the times he had referred to
was his desire to see if the reports
about her were really true. He did not
ell Mr.. Strange what he saw, but he
lid tell Engineer Steele, who was a
Mason and a married man
G.. L. Ennis. SeabOard Air Line ell !