The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-06-03
Some Errors Corrected.
Dennis, Miss, May S. 'o9.

ticle that intimat ID that some mis-
takes had been made in reporting
some court proceedings in this
district. ! am here to say that
there has been first an article from
Belmont that the writer reported
that the Armstrong woman had a
preliminary trial before Justices
Byram and Miller. | had no part
or lot in the matter except that /
was present and served as consta-
BILE for short time. There was
no evidence against the woman
mentioned except that she had
bought strychnine from McRae
some two weeks previous to this
attempt and for which McRae had
kept no record and he also stated
that the woman made no explana-
ton as to what she wanted it for,
and the other evidence against her
was that she had made some
threats on or about the oath day
Dec, 1908. If it had been left
with me she would have free as
she had two witnesses who swore
that she was not out of the house
on the night of the attempt. Sec
ond mistake. That Phone mes
patch from Belmont" giving an ac-
count of the infant in the field and
physician being summoned. Ac-
cording the evidence the child was
born Friday morning at 2 O'Clock
and no person in the room wit h
the woman, but her step father
and sick mother we in an adjoin-
ing room with the door between
tfen open. Nothing said about
the matter until Sunday afternoon
when the man of the house asked
some parties to help bury the child
which he claimed to have found
some 40 or 80 yards from the
house covered with trash, with
chunks of wood laid over it. On
Monday morning l was called
over the phone to come. Tues
day morning l held an inquest.
The evidence was to the effect
that Jack Chngan the woman's
step-father and is also her father
in-law, had repeatedly told her
that he would see her die before
he would help her in the least.
The woman claimed it was dead
born child and that she had no
other help at hand as her mother
was in a dying condition she was
forced to bury the child as best
she could until she could make
other arrangements. She was not
charged with any crime or put
under bond either, and if you
have any doubts in the matter you
can find the evidence in the hands
of the clerk at Iuka in few days.
The woman has acted very badly
but her stepfather aud his son are
far worse to be blamed than she.
l think you will see for your
S elf that mistakes and misrepre-
sensations are frequent occurren-
ces from Belmont not only in he
VIDETTE but in the Memphis pa
pers and | am getting tired of it..
So far as am concerned in any
proceedings there was no evidence
against either of these women and
in the first ones case the public
know it therefore ! do not want to
be mixed up in such ignorant de-
cisions based upon testimony that
is no testimony. This is personal
and l only write to satisfy you as
Editor that some reports are false.
Yours, John c. Miller.
i P. S.-There was no physician
summoned to see the Clingan wo-
man. She frankly owned the
child to me and said if it had liv.
!; ed she would have given it the
same treatment as her other ones
born in wedlock. J. c. M.
Sore Nipples.
Auy mother who has had expe'
rience with this distressing all.