Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-12-22
RIB MORRIS SLEW CAlhAMAA.
say> Pardee Norris, His Brother, In
Neath-Bed Confusion. Others Implicated.

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0eath-Bsd Confusion. Others Implicated.
Asbeville, Dec, 20.-A specia.
disDatch from Wolf Greek, Tent.
today from q newspaper man SEM
tbere by The Gazette News Of
this place to learn the facts rela'
tive to the alleged confession Of
one Pardee Morris in connection
with the killing of the Chinaman,
Ling Gun, near the State line 1e
vaars ago, gives an interesting
int of that confession as So
i from Dr.. l.. A. Green, in
Use presence the confession was
made and who sent information
of the confession to the sheriff
of Madison county, the sheriff Of
Buncombe and to the solicitor
for this judicial district. The
story from Wolf Creek follows:
eyes Pardee Morris made a con-
fession to me-" said the doctor.
sit was along between the 2Otb
or Goth of November as We we're
taking Pardee down to Newport.
He was a sick man. I had been
attending him at his home about
four miles up the creek, and We
had brought him down this far
u night. Me and my wife. and
Talbert Presher and my 14-year-
old granddaughter and Pardee's
wife were all in the room around
the fire. Partee seemed to feel
that he was near Deaths door.
He kept saying over loud. eff
hit hadn't been for me lying,
Brother Bob would have huns.
I can see the rops going round b 3
neck now" "Why?" I asked.
Pardee replied, "Because him ard
the others killed the old China
man. Bob got mad because his
wife got scared at the Chinaman
and he swore he was gwine to
kill him. They set dogs on him.
Bob, Frank Lamb aud Green
Kelly and Wade Lawson aid
Green Lunsford run him to old
Nance Williams, near Paint Rock.
They killed him in the chimney
corner. Brother Bob cut his
throat in two places, n here
and one there Indicating with
his handy. I was hauling lumb.
or for Peter Sissom with a yoke
OF oxen and Green Kelly went to
Sissom's and brought IN oil bar
rel and a buahel of corn and
said to me. "'I want you to
haul some corn for me over the
mountain They put the
Chinaman into the barrel, kind of
doubled him up and pulled hls
legs back over his head in cram.
ming him into the barrel. They
told me hit was corn but seemed
to me hit was too heavy for corn.
I come on across the mountain
and when I got to the horseshoe
bend, just a little above here. ]
found out what it was and rolled
him out of the wagon and rolled
the barrel down a steep bank"
Here Dr.. Green stopped a mo.
ment in his recital of Mr.. Morris
confession, After an instant be
continued:
"Pardee said: Lawrence Wad.
del told about seeing Kelly anc
Bob Lamb and Green Kelly ano
Wade Lawson carrying something
across the creek, all wrapped NJ
In a sheet. He said it was a 81 il
they were carrying into the noun
tains. Lawrence was mistaken
It was the dead Chinaman the,
were carrying. He was swung O,
a pole. They took him way u ii
the mountains and throwed lin
down beside an old moss-coyere,
spruce log"
Coming back to the kill, g
Paydee was thus quoted: "E"'
cut the Chinaman's throat; B;t.
and Green K"|ly ard Bob All,
Frank Lamb aud Green Lunefor'
and tho women got the none,
and then they tried to pile hin
off on me to haul over into Ten
nessee.'"
During the confession, Dr.
Green says, Mrs. Morris, the wifi
OF the sick man, would Interrupt
Morris and try to stop him fron
telling OF the killing of the China