Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-08-31

| ty physician u. h. Sewer was hur-
rledly summond and responding
dressed the wound. He found
that the throat was badly hacked :;
that cash probably four or five
lnthes in length and one and one
half inches deep had besn inf1iot-
ed. Allison made no comment
on the act. While the ply 3ician
was dressing and sewing the hurt
he was quiet and indifferent with
never a groan or a word. The
wound is not fatal-he will recov-
er.
Allison last night planned post
mortem statement. He wrote, or
caused to be written, letter to
the city editor of The Gazette
News, in which he declared that he
was satisfied; only that he wished
he could have KILLED that woman
(Ella Wheeler) who lied to me so
much" The letter follows:
Dear sir AS [ wish to make q
full statement as to the killing of
McGee in order that the papers
may get it straight I hereby state
to you that we had been at outs
for over 3 year about the Wheeler
woman. And when he got me
hemmed up at her home about
ten days before / shot him, and
made me run out the back door.
In order TO come down stairs 1
had to face him with pistol in
his hand, as she woman had let
him in the front door. And most
every day after that when he
would pass me he would laugh at
me and make remarks about it.
Right then he was driving nails In
his coffin, for I had made up my
mind the night he threatened me
that I would kill him. He knows
that I killed him, as We were face
to face when 1 shot him, and l
am satisfied, only wish l could
kill that woman who lied to me 30
much. / tried to avoid trouble
with him for over a year, bnt he
wouldn't let me alone and had
rather be killed than to Iet man
like him run over me. He fooled
with the wrong man and I killed
him.
l also wish to state that l am
nos going to Raleigh to the elec-
trio chair. I haven't got but one
time to die and will die in Ashe.
Vile. [ don't intend that they
shall drag me about and make a
show out of me. I will die game
here. I don't intend to represent
Asheville in the electric chair Of
Raleigh by being the first one to
20 there from here.
Yours truly,
J. B. ALLISON.
Charlotte Observer.
Raleigh, Aug. 16.-Sheriff
Hunter of Buncombe county SAFE
ly delivered to the States prison
tonight at Z O'Clock James B. Al
lison, sentenced to die III the cleo
trio chair February "a, the trip
from Asheville having been made
without special incident follow
ing All1son's sensational attemps
to take his own life Thursday IA
the Asheville prison by cutti, &
his throat with small knife he
had concealed in his cell.
When he arrived here Allison
seemed depressed and went
through the regulation preln! l.
naries of a hair cut, bath and den
ming the prison garb without sl.e'
cial marmur or protest. He as
assigned at once to the section
of prison cells allotted to priso
ers awaiting elactrooution. He'e
there will be q guard constantly
on duty. Besides this cons, :. 1T
watch there is every precautlo.: 10
see that the prisoner hasn't t.d
cannot get anything with wh 81.
60 work out of prison OF do b n
self any violence. Therefore. it
is thought that there is the last
possible possibility of Allis Is
making good his boasting tn a
that he will take his own life e.
fore the day of execution cou3os
Charlotte Observer.
Kidney trouble is particular. %
be dreaded because it's presel ca is