Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1913-08-13


room. going to her own room.
{ Miss Beulah said that her mother
later came around on the porch
and sat down ct the door. on the
outside, close to the davenport On
which lay her husband. Whom be
made a movement as if to rise
Mrs. CRIB ran in and shot him
three times, killing him almost
instantly.
The other daughter, Miss Edna
Grubb, corroborated her sisters
statements and added few other
details of Importance. She said
that after her father had beaten
her mother with his fists he seized
her by her hair and dragged her
from the room and out to the
automobile shed in the rear of
the house, where he got his pistol.
He then dragged her back in the
house, using the pistol a. . club
and beating her every step. He
struck her once across the side of
the head with such force that she
dropped to the fl oor and was al.
most unconscious. She thought
for awhile that her mother was
dead. Mrs. Grubb revived slight
ly at last and asked to be allowed
to get some water from the porch.
Thinking that she was planning
to escape, Grubb clutched her
skirt and follow ed Ter to the
porch, holding the pistol on her
and telling her that he was not
going to let her 60 to her brother.
Lester Davis, but was going to
kill her and settle with Lester
later. He brought her back into
the living room and threw her
down on the davenport, telling
her that he was going to kill her
as soon as he rested.
Miss Edna corroborated her
sister as to the pistol and other
matters and said that after her
father had fallen asleep, she help.
ed her mother to crawl through
the room, she slipped around the
back way and helped her mother
to crawl through the window.
She advised her to run away.
Mrs. Grubb told her that she was
not able to 20, she WAS 90 badly
hurt, and that she believed that
she could never stand another
blow. They we're sitting on the
porch, close to the door, the
mother crying, when they heard
Grubb move as if to get up. The
daughter says that the mother
screamed and ran into the room
and shot three times.
When the taking of testimony
was completed tho coroner wss
requested to bring his jury to
Mrs. Grubb's room, a. she wish
ed to make a statement. They
found her swathed IN bandages
almost from head to toe. The
bridge of her nose was broken and
one ear was split from . blow
with the pistol of her husband.
Both arms had been horribly
bruised and lscerated and her
legs were mass Of bruised flesh.
Her injuries are serious and very
painful, but she will recover. She
was very cool and self.possessed
and told q story that confirmed
the testimony of her daughters in
every detail. She said that she
was convinced that her husband
would have killed her if che had
not shot first and she killed him
to protect herself and children.
After hearing the evidence the
jury retired for few minutes and
returned with a verdict that "the
deceased, H. Clay Grubb. came
to his death from a gunshot
wound at ths hands of his wife,
Emma F. Grubb, and that she
was justifiable in her act."
The Grubb place was overrun
with people. All of the neigh
bors for miles around were there
and all of them had stories to tell.
A Mr.. Barnhardt, who lives on
the place, told of seeing Grubb
chase his wife around the house
with a pitchfork four weeks ago
and one of the daughters told of
her father throwing dishes, etc {,
at the mother q short time ago.
His friends, to judge from things
they said, had been expecting
something to happen for the past