The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-18

the most extended of the day. He
told of the examination of the bodies
and the position in which they were
found. The witness had known
Jacobs for the last 25 years and had
seen him frequently.
Up to two or three years ago,
said DR.. Eleazer, che suffered from
nervous indigestion 1 treated him a
good while for this trouble. Two or
three years ago he called on me at
my office at Peak and said: I've got
something l want to tell you, but no,
| reckon I'd better not. l am afraid
you will tell it. Ny head has been
giving me lot of trouble all along
with this indigestion. When my ear
runs my head don't give me as much
trouble so l feel this trouble in my
head all the time. I'm afraid to tell
you but there's something awful the
matter with me that you doctors don't
understand
''He went on for some time to me
and finally said, You know the afflic-
ton of my sister, l believe l am go
ing to get in the same fix. There is
no pleasure to live in this fix
The physician testified that he had
several consultations with Jacobs,
nearly every time he came to Peak.
DR.. Eleazer said that about year
and a half ago Jacobs asked him if it
would be any harm for the doctor to
give something that would take MIN
off without pain," adding, "But then
how would my family live without
me?"
The next time he said anything
along this line, the testimony con-
tinued, was some time later when he
said strychnine did more good and
asked for more. "He asked me to
give him enough strychnine to do him
good" said the doctor, "and 1 got it
for him. He asked me how much it
wuld take to kill a man, and 1 said
Let me see that box to see if l
haven't made a mistake He handed
it to me and 1 told him he had been
taking strychnine long enough and
1 had something new I thought would
be better for him to take and he
handed me the box. I did not return
it. In one of his conversations he
asked me what kind of death
strychnine would produce"
Mrs. Jacobs once telephoned to the
witness and asked him to come to
the house When he did so she said
sac was in trouble, that when John
ME" went out of her sight she was
afraid something would happen and
that she would have to send the neigh
bors off to hunt him and find him
dead. She said, "He acts so strange
and excited when his ear don't run. y
DR.. Eleazer said Mrs. Jacobs told him
that her husband said he didn't mind
dying but he hated to leave his fam
lily. The witness said that Mr.. Jacobs
suffered from a disordered brain and
when the discharge from his ear
ceased the mental trouble was most
excited.
! DR.. Eleazer said that he passed
within about half mile of the
Jacobs home about $3.50 on the morn
ing it burned. He received call
shortly before o'clock. He passed
on the road from Springhill to Peak
but did not see the fire.
Seemed Well Mentally.
w. H. Brown, veterinary surgeon.
testified that he was on tne ROAD from
Columbia to Newberry and at 3:45
by his watch saw a light on the right
of the road in which he was driving.
1t looked IKE a small light at first,
but as he drove up it became larger.
He met two negroes in buggy driv-
ing toward Columbia. This was be-
fore he saw the light.
Daniel Hedgepath, who lives near
the Jacobs home, was probably the
last living person to see John D.
Jacobs. Jacobs called to him from
his home about dusk to tell his father
to come the next day to help with the
COW. Jacobs seemed as usual.
Mrs. E. F. Counts, the mother OF
Mrs. Jacobs, saw Mr.. Jacobs fre-
quently. He seemed cheerful and
she observed no evidence of mel
ancholy. She saw no indication of his
being dissatisfied with life or of any