The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-07

The contestants In the case are W.
II, Carroll Andrew NJ Carroll and r..
| 4. Carroll, brothers, who, In their et-
fort TO break their sisters will, have
| set un charge OF mental pcrvcrSion
They base the contention on the testl-
| mony ot themselves and OF other rela-
tiNes that their sister was addicted 10
drink and ctgaFets; that she swore like
a trooper; that she dressed, walked and
talked like a man; spent money laVishly
unnatural affection for specifically
named members Of her own sex, among
whom they numbered the beneficiary OF
her win
with suppressed emotion Mrs, william
S0n detailed at great length humiliatng
Incidents In the later life OF Miss Car
roll that caused her TO forsake the home
OF her uncle and seek shelter In the
home OF the witness
She was just little, forsakeu col
lege girl. without n home, without the
clared brokenly, @she told me that
upon her return from a college in New
York she expected to be taken into the
home Of her brothers, but that they
spurned her; that they were ashamed
of her because her deformity would not
| permit her wearing evening gowns, and
whenever they entertained they never
invited her.
they would pass her by without a word,
aud II they happened to be passing In
their big limousine they would not stop
and pick her up.
Annie was 9 dear, sweet girl, She
loved the society Of young people, but
her relatives excluded her their affairs,
and she had never been invited to the
parties of her society cousin, Mrs w.
w, Mitchell" she testified
Mrs. Mitchell had testified TO the con.
trary.
Invitations Included Her.
AT parties at my home" continued
in the crowd adding that invitation
to parties the Dalys received always in
cluded an invitation for Miss Carroll
; Wash. she a good mixerf asked
Attorney J. w. Canada, OF counsel fol
/. ths, defense,
"a, good fellow7''
what have you to say, Mrs. VII
hanson, to the charge that Miss Anni,
Carroll had complained OF you and youl
daughter and that she regretted making
her home with your
There is not one word Of truth lT
IT," replied Mrs. Williamson, flash In
Annie loved me. She loved my
daughters. We loved her. She kissed
and petted us; we kissed and petted
her, There is nothing unnatural about
that We thought great deal OF each
other She was rs one OF my owi
daughters, and gave her the attention
that any mother would for a child. She
was just a poor, forsaken little college
girl ...,. -
the daughter OF my sister, and after
had concluded telling the child a fairy
story, Annie said to me: Mrs. DAILY
would you believe me II | told you that
y tho fist fairy story ! have eye, eyer
stories when I was little, J would glad,
4 y give 10 years Of my life Just to spend
| one year with my mother,
Miss Carrolls mother died when shs
, was about years old, and testimony
was permitted to run with the Negro
servants, from which she learned tc
! swear.
Mrs, Williamson declared that all the
time Miss Carroll lived at her horse
q period OF about two years before hei
death-she never heard Miss Carol
: swear; that she never once saw her In
toxicated that she exhibited no violent
outbursts Of temper, ANA that the only
time she really became angry was wher
| her brother Andrew abused her because
she would not lend him money
Miss Annie told me that her brother
repeatedly threatened her with news
paper notoriety II she did not let hin
have a little money, and | know thai
she never had any occasion to swear ii
my home"
The witness explained further tha
on one occasion when Andrew Carol
came 10 her home to see his sister, hi
threatened, In her presence, to slaI
his sisters face II she didn't return tC
the home Of her uncle, Peter Mitchell
which she forsook because Of alleged
uncongenlality.
IL told him that he should not say
that, and when he advanced on her
picked up a poker and told him to loaVt
my home, and never enter 1t again,
Mrs, Williamson testified,
Left School for Smoking.
In reply to a question from Attorney
Canada as to whether Miss Carroll eve
told her why she had been expelled
from college at Nashville, Witness sale
that Miss Carroll has Informed her she
had been put out of school for smoking
cigarets, when caught in room smok
ing, with several other girls.
"She did not tell her relatives" wit
ness added, because she said she die
not want them to know the reason o
her EXPULSION"
According to Mrs Williamson check,
given by Miss Carroll to her and he
daughter Norma were not for person
al use, but to the contrary, Witness
testified that one check IN particular
for 500, dated IN June, 1917, was iol
the express purpose Of furnishing MIS-
Carroll with suitable hospital appare
and with certain edbles because a
the time Miss Carroll was a patient al
the Baptist Memorial hospital and wat
very particular about the food she ate
The home the Dalys and Miss Carol
occupied together was bought, she les
tilted. by Miss Carroll but furnished
hy bo Wi NJ ha.