The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-08-04
Cecil Hicks Makes
a Frank Statement

natl. She was keeping house in the
west end, living alone and our con-
versation naturally led to her husband
and she replied frankly: "He Is now
living with one OF his use-to-be sweet
hearts and he cares nothing for me
nor no one else save bottle of booze.
He is a notorious drunkard."
have proof that tried to get Anna
Mae TO go back to her husband and
got others to talk to her and try to
bring about a reconciliation between
them, whose names herewith men
ton together with their address, Afr.
and Mrs. Tepe 1902 Main st, Gin
cinnati. Ohio.
Also these parties, accompanied me
to her room where she had sought TO
take her life by closing the eoors and
turning the gas on and when we got
her out she was almost overcome by
the fumes.
Upon one occasion she sent me a
telegram stating my mother was dead
and come home at once signing my
brothers name to the telegram and
when | come home she followed me
and called me up from Ashland and
said, Il am coming out" and when
found who il was | then knew the
purpose OF the false telegram. ! told
her not to come but she pretended she
couldn't hear. saying. I'm coming.
meet me on evening train. Good bye"
and hung up the receiver.
The poison, the mercury she brought
from Cincinnati with her and I was
unaware of that fact and she told DR..
Thompson OF Webbville she took the
poison at the command of her dirty
temper and such rumors that forced
her to take poison are false and rotten
as hades.
During her stay here she correspon-
ded with her mother and other rel
atlves and have the letters to show,
and any ono who will demand these
letters | am ready to have them pub
lished.
After she took the poison we did ev-
erything possible to save her and this
the doctor will tell you, and ! wanted
TO take her to the hospital and the
doctor attending said, "All the care
from every hospital In the world could
not save her." We have the witness
OF the good people in our community
that we gave her the closest care pos
sible. | also oftentimes ask her II she
wanted to go back TO Cincinnati TO her
people and every time she would say,
II want TO stay here
VI "A few days before she died we had
minister who stayed closely at her
side and prayed for her and she. her
self, prayed and claimed conversion
just before she passed away, and her
last request was that she be buried
here. Her illness lasted ten days from
the date she swallowed the fatal dose.
As to the burial, furnished her with
decent apparel, with as nice a casket
as could be had and minister at
tended the funeral and led the funeral
rites. II one could have been perched
on some aeroplahe coursing the ele-
.ients above the piney cemetery where
he was laid, they would have thought
II public welfare official that was
being laid to rest in some large city.
FOR out of every branch, the hill tops
and meadows, the by-ways and lanes
they came coursing their way over
paths and through woodlands to this
graveyard to witness the burial.
Her remains were laid TO rest with
the uttermost care and respect,
Now as concerns the Newport people
who came here looking for their daugh
ter whose name also was Anna Mae
They wanted TO exhume the body and
questioned them TO find who they
We're, / soon found 1t was not their
laughter and refused to let them take
her up, but told them to go back and
see Anna Macs" aunt who lived al
633 Hawthorne Ave-, Price Hill, Gin
cinnati, and told them her name, Mrs
| Maine F'riscus. Also was the very
one that gave TO these searchers our
pictures taken together to aid them in
their search and they reported a
| friendly mountaineer was the one from
whom they obtained the photos. $50
| told these Newport people to not &c
back and tell was not willing to give
her up, but to tell them l was ready
when the proper ones come and am
yet ready to help exhume the body
when they come. But notice they
/ tell drove them from the grave
which is false and they know 1t.
Now, IL Mr., Schuett will read this
and stop his foolishness / am sure he
! will be better OFF as notice he :; GO
ing to call on Gov. Morrow to help lin
get the body and bring me to justice,
and II he will show where l have com
mitted any wrong he can take or l will
so myself II Mr. Schuett wants the
body will gladly help him exhuino
1t, and II he will come to get the oody
I'll wager my life that he will ~, be
harmed. CECIL HICKS.