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THE . MORNING POST AUGUST 27. 1B99. Furniture upplles and 9 CHARLES J. PARKER, flanager, RALEIGH, N. C. i School. ApparatuSo WHAT WE HANDLE. Every'1?11? used in the school-room except books. This includes desks, chairs, blackboards, maps, globes, chart, crayon, erasers and numerous other things describled 3n our catalo gue. ' CHURCH HALL AND LODGE SEATING. i' We are agents for the Latest and best s.yles of auditorium seating. Our new fo'l Mug. portable opera chairs are beau tiful, substantial and cheap. The old style opera chair is rapidly beins: re p'iitvil by this more convenient, attrac tive ami economical line. .The "Globe" Case, SUMMERELL OWNS UP (Continued from First Page.) Chairman Brown The committee Trill docide this matter for themselves. '.. Did you axtd Mr. Clark go among emiiloyes and aslc them to sign a statement4 that you were not cruel? A No. sir. Q.-DM you ever rwtoip Mayon on the siuo or romp? A Only on the rump. Did you ever whip a convict till the blood ca-me freely? A. No, sir. Q L ask you didn't you -whip Mayon' on the side till he was raw and Then turn him over on his side and beat him? A. No. sir. Q You didn't take the whip from Sater and then beat him anew? A. No, sir. Q Wasn't Mavon laid ud in the cell for a week after the whipping? A. No, sir. Denies Starving Convict. Q Bid yon give orders to the etew not to 'carry provisions to any convict who was confined in the bar racks? No, sir. Q. l)iiT mil pvot" whin ft mvnviM, an had to so to the hospital? a. a over. Q Bid you ever whip a convict so soars were left on him? A. Never. Lewis Say He's Humane. Q You think you 'are perfectly 'hu mane in your discipline? A.-Yes: v- Are you humane in working uiavictsr A. Yes. I Lmever -work them out cr reason. Q-AYhat's the death-rate on your aim : A- About three a year. The Czar Has Witnesses. .-VIP T.nATO otitt Ttri-rnaioeats taii jrouil like to have examined in your ""There are soto at Jackson. "Who ji-tp tiiovv --BuMey Smith,' a guard; W. A. ' and Edmund Sater and C. C. my steward. 'pu that these witnesses would be 'unueu rully. THE DOCTOR TKIED IN VAIN. 111. s , . - " .' iaied Efforts to Shield Summer ell Spoiled by Committee. fiSV1' ?" FupSuson, the physician at ardent admirer, said: hii ti, i Pouon. do you occupy inthysi,cia:a aDd surgeon at North 0 in and HaUfax farms. t fon Jia.ye you been there' tan 13 tiie t'hrrd year. I have Ifr sot. ytruirentiary L.ay3- Was under 0-.TT term, asort , Tr was the, penitentiary man tSSi OUR PRICES. As we do not have to pay T)ig ex penses and salaries to agents, we can afford to sell goods direct at much low er prices. For example, we sell for $10.00 the same charts that the travel ing agents sold for $30.00. For $1.50 we can duplicate their $3.00 maps and make sufficient profit to justify the business. We do not handle anything manu factured or controlled by the big furni ture trust. AVe expect only a reason able and legitimate profit. If you want to save money for youh school, let us hear from you. with Spring Rollers. A. I thought very well. Indeed, sir. Q. Was his treatment of the con victs humane? A. Ys, sir: he was always very particular about that. Q. Did he provide for and clothe them properly, do you think? A. Yes; he looked out for every thing, and never visited the camps without looking out for everything every time. Poor Old John It. Q What is you opinion of John It. Smith as a superintendent? A. I don't think he was very com petent., sir. Q. What class of men did he have under him? A. I suppose I had better take them singly. The first, at Halifax farm, he had Peter Hughes. I don't think he was competent to manage anything not a one-horse crop. Q. Did he drink mucn? A. He said he didn't drin"k much; but he was a man devoid of principle and everything else. Q. ITow about Northampton farm? A. Had very good supervisors there all the time. Mr. Summerell is a very competent man, and I think a gootl supervisor. Q. How about the Caledonia farms? A. Well, I know very little about those men. There was great waste on those farms. Q. Speaking of Mr. Summerell, is be a humane man in bis treatment of convicts? A. Y'es; I think so. He is a very positive man, and a strict supervisor. No Two Tales Alike. Q. Did you know Joe Mason, a con vict under Summere-11? A. Y'es. Q. Did you know him to be In the hospital for several days? Did they call you to treat him? A. I think possibly he stopped may be for a da j-. I think he was sent from Caledonia because they could not manage him down there. The first morning I think .he told him to line up to step into line a little faster and he got slower. 'He started In to flog him. That did not do him any good, and I think he gave him two floggings. Q. You were not called in to treat him? A. No, sir. He may have been bruised up a little, but Q. Did you see him? A. I don't think I -saw him. I don't think he stopped in the hospital. Q. Was he Hot confined in a eel instead of a hospital? A. Well, generally, everything that was in the cell3 was brought before me every morning. Q. They did not bring him before you ? A. 1 may have told them what to do for him. Q. Did you ever see the lash which they use in flogging the prisoners? A. Y'es. Q. What sort of a handle 4s on it? A. A -whiteoak handle about seven or eight inches long. The strap is about two feet long and two or three nches wide. ' g.-How. Jarge Is the Jhandlel i " SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. "We will modify this statement by saying, to all reasonable minded people. We have done so In the past; will do so in the future. We want your trade, we must please you to hold it. If every thing is not satisfactory, we will make it so. Try us. You will know where to find us at any and all times. Baptist Female University One of the handsomest school buildings In the South. We have Just closed contract to furnish it throughout with Ilyloplate Blackboards, Auditorium Seating, Recitation Seats, Desks, Chairs, Etc. Why We Can Serve You Best: The manufacturers have given years of time and etudy to the business; they have invested their money In It; they are alwtiya on the alert to Improve the quality and reduce the cost. The Manager is a practical school man of several years experience la country and city schools. ILe claims to know something about the school room use of the articles handled. lie has devoted several years to this line of business. A. Well, I suppose, about two Inch es in diameter. Who Ordered the Post mortem. Q. Were you called on to make a post mortem examination of a prison er by the name of Lowe? A. I don't know that I was called on, bm 1 made it. I thought it was my duty to make it. As soon as I saw urn I ordered him put on the table, and I made a post mortem examina tion. Q. Did you open his head? A. Y'es. Q. Did you find clotted blood? A. No; I thought I would find It, but I didn't. 1 also examined his heart. He was rather fleshy, and I thought possibly he had some fatty formation around the heart, but found it all right. Q. As a physician, what Is your opinion of the cause of his death? A. I thiuk it .was overlwat. He was very well, and it wtis an extreme ly hot da j', and I think It was from heat. I dissected every particle of his lyrain, and everything was intact every blood vessel. He might have had some concussion froru the heat. and that might have been the cause of his instantly dying. Q. Did you hear that he had under gone severe punishment? A. Y'es; I found out from the guard that he had been whipped three times that day. Q. Do you think that humane treai- ment, -doctor? A. Well, no, sir; I think that very cruel. Doctor's TCulojry of Leirli. O. I understand rou to av that Summerell was very humane? A. He wns sick "when Hint vii doue. and he liad siven orders Mint none of the overseers were to whip the r . 1 ! - 1 , til A. 1t . men in me ueiu wiuioiu nis instruc tions. The overseer did this on his own hook, lie whinned him with hi bridle reins, and hit him over the head with the trkiie. l saw nim on the road and made inquiries of him after I had made tne post mortem exam ination. Q. Did you ever see Summerell Ib-flir-t punishment personally? A. I think I saw him hit a convict two or three licks. Q. Did they never send you In to see those cases? A. Well, I have had several times to treat convicts after they were whipped. Sometimes the skin was hmlcen and I would treat them tar a. few days. But I have always instruct ed the overseers never to hit a man except ou the lower muscles. I think Iosisibly he may liave hit Mazon ou the head, and I think he knocked him down. Q. Y'ou do not think that Is the proper way to inflict punishment? v 'o. sir: I do not. q Do you know Summere!! very well? Very well. Indeed. Q. I ask you If he Is not a very passionate man? - a Yesi I think, so. q! Don't you think he Is a man of very strong likes ana aisles V o Db vou think he la a man -who LOW FREIGHT RATES: QUICK TIHE. Out goods are shipped from New York and from the factory near the Ohio IUver. This means a great sav ing In time and freight charges. Small orders for general supplies can be filled from Raleigh. Building, Raleigh, N. C, will ehow partiality through his pre judice? A. 'i es, 1 think 5ie will. But I know this he has very few beats around the camp. Everything lias to work guard,ovcrseeTs and alL Convicts Fear the Czar. Q. Don't you think that every con vict and employe working under Sum merell is afraid of him? A. No. sir; I think not. I expect the convicts are. Q. Don't you think the employes. guards and overseers ore afraid of hlni? A. Well. In some Instances I think they are. Hut 1 know some of them are not afraid of anybody. Q.W lmt Is his reputation In this counto'? A. I don't exactly understand. Q. What is his character ami repu tation? A. Well. I think everybody knows Lewis Summerell as a desperate man when he gets aroused. Q.l ask you If he did not kill a man. A. I lon't think he killed a man. I think he shot a man. 1 don't think he killed him. but he is a fearless man.V I don't think be Is afraid of anybody. Q. Is he not a man who has some political following? A. YWll. Ii'wis has a great many friends In !oth parties. Q. Wellj he is an extreme man. Is he not, In every respect? Is not that his reputation? A. Well. I expect I might say so. If he dislikes a man he has no use at all for him. Q. Do you know David S. Russell? A. Yes. Knew Nothing Against Itnssell. Q. Do jou know anything of his character? A. I don't know that I could tell vou very much alxm h!m. He was n steward over here iu Summendr camp for a few months. Q hat Is his general reputation? A. Wfll. I know nothing In the workl against him. Q. Was he an efficient man, who attended to hi duty? A. Well, ho did not know much about the bnsluess because he had no experience, but I think he did well for a green man. Q. You never heard anvthln? against his character? A. No. sir. Q. You are also physician for Hali fax farm? A. Y'es. Q. Who Is in charge there now? A. Mr. Shr.irln. Q. From your observation what do you thrak of him? A.- He U a very humane man. I think he Is most too easy with them. I loa t think he uses the whip enough. - ,f reiwrted. doctor, that Mr. ishearrn has 1mu strlpplug some women and lmyjiig them l.ihed. Do you know anything about that? A.No. sir; I know nothing of It. Q. You have tio knowledge of his having whipped any of them? A'. No. I have lasted on his whip ping 'some Of thm II., .1. 1. 1 them enough, - i ed TERAIS. We nlwayi'qno!e cah prices, but can make term to unit iur-h.isT!. If von neol the rurnltuiv. w will provi.lf tin? way for you to get it without liird.u- ng you for Immediate imyinrnt. OUR PATRONS. We could fill several column with the nam of K'htK)U we Ijave furaih- Tli list would lnolu.li ih lnllng o1Ik'. acadfDiU'it, high ivhool. gral- ed kcIiooU and country pttbllc kHiooI n this State and South ( .irolina. Iu several sections entire townhijn have la cel orJers. The bent patronago of the country I ours. - . . . , ' - ... - - - " ' - , Q. During the administration of John R. Smith and Mewborae. were the convicts well fed and well clothed? A. They were nbort of clothes a good many tiroes. Q. How was It under Looter? A. That was pretty well looked af ter under Iit-atT. i). Did Smith and Mcwborae look after detail? A.No; they would ride through and not take time to look after anything of that kind, especially John R. Smith. He would come her and look through them all In one day. The Freezing Horror Q. Doctor, were you called on to amputate the fingers of any convicts during 1S? A. Ye; I treated tlicm froza the beginning, and amputated them later to top gangrene and after the line of demarkatlon formed. Q. Could you te-Il when you flrU treated the- convicts. Do you re member the date? A. I dlremembcr now. It was ome time in the first of February, I think just after the extreme cold pel. Q. Do you know about the time the extreme cold weather occurred? Wa It Jut a day or two before the heavy snow? A. Just alotu the tlm the ezrow fell. y. Was It after the first day of February? A. I think so, sir. Ye. I feel posi tive. I didn't go to the camp for sev eral clays because the ice on the river had broken iu. y -How many convicts did yon treat? A. I think four or five. MayN seven or eight. q.Io Toll rem f-iuter bow many there were whose hands it was tjeoe. sary to amputate? A. I think two or three of them. Several bad sore feet, but non were amputated. y. Do yon remember their name; A. Richardson. I lo!ieve. wai the man who lost all his fiuzer. Q. Did you treat Willis Richard ou. Ileurr Cowan. Andee lavender. War ren Anderson, Fat Credea and ;at I-:il!ott? A.-Yes. y. Do you know when that wai d ue when thof fingers wire 'fro zen? A. I have no Lnowl.-dge except when they cauie before me. 1 can state this that they ait aa tiiey wer cold hurt before they came here; an 1 a ihtsuu eoMLnrt. If they are e posed, will be prcdIpCKed to le cvVl linn, or more ien?mve to tvi.l. y. W2:at was their physical roa dillou? A. They were In very bad nh.ipe- dlrty. ljusy. emaciated. All tb Oi- tle IIayne crowd come that way. y. lh you think tbey won) I l ngrald to nay they were frozen a: umujerelts? . A. Yen. The Doetar Asked f fcpeelfT. Q. If a mail was froxen today, how long would It 5 before the symptoms would develop? v. It would depend oa cirruai itances. It a mtn Is coUhurtt au'ltbe 1 CATALOGUE AND CIRCULARS. If yon are Interested ta fettle lnjproved furniture and apparatus cud for our Urje Catalogue aaf special circulars. They go fre with pleaiure. Wbca srritSaj, ta!( "what you need ORDERS BY MAIL. A faryo proportion of our bu$laef romH by malL If all bu5ne could ti done thru way. It would aave the pun rlacn larje uni. It rt a irrt-:. d-al o travel; th ajeu'.n odd ri:ousl to the price In o:ue form or ano:hc- 'to covir the cot and the purchaser! I my the bill. Money can be saved lj on!ring direct from a reliable bouw. We give ftpeclal attention to ibc mail orders. 1 , . ' circulation Is not entirely rroTyod. ;t might be orae time beforsi It Jere! ojxi. Hat If tlx circulation was en tirely stopped gangrene would ct la at once. y. Flf be pi2c. d-x"!or. 5orn t'nie" is very ladefiaUe. A. Well. I hou!1 my fa fortjght to sixty hour. y. Was it very coll fcero? A. Ye. y. You. y tboe roea cast) trcTd la bad condition? A. Y-$. y. 1V .you think It was hnsaaq treat raeiit to jwit them out t- work la wmiln-r like that la that condition? A. Well, ihey wen? not d:eae.lt but run down. They looked able bod.(ed euoujh. but were still thla. (J. I M you know when they word brought there? A. t inly a few days before the col 1 wember. y. What do joa mean by, a few: days? A. A week or ten days, y. Did you not state that tbey were in lad condition? A . Ye. y.-Was Gal FJUott pat to work? A. Ye. y. Was tli.it humane? A. No. I think not. Hot be came there oyiug be wa complaining, wixa hi Uiw.. and I gave him a 'tonic an 1 be wa eating beany. (Too f !! for M rk. Q. If yon Hd nt examlce thoe prisoner. bw dil you know? A. Well. I conll 4-e they were au rim down and torn tip. y Uou't you thlak that was pretty rough wt-ather to jut even a we'.l. abb. billed iii-in to w:k? A.-l thiuk it W3 loo vere to work anybody. .. Fiider whoe onlrTs were they -tit t wirk? A. Mr. Summere!!, tbe super viior. y. I ak you if Calw Illott did cot die within thirty days after 'thit freeze? A. Well. I will tell you aliout tliat. He ws put to work and. 1 think. workeJ aloi: half a day. He rami? over there rind I examined b!i aa-J founJ be bad a little fever. 1 then examined h lunzs thoroughly an I fotmJ t!at be had conumpUon. lie wa put In the hospital od cot tie bt treatuieat that we eouKl cle h'.sx till be diJ In the bopiraL y.- How ! ic Itefore be d'eI? A. A!o"l C7 or five Weeks: BD-J he Imi th; I ' i:; trouble waea beratce i her'. Q. You Uite to th! commiitee tJ.st :!io iun came then? la bai eoadJ-ii3a-a lou.y ss they cuKl le; btk1 tbii yoti ute.tLat you did doc mtk :i exandraxloa. but rmt.tneaj.out la a roll weather as cfcrVaaie la this et:atry? A. I tlid not sy that, I tuade ta examination, bat they r-aiue U-fcre n-e. "Hiey were ma lown. aud.I.'cave tbenj tonics. and they were p'aVto" wort, and thea the coM weather catae. Q. How many finrrs did you aa puuite for Rlc!ardoal w iContiaaeJ &a Stlea-ra V t X t ti Ji I .1 .J . A 1 1 r II