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Innocent”, Rate King Says (Continued from page one. > Ktog told Sheriff FmfiTQulnn hr wantad a conference with Solicitor 4. Lyles Glenn. He said his people were hot giving him a fair showing and that they did not want him to say Anything. He and Glenn walk ed into a room for privacy, as they passed tjy the Jury room King told, the foreman not to bring the Jury out until it had heard a statement he had .to make. While King was talking to Solicitor Glenn, one of King's brothers came up and call ed Iflng away. K tog's desire to appear before the jury, was passed on to Coioner Haul G. ThcCorkle. and King was allow ed this privilege. He then advanced the idea that his wife might liuve com! to her death at the hands of unknown thief he alleged had en tered their home recently. He said negroes came around his house sometimes, some of them hunting worts. This was the first officers had heard of any theft from the King home. Ho, named provisions ns the only things stolen. He was with the jury 10 or 1j minutes making his second state ment, in the presence o! officers an4 which was a rehash In a large measure of testimony he had al ready glren. Upon reaching the jail he show ed officers a written statement about circumstances surrounding the death of his Wife. After read ing it they told him it was prac tically word for word what he had told the jury in his second state ment. King agreed that the spoken and written statements were vir tually the same. He had evidently committed the written statement to memory, officers thought. When seen by newspaper men at the, York jail today. King said he had no formal statement to make, but he was not averse to talking about the circumstances In which he found himself. He appeared thoughtful and dejected through the bars of Ills cell. "All in the world I want is jus tice," he declared. “I’m innocent; I didn't kill her. There Is more to come out. The witnesses at the in quest could have told more, but they didn’t; they wouldn't tell all.” King would not disclose w hat testimony he charged the witnesses withheld, but kept reiterating that they held back from tiling things they knew. He Seemed to blame his predicament on this alleged reti cence. "I never was in trouble before." he said. “This ts the first time I have, been in Jail. I have tried to do right and no one knows anything against me. I am in trouble now but the Lord #111 take care of me." Asked about his theory of his wife's death. King did not give a direct answer. “She kept talking about killing iierseir.” he said, “but ■ then, you heard that testimony at the inquest." King professed to be much con cerned at the effect ills trouble would have on his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. King of Shelby. "Father and mother are Just recovering from influensa." he said, “and I am afraid this will kill them." He said his father is 70 years old and his mother in the sixties. King left the Jail for a short time today, hi company with Dep uty Sheriff D. T. Quinn, and con ferred with his counsel, Thcmas F. McDow. Two of his brothers from Shelby visited him today. & •COMPAPft T^THIS -^sPAce 4> JMTH 'THI* oxz I ,Neuro—Meaning: Neve — ius 4 inflammation of; Neuritis, in-’ flanunation of the nerve. The* {greatest majority or neuritis cas- * are. caused by pressure on. the nerve in the spine, isee sec ond nerve in cut' causing your pain in the muscles in the shoul- S tier, arm or leg, where the pinch ; ed nerve supplies or ends. Rub bint liniment or alcohol on the muscles will not replace this •small bone in the back that is pinching the nerve causing Neu ritis. V, ' 1 .Correct spinal analysis and Chiropractic adjustments arc the Otfly thing that will replace the bone to its normal position, al lowing natural contraction and ease in the inflamed muscles. 1 Chiropractic is also good for Flu. Pneumonia. Stomach Kul |W!jr and Liver troubles. Nervous Headaches. Sleeplessness and niany other kinds of illness. . Ooosultation and examination | free. Dr. B. M. Jarrett m — Res. 324-R •:30-12 M. — 2 to If. M. . » _ _, Room 3. Shelby — Tenth Year Practice — » No Lytol Odor In Bottle Near Body iContinued from page one.) door lo Mrs.' Ferguson's. I don't notice whether the outhouse door was open or shut, 1 talked to Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson and their daugh ter. My wife had told me she wasn't going to have the club meet ing and had made no preparation for it. My wife corrected some school pupcrs Thursday night. I don't remember whether there | was a fire in the fireplace on Fri day evening when I started look ing for my wife. I did not notice the kitchen at nil that night, i don't know what hour she was found dcnd or who found her. I didn't see her body. I wanted to see It. but they would not let me. She told ine that morning she was pregnant and she had told me time and again she would die before she would become a mother. I don't know anything In the world about blood spots on the kitchen floor. We did have some little biddies in the kitchen nnd the rats had been after them. I heard them talking about the wound In her head, but no one would tell me anything about it. I don't think T told Mrs. Flora Sims that Dr. Burruss said he saw’ my wife In town. My wife and T never lmd any trouble She never wept tt> school until 12 o'clock. Mr. Shealey always sent after her on bad days. I only went into the kitchen for the purpose of getting my overcoat. I can't say whether she had those shoes on (King shown shoes) that morning. So fai ns I know we had no lysol in the house. She said she was going to the house. She said she was going to drink lysol. I watched about that. I told Mr. Will Plexico and my brother, some time ago that she had threatened suicide. She had said before she moved to tile Country or had a child she would kill herself. She had made candy Thursday night. I spilled some on the stove. She raised cane about me letting the candy boil over and said next time I did it I would have to scrub it up. My wife was as tall and heavy as I. She weighed more than I. I am about 3B yea is old. I think I gave my age to Mr. Claud Inman as- 37—would be 38. Letters found were written by her the morning of the day she was found dead. My wife was 24 or 25. She weighed 140 or 150 pounds. She said shMhad been gaining lately. My wife had been worried since Christmas. We were going to pay $1,000 on the John T. Wilson place with tlie estate. We were going to borrow $3 000 from the land bank. She was worried. She tooiC out'$3,000 on herself aft er I had failed to pass the exami nation for a $3,000 policy. She al ready had one for $1,000, and an other for $250. I had paid the fjrst premium on the $6,000. She had stated at her sister's, "Old Rate can have a big time with his second wife over my insurance. ’ I have never mistreated her. For the last month or two I have been watching her. She threatened to take lysol. I told Mr. Sam Pratt and he Rhodes folks that she did nr want to move <Vvn to the farm and had said she would kill herself. Mr. King was on the stand 4o minutes. Tells Of Discovery. The testimony of the witness tell ing about there being no odor of poison to tile empty bottle was as follows according to the Enquirer: R. Luther Plexlco. postmaster at Sharon, being duly sworn, said: Mr. MCCully came to,my house about 7:15 p. m., Jah. 25. He said he was afraid Mrs. King had committed suicide; that Mr. King had told him ' that she had threatened to do it. Frances McCully came to us r.s we were an route to the King home and said "We have found her." I went into the outhouse. The only exposure was that of about four inches on a leg. Blodd W'as on Iter right stocking. There was no blood on her face. Froth mixed with blood was run ning from her mouth. There was no odor to the open "Nomoppln” bottle found by her side. We car ried her Into the house on a quilt. The blood on her head had clotted. I didn't see the quilt examined after we had used it to take her in. I saw no blood in the outhouse at all. She was lying on some wal nuts on a ground floor. I would think that one who had taken, poison would show some evidence of struggle. In her right sweater, pocket' was a half ear of popcorn. There seemed to be a little smoke in the kitchen fireplace. I never heard anybody say anything about her committing suicide other than what Mr. McCully said to me the night the body was found. I thought at first she had shot herself and looked for a pistol, but could find none. I noticed many nails (20 penny) driven m the walls at about the right height on which she might possibly have hit her self Doctor's Testimony. The testimony of the physician who thought Mrs. King would have writhed about the floor where she died from poison. If she died that way, follows in the Enquirer’s ac count: Dr Joseph H Saye, sworn, said: | I found the body of Mrs King ly- : ing on a cot In her home. My first impression was she had taken car bolic acid, judging from her mouth and throat. The burns were of'a1 pink and reddish color. Looking at the gash in her head I thought first she had fallen on a nail hi her agony. But close examination disclosed that the wound was ! about an Inch and a half long and to the bone. The skull was not ; fractured. I noticed where there : had been something on her throat. 11 noticed her hair was clotted with ! blood. There was none on her face. : On her stockings was blood. ' T asked Mr. King if he knew any thing about it. He said his wife j had wanted to take lysol, but was afraid it would make her face dark. ■ Mr. King said she had proposed ! that both take lysol and end it all. ; He said there was no lysol around I the premises. Lysol is five times I stronger than carbolic acid as a I disinfectant and one-eighth as I strong as carbolic acid as a poison. Any one who takes such a poison would, in my opinion, writhe some what where the person fell. There was no odor in the bottle found on the outhouse floor. The bottle found there had no odor and it I would have if it had contained I lysol. A person with a lick on the head like she had would have bled freely in the face. I would not say Mrs. King could not have taken poison in the kitch en and walked out to the outhouse and died. I would think she would have screamed and writhed after taking poison. The witness Identified gun-metal j colored stockings Mrs. King wore I when her body was found. One of ' the stockings, he said, showed that blood was dropped there and not rubbed on. The witness examined the shoes and Identified coloring on the shoes as being blood. He did not think coloring on school French ressons was blood He did not think the wound in the head of the deceased would have pro duced unconsciousness. The witness said he did not ex amine the body or deceased for pregnancy when making an autopsy Jan. 26. He identified chips from the floor in the kitchen and on a paper as blood. On Wednesday after the death ol Mrs. King, Dr. Saye testified he found blood on a tablecloth in the kitchen, and on a door and under a table. It would De unpossiDie lor one ic have as much blood on her head as Mrs. King had without there being blood on the ground or where she was lying. It looked to me like the blood on her face had beer wiped off when the body was found I would say that nails around the walls In the outhouse where the body was found were about five feet from the tloor. I didn't notice blood on her face the night the body was found. It was later that I started hunting for evidence. How Warrant Head. The wararnt served upon King by Sheriff Quinn, of York, im mediately after the Inquest, read as follows: "One Rafe King did kill and murder his wire, Mrs. Faye Wilson King, by striking her on the head and by administering poison to hei with intent to kill and that she died on the 25th day of January 1929. from the wound and from tire poison administered.” Brooms and sweeping brushe1 should be hung up when not it i use. If left standing on the bristle; • these become bent, and will not dc the work properly, j TRY STAR WANT ADS. RAIN or SNOW A Trusted Source Of Supply Regardless of the condition of the weather, sun shine, rain, sleet or snow, we are here to serve you in the same efficient manlier. We are prepared to fill your doctors prescriptions, using every care and precaution in buying the purest of drugs, and also in dispensing them. We are ptfoud of the fact a vast number of Shelby people have chosen Stephenson’s for their exclusive source of prescription supply. 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