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i LL LOVE HIM" SAYS WOMAN IN MURDER CASE Defendant Declares She Was Warned Against Man for Whose Murder She Is Now Facing Trial. Hampton, Va., April 6.--"But I still loved him too much to kill him." 8 With these words Mrs. Mittle Jester d Cmming late this afternoon brought to 1 a close her recital on the witness stand of the details of her relations ( with Samuel Gordon Cumming, prom inent Hampton attorney and former v State Assemblyman for whose murder on the streets of this city last Febru- j ary 7 she is now facing trial in the 1 Elizabeth City County Circuit Court. I While Richard Evelyn Byrd, United s States district attorney for the West ern district of Virginia, counsel for r the defense, fired questions at witness es for the commonwealth, Judge R. Carter Scott, of Richmond, presiding in the stead of Judge Clarence W. Robinson, was forced to rap repeated ly for order. "I met Gordon Cumming at Buck roe Beach," said Mrs. Cumming. "le was wealthy and stood high socially, while I was poor and uneducated. I had been warned against him, but he told me soon after our meeting that he could not live without nue. 'Your beautiful brown eyes are life to me,' he said. 'He drugged and betrayed me. He east me into the world with our child. le beat me. He had me thrown -ihto jail repeatedly. He stole my son after the court had given him to me with five dollars a week alimony to care fo rthe two of us. "But still I loved him. I loved him too much to kill him. People who tes tified that I threatened to kill him made a mistake. I have said that a CYPRESS SASH DOORS BLINDS -7 0 MOULDINGS AND MILLWORK The Plug That Starts t S You want a Spark Plug th ian emrny-- teady, re ) Watkins Spar SMade for ALL Automobile Gasoline Engines of every SQuality and1 Watk&-3 Giurant this Spark Plug as well as be 137 Watkins Products the Jocality have been bulyinlg for years. ASK TIlE WATKINS W. E. REA se., MANNING, THERE'S in buying promiscuously You should exercise th tion of a Reliable Drug; selection of your Lawyer To exercise Care Mean; Dickson D nan who would do the things he did hould be killed, but I would not kill u 1n1. I loved him too much. No ' voman ever loved a man more than I wved him." Mrs. Cumming described the priva ions she and Kenngth, her son en Lured while trying to live on the $5 week allowed them by Cumming. I She declared that during the winter V he and the child almost froze to oath and that often they were entire- V y without food. There wasonly one time during the V a ythat she lost the stoic composure isplayed at all other times. That vas when she testified that upon com laiit of Cumming she was put in nil for four (lays, at which time her V 'usband took the child and carried tim away. Here she broke down and obbed violently for a minute or two. 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I doin't remember eth ing else that happened until I v himii lying 0on the( pav~ement. I ggered to a dooway an wa ar I toi jail. Trwo dIays atr thecy told lI about it. lII had tol h e h trol led the eourtis an thatI hewa ng to take thle hoy away from ine. 1. F'. Snow, a mrhat of Pheu I of having loaned Mi r( nunmino evolver. She had told him i she was vinge t~o a reimote part of the city I that she needed it for pirotection.j $100,000 VAlIrIE OF G'EMiS fok, A pril r..P e valu Ifpw v stolen from the huao of m ilton Carhiart, imill iona ire overahl nufacturer, at the aCr hamrft hunia 'on Catawba river in E'asternm York nty wednesday, is about $100),006, ording to informat ion rive tis 11 ('rnooni fr'om~ ai reprier9'ntat ive o'(f a vate detective agency working on case. Thte stolen gems, which in Ie (diamondsn, rubies, (emeraldIs, sap res and a pearml nelacweei arge jewel cas wich wa ina set i nthe Carhaitt bungalow. Jew es and pawnibroker s in c ities over country have be en notifie d to teh out for the stolen gems. 0 A 1Iplete description of w.hich they 'e been furnished. InclIude d in the Ien property were several pieces of rI money. The millionaire mau turer and his wife, it is understood, b~een at the hungalow only afew 's prior to the time of the prioperty y having spent the past winter in FOR SALE~ ne Paige Toutring Car, new tires engine in good condition. Fred L esesne, Receiver for Dowav&MLCallh.hW manning, s. U. Wardrobe You Would H delayed in the selection of coat, - vider or more adyantageous choi -ier waiting. 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