Show incredible SUFFERING SHOCKING experience OF A FUGITIVE NEGRO WHO ATTEMPTED TO MURDER HIS WIFE SMITHS GROVE ky dec 23 the night of december andrew graham a negro living on the farm of dr M 1 N 4 drake near this town cut his cifes throat inflicting very verv dangerous wounds after committing the crime graham jumped from a window clad only in his bis shirt and drawers and fled he was tracked over a circuitous route ashai rt distance after which all trace of him was lot lost and bearc search was abandoned on wednesday he made his appearance at toe tae house bouse of M R miles from smiths grove his beard was covered with icicles and his bis feet and legs badly frozen relating his experience graham a said aid after I 1 did the cutting I 1 went to a pond and tried three times to drown myself but could not hold myself under the water I 1 then left ane pond and went barefoot over the frozen ground some four or five miles to the top ot of the knob in front of mr bossons Goa Gos sons house about a mile and a daylight I 1 stopped to rest when my mv met feet began to crack open an and blied bleed hlis blister heisters formed en n the bottom of them rhey soon got so sore that I 1 could not walk I 1 staid at this place for eight days and seven nights without food clothing or shelter except the few leaves I 1 could rake over me it rained several times limes and was very cold to say that I 1 suffered suf feied would not half begin to express it last thursday I 1 began to want water and crawled on my hands and some in a hollow in the ground where I 1 drank as much as I 1 wanted I 1 then crawled away about fifteen steps and aad haid down so 80 that I 1 would be near water when aheu I 1 again wanted it I 1 guess it was where the wild get water as I 1 coul tie lie there and see them drinking drink lag at a al most any hour of the night I 1 saw as many as aa three opossums sums there at one time quarreling about which should drink first the foxes would bark within twenty feet of me I shouted myself hoarse trying to get t assistance but it did no good one ae day ay some boys came in sight of me but I 1 was so weak that I 1 could not make them hear me af after ter suffering untold agony I 1 madeep made up my on the eighth dato day to find somebody or die in the attempt so I 1 started f from rom my hiding place sliding on say my stomach until 1 could get hold of cometh something ng to pull myself to my feet by then I 1 wi uld straighten up steady myself and start forward falling as far as possible in the direction that I 1 wanted to go which was toward mr bossons house by night I 1 reached a straw stack where I 1 slept among the hogs bogs to keep warm I 1 reached mr bossons Gos sons a little after sunrise and he gave me something to eat the first food I 1 had tasted for eight days he then put me on a mule and told me to go to smiths grove I 1 did so and am now in your hands you can do with me as you think best as being sorry would not bot do any good now the above is grahams story just as be told it and his appearance ju justifies stifles his bis statements the tae skin to is earning coming off his feet in places several inches square and resembling sole leather his hii feet and legs are ag abnormally normally swollen to the knees and amputation will be almost necessary I 1 grahams wife came biear near dying from the gouid aou hd inflicted by him but is now in improving roving and w will ill probably get well we he cut her with a pocket knife the wound being six inches in length and extending from the back of the neck to the windpipe is in front IV r Y sun |