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Show WITNESS TELES HE POISON PLOT Woman Told Him to Poison Georgia Peach King, Court Hears MACON". r,a.. Dec 18 J. A. Tur-nr Tur-nr r. Jr.. son of a farmer tenant. F D. Tutls. in Wilcox county, testified to-' to-' day at the preliminary hearing in the Sheppard case that Mrs. Annie Cutts bad asked him to poison Fred D. Shep-i Shep-i pard. wealthy Georgia peach grower, j w ho Is alleged to have been the victim of a poison plot. The testimony was i ruled as applicable only to Mrs. Cutts j and not to the other defendants, Shep-i Shep-i pard's widow, now Mrs. Pauline Elmer, El-mer, her san. Ernest Houson, and that of her sister. Mrs. Iona Henry. Turner was cross-examined by Eld-redge Eld-redge Cutts, husband of the accused woman. He said he had never seen Sheppard or Mrs Elmer at the Cutts farm Turner said he left for Wayne county coun-ty soon after Mrs. Cutts had asked I him to poison Sheppard and that Mrs. Cutts followed "me to the door and kissed me goodbye." "Where was I" asked Cutts. I "You wore sitting in the front! room." the witness n sponded. J J. Peterson, a tenant on the farm I of Eldredgo Cutts. In Wtloox county,! said he had been told by Mrs. Cutts, one of the defendants, poison for Sheppard "was fixed and given in her k Uohen." Mrs. J. A. Turner testified that Mrs. Cutts had told her of her plans to poison Sheppard and that, producing a 1 bottle of poison tablets, she had sold: 3vv 'And these will do the work." Marai "And old Cutts will get a dose of it Smr! himself some day." the witness said ESI Mr. Cutts had added |