Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
TIE LAST DAY,
TESTIMONY IN THE MUSE TRIAL
 ALL IN.
Nearly One Hundred Witnesses Not
 Examined.

Today, in the ease Of thu State vs. ]. M Muse. for the killing of Dr. Beard. the defense rested, after ex- arining about twenty Witnesses.
 The State then examined number on rebuttal, after which the court adjourned in order to give time for Che preparation of instructions. The case will be argued tbis afternoon and tonight, and the case will prob ably go to the jury tomorroW morn ing Many witnesses for the defense were not examined.
 The defendant, Muse. being placed upon the stand. testified that at various and sundry times there had been communicated to him by sev- eral different parties threats made by the deceased that if he (the de- fendant) did not apologize for what he had done to the deeeaseG, he would kill him, and also that the de- ceased had at various times uttered slanderous remarks about the de- 
 his family; that on the day before the Killing he went to Warner and while there MT. B. A. Wyatt told him that Il short time before that he had met Dr. Beard Ut picnic on the river; that Il the picnic he got acquainted with pr. Morley, and Dr. Morley introduced him to Or. Dye. That Dr. Dye was an old friend of the de fendant, and knowing that the t!e- fendant lived at Yorktown, he asked the deceased eHow is my old friend. Muse, getting along?" That the de- ceased replied. "I don't have any thing to do with Muse; he is not my kind of folks; he has got no resent ment about him; he has got no re- sDect for himself. his family, GIT any body else, and hls women folks are all whores.a That the defendant then asked mr. N, att who else heard that talk by Dr. Beard. and Wyatt informed him that Dr. Morley heard it and was then up stairs in Wyatt's room; that they went up to the room and Wyatt asked Dr. Morley to tell him what pr. Beard had said about Muse's family, and that Dr. Morley therenpon detailed to him the same conversation. That the next morning, when the defendant was passing through Yorktown, he saw Dr. BeaSd standing in the door of McEntire's store, and got down off his horse to call his attention to the islander he had heard that the deceased was eirculat tiLg about his family, and that when he spoke to the deceased about 1t, the deceased replied, "Yes, and g-d d-m you, I'll fix you, and whirled to go into the store; that the defendant think ing, probably, the deceased was go- ing after q weapon, shot him as he turned into the door.
 The strongest evidence for the State was the testimony given by several embers of the Grand Jury which indicted Muse. They testified that Muse said before the Grand Jury that when he left home that morning with his Winchester rifle, he did not intefd to kill Dr. Beard but as he rode by and saw him standing in the door he looked so Cd d-m eontemptibleh heeoneluded he would just get down and kill hlm.
 In testifying, Mir Muse denied :hat he made this statement to the Grand Jury. He testified that he only got down and called Dr. Boards atten- tion to the remarks that he had made.
 The order for the arguments has not as yet been arranged.
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