Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
HE LAST DAY.
TESTIMONY IN THE MUSE TRIAL
 ALL IN.
Nearly One Hundred Witnesses Not
 Examined.

Todas, in the case of tho State vs. ]. N. Muse, for the killing of Dr. Beard. the defense rested. nfter ex- anining about twenty witnesses.
 The State then examined a number on rebnttal, after which the court adjourned in order to give time for the preparation of instructions. The case will be argued this 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 ,3npon" 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 tthe de- fendant) did not apologize for what he had done to the deceased, he would kill him, and also that the le- ceased had Ut various times uttered slanderous remarks about the de- fendant and he female members of his family; Una, on the day before the killing he went to Warner and while there MT. E. 4. Wyatt told him that short time before that ne had met Dr. Beard at picnic on the river; that at the picnic he got acquainted with Dr. Morley, and Dr. Morley introduced him to Or. Dye. That spr. Dye was an old friend of the de- Sfendant, and knowing that the de- iendant lived at Yorktown, he asked the deceased "Ilow is my old friend. Muse, getting alone2" That the de- eeased replied, "T 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, or any hody else, and hIs women folks are all whores. That the defendant
 h asked Mir. Wyatt who else heard
 tt talk by 'm .aa Beard, and Wyatt
 ormed him iii Dr. Morley heard
 and was then ur stairs in Watts
 pom; that they went up to the pom and Wyatt asked pr. Morley tell him what Dr. Board had said bbout Muse's family, And that Dr. Morley thereupon detailed to him sehe same conversation. That the sext morning, when the defendant awas passing through Yorktown, he iisaw Dr. Beard standing in the door f of McEntire's store, and got down 4 off his horse tO call his attention to tho as.aisders he had heard that the deceased WIS clreala t.;.g about his family, and that when he spoke to the deceased about it, the deceased replied, "Yes, and g-d d-m you, I'll tix you, and whirled to go into the store; that the defendant think ing, probably, the deceased was go- ing after weapon, shot him as he fiIrned into the door.
 The strongest evidence for the State was the testimony given by several members of the Grand Jury which indicted Muse. They testified ..that Muse said before the Grand EJury that when he left home that morning with his Winchester rife, he did not intend to kill Dr. Beard, but as he rode by and saw him standing in the door he looked SD G-d d-nl contemptible eheconcluded hc would just get downand kill him.
 Tn testifylng, Mir. Muse denied that he made this statement to the Grand Jury. He testified that he only got down and called Dr. Boards atten ton to the remarks that he had made.
 The order for the arguments has not aa yet been arranged.