The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-14
GOES TO THE JURY
THIS AFTERNOON
Arguments in the Mount Case
Being Heard Today.
Some OF the Evidence Damaging
Mount Tells His Story For
the First Time.
NEWS OF OTHER LOCAL COURTS

go to the jury this afternoon about
o'clock, all the morning and afternoon
having been consumed in speaking.
The attorneys were given three
hours side and this morning at
O'Clock the argument began. The evil
dence was concluded early this morn.
ing, only few unimportant witnesses
being called to the stand.
John whitnell testified that he was
in the rom and saw the shooting.
That Mount was lying on the bed with
Sam Myles and Will Bishop when
Nutty began to argue with Al Pehlps
over gambling. Phelps refused to play
with Nutty who resented it, Mount
arose from the bed and asked Nutty
what in the h he intended to do
about it," and with the words a..
sumed leaning posture on the gsmb-
ling table. Nutty replied: willis
Mount, know you; you are no friend
of mine and look like 30cents TO me.
Immediately following Mount threw
big gun mp In Nutty's face and fred
Nutty wheeled and fell but before lie
reached the floor Mount pumped one
moro shot into his back. Either
wound wound have proven fatal, &C
cording to DIR. Hoyer's statement.
Will Bishop, who claimed in the ex.
aiming court that he got out Of the
room before the shooting. admitted
having been in the room and of hav-
ing seen the whole affair He swore
that the conversations heretofore given
IN the testimony of Whitnell, were
true and stated he tried TO get out of
the door before the shots. but did see
Mount fire them.
Dick McGregor, formerly with the
News Democrat, swore that Mount de-
liberately fired into Nutty's face after
holding the gun on him fully half "A
minute. 80 long did he hold the
gun that il seemed he would not
shoot, and was only making bluff"
were MoGregor's words. McGregor
was the star witness for the prosecu-
tion and told a straightforward story.
Sam Myles testified about the same
as the other witnesses and the evidence
of the commonwealth was closed.
Mount was placed on the stand and
testified that he had arisen from the
bed Us Nutty began to quarrel aud
asked him what he was going 10 do
Nutty replied, C d. y / am
going to kill you" and seeing his life
thus endangered and the threat being
accompanied by Nutty running his
hand in his pocket, Mount swore that
he considered il a matter of the quick
est man TO get his gun and according
ly fired the fatal shots.
Mount also clsimed that he and
Nutty had a quarrel about two years
ago in Mounts fathers restaurant on
lower Broadway, because Nutty was
with some women and was making
too much noise, and claimed that
Nutty at that time cut at him, Mount,
slashing his shirt bosom. Since then
there had been i'll feeling between
them.
The evidence was quite surprise
in some quarters. IL was said all
along that the gamblers present would
try to shield Mount, but they were
given to understand by the court that
nothing but the truth would be toler-
sted.
Mounts story on the stand late yes
terday afternoon was the first state
ment he had made of the shooting
since it occurred. On the advice of
his attorneys he contiuu ally declined
to make any statement and the
silence was never broken until yes
terday when he was placed in the
stand.
POLICE COURT.
The case against George Wright,
colored, for throwing . fiat iron into
colored woman's house and over
tr,n;no N latnp xvbich sat fro IN tho