The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-26

Solicitor Bricken announced that tne State would close it's case
 The State and the defense agreed that each side should be allowed two hours for arguing before the jury.
 Solicitor Bricken immediately began the argument, opening for the State. The defense had raised no issue as to the killing of John Cooper by Jack Thompson, the Solucitor argued. If was his hand that held the gun which did the awful murder on that quiet September morning. They do not deny,' said the Solicitor that Jack Thompson shot down John Cooper, that kindly old man. tottering in his old age; shot him as he tried to run away. They do not deny that. but they come here with a package of papers, pile of papers, from away up wonder in Kentucky, saying that he was insane, and did not know what he was doing.
 Testimony of Alabama Witnesses.
 The Solicitor took up the testimony of the Alabama witnesses who swore they believed Thompson was insane, the testimony of Hartley Routon and Drs. Smith and McKittrick. The im- pressIon of these witnesses, with one or two exemptions. had been formed since the murder and since Thompson was under arrest. The witnesses had gotten the impression that Thompson was insane because he had what they called wild look" out of his eyes, and the Solicitor sought to show how easy it was to assume a. wild look Against these witnesses the Solicitor sought to put the cloud of witnesses who had known Thompson in his daily life in Evergreen. He would put wit ness after witness, the men of Ever green who had known Thompson year after year. and who swore he was Of sound mind.
 Were those the words of a crazy man." exclaimed the Solicitor, when J. NJ. Nixon ran up to that bloody scene and found Thompson with the gun in his hand? What did he say, what I wanted to do.' And what did he say to Crosby as they were taking him to the jail? His thoughts were of his children back at the scene. He said, Bill. go back there and take care of my children Were those the words of q maniac? .-'
 "The emblem of the State of Ken lucky Is, The Dark and Bloody Ground The emblem of the State of Alabama is
 Hero We Rest From the Dark and Bloody Ground this son of Kentucky came to Alabama and ruthlessly did a dark and bloody deed. He shot down that gentle white-haired son of Ala bama, who, lying on his death bed
 said, Is Belle alive? and then. No, he has killed both of us, and ho killed us for nothing
 Have you ever seen, have you evei
 read, have you ever heard in all youl life of a darker, bloodier crime?' At the close of the Solicitors address | court adjourned for dinner. The side of the defense was first pre- sented to the jury in arguments bS 1 Senator Powell. He read ir full thu l dispositions sent from Kentucky ana
 which treated not only of the way 1T 1 which the Thompson family had beer cursed with insanity, but with the evi l dence that showed that he had beer | fighty and cceentrie before he cam l to Alabama. He read the depositiopi 1 showing no less than eight of his blooC 1 relatives had been insane or are Insane
 'Tfe witnesses of the State. the mel | they have called from to the stand l have themselves testified to the defen | dants peculiarities." said Mir. Powell
 They have shown that he had no as
 sociates. that he went about moros' 1 and without friends.
 Argument of Mir. Powell.
 | Tt has been shown to you, gentle men, what paranola is, that 1t Is req 1 soning from false premises, that 1t i i entertaining a fixed, systematic ant
 dominant delusion. It has been show l to you that a man suffering from pa
 ranoia could imagine that his bes | and. nearest friend was his worst enc
 my. He could imagine that his wife l the wife of his bosom was his wors | enemy and untrue to him. Such wa
 the delusion of Jack Thompson in hi
 unsound mind. l Mir. Cooper said on his death bet | that Thompson had killed Belle an'
 shot hi msimply because he was mat l and jealous. There never was an.
 room for his jealousy and yet Thomp | son suspected his wife, and. jeayou
 of her, he took his gun and shot he
 and her old father down.
 MT. Powell laid special stress upoi l the testimony of Dr. Mckittrlck, say | ing that of all the physicians who ha(
 been on the stand he had been thu only one who had had personal experi
 ence with paranoia and out of thi'
 experience he had come to the conclu sion that Jack Thompson was q para
 noiac and so testified on the stand.
 In hisargument before the jury | Colonel Hamilton of counsel for the de | fense attacked the theory of the Stat' that Thompson had planned the double murder to get possession of the Coop 1 CT property, as he pointed out that h' nti0 UTSt SnQL HIS W1Le. III SuCil d GaS' he could not have gotten possession O
 the property after he had shot Mir ] Cooper. If, on the other hand, he haC | shot Mir Cooper first. and then sho his wife, he might have been regarded as the heir of tho property. But thu crime, as 1t was committed, showed that he had neither planned nor req soned it out and that he did not lool
 beyond the double murder to come into I.L.4 s-s. 70 ort4
 The Senator Is sarcastic.
 He alluded little bit sarcasticalll | to the "clear-eyed young doctors" wht
 were brought into the case in the ar
 gument of the Solicitor, calling then .'clear-eyed doctors of tender age. ! These doctors who had testified tha i Thompson was sane had not studied o 1 read up on paranoia until a day or s' l before the trial, when they studied thei ! lesson like q boy at school. and mos 1 of them read only one book on the sub
 ject On the other hand. the aged phy 1 siclan who had had experience an study of paranoia and other forms 0 ! insanity had testified that Thompso 1 was insane.
 Colonel Hamilton declared. too, tha
 it had been proved by the witnesses fo | the State that Thompson was wild an | fighty, for the very men who had gon
 on the stand as witnesses for the Stat | testified that the defendant was strang | and wild at times. and that he WI 1 known as That fool Jack Thompson. l In concluding Colonel Hamilton sai, I We have shown you the condition Q | this unfortunate family back in Ken | lucky, sorely stricken with insanity | we have shown you the pcculiaritie ! and ecccntricitles of Jack Thompson | back in Kentucky, but We have com | down here in Evergreen and shown vol | these symptoms of paranoia displayet 1 among inc people of Evergreen SO tha