The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-21
CONNORS IS ON TRIAL FOR
 THE MURDER OF MOUNT

that preliminary fight. Mount cut Con- nors in the side.
 Much of the sympathy for the dead man, much of whatever popular feeling exists. is due no doubt to the differ ence In size between Cfem Mount and Jesse Connors, and to the fact that the tragedy left disconsolate. a widowed mother, widowed a young wife and or phaned two children. It will be tes- titled that young Mount was c',h- sumptive, and weighed less than Ion pounds, while the prisoner at the bar is man of sig and strength.
 Young Mount lived with his widow ed mother who owned the land upon which Connors farmed last year. Mount was managing the landed property Of his mother. For the part of thls prop erty he was renting, Conors was due S6O. When the rent year closed on October 1, Connors paid Glenn Mount half of the debt. or S30
 Some of his cotton Connors had stored in the warehouse at Brantley. The State may in the evidence. If this particular issue is gone into, attempt to show that ConnoFs was on the eve of leaving for Texas Hearing of this circumstance young Mount went to the town of Brantley to secure the re- nainder of the land rent. The two
 
 he was going to hold his cotton until he could sell 1t for 10 cents a pound.
 COnnOrs Was EnraEed.
 Mount went off and secured a writ of attachment for the cotton in the warehouse to secure the remaining $50. It is said that Connors was enraged to a high pitch. It will be claimed, fur ther. that he looked over town for Mount several times and that several f.a y..a nd aoh time he cursed him loud and bitterly. Each time. 1t will be said, he asked that the attachment be taken off his cotton, and each time when he heard the refusal of young Mount he cursed him violently.
 At length they met in a store near the front door. And what followed may be told to the jury in two ver- sions
 It will be said on the stand that Connors approached Mount in the store, saving, I'm going to ask you for the last time to take that attachment off my cottonY
 It will be said that young Mount told him that he couldn't do it. but that he would go with him to the Justice of the Peace and see what could be done.
 It will be said further that connors 
 NO, I'll not do 1t. I'll give you two minutes to take off that attachment"
 T can't do it." replied Mount.
 RaR-tO Rear of Store.
 It will be sworn that Connors leaped forward and caught his young antag- onist around the mock. They struggled there a few minVtes, when Mount broke from his grasp and ran to the rear of the store.
 The defense will claim that in his rart of the fight Connors was stabbed in tte side.
 But Mount fled Cor safety through the store with Connors in mad and hot pursuit M punt reached the closed door. He fumhled with the lock. It was barred and locked.
 His antagonist was upon him and he turned to meet him. The two met in deadly embrace and two knives were in play, In q few moments friends were pulling them apart
 Young M punt fell to the floor
 ''He has killed mo. Ile has cut mo to the heart" he said to his friends.
 He was lifted to his feet and he walked several steps before he sank down dead. It wll be testified that as he fell Connors said:
 T told him I'd kill him before night and I've done It."