Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-06

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|son Must Face Grandjury Investigation. Defendant Takes Witness Stand and Tells Story of Killing of King...WiIl Ap. ply for Writ Of habeas Corpus Tomorrow.

sons daughter King said: That old i..al. had better not bother me, or viii fix him. keeler testified that lie Was at his dinner table when King Vas shct; that he saw King pass his house, going east along Second ave. l.ue, q few moments after which he beard the report of the gull. He stated that h. went out t3 make alI irVestieation wien he saW people lEnnine and sax the ]>eay ,yins iii eha street, which he later found t9 be King: that tee hody WIS lying or the crossing blocks. dieec ly in front of Eason's stCre, between the street. car tracks ana the pavement or the north side of the street, being eigll- or nine feet from the sidewalk. He stated that when lie reached King he was still alive, but was easp.ng for breath and never spoke; that he found a pistol lying beside him, near his right hand which he placed be- side the body after he had removed Of some men who had also been at tracted to the place by the sound of the shooting. kee'er stated that he lad been told by King that he was going to marry Miss Eason which statement Of Kings kee,ef had re peated to Mr Baker.
 Not Necessarily Fired From Elevation
 Dr. DallenDaueh, who assisted Dr. Carutaers in the postmortem eNamin ation Of King. stated, that the course of the bullet after it had entered Kings neck dia rot necessarily indi- cate that the s}at had been fired fl enl $ greater elevation than that occupied by King, and that the bull let might have taken the same course if fired from level. He stated that the effect of such a shot as that received by King would produce al- nest instant death and that the bull let coming in contact with and fract- uring the spinal column would para lyze a person to such an extent that it would be impossible for him to draw a weapon from his pocket after receiving the wound.
 Eason Takes Stand.
 I. N. Eason then took the stand in his own behalf He stated that he was forty-four years of age; had re- sided in Pine Bluff since 1892; had spent ten years of that time at his trade of machinist at the Cotton Belt shops and the remainder of the time in the grocery business. He stated that he had known King for two or three years, and that he had been in Pine Bluff a year, after an interval spent away from the city. He stat. ed that King had occupied rooms over his store, but that he had order ed him to leave, because he objected to his attentions to his daughter; that he knew King to be a married man, and was acquainted with his wife; that when King instituted divorce proceedings against his wife, who was residing in Alabama, he wrote to Mrs. King and offered to employ a lawyer in this city for her to resist the divorce and that he did this, eneaging the services of Attorney Whitelaw. He stated that he had never suspected that there was any thing wrong between his daughter ? and King until warned by neighbors to be on the watch, and that subse- cuent to this warning he had gone into the office of his store, where his daughter was engaged at her duties as bookkeeper, and had found King in the office with her: that he h99 demonstrated with his daughter, re- minding her that King was maffled but that his daughter insisted that she was fond of King. after which h ordered the latter to leave the prem ises, and warned him not to again seq the young lady. He said that after this had occurred, King had come to lis residence under the influence of liquor and inquired for "the Kid and upon being asked whom he meant replied that he wished to see Miss