The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-24

ing from a gun shot wound in his ab" domen on the lower right hand side. He died at o'clock that morning as result of the gun shot wound He gave to the court Mr. Cooper's dying declaration. His remembrance Of MT. Cooper's words was:
 CoOper's Dying statement.
 Jack shot me without cause. except that I demonstrated with him for be- ing so furious about the house. told him that he must stop being so abusive and raising trouble around the house or he would have to leave. He satd he would leave but he picked up gun and shot Belle. I turned to run but he shot me-"
 Dr. McCreary was examined partic- ularly by MT. Powell as to the nor phine and strychnine which was ad- ministered to Mir Cooper to ease his pain. With this testimony in the court adjourned after a night session had been ordered.
 John H. Nixon was called to the stand when the court reconvened at 7:30 D. m. He was few yards away on the September morning when the killing occurred. He ran to tho house and found Thompson with the gun in his hand. At the request of the wit ness Thompson turned the gun over to him, saying, T will go with you. I have done what I wanted to do"
 After the gun had been taken from Thompson and they had started from the House, he said to the witness, '@rhey put that, d. Yankee in the room. wanted to get rid of him" Mir. Coop CT kept small boarding house. The dying deposition made by Mir. Cooper between six o'clock. when he was shot and 9 o'clock when he died, was testified to by Captain C. A. Can't. win Ellis and S. B. Dunn. They all united in saying that on his death bed and knowing that he was dying Mir. Cooper said: "IIe shot me for no- thing. He was just mad and jealous" Had Killed Two or Three. l O. s. McNutt testified that Thompson | said there were two or three people he had to kill. H. D. Atkins saw him on the morning Of the murder a short distance from the Cooper home with a gun
 Thompson had made against MT. Coop | CT.
 Mrs. J. M. Nixon swore that some time previous to the murder Thompson had told her that if he stayed around he was going to hurt old man Cooper. over the objection of the State she | said, "IIe looked to me like crazy man.
 Here the State rested.
 The prosecution introduced Dr. R. E. Smith, county physician of Butler coun- ty who said that he had treated the prisoner in the Butler county Jail and was of the opinion that he was of un- sound mind, He told of the actions he had noted as leading him to believe that the prisoner was insane.
 W. P. Routon. Deputy Sheriff of But l Ter county, swore that he had seen a great deal of Jack Thompson since he was in the Butler county jail. He was of the opinion that Thompson was oi unsound mind.
 At this juncture Colonel Hamilton read the fourteen showlngs of absent witness which had been agreed upor by both sides. These showings were all from witnesses in Lebanon, Ky. some of them physicians, and all oi .l them dealt with insanity in the family | of Thompson. It was stated that nc less than eight members of the family were insane including the sister. fath' CT. and mother of Jack Thompson. Witt the reading of these statements tho court ended it's days work. 1t beine nearly 10 o'clock at night.