Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-06-10
Used Finger Nail For Pen
w. w. sheptrine of Texarkana Tells
of a Number of Peculiarities of
the Defendant-Dr. Miller,
Athens, Thinks Tubbs
Paranoac.

hauling some lumber from Beecham's
mill he had come to his house and
cooked breakfast and walked him for
nit about 2 or o'clock in the morning
HE did the same thing another time,
bout o'clock, but that time the fam
ily were awake Another time he
drove the wagon out of the road sud
denly, claiming he saw squirrel in a
tree, and caught Beecham's foot on
stump. Several years after, when
Beecham was in Frankston, Tubbs in
yited him to go home with. him and
hear his daughter play the piano, and
had then gone home without him. He
thought from his acquaintance with
Tubbs that he was of unsound mind.
John @. Oldham of Brushy Creek
had gone to school with Tubbs, and
worked with him when they were
-puys and young men Tubbs would
sometimes go to church and go with
young ladies in his working clothes,
though he always had good clothes
Had known Tubbs to sew up his
breaches so tight that he could not
get them off, and had to sleep in
them Did not consider him of sound
mind
S.zJ. Hopper of Dallas formerly
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Tubbs then Last September Tubbs
wrote him a letter referring to bust
ness transactions as if they had been
under. consideration for some time and
had been carried out in accordance
with previous understanding, when
nothing of it had ever been mentioned
between them. Saw. Tubbs several
H4es year and THOUGHT he was
mentally unbalanced.
Mrs. Willie Cooke had known Tubbs
over twenty years. At one time when
he lived neighbor to them he had
worked nearly all night burning
brush. When his wife died he had
spent most of the night walking the
baby and singing to it, but finally laid
down on the floor and went to sleep.
Thought he was not of sound mind.
lobe Lamm had also known Tubbs
Aver twenty years. Went to Tubbs'
house once to buy some hogs, and
Tubbs ran off in such a way that the
witness thought the house was on fire.
Had seen him wearing string around
his body, and when he asked Tubbs
why he did it, Tubbs explained that
it kept him as warm as an overcoat.
Tubbs' mind had not been sound for
thirteen years.
J. T. Owens had also known Tubbs
over twenty years. At one time he
was visiting Tubbs' house, with his
family, and Tubbs stood one of his
little children on his head and picked
ticks off of him in the presence of
the party At another time Tubbs
took off all of his clothing and went
out on the gallery, explaining to his
wife he was hunting his clothes. Had
ordered lot of goat bells and put
them on about a hundred and fifty
goats; and had belled all of his COWS
and hogs at the same time. Ever
since then witness had thought there
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was hobby of Tubbs to acquire prop
erty to which he had no right He
always got angry when he thought
anyone was interfering with his bust
ness, but had never seen him angry
for any other reason.
Henry Houston had known Tubbs
for fifteen years. Tubbs had once
come to the witness father, who was
a doctor, to have tooth pulled. The
doctor refused because it was at
night and he could not see. Tubbs
then proposed to attach one end of a
wire to the tooth, and the other to a
in his pistol, and jerk out
the tooth by shooting the pistol. On
another occasion he had met Tubbs
driving in his buggy, along public
road within five miles of Athens,
clad only in his underclothes. Tubbs
had never associated with other peo-
pie He had a great many articles in
his house, many of them useless, that
he seemed to have got just because
he was able to beat someone out of
uSem Nothing ever seemed to bother
except to be interfered with in
plans for carrying out such
Schemes.
w. w. Sheptrine of Texarkana tes-
titled that he was raised at Kickapoo.
where Tubbs was, had worked in a
store with him for several years, and
bad known him some since then. He !.