Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-02-16
CAUTHORN HAS No
FEAR OF GALLONS
Murderer Of Rda Jones Takes Tho
Stand and Displays Ut.
most Indifference.
TRYING TO PROVE INSANITY
Mother OF the Accused Man on the
Stand and he Relates Story Which
Showed That Her Child Had Been
Brought up Among Degenerate Sur.
roundines.

CHRISTIANSBURG. VA, Feb. 10
There is no abatement In the interest
manifested in the trial OF Frank Can
thron for the murder OF Mrs Ada
Jones. Sergeant Griffin. Jaler Allen
and John w Snerman. a newspaper
reporter. were examined M to- their
opinions of the sanity OF the accused.
They had talked with the prisoner.
and from his demeanor generally. each
WIS OF the opinion that the prisoner
was insane.
II being Saturday, hundreds OF poo
pie tlocked here today from tho
surrounding country. and II Is covert
~ intimated that should the Jury de-
eide that Cauthorn is insane there
VIII be trouble. There Is a decided
morbid anxiety on the part of the peo-
pie to see him convicted and execnt-
ed
His mother was on the witness
stand all the morning She detailed
the particulars of his birth, admitting
That he WAX an Legitimate child. Re-
FORE his birth she was confined In
jail month. on. n charge OF shootlne
woman. and for several months she
was addicted to drinking wh!skey and
getting drunk.
brewery, were attentive listeners.
taxing copious notes and ct times sug-
gested q line of questioning that was.
calculated to bring out the environ
ment of the prisoners early life.
Or. Drewry asked the prisoner last
night, after the adjournment of court,
what he thought of his case now. He
replied:
1T is all right; It's going along to
suit me-"
This morning he complained of feel
ing badly. saying 10 the jailer that he
mad spent a restless night.
From the mothers evidence the hoy
could hardly be blamed for being n
degenerate. He was reared under the
most degrading circumstances: the
mother admitting that she haa
DRAWS and fights with men and wo-
men In her home In the presence of
lier children. The life of the hoy,
from his birth was infinitely detailed.
the facts being brought out by both
tne defense and the prosecution
ihe cross examination Mt times
Drought ont many traits that wouid
indicate reasons for his being insane.
Al the evening session the prisoner
took the stand and recited how he
killed his victim. When asked If
lae was sorry that he slew her he
said
i can't hardly say whether / AM
or not am sorry had to shoot
her SO many times. There is no need
TO be sorry now, it would not help
me-"
He said he had put it off a good
long WHILE
ne said he did not try to get away
because he wanted to give himself
up When asked which he would
rather the jury to hang him or send
MIN to the penltentiary, his reply 10
the prosecuting attorney was:
don't care what they do, IL will
be death either way"
He said If he was hanged he want
ed his body sold to doctors and the
money used to buy monument to
be erected over Mr.. Jones' grave with
the inscription: oiled for love" on
it,
AT the close of Cauthorne'a recital
of his crime the defense closed and
the prosecution put on witnesses In
rebuttal to show by Cauthorn's past
actions that he was not insane. Court
then adjourned until Monday