The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
STATE RESTS IN THE HOLLAND CASE Sheriff Says Prisoner Tried to
 Escape SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE Putnam's Shotgun Was Loaded With Powder and Scraps of The Age
 Herald Dated Octo-
 Der, 1905.

Cullman, August 1.-(Specia1.)- )-The state rested its case against John Hol- land yesterday afternoon, after intro ducing Sheriff Casey, who testified that while he was bringing Holland from Hanceville to Cullman, after he had killed Putnam, the defendant jumped out of the buggy and ran for a quarter of a mile with the sheriff in pursuit and who finally fired his pistol at Hol- land to make him stop. When the sher- if recaptured him he asked defendant why he ran and defendant answered that he thought the sheriff was a friend of his, and that it would be all right for him to get away.
 Mayor Gladney testified yesterday that when he met Holland immediately after the shooting, Holland said he guessed he had played the devil, and believed he would take a hike The testimony of Mrs. Taylor showed that in her conversation with Putnam on his back porch just before he was killed, Putnam told her that it was not because of the warrant, or of the charge made against him to the effect that he had whipped his wife, but that he objected to going with Holland for other reasons; that the warrant was only an excuse to get him out of his house for another purpose.
 The Defense.
 The defense introduced Mrs. Ella Gibbs, who testified that she saw Hot 1l well in the yard and drew a bucket of water and asked for the dipper, and she went out to the well and they talked there some 10 or Is minutes That while there they looked through the cracks in the coal house, which was really a part of the well house, and saw Mrs. Putnam sitting in her door across the street crying, her little sis ter, Annie Ligon, sitting in front of her. Witness and Holland talked about it, Holland asking her if it were not the baby crying, and witness replying mo- that it was Mrs. Putnam. Witness . did not tell Holland to go and investi ' gate it, nor did she tell him she would swear that Putnam had whipped his wife, as Holland had stated to the mayor. She also denied emphatically that she and defendant were in the woodshed which was also a part of the well shed, as the witness McEntire stated Holland had told him.
 Alonzo Webb, the next witness, con tradicted his wife al to Hollad's say ing as he left tn store with the pistol that he was going to kill a man. Webb testified that he was nearer defendant than his wife, and that defendant said he was going to get" a man Holland deputized Webb to go with. him. but Webb did not get on the scene until the last act in the tragedy was taking place. When witness came out on the back porch Holland had hold of dou- b1e-barrel shotgun with his left hand while Putnam held on to 1t with boti hands. Holland had the pistol in hls right hand. Witness heard Holland say to Putnam, 'If you don't turn loose I will kill you" Also heard him tell Putnam that he had a warrant for him and that he had to go with him. Webb said he took the pistol from Holland and put his hand on Putnam's should CT and asked him to give up the gun and go on with Holland before the mayor. That Putnam replied, Tt is my own gun and this is my own house.