Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-05-13

CT he saw Scott wiping his fee, at Ladd's door.
 Mrs. Stella Thomas said she was sitting in her room at her home 1So feet away. The window and door was closed. She heard the first shot. She ran to the door and saw Scott coming out of Ladd's gate. The second shot was fired when he was fifteen feet away and the third shot just before he fell. She thought she saw a "red blur" on his neck after the third shot was heard. Witness said the day was dark and rainy. On cross examination Mrs. Thomas said she ran to the door when she heard the first shot because she had ex- pected trouble. On cross examina- tion of this witness it. was shown that she and the defendant were not on very friendly terms.
 J. c. Witt told of going to the Ladd home the day after the killing and saw mud on the porch where some body had wiped his feet. He was recalled to the stand and testified for the defense. He said the three shots were fired in rapid succession and sounded like they were all to. gether. He had heard Scott threate,, to "break Ladd's neck" week or two before the killing
 Former Coroner R. D. McCaughy said he examined Scott's body. The wounds had not been closely exam ined by him, but the one in Scott. cheek, he said. appeared to be place where one of the bullets en- tered. He did not look at the wound in the back of Scott's head.
 Red" Oliver, negro, proved an amusing witness, decalring that the sun was shining when every witness that took the stand said that it was bad, rainy day. He said he saw Ladd wave to Scott to come to the house. Scott went there and, the negro said, Ladd shot him before he .. got to the door. Oliver said he nev- CT talked to nobody" not even Judge Jones, about the case, "at no time Spectators Disappointed. When Mrs. Scott took the stand the eyes of the spectators were all turned upon her. It was evidently expected that she would give sensa- tional testimony, but the spectators were sadly disappointed when she was only asked a few questions con- crning the wounds her deceased husband had received and few on cross examination. Mrs. Scott de- clared that the wound in Scott's cheek was one inch and half long and three-quarters of an inch wide. She did not see his body on the af- ternoon he was killed, but saw it the next morning after it had been pre- pared for burial On cross examina- tion she said she was unmarried.
 It was while Mrs. Scott was on the stand that Judge Jones made determined effort to introduce the testimony of a Michigan physician relative to the wounds received by ScoH the testimony having been given ill the Federal court, when Mrs. Scott secured a judgment against Ladd for $10,000 damages. Judge Grace, after listening to objections of Ladd's attorneys, excluded the tes- timony.
 ] Lawrence Cook, son of Judge Cook, of Lincoln county, was the first Wit ness offered by the defense, tfG1 State resting at the conclusion o1 Mrs. Scotts testimony. He said that the night before the killing he and number of others, including Scott and Ladd. came to Pine Bluff to attend theatrical performance. After the theater, at Lou Owens saloon, Scott told him that Ladd was flower down than a dog; that he had prevented him from securing a job at the Saw yer and Austin Lumber Company plant here, and that he intended to "get even" with him. The next day, ] at Ladd, Scott told Cook that he had k;1led a negro in Louisiana by merely choking him to death and that that | was all he wanted to do; was to get Ladd by the throat and he would Kill him the same way These threats were communicated to Ladd by COOK On cross examination Cook was con-