Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-05-12

State would contend that the faSal shot, which ranged througk the head, entered from the back and came out under the eye. That he would produce bullet which made another wound entering about the hip pocket and coming out and lode- ing in the vest pocket against his watch and not breaking the outside of the vest pocket, which bullet was removed from the pocket by the cor oner. The two shots above mention ed were the only ones which struck deceased, though three shots were fired. He further stated that the wound under the eye bore the ap- pearance of being wound of exit
 Statement By Defense.
 MT. Austin states that the killing was justifiable on the grounds that MT. Scott had made various threats to take the life of Ladd; that the first time Ladd noticed any ill feeling that Scott bore toward him was at dance given month before the date of the killing; that string of one of the musicians instruments broke. and l.add picked up a lantern and started to the store to get a string, when he met Scott, and that Scott rudely jerked the lanern away from him and Ladd asked him what was the matter and Scott said that didn't make any difference, that he hadn't been inyit- cd to the dance, and Mr. Ladd then tried to disabuse his mind in this and invited him to come down and bring his family. and he refused That shortly afterwards they had another dance at the mill and Scott told wit ness StOnacher that be didn't like Ladd, and said that he intended to kill or whip him before daylight. Stonacher, fearing that there would be some trouble, took his wife and family away from the dance and went home. This Ladd noticed and inuuir- ed why he was going to leave, and then Stonacher told him of the threats that Scott had made against him, and Ladd replied in substnce that that would be all right: that probably he didn't mean it; that after this Scott applied for employment with the Saw yer & Austin Lumber Company, inas- much as the Ladd mill was to close down in a week or ten days, and Saw yer X Austin people inquired of I.add about Scott, and Ladd gave Scott a good recommendation, but suggested that they do not employ him until he had finished saving the remainder of timber that they had on hand. MT. LadJ intended to close down his mill and move 1t as soon as this timber was cut. A few days afterwards Scott came to town and applied again, and the foreman at Sawyer & Austin told him that Ladd had requested that he be not employed. This seemed to have angered Scott again, and while at the station and on his way back he again in the presence of several witnesses made threats against Ladd, and said that he intended to kill him. That night at the mill Scott again referred to Ladd, rolling him for job" and Mir. Bacon, Ladd's partner, heard it, and told Scott that he was mistaken about that; that Ladd was not trying to "roll' him for job; that Iadd had given him a good recommendation because he heard the conversation over the phone, but Scott still made his threats, and so Mir. Bacon next morning went to MT. Ladds house and informed him with view to see if Scott's i'll feeling could not be al layed.
 The Monday before the killing a number of parties, including Mir. Ladd MT. Scott and his wife, Lawrence
 Cook his brother sister and some others came to Pine Bluff to attend the theatre, and Cook drove up in a tWO-seated surrey, his sister and