The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-21

the murdered mother were of the best; that Mrs. King thought more of Mrs. Pope than of, all the other children put together.
 Through It's entire case the defense hinted at the guut of the husband, woodson Pope. though no accusation was made.
 The testinaony of, the s-year-old son of Mrs. Pope. claud Pope, or rather Claude Ligon, as he was child by a former husband. was watched interest," ediy. The little fellow was probably the best witness of the defense. He declared that his mother had told him to speak the truth and nothing but the truth, and in his testimony he refuted many of the strong points of the State. He had been with his mother most of the time following the murder.
 Sheriff Catts was on the stand. He had been outright in declaring faith in the innocence of Mrs. Pope while she was in his custody and Solicitor Askew. through his questioning, saw fit to reprimand him for the stand.
 Mr. Catts declared that he had susa pected another Woodson Pope, and would have arrested him long before had it not been for the advice of the attorneys adverse to his desire.
 The attendance on the trial was, if possible, greater than that of yester- day. Clanton people jostled elbows, I-cfimbed benches crowded the jury so that at times the twelve good men and true were forced to peer over the heads of the same parties to behold the witt ness.
 Much bloody detail was taken up. The bloody garments denied by Mrs. Pope and Identified by witnesses were again hauled out, so was the butcher knife and the smoothing iron. Mrs. Jim Denson, the final witness for the State testified that she had seen Mrs. Pope tear off the bloody portion of her underskirt and cast it into the fire. The defense also attacked the States contention Of illicit love. be- tween Mrs. Pope and Warren Woods, the alleged motive of the crime.
 The trial of the second day began early immediately after the report of the grand jury was read and received.
 That Alleged Confession.
 Mrs. Pope's alleged confession as to the hiding place of the bloody clothes which the prosecution contends were worn by her as she killed her mother. was brought out this morning, the days work opening with Hub Lucas, the deputy sheriff. to whom the con fession was said to have been made, on the stand.
 In spite of their announced intention to make an effort to exclude the con- fession testimony, on the grounds that 1t was procured while the woman was in the power of the officer, and thus under duress, the attorneys for the de- fense@ took no such course, merely en- deavoring after an impeachment Of Lu- cas's testimony
 Lucas told that. as he carried Mrs. Pope with her two children, from the scene of the murder. where she had been arrested. to anothert place, he had told her that he was her friend, and added tfat they are going to SCOUT the woods to find those clothes"
 T asked her to tell me where they were" he declared, "and she told me of the old trunk where she had hidden them She told me to tell Warren Woods to get the clothes and burn them, and also asked me to hide the skirt which she had on.
 \, .I promised; she took 1t off in the road, and hid it in the bushes on the side"
 It was evident that the States att torneys tried to fix a motive for the crime. when they questioned witnesses as to Warren Woods, a mill laborer, who boarded with Mrs. Pope. Woods. 1t was shown, accompanied Mrs. Pope to church and to dances, through the country, sometimes the two of them riding one mule.
 Jonce Upshaw testified that he had seen them together at dances and at church, as did Morris Reynolds, an- other witness.
 -- Warren Woods Tentffles.
 Warren Woods, himself was placed on the stand for the State. lie told that he was 26 years old, and could neither read nor write. He had board ed for nine months with Mrs. Pope and her mother. There had never been. he said, serious quarrels between the two. though minor difreTences had arisen.
 He acknowledged that Mrs. Pope and he had gone to church and to dances together several times. He told of letter written to him, while in Brm- ingham by Mrs. Pope asSing him to come pack. The relations were inti- mate it was shown. On one occasion, Mrs, Pope had gone to Birmingham, and Woods had followed to escort her home.
 Upon cross-examination. the defense showed its hand.
 Where was woodson Pope, Mrs. 'Pope's husband. all of this timer Woods was asked.
 The answer was that Pope was at the home. Woods testified that rela- tions between Woodson Pope and Mrs. King were far fromi good, that the old lady, afterward murdered, had slapped the husband of her daughter several times.
 Woodson Pope didn't work. and made no effort to aid in the support of his own family, Woods said. It was be- cause of this laziness that Mrs. King ,harangued him time and~again.
 One point stressed by the State was evidence showing that. at one dance, at her own home. Mrs. Pope had rough ly handled her mother, taking her from the room in which the dance was in progress.
 Blood stains figured in today's testi- mony once more, when pr. Higgins, Chilton's coroner, told of Mrs.-.Pope. on the night of the murder, endeaySr- inf to explain the stains on her clottes, and on those of the. baby, by telling that 1t came from a cut on her hand, which was caused by a misdirected slash into a potato. which she was peeling. w
 Through all came the effort to es- tablish the motive of Illicit love be- tween Mrs. Pope and Warren Woods. Morris Reynolds, a witness, told of seeing Mrs. Pope throw her arms about the man on one occasion at dance, from which her husband was absent.
 Hub Lucas, another States witness, told of a similarf fdemonstration upon another occasion.
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