The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-19
JURY IS UNDECIDED WHETHER
 SHOCKLEY KILLING IS MURDER

was suffering too much to talk. l said to him this morning, after I
 knew he would die. Bryan, did you shoot at tine officers, and he said he did not. He just told me that
 he run until they hit him. and then
 he fell off the horse in the road, and asked to be taken to me-"
 Taa first and only question Shock
 icy asked his wife after her arrival
 yesterday morning was to know if he
 would die. The little woman did not
 know, then, how bad his condition
 was, and told him so.
 Just before he got so low" said Mrs. Shockley, T went to him and told him reckoned he would die, and he told me to take good care of his babies, and that was about all. '' Tears streamed down the cheeks of
 the little woman as she recalled the scenes in St. Joseph's.
 Coroner Randolph and Sentinel Record man talked to her at the home of Mrs. Jackson near the scene Iof the camp. Mrs. Shockley was told by the coroner that the body of her husband was at her disposal. Are you going to have him bur-
 ried here?" asked the coroner. T couldnY think of having him
 buried about this-- - She hesitat-
 ed few minutes, and then, as if fail- ling to find an adjective to fit the 1situation, said place.
 Just how they will get the body Iof the dead man back to Texas is
 something of a mystery. The camr
 of the little party consists of tent
 a good wagon, and about four horses
 It would be a long journey to Texas jwith dead body on the overland
 route, and the little woman says they
 have have nc money.
 At St. Joseph's yesterday morning Coroner Randolph. endeavored to gel
 a death bed statement from Shockley
 after the coroner had been notified
 by Dr.. Smith that there was abso-
 Iute,y no hope for the recovery ol lthe man. Coroner Randolph, Dr.
 Smith, Court Stenographer Gotham and two newspapermen made the visit
 to the mans bedside in the hope of getting something from him. but he leither was too faint to fully realize the situation, or did not care to say
 any thing.
 About the bedside at the time was the aged father and the little brother
 the wife, and in the hall in the care of Miss Carrie Price were the little linfant children. It was sad notiyi-
 cation. coming from the physician in attendance, that the husband and son and father was doomed to death lin very short while.
 q never have seen brighter little lchidren," said Miss Price. She had placed the smaller infant in snug Little crib. probably tine only one N had ever known. for these tent camp Iers do not know luxuries. She kept la personal guardianship over the lother little tot, whose cherry little Iface smiled happily as Miss Price lied her about the long halls and cor iridors, which were all new and novel Ito the little child Of outdoor life. The evidence taken before the Ijury last night was in substance az follows:
 pr. Smith, the surgeon, who attend led Shockley. said he was called to Ithe city jail to see the man. Avised removal to dnfirmary. Gave salt so- Tuition and oxygen. and later perform led operator. Described the wound through body. The patient rallied lwell after operation, but died about I2 o'clock in the afternoon. It was Ihard to tell which was wound of en- trance, or the size of ball.
 Joe Zozz, went out with Dave Smith and Ellis and got in car with lDr. Smith. Heard shooting and they |went to scene but it was all over. Bob Ellis, police clerk. heard sus- |pect had been located. Went out to |scene with Hervey Smith. Later went lon out to river, and were returning when saw man riding pony in road land heard shots and saw Laughlin 'after him. The man in front wheeled from main road Smith cried to El- His to shoot. Then shot in front of |the man but did not try to hit him. The man jumped off and ran down a |gulIy, and Laughlin went past him land fired again, and then Laughlin |got off and they all came mp to the wounded man. Laughlin was not |75 feet behind the man in chase when witness first saw them. Witness thought the running man had stop bed in big road but he soon turned