The log cabin Democrat., 1913-10-11
JOE G0KER KILLS
 DR|. JOHN HARROD
REVENGE ALLEGED INSULT
SLAYER CLAIMS DEAD MAN MADE IMPROPER ADVANCES
 TO HIS WIFE.

l or Faulkner county, was shot and killed late yesterday by Joe Coker, at pr. Harrod's, home, Olmstead. Pulas- ki county; where he had been living the past three years.
 The story of the tragedy is told in thls mornings Arkansas Gazette. in part, as follows:
 Joe Coker, a farmer living near oimstead in the northern part of Pu- laski county, late yesterday afternoon went to the home of Dr. John H. Har rod, well-known physician of Olm- stead, called the physician to his gate and, without speaking a word, emp tied a charge of shot into the doctors face and chest. Dr. Harrod lived just long enough to tell his wife, who rushed out to his side, that Coker had shot him.
 Coker, who is now in the Pulaski county jail, admits that he killed the physician. He says that he commit ted the act because he had learned that Dr. Harrod had made improper proposals to Mrs. Coker.
 With composure equal to that he displayed in the killing, Coker turned from the gate where he had taken the physicians life, and started to walk to Jacksonville, 12 miles distant. En route he met farmer lad and after telling him of his deed, engaged the boy to drive him to town He said he was coming to Little Rock to surren- der to Sheriff w. G. Hutton, but the news of the shooting spread through out the country and when Jackson vile was reached Coker was placed under arrest by Deputy Sheriffs Quinn, Vaughter and George Mccain of that town, who had learned of the shooting and were on the lookout for Goker.
 To the officers who placed him un- der arrest and brought him to Little Rock he told the full story of the crime and it's motive. According to the story told, early this morning Coker's wife, who is first cousin of the murdered physician, twice recent 1 ly, he declared, had been the victim of attacks by Harrod.
 "Once last August" he told one of the officers, "the doctor attacked my wife in field where she was work ling, and again only two weeks ago he tried to force her to take a drink of whiskey at his home." Coker said HarrOd came to him and asked that his wife be permitted to go to the physicians home to assist in caring for his children during the illness of Mrs. Harrod Coker said he let her go and did not know until yesterday afternoon that everything was not right during her stay
 Mrs. Coker kept the secret from him until yesterday, but he refused to say how she sappened to tell him." the officers declared Coker said. "He says that when he learned the truth from his wife he took his gun and went to Dr. Harrod's home. As he approached he saw the physician sit ting on the porch He called him out to the gate. When the doctor was a few feet away, he says he shot him, then turned away"
 Coker did not know that the physi- elan was dead until told by the deputy sheriffs at Jacksonville.
 Coker, according to the officers, is one of the best known farmers of the northern end of the county. He has a reputation, according to them, for sturdy habits and never previously has been under arrest. He is about 70 years old and is the father of sev- eral children.
 Dr. Harrod was born in 1880 near Vilonia. His father was the late Dr. George Harrod, who died 20 years ago, one of the oldest practitioners in Arkansas at the time of his death. Two brothers, George Harrod and James Harrod, the former residing three miles south of Vilonia and the latter in Denning, also are physicians A half brother, Grover Harrod, now iS StudviDu medicine