The Springdale news., 1913-09-12

to warm. He offered no resistance and was brought to springdale and his wound dresse q, and taken to the county jail d Fayetteville where he has since been confined In conversation with a reporter of The News the day of his arrest Davis was perfe tly selfpo ossessed and exhibited TO signs Of ramorse for his deed. He said the shoot ing was accidental, and that after he saw that he had shot Miss Mon eyhun he then tried to take his own life. Davis was 19 years of age last March.
 Under the direction of Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Flowers, with Justice of the Peace R. l.. At- wood acting as coroner,. an inquest vas held over tie remains Tuesday morning following tae murder. An examination of the wound was made by Drs F D. Young and (. r. Perkins. and the bullet remoy- ed from the back of the head, hay- ing lodged just underneath the skin. Those serving on the eoFonef=s jury were B Beach | T. Lane, J. " Webb, A NJ Re q. Fl E "a wood, ] r. Harris. J Fl Webb, Dozs Graham, H. 3 Cooper, 4. l. ? rfy, ] P Jenkins and 4 J. Compton. A number of witnesses wefe examfned, and=.t vas shown that Davis had been hiking during the day, but no evidence was iutro- dueed showing that be had ever made any threats against Mss Mon eyhan The verdict of the coro- nef.s jury was that Miss Moaeyhum came to her death from a reyoIysr shot wound inflicted by omsr Dayis.
 The Trial
 At he April term of Circuit court the grand jury returned an h. dietment against omer Davis, ehaHg- ing him with mrrdsr in the first degree The parents of Davis re- fused to employ counsel and the court appointed John Mayes, Allen Wilson and R. NJ Godfrey to con duet the defense The=state vas rsaresentedZ by Prosecuting =Attorn- ey C. A. Fuller. Deputy Preseeat- ing Attorney A c Flowers and WaIker X Walker.
 Davi. was arrainged in court Fri day. May 9. shortly after the noon recess, and thirty-nine ia esman were examined be ore the jury was secured The work of se ufing the jury was complet d and the jurors sworn in at 43o D. m. They were w L. banner, G F. Beaver, R. B. Kidd, J. A Adams, N B Elliott. W A Whelchel, R c Stout, J. H Shumate, w H Holland. J. J. Whythe, w H. Summers. L. E. Hol- land
 The plea of the defense was in- sanity, and the taking of testimony was concluded at D. m. Saturday, the remainder of the afternoon be ing consumed in the arguments of the attorneys At o'clock the case was given to the jury, and at l o'clock Sunday morning the jury reported and asked for further information regarding some of the instructions of the court. The pre- siding judge, j. 5 Map'e dismiss cd the jury until s clock, and when they appeared q he read the in-
 
 that implied malice and express mal- ice were points on which they could not agree. The ourt explain ed these and the jury retired again, bringing in verdict at 1o:30 Sun day morning of murder in the first degree Davis showed little signs of emotion when the verdict was announced. His mother, Mrs. Mary Davis, sal by his side during the trial, but Mir Davis was not present.
 On Thursday. May l5, Davis was brought into court, and after oy- egruHng motion for new trial. Juaga Naples asked Davis te stand up, and after giving history Of the crime admoni he'd him 10 re- pant and pfepare 10 met his God, sentencing hlm to hang August II, t19f3.
 An appeal to the Supreme Court was granted. but The attorneys fail ed 70 get the matter before the court within the prescribs time, and Goyernor Hays granted a res pite of thirty days in order that he might iook into the dase
 Miss Nellee Moneyhun, for whose murder 0mer Davis paid the penalty. was born near Zion, southeast Of springdale, December l3, 1887, be- ing the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. C. Moneyhun She had