Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-06-12

Mrs. Cochran by her husband. who
was lying near the woodpile Just out
side his gate. Mrs. Cochran was
screaming and taking on, and Hazel
went on to his brother, Connie
and awakened him, and sent him
up to where Cochran was, and then
went on to Lem Meadows house.
Connie Gray was the first person to
90 up to Dr. Gray's house after the
shooting. Mr.. Wheat came by
where DR.. Gray was at Mrs. Pauline
Gray's and was second person there.
Mrs. Cochran was the only perosn
at the house at the time the shooting
took place. except Or. Gray and ST.
mon Cochran. DR.. Gray did not
take the stand in the preliminary
hearing, and Mrs. Cochran testified
that DR.. Gray came back TO the
house sometime during the night.
and that she heard him come in
through the kitchen and go into his
room. That she did not go back to
sleep anymore, and got up about
four O'Clock. and DR.. Gray was then
in his room That she made a fire
in the stove, and then walked her
husband and asked him to cut some
stove wood. That he got up and
went to the wood pile, and that she
nothing with him. That he cut wood
for some minutes, and she went out
the door and TO the we'll to get
bucket of water, returning to the
house, when she heard the gun fire.
She states that she heard her hus-
band choping right up to the time
the shot was fired; that she looked
and saw DR.. Gray standing in or
near the gate with a shot gun in
his hands, and saw her husband fall.
She went through the house. and
when she got in the kitchen she
saw DIR. Gray take q step or two
toward Cochran, who was then lying
on the ground. and fire a second
time. After this second shot, DR..
Gray said: ''Now move my things
again." and turned and went over
to his sister-in-law's house. Mrs.
Cochran went to her husband, and
states that he gasped a time or two
and expired without saying word.
Cochran was cutting woo6 on a
log which lay east and west. He fell,
and was found lying by the log, with
which he had been chopping, and
died where he fell. DR.. Toney ex-
amined the body and stated that
there were a lot of shot in the top
Of his shoulder and in forehead and
face, all going almost straight down
with HIS body, and a large wound in
his chest about four inches wide and
about two and one-half inches from
top to bottom. Several shots were
picked out of this wound, and he
was shot with BIB shot.
The defendants sister-in-law, and
her daughter and three of defend
ants sons were placed on the stand
by the state, and the defendant put
on no evidence except couple of
who testified as to shme
threats that Cochran was alleged to
have made about DR.. Gray There
was nothing to indicate the defense
except some statements that Hazel
Gray testified about his father hav-
ing said to him when he first met
him after the shooting about Coch-
rams gun, and statements Drf-Gray
made to some of the witnesses in the
course of his conversation that he
had to shoot in self-defense. and
the statements of Connie Gray that
he found Cochran's gun standing in
the house, with the muzzle down.
by the door, which was. corroberated
bv Mr.. Wheat, who stated that Con-
Me Gray called him in to see 1t, and
no one else had come at that time
as they were the first ones there.
Mrs. Cochran said that was where
the gun stood all the time, and that
she didn't know whether ii was
standing with the muzzle or stock
down.
Judge Ellis held the defendant for
murder without bail. No application
for bail has been made in the district
court. but it is understood that the
defendant will make application by
writ of habeas corpus. DR.. Gray was
brought here Friday and placed in