The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-24
INSANITY AFTER
 THE FIRST SHOT

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. HulI's room. and she saw him. Later he saw that the pistol was not under her pillow, and when she came in Hull's room where he had gone. said he would have to stay to breakfast, and that he would never walk out of the room.
 She said that the woman then or dered him to back there, indicating towards the kitchen, and that she picked up a hatehet which was near the grate, and told him she would hurt him or kill him unless he went back, and that he grappled with her and took it out of her hand He swore she had a pistol in her hand when he looked back after throwing the hatchet on the bed
 ''The pistol went off," swore Wool- man. q don't know how many times it was fired. I know that I did not have it when it went off. was struggling for it. The next thing that I knew after the pistol went off reached down and tried to help her up. l would not say whether l knew she was dead or not. became un conscious. knew nothing else until was propped up on a chair in my own house.
 q don't know whether I ever got the pistol or not"
 He continued to state that she would fly at him in angry passion and then later beg him to forgive her and say she would never do the things again, but that she would dc them again He said he felt sym pathy for her because of the cond tion. She could not help her condi tion.
 Testifying as to the knife in hs hand feature of the Hull evidence | he said that he was standing before | her with his hand in his pocket, as the often did, and she said. ''Oh, ain't afraid of your knife" and that he pulled out an old stub of a knife, closed to show her that was all he had.
 q was in very bad health" he tes- tified. He added that he was much better now. He had taken medicine, and the baths, and electric treatment, and more rest.
 q was sorry for her and did not want to hurt her." he added, in clos ing his evidence.
 Cross-Examination. The cross-examination was conduct ed by Prosecuting Attorney Witt. who developed from the witness that they first met in August of 1910. They kept company almost all the time un- til the date of the shooting. He ad- mitted he was in Florida with her in February of 1911. lie was there 2 or 8 weeks. They stayed at 11O Florida avenue, Tampa, Florida.
 She went first about the 21st Of December He went later in Febru- ary. He came back before she did, and she came back along in May or June. He swore that when he went there he did not know he was going to see her, but that when he got down that way he calred on her. He testi-. fled to being in the cigar business, then deputy constable, then collector of delinquent taxes, and of other work and of being for about 27 years member of the Knights of Pythias, and of having held every office in the lodge.
 "She said 50 times or more that death was the only thing that ever would part us" he testified. He said he was endeavoring to keep her from quarrelling and forgiving all the time. He said he didn't care to fight and fuss all the time.
 Speaking of the tragedy direct, he said she had tle p;ss)l in her hand and was raising it towards him when he reached down to grappie it. The pistol went off. q know that I did not have it when it went off" he swore.
 He said that he may have seen Of ficer Gillenwater when he came n later but that he could not remember it. He didn't know that he started to leave the house Not to his knowl- edge did he tell Gillenwater that This is Ben Woolman, and don't shoot" He did not remember having ever told Hull that he wanted him to say it was self defense, nor of having talked to him after the tragedy.
 ''I reached to help her up. I recall that. I realized she was dead" He testified that the next thing that hap. pened and all else there, he could not remember.
 On redirect examination he said he went to Florida on a fishing expedl- tion. II
 On the re-cross examination Wool man was asked if he had gone to the home of Mrs. Welborn on the Sunday before the tragedy and told Ruth