The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-24
ALL THE EVIDENCE IN THE wOoLMAN CASE IS BEFORE
 THE TRIAL JURY.
WOOLMAN TALKS THE STAND
Defendant Testifes to the Conditions Leading Up to the Shooting, But Swears He Never Had His Hand on
 the Pistol That He Can Remember.

Transitory insanity. and a mental condition that caused his mind to be- come a blank from the time the first shot was fired, and to leave it blank until after a sound sleep, is the oe- fonse through which Ben Woolman. charged with first degree murder for the killing of Mrs. Deborah Welborn in this city last February, has placed before the jury to justify the accusa- ton the state has made against him
 Woolman was witness on the stand yesterday morning, and in 8 nervous manner the told his version Of the story He recited in detail how the woman had pursued him, had de- handed that he be with her ar tne time, and how sine would upbraid him and quarre with him when he did not come when she called him. He told how they had on several occa- sious had scuffles, frequently in which he took a pistol from her. aft CT she had threatened to kill him, and that the woman was overcome with mad frenzy about him
 Woolmau told the story Of the hap penings the night Of the tragedy, but h. did not recite these details as Hull the dead eye witness to the shooting had done, and neither did he follow his story after the first shots
 The defense follows in genera way the case of the state until the struggle for the pistol the woman had in her possession begins There Wool man svears. after he to.k the hatchet from her, and had thrown it on the bed he had seen her bring out the pistol and come up with it, and he had reached out to grapple her.
 Fl never got hold of the pistol" he swore He swore tGlat as he was reaching for it the pistol was dis charged and then his mind becomes blank
 That leaves the situation open as to whether the woman had killed her self as she lay prostrate on the floor or whether while in an unconscious state of mind rendered unconscious by Chat first shot, Wooman had while mentally irresponsible, taken the pistol and fired the two shots in her body. and then remained uncon- scious until he awoke some hours lat CT in his own room, propped up in his bed and recognized his nurse, who told him of all the things that hap peued
 The prosecution made a serious at tack on that line of evidence relative to transtory insanity when Attorney Cobb assisting Prosecuting Attorney Witt framed a Hypothetical question based wholly on the evidence Of Ben Woolman himself, and applied that question t) Dr. John s Wood a de Tense witness, and pr, Wood sWore that under the hypothesis set forth. Aooman was sane
 That evidence was strengthened in fe5uttal when lDr. R. G. Davis, one or the best recognized experts on mental conditions in this section Of the country answered practically the same question in practically the same manner fer the state
 All the evidence is before the jury. The defense rested at 4 o'clock yes teday, and Prosecuting Attorney Witt did not put on much rebuttal The attroneys decided they would de vote the evening session of court to settling the instructions, and thls morning at S;30 o'clock the argu ments in the case will begin. It IS presumed that Attorney Arthur Coo0 VIII open the argument for the state and will be followed by Attorneys Findall, A, J Murphy and George W Murphy for the defense. and that Prosecuting Attorney Witt will close me case for the state.
 The case should go to the jury elth er late this afternoon or early 10 hlsht, and the verdict will be awaited Nllh much interest by many who ar'