The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-10-06
Several Witnesses Placed ON Stand
by State to Combat Story Of
Norman Kay, Alleged Eye
Witness to Tragedy
LOCATION OF hog
HOUSE QUESTIONED
Lawyers Indulge in Wordy Wars;
Arguments Completed and
Case Goes to Jury at 2:25
This Afternoon

| Following the reading of the state
ment made by Norman Kay at the nre.
ilminary hearing OF Jess Taylor fol-
lowing the killing by Taylor of Gus
Lamneck, the defense yesterday in.
troduced number of witnesses 70
combat the story of young Brown that
he had seen the actual killing from
the Brown dooryard.
In doing this, and in bringing out
the evidence, many wordy wars re-.
suited between Attorneys Barefoot and
Venable for the state and Attorney
Riddle for the defense.
A hog house figured most materially
in all this evidence and the attorneys
for the state and prosecution devoted
a great deal of attention to this struc-
ture. Objection succeeded objection
from the states attorneys, which were
either overruled or sustained by the
court, as the attorneys for the defense
produced witnesses to show just how
many feet long and how many feet
high and how many feet from the
public highway this particular hog
boarding and rooming house might
have been.
The hog house was, at the time OF
the killing, on the premises of Mr..
Brown. but las been torn away since
the killing Of Lamneck. Attorneys for
the defense claimed that the hog
house was in such position and of
such length that R. B. Brown, who
testified for the state that he wit
messed the killing from the Brown
yard, could not possibly have seen the
combatants.
Ike Harness, for the defense, testi-
fled that the hog house abutted the
road and that it would have prevented
Brown from seeing the struggle which
cost Lamneck his life.
G. w Holder, w. A. Neal, S. H.
dolcomb, Joe Taylor-flo relation to
the defendant-testified to the same.
S. J. Lee, called by the defense,
testified to the length of the hog house.
Lee was member of the jury which
tried Taylor at a preceding trial, said
trial resulting in disagreement. His
upon the stand caused
another wrangle among the attorneys
for the state and the prosecution. OBJ
jections came thick and fast until the
defense called Lee from the stand and
recalled Mrs. J. C. Brown and resumed
her cross-examination in an effort to
lay the ground plans for the admis-
sion Of Lees evidence
Following the re-cross Of Mrs.
Brown, Lee was again called to the
stand and testified that the hog house,
judging from what he had been told
by all concerned was of such length
that none in Browns yard could have
seen the killing Lee stated that he
went to the scene of the killing after
the mistrial at which he sat as a juror.
He said, on cross examination, that he
had heard so much while sitting as
a juror that he wanted to see some
thing to satisfy himself.
At O'Clock the defendant was
placed upon the stand
For fifty minutes Taylor underwent
= gruelling cross-examination follow
Ing his direct examination Attorney
Barefoot, for the state fired question
after question at the witness in an
effort to shake the story which he told
IN the direct examination.
Taylor told practically a story SIM
liar to the statements made by the
man Kay in his statement made at
lba preliminary and read to the jury
sirlier in the day. He said that he
was untying his team from the post
10 which they were hitched; that il
was about 1:15 O'Clock in the after
noon: that he was first accosted By
Lamneck, the deceased: that Lamneck
walked up to him; that the first he
Snew of Lamneck's presence was when
be heard the boards which Lamneck