The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-17
IKE DAVIDSON
 CASE ON TRIAL
JURY DID NOT REACH A VERDICT LAST NIGHT AFTER OELl5ER-
 ATlON OF HALF HOUR.
Davidson Takes the Stand and Tells How He Had Been lnno3ently Con- nected With Brothers in the Cattle Raids Here.

Isaac Davidson, a. ias Dave Short,
 the junior of three brothers who fig lurcd in the most spectacular shooting Ialfair ever recorded in this county, in which "Hamp Sparks and George Bailey were slain, later for the facts | to decy op that all three were broth
 CTS, was yesterday arraigned fin cir cult court on a charge of cattle steal
 ing
 The case was submitted to the jury
 in the late afternoon and after deliber-
 alton of half an hour no verdict was reached Circuit Judge Wood gave the
 jury until this morning to deliberate further on the ease.
 The defendant was represented by | Attorneys Mooney, Ryan. Lakenan and Chapel. Deputy Prosecuting At torney Sawyer conducted the case for
 the state.
 The evidence was much the same
 as adduced at the pre- iminary hear | l Dave Short" as he was known at the time of hs arrest, but who is Isaac Davidson. Young Davidson took the
 stand and recited how after his two older brothers had left their home in Oklahoma and come here, he came
 along latea. He disclaimed any know edge of the fact that they were Ihghwaymen or cattle thieves, but ad- mltted Chat he knew that they left Oklahoma after warrants had been is. sued for them on charges of hog stea' | ing.
 The young man said that he worked at a stave mill in the vicinity of their batch apartments in the mountains, land that when he first saw signs that
 they were stealing he threatened to
 leave them and go home He told Of
 the day the thsee brothers started out l to 'buy some cattle" as the elder ones
 to | him, and that later when they had the cattle and were en route to their camp, the oldest brother saw tbree farmers looking them over close | ly and advised the brothers to turn the catt loose and take to the woods. The boy told how every time they passed farm house they would be
 hot at, until first the younger broth the older one a wound In the back. He said then the elder brother took his horse and before the other two left him, there was an under standing that they would all use the same names they had used about the camp, and that they would volunteer
 no information if caught, so the ac- tions of the oder brothers could not be traced back to Oklahoma. "I knowed in my own mind that l
 would be kitied' testified the young
 man, and so | wanted them to go
 on. They were both wounded then The boy told of his night in the woods previous to his capture, and denied that he ever fired a shot in the fusL lades with farmer posses who were after them lie admitted the broth
 CTS returned fire, and explained not shooting himself by caying he was ex cited and forgot inc had pistol He explained the saw concealed in a
 eather belt he wore by saying it was a belt belonging to his older brother, and that as they were leaving the camp, and when he put on an extra
 pair of pants the brother told him to uso that belt.
 number of farmers testified to the circumstance when the three Davirson brothers went into the edge |C. Montgomery county, gathered up some cattle, and were herding them Iaway when the farmers saw the ac- ton. and the men left tho cattle and started to make away. They told of
 the pursuit of the cattle thieves which did not end until two of the brothers were shot and killed, and the younger one, now on trial. was captured by some farmers, brought 10 the city, and placed in jail