The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06

come up to my house and stay all
night. Get the bunch off To bed,
go up and kill Carl. come back and
go to bed. and no one would know
ii. That was one day this week |
think yesterday morning. | told him
yesterday morning we ought not to
let him leave. He said we ought not
Bus first promised he would go up
there with me TO kill him. We talk
ed constantly all week about kill
ing the old man. Carl first report
ed he was going TO leave in a car
or buggy. Bus and | were going to
waylay the road. Just before | left
to kill him, Bus and arranged for
me to go kill him and he would swear
that | was at his house. Bus said
the full choke gun would be the
best to use if | had to shoot through
a window. as the glass would glance
the shot if ! used the other gum
Fuller later made a further state
ment which sets forth:
"On the Sunday before the killing,
Bus said that if | go in with him he
would come to town and get high
power gun and he would shoot Carl
If ! would be along to prove where
he was at the time. That was be.
fore we heard that Carl was going
to leave Bus said he's taken his
wife to my house, go up and do the
killing, and ne was to say | went
to bed when the rest did. This was
Friday morning. We talked about
which gun to use | said open
choke. He said the full choke, as
the window would knock the shot
off.
1--WE quit saving wood at 2:15. He
came over about 500 o'clock and
said tonight would be a good night
to 90 up there He said / bet you
do. We arranged for him to say
| was at his house. Bus said put the
gun in the thicket by Mr.. Michaers
and get it as you go up to shoot the
old man.
II first put the gun under the
floor after the killing When we
learned that the officers were coming
Bus said What did you do with the
gun? | said, Under the floor He
said. Better put it off down in the
bbA PbN ~ ~ t'iC NNte'' -
wanted Car! killed because Carl had
accused him Of beating him out OF
81 900.
(Signed). THEDFORD FULLER. ="
The instructions of the court to the
jury were to the effect that 1t either
had TO find the defendant was insane
at the time he did the shooting be-
fore he could be acquitted, and. be
fore he could be convicted of man
slaughter in the first degree, that
the shooting was done without de-
sign on the part of the defendant to
kill the deceased; that if the defend
ant had sho, the deceased with pre-
meditated design, he was guilty of
murder in the first degree, unless in
sane at the time.
The verdict returned by the jury
found the defendant guilty of man
slaughter in the first degfee, with
sentence of four years in the peni-
tentiary.
j. A. Thornton, the man whom
Fuller mentions in his confession. and
to whom he also refers as Bus is
a cousin OF the alleged slayer. Thorn
ton will be tried as an accompnce III
the killing of Carl during the latter
part of the month.
During his address to the jury In
the Fuller case County Attorney
Ma;hers stated that the death pen
atty was the just punishment which
should be meted out TO Fuller. He
read extracts from the confession IN
which he attempted TO demonstrate
that the murder had been Of such a
nature as to warrant a conviction of
murder in the first degree. Mr
Mathers spoke of perjury which he al
legged was being practiced in the
Carter county courts, and which he
stated. in his address TO the cour'
and jury, ne intends to put TO
stop by severe prosecution OF per
jurers.