The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-06
NAN WHO CONFESSED TO KILLING
AGED BROTHER-N-LAW, GIVEN A
= SENTENCE BY TRIAL JURY FRIDAY

Averdict that has caused more
comment among those familiar with
the case than has any delivered in To-
cal courts for many years. was that
returned Friday in the district court,
In the case Of the State of Oklahoma
VS.. Thedford Fuller, and in which the
',defendant was sentenced to the pen
litentiery for "A term of four years for
1.-THE killing Of w. f. Carl, at Provence,
or January 2sth.
NJ In his final address to the jury,
lIprior TO the deliberation of that body
on the case, County Attorney Math-
ers asked for the death penalty. al
leging that the defendant had COM
mitted premeditated cold d.blooded muir
der.
i The attorneys for the defense,
Champion and George, maintained
that the defendant was suffering from
emotional insanity at the time he
\ fired the fatal shot.
Fuller is II years old Carl was 65
years Of age.
! During the trial, County Attorney
Mathers presented as evidence writ
Item confession, signed by Fuller, and
! in which it is alleged the defendant
confessed that the murder had been
deliberately planned a week prior to
its consumation.
The confession was made in the
county Jail in the presence of AS
sistant County Attorney Hodge, al
most Immediately after the crime
had been committed.
..t. h.. katy aaI
the morning following the shooting
reads as follows:
Il was lG years old last May, 1920
shot Carl about 500 o'clock at night
January 2Sth. 1921. | shot him while
he was in his store. ! was out IN
front OF the porch at the time | shot
him. shot in at the open door,
firing one shot with single-barrei
shotgun, No. 4, shot. drew at
his head and he was sitting down
II turned and ran till | got out OF
Provence My home was a mile
away. | carried my gun back home
About two weeks ago he made
some talk, and had made match
between my sister and a bum, ana
then the man left her Then he took
sister back home to live with her.
We called her to come home. Sne
told him and he hit her with an
iron poker. She came home then
He also drew gun on me after the
gin had come home. about ten days
ago. After he drew a gun on me-
decided to Kill him, about week
yago. He was going to leave TINS
morning. January 18th 1921, ana
take my sister his wife. away wnere
I would not see her again. A rev
nights ago he said he was going
TO leave. Ny single sister was. back
at my home. and had been for two or
three weeks.
About 700 o'clock last night ] got
A. gun and started up to kill HIM
ffstarted from home and went straight
on 10 his house. | waited about ~
minutes for him TO come out at the
back door | kept in the dark 10
keen from being seen. l did not go
aiong the road to his home but cut
Trough the fields. When Thornton
his cousin got over there toid
him 10 tell her had been over TO
his house. and told him ! had shot
Carl. My sister that married the
hum was % year old. The one Carl
married is IS years old.
About six o'clock, told D. A.
Thornton to come and stay all night
nj my house. Tonight was going 10
be dark. and Carl was going to leave
in the morning, and If | was gong
to Kill Carl it would be a goou
| night. had told Thornton NarI
would keep fooling with me TIL !
bumped him off. Thornton said the
way Carl had done about the girls
if he had done his sisters like yours
would kill him.
A statement made by Fuller in the
afternoon following the night OF the
killing reads as follows:
"Bus (Thornton) said he could