Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1922-06-14

COURTNEY DANIELS CLEARED
MRS. TREADWAY CONVICTED
Jury Returns Verdict of Voluntary
Manslaughter, Which Is Two to
Ten Years in Penitentiary


= Circuit court adjourned Saturda,
evening after the jury had returnd
= its verdict in the case against Court
t ney Daniels and Mrs. Quill Treadwa,
an the charge of numbering Levi
, Brendle. Court will convene agair
the fourth Monday in August. The
| grand jury also adjourned and will
not meet in August unless especially
called TO hear specific cases.
Brendle Killing.
The case of the state against May
iTreadway and Courtney Daniels
charged with the murder of Lewis
Brendle, occupied most of three days
of the present term of the Criminal
court. Thursday afternoon and
short time Friday morning was taken
in empanneling the jury; the balance
of that day and until II a m. of Sat-
urday was used in the presentation
of the proof, and the argument and
charge following in the order men-
toned. the case going to the jury at
4 p. m. and at about 8:3o that night
| the jury reported their verdict, which
was that the defendant, May Tread
way was guilty of voluntary man
slaughter, and the defendatn Courtney
Daniels not guilty. This verdict if
approved by the court, imposes peni
Tertiary sentence of from two to ten
for new trial was made and consid-
Grafton of said motion was set for the
third Monday in August, next, when
the court re-convenes to finish the
docket of the present term, all cases
on the civil docket having gone over
until that date.
In the said murder case the State
was represented by Attorney General
J. R. Mitchell, E. G. Toilet and Car
Isle Toilet, and the defendants were
represented by c. F. Keyes and Frank
b. McElwee.
= .The DECEASED MES siIut vice on sflrl
early nignf of April III, last, and died
on the night of the 10Th of the same
month, as a result of the shooting.
The shooting occurred at the home of
Mrs. Treadway. Courtney Daniels
being there, the woman's husband,
Quill Treadway, not being at home
at the time.
The deceased in his dying decrara-
tions said that he was merely passing
the Treadway home when he discov-
cred, as he thought, his brother, Bevy
Brendle's hat in the front window of
the house and stepped in to make in
quiry of his brother, whereupon he
was ordered to leave by Mrs. Tread
way, but delaying to light cigarette
by the lamp light, and while in the
act of lighting same with lamp in
hand, he was shot from behind by
Mrs. Treadway. the whole contents of
a load of shot passing through his
right arm, tearing off the muscle of
his arm, severing the large blood YES
sells and scraping the bone of his arm,
thus rendering it limp ad powerless at
his side: that he then ran out at the
front door and turned east and went
around the rear end of the house and
on to distance of about ten feet past
the north west corner, and when about
midway between the house and fence
and while he was against clothes
line, he was again shot from behind, |
the shot taking effect in his back,
shoulder and left side of his face,
which latter shot knocked him help
less upon the ground from which po-
sition he was taken up and carried to
the home of his father, Mathew
Brendle, where he died. His cries
were heard by Vance Hinch, at his
home about 400 yards away and he
was the first to reach him and minist-
er unto him.
The medical testimony of the at
tending physician, as we'll as the
physical facts, and that of other wit
nesses seem to substantiate the con-
tention of the State as to the way in
which the shots entered the body of
the wounded man, and as he claimed
was the case. He thought both the
defendants were acting together at
the time he received the second shot
from the same shot gun.
Mrs. Treadway stated on the wit
ness stand that she fired both shots,
and that the deceased was advancing
upon her at the time each shot was
fired, and that he was within about
one foot of the muzzle of the gun
when she fired the first shot and about |
twelve feet away when she fired the
second time that the deceased was
and abusing her in the
house when she shot him the first
time, and was in the act of taking
hold of her.
The defendant Courtney Daniels
denied that he moved from his seat In
the kitchen during the entire time all
the above was taking place, or that he