The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-20
HAVING.
COLLECTION
F SHOOTING
Iy Habit Began After
HE Was Given dope"
Three Years Ago
las INCAPABLE OF
JUDGMENT, IS SAID

H. f. Dalton. 8O-year-old
|,rsr state highway employee,
- with the first degree
,rSsr of Ms wife. Mabel Brown
Er~ on Nav %, took the
T. in his own defense this
I'm in cae superior court.
|Ns,,oa. By his testimony, ad-
H. the defense that. due &c
overdose of morphine about
1 hour and a half before the
I,,-mg of MS wife, he had no
1 o1qs.!or Of what took place
En- the afternoon after his
Is 20 the Strider home on
Ia avenue east.
|Ha declared that he had no
s,Olec;ior of the events just
H. 10 the shooting or those
ErOwirg until almost daylight
1 he following day.
Dalton was on the stand about
Ia hours. an hour of which was
syUei 10 direct examination by
Il I WaiCmire and an hour Of
los examination by Solicitor j.
f. P.sss, Jr.
Eli.a, on the stand said that
Us 80 years old and had been
'a-st I, years in August. He
Il .,G he had one child, a
hgg,.g aged nine years.
/ SIX gsars ago in July, he said,
Tas in Asheyille driving a
|srr in a taxi. They stopped,
aii. and as ne started TO drive
Il .g0 men got on the running
|Oari and one of them struck
IN over the head. He lost con-
b. Of the car. he said, and it
t3cS a bank and one of the
(, shot him through the leg.
rnder treatment at a hospital,
'aId that he was first given
iThine to ease his pain, and
Fer leaving the hospital used
b drug some. About three
sa,s ago, he said. ne became adj
E;ei TO the use of morphine
q used about a grain a day.
he said that on Tuesday night
ftogs the Sunday on which his
/ e was sho. ne was arrested at
ao:e. with Mrs. COot Jones. He
|ate bond the next day, he said,
I on returning home found his
gone. She never lived with
AFTER then. ne said.
3aDg his movements on the
~ q the shooting he said that
'T:sc ) and 10 o'clock that
EosG7s he took three quarter
Fans o; morphine and came to
F"a T.:a 4 taxi driver. About
oc.oci he asked George Whit
\" % take him TO his home and
ociS place he saw his wife.
IIsE stopped and he talked with
Is. Dalton.
ne said that he asked her if
= mad seen Nora (their child)
4; Gay. and that after she got
I. o, The car he asked if she
! coming home. She said:
'2 e I don. know what to do"
I2ey picked up George Ed
aus and went to Dalton'S home
Mountain Home. He said that
'ooa six quarter grains of
Saalne while at home and then
% HendcrsOnville.
" the way he said he had de-
t. 70 kill himself. Life for
e fears. ne said. had been no
S+e when ne was always
1I Or dOped. and he said that
Isalzaa ne had disgraced his
s =. and thought he would be
TT,s' off dead.
1a'.9n. testimony at this point
= As he talked of his wife was
i n,g,la,ed with sobs.
"e SAID ne remembered being
seldom Shipman'S where he
. me pistol with which he in
,Sea killing himself. He also
u ne rrmembered being at
T'Mao Sore and at the Strid-
u T'Ne on Sixth avenue.
ne said he did not remember a
\. I,'eIsanon with Kay Orr, or
% Cali Shipman, or seeing Mr..
Do"et. Or Strider or Bill Ball.
also said he did not remem-
getting the shells from Ball
gong to the Duncan home,
entering the house, talking
IL" y. wife, firing the shots or
/, ''fst night in Jail.
''y rald that about daylight on
:. '''2"lng day Monday ne
= ; realized that he was in jail
= '%.es that day was told that
D Ni1e vas shot.
:, oel"een sobs he said that he
~ ElO TO his wife at the hos
dan ana asked if he might get
SS ,,S.or from Asheville.
riDo.l!scted to a long cross ex-
.an "s.oo ne said that he had
81 ned 5000 for resisting an
1,Dy. and driving a car while
N a IN the observation-disclosures,
i ma ne had beeHzfiHed s200