Show TliiS DAVIS MURDER CASE The Trial PcRun Which Draws a Large Number to the Court Room In the Pirjt District court the case of Enoch Davis charged with the murder of his wife Louise in June last came up for trial The court room waa filled with spectators among whom were a large number of ladies The case is of more than usual interest In that it was a most horrible and fiendish murder coupled with the fact that the body of the murdered woman was found in the cellar under the little house where the family resided by two of the sons In pre Fouling the case to the court today Mr Zane prosccutiug attorney brought tears to the eyes of all assembled even the defendant de-fendant war overcome as he depicted them the-m rder to tee court and jury and stated what the territory would prove Davis and his wife has been married twentjtwo years and a family of nine children bad been born them The evidence evi-dence thus far adduced has been from the IntJo motherless children which in brief is us follows On the night of June 5th last which was Sunday Mrs Davis retired to her oed in the little oneroomed house near Ashley Ash-ley where the family lived the husband Bleeping on the floor Above the oed in hich Louise slept hung a revolver During Dur-ing the night above mentioned she was struck on the head with the revolver her such crushed and the imprint thereof left on her head as appeared from an examination exam-ination made later on The following morning Mrs Davis did not make her appearance and the nine little children upon awakening discovered their mother gone and a blanket upon the floor stained with fresh blcod The father In answer to the question as to where their mother was said she had arisen in the night and committed suicide by taking poison Later on he went out into the jard raked up all the refuse and dumped it in a potato bole which on the Saturday previous he had cleaned oat and dug deeper and spread chips over the top After doing this he went to Ashley ana npcan drinking heavily and on his return home told the children he was sick gave way to grief refused to eat and l1Dall said their mother was dead and that he had buried her in Carteins pasture That their mothers last request was to bo burled properly and that he bed endeavored endeav-ored to do so Theodore one of the children who heard the story at once went to Ashley informed in-formed his brother William of it and they returned home to investigate On their way they met their father with one of their little brothers and the father tried to induce them to write a letter imitating their mothers writing and say she had GUicided for if any suspicion rested upon him he might swing from the gallows This they declined to do The two boys then sought the sheriff and t other officials which alarmed Davis who said his wife was not dead aud promised to bring her back The boys however returned re-turned home and upon examining the cellar cel-lar they dUcoxered the body of their mother under some loose dirt clad in a nightdress and with her head crushed They carried the remains out and into the house and sent for Dr Collins An examination of the house disclosed a gunny sack in which were a pillow case beet and a shoe covered with clotted blood Several other minor matters were brought out in the evidence tending to chow conclusively that Davis cruelly murdered mur-dered his wife The feeling is intense against him The trial will be concluded neit week and everything tends J 10 show that he will be found guilty of the murder |