Show MURDERER GIVEN A APRISON PRISON SENTENCE Colored Man Pleads Guilty to Shooting William Smith Yes Judge I killed Smith but it was only after he ho had drawn a knife and was after affer me I pull the gun un until until until til I was forced to in order to save my myown myown myown own life lite We were both drunk I guess gueM and I dont know how the quarrel started start started 1 ed cd i This was the testimony of ot Thomas An Anderson Anderson I Iderson derson before Judge T D Lewis of the district court yesterday y as a re of or which he was sent to the state prison for fifteen years ears on ona la a charge of murder in the second degree There was no witness to the shooting in which VII Wil William liam Ihm Smith met his death nearly a year YC ago Anderson has been in Jail jall since that time tIne Had Anderson fought the me charge there is a doubt whether he could have been bean convicted according to District Fred C Loofbourow as there TV were era no witnesses and Ander Anderson son was the tho only one who knew the facts hc Anderson and Smith both colored en engaged engaged in a Po quarrel in a saloon on Com Commercial Commercial Commercial mercial street formerly known as Can Candy Candy Candy dy Bills place and then finished the argument In Plum alley aIley where Smith was found shot to death Anderson was arrested arr sted soon afterwards |