Show BELIEVES M MOTHER THER FIRED HIS HOME CLINTON CLINTO Mo Dec 4 Tilly O. O Puckett Puck Puck- ett ctt testifying in his own defense here at athis athis his trial charged with the murder o of his mother Mrs 1 Samuel amuel Mackinson said his mother hall harl quarreled with him because e eshe she did not like 1110 his wife Ma wanted me t to drive my wife away he said but J I told her I I 1 never would do o that Then she sal said she I would rather rather- see us both nal nailed tl In coffins than living together to ether Puckett te testified that on time the nIght of his his' mothers mother's death h he a awoke wol e to find his house afire nOre and seeing some one going out the rear door lie he fired at random not knowing who It was Tie He said ho he then carried hIs imis wife and child from th the house Not until the fire was nearly and th time house In ruins dl did l lie he discover his mothers mother's bo body lying near the back porch under charred charre l timbers This Puckett Puckett Puck Puck- ett said wo wn the first he knew o of hl his mother having been near th the house |