| Show ABRAM MAJORS I ON THE TUE TH E RACK Attempts s to f Explain Why Somo Some Statements St Are Contradictory HIS JIS MOTHER ALSO TESTIFIES i j Pl jors How Huy III lt Ills 11 lol Ivol 10 lire Two JO Mint idiots ut itt 1 11 1 t Special lathe to t tire the News 1 wl LoKan Sift t 27 Abram R n Majors lajo a n severe H vore 1 for r Iler two tiTo Iro hours this tX but Lut very chane wimp 1 dl dlIn p In his hil testimony He lie admitted S SI memory I torr was as Impaired by b byears years yeara and n a 1 half hal in I prison Ho lie Iu also ad al that hat he ire wrote Hole a letter to Sheriff Cordon CONlon a 1 month after ater the killing In which ho ito admitted that his life Sired llred 1 rd two shots th ts at Drown Browl In explain explainIng Ing lag this statement as 11 his hia h statement of yesterday that lint his hla brother did lid trot not fire fre any airy shots so tar far as ns he h knew knel he ho stated that the tho th empty curl carl In hn iris brothers rs gun und trOd other circumstances had then lien convinced him that his hil lil brother must have llred VP but bit that ho he had since derided decided that Archibald did not Ho 10 testified that arid and art cle he h were never within hearing distance front from each other In Inthe Inthe the th Jail when virena A third prisoner wits was pres present ent and that tha thu Stokes could therefore never neer the tire his irl guilt guU t Mrs Mma Majors that Abram Majors aJor her son eon owned the tho white handled pistol which had not riot ben tired tred at time pf killing Tho The defense offered tho the letter above aboc mentioned Sn n ir evidence In It Majors Implores Gordon Cordon C to tell tol the truth and ami ani free rree him IIo no also denies killing Coroner Ward Vard of oC county testified that th t the tire bullet bullot hh killed klell Archibald Majors went In under Uliar tho the shoulder blade and was cut out from front under the shin near time tho right nip alp nipple Ille ide Tho The bullet bulet a n ball bal was placed In evidence He lie also testified that Drown Brown conic camo ramI to his death by 1 u a bullet which entered his breast went through his body and wa wag never found F P J Hurd It n K 11 I Davis WOl Simon Slier and Josiah Marsh were called and ten tes testified tl tilled mainly that lint Deputy Deput Sheriff Sherl Thompson had hind told tol them bent then he lie and others othel tired fired red at nt the Majors brothers on n the night of ot April 29 21 1119 that one of ot tho the Majors shouted If you dont stop shOt lag Inu well wol commence Otherwise their testimony hind had Ito bearing on the tho care CIBe |
