Show TELL STORY SIOW or OF orM M T Frank Womack Has His Prelim Preliminary Preliminary inary mary Hearing in Judge Diehls Court WIDOW THE FIRST WITNESS ecu Sobs Shin Sho ho t I Up VII In III Her Ju bands Emil mig Th Tb pr hearing of ot Frank rank l Wo Woo Womack mack on the charge char of ot murder In the first tint degree el gree was wag taken up UI In Judge e Diehls court this morning Time The prose prosecution cution is being conducted by Assistant County Attorney Lyon and Col Cul M Al I M Al Is representing Womack Womac TIme The youthful defendant It will be re cc recalled reo called was boarding hoarding at the tIme home of ot Joseph JO S Mathews The latter believed that Womack hail had been paying too much attention to Mrs Ir Mathews and andon anlon andon on Oct 2 n 22 ho h ordered Womack to leave lelle the alace e An altercation arose and Mathews struck The Tho latter hatter pulled a gun and fired three shots Into Mathews body hd killing him Instantly There here Is a score ore ot of witnesses ses to be ex cx examined 1101 the hearing will vilh require two or three lays days at a t least leant WIDOW WIDO TESTIFIES IES Mr Airs Bessie Ia the widow was wai first examined Site She bald cold she elle married Mathews nine years earll ago last January and that she had resided Ie at nt her tnt residence two years lallI On the time III of ot October were you OU home homeI I was Wan Waa 1 lr home homeI I No Xo i When heim did he lie return I 1 should hould Judge 1130 ii 11 30 I IWho Who Shio were nere In the th i iJ I l think Miss Mis Powell and multi two to cull chI dren Miss AIlsa Powell wa was wall In iii bed bel Where were you ott I 1 was on Cm a lounge with one OM of ot tIme the children and time the other was with Il Powell well Was Wall os there anyone with Mathews when he ito came home hommie PROPOSED TO SETTLE SETTIE IT No sir Mr Ir Mathews was waR excIteS and hud hal been drinking He lie crud he lie heard Womack had a Run gun un to kill him with he proposed to settle ettle It At first he hp Bald he h would watt alt until un III morn mom In Ing and then Hum he said saido No o by O G Ill fix lix It now Then he ho went to Womacks room lOom and called him hIm out What transpired Mr 11 Mathews told Womack to put hN hIs hl clothes on What happened then Mr Jr Womack came Into Inlo the lining dinIng room and anil stood at nt time the th south side of ot the table How tow 1 watt was he lie 7 He Ue had his coat and trousers on ILL KILL 1011 YOU NOW 0 What the time conversation 7 11 told Womack he had something to I settle with him anti and charged that he lit Womack had a 1 gun to kill him with Womack denied It and Mr Ir Mathews told him to tu leave heave Mr 11 Womack said saI l he lie would not nOI ns nil ho lie paid me the board At that Joe to curse and saId paid Tou II a IM Ill 11 kill you ou now flOW Did say 1111 Not ot a word What happened then thon Joe Jot grabbed Mr AIr Ir by b the head hend and struck him several Meral times I grabbed the th lamp and am ran 1110 out leaving them In him darkness nels I and an ran back hack to tho the kitchen Then they thoy tho scuttled scuffled several severn minutes amid 0 nd I heard a n shot eliot tired fired Two or three minutes later tel twi tw more lIlore shots shot were wore fired I heard three in nil all Did you see sac a n Run Hun In No 00 o sir Had Mr Alt 11 Mathews a B Run HUll HUllo gunN No N o sir Ir Did Ihil Mr fall yes Yell WITNESS BREAKS DOWN DO DOAt At this point the tho witness broke down sobbed for several minutes She then th n Identified the th cloth which was on the table Col then began n the cros x Answering n a tho the witness said that when the shooting oc occurred the people In Iii tho the house were wens Womack h Fisher and 1111 alit tho time persons previously mentioned DUring tho the scuffle did limI lel you ou hear henr the tha rattle of ot clinIcs chairs I did Was Vas your jour husband 1 angry hail he been drinking Yes fir sIr Whan Mr Ir Mathiews truck struck Womack was waR the tho latter sitting down Yo Yes he lie was ns What hat did Womack say sar to your hus bus husband husband band brim d lie Ho said sold Joe you are arc drunk to tonight tonight tonight night Lets LettI settle the tho mutter matter In the tho Joe Joo Jo said No Xo ne wa c will wll settle It now There was Wl blood on Womacks facu mice after the time trouble had McHugh heap born drinking consid considerably considerably that day rind and night Yes he ho had MchUGh MISSING ISSI G Mchugh Is II the tho man milan who told tol Ma Mil It Is II alleged that was IU j paying pa retention to III A Mr ACre Mitt Met Ia he we Is III the tho badly wanted In the case emise but bul ho ha hue hiis left lett the state pre presumably to avoid giving testimony WOMACKS S CONDUCT Coming to the time question of ot the rela rein relationship between thu witness emit the defendant Mrs Irs stated em sat emphatically phil that Worn lick had lint always acted aa IlS a u perfect gentleman gentle never Improper or Indelicate In his conduct either r to 10 the tho or 01 to any ally other woman In the house it 11 was to my support and an anthis the this support of ot my may In children that I take luK boarders declared the time woman with whIm tears la In her imet eyes Ies Mrs Airs s broke down dOln again rind and It was as dome omo time be before before fore tOIe she recovered WITH A HAZOR Col then suddenly Did 1 1 1 your our husband ever threaten lIten you ou with a n razor Mrs Airs did not want to answer hut after atter Judge Diehl DIehI told talc her to do mb so 50 soshe soshe she sh said saidY Yes Y sir sh ir ho lie has At this point Mrs Airs Irs was vas ex excused e elIsed nod aud adjournment was taken un tin until Ill til II 1 1 this afternoon The testimony given this afternoon was that of ot County Physician Whitney lie He performed the thi autopsy upon the body boI of at mid declared there then were veme foum bullet rounds lounds II of or three that t Is 18 three thrle bullets were ivere ert re ro removed moved 11 front from the chest and there timers was evidence of ot a n fourth wound on the Index finger of ot the left leet haul hanS Dr Whitney then gave Ia 0 a n lengthy length description of ot the time autopsy I |