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MEDFQimMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREO ON, SUNDAY, DKCrcMlJKlUS, 1910.
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h win- Nitx jou nun inu tun
loi'koil up iit a floitrl continued Mr,
Muck.
"1 did not liavo uiv djr in a
closet," Smith replied.
"Then do you menu to say my
Vvife is i liar?" linked Mock. ,
IJ. M. Martin vn. called to tlio
ilncHs stand and testified to prac
ticall the same thins as thu evidence
of McMullen. When the 'fijrlit start
6d Martin dropped his book and call
ed for McMullen to separate the
men. lie heard Smith say, "He has
cut me." McMullen then euujjht .hold
of Mock and said: "Don't strike him
any moie; you have killed him."
Smith then sank fo the" floor and
Mock hacked away.
Mrs. . M. Martin testified th-it
Mi. and Mrs. Mock 6-alled at their
lioif-e and Mr. Mock incVninSd for Mr.
Mai tin. She informed him that Mar
tin win at the Mullen residence and
offered to send hel' daughter Mary
for him. This Mo6k refused, stat
ing that he would o oVer and see
him himself a-s he wanted to play A
Kiime of cards with him. Mrs. Mock
remained at the Martin home and
played the orjjan unYl s'anfr with Alary
Martin. Mai tin cume in shorfly at
terward and said: "1 guess Mock has
killed Je-,s."
Mrs. Mock then arose from the or
gan stool and said: (t'(N me thu
truth." Then Mock came up and
Mrs. Mock exclaimed: "My God.
man, what have ybu been doing? '
and Mock replied: "1 have done whAl
I said 1 would do, and I guess he will
not call you nor any olie" else a d n
liar any more."
Alary Martin, the young daughter,
testified to practically the same
story, but in cross-6xanrination Mary
jiino contradictory evidence to her
own testimony in direct examina
tion. On Saturday moVning the state
finished its diiecV tctithrion.v. J. II.
liallingcr was called to the witness
stand and testified that ho was fore
man of the coroner's jury; that h"
hud examined the body of Jes-e A.
Smith at the undei faker's not thor
oughly, but had looked at the
wounds; (hat lie believed Smith (6 be
a man about fic feet six inches in
jicight and would weigh between KJO
and MO pounds.
.). N. Manning, (he constable and
deputy sheriff who arrested Mock on
"the Applcgate, was next called to
testify. He tirst met Mock at the
home of Mr. and Airsi. George Trask,
on the Applcgate river, alout IS
miles, from Medford. It-Was in the
moi ning and Mock was ju?t coming
down sinirs. He ordeicd Afoelc to
throw up his hands, which ho did,
and then told him, ''You arc Julius
A. Mock, wanted for the killing of
i Jesse A. Smith in Aledford." Mock
Replied: "You are mistaken in the
man. .Manning then (old him In)
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voiiiu nave io go io .lacKsouvuic niuiiMiuiii any length of time not more
lAlock .said. "Oh, very well; 1 can I limn rt week or ton dnvs lnim tint
TiHitcd Mock out for n walk. 'They
went out to the barn, where some
liunteis were camped, and after talk
ing for a while started back to the
house, when Mock said:
"You need not look anv fut liter;
1 inn the niau you want. 1- am Ju
lius A, Alock. I am all in. I was
.iiist ready (o letuiu and give my
self up. I have but one favor to ask
do not put shackles on mo and 1
will return without the slightest
troubl"."
Air. Alanniiig granted the rcquqst
and Alock made iio trouble en route
to Jacksonville
Air. McAIulle.. v...n called and tes-
tilied that he had known Jesse- uboiil
a month; that Smith was a ami.
about five feet five inches tall and
weighed 151 pounds; that Smith was
in the habit of lixing up nnad occas
ionally carrying a .38-ealiber revol
ver, bnt lie did not believe Smith Was
armed on the night of the homicide.
AfcArulI6n further testified that
Smith hud offered to sell this Mime
gun to Alock for .t'i.ot); that it was
an Ivors & Jjdinson .:38-cnliber gun
and was the only gun in the house
aside from a .44 Colt's, which was
at the bottom of a trunk, and thnt on
the night of the fight Smith had pat
the ,38-ealiber gun up on a shelf and
did n)f have it on his person whui
the figirt occurred.
George r'reesc was called and tes
tified that he was at AleAIulliu's
holiso on Palm street in Alcdfoid
about 8 o'clock on the evening of the
fight. lie saw Smith King on the
Moor bleeding. He met An. a'
M'ck just before lie got to AIcAIta
len's; that ATartin and Mrs. Alartin
Vere pot there at the time, but he
nYet them shortly afterward. IIu did
not remember of .seeing Alary Alar
tin. It was a light night and he dUv
soni6 children runnfTig at a distance
The cross-exaniinalion brought out
i16thing new in the testimony of Air.
Kreise.
Airs. AIniliu yns called and testi
fied that Airs. Alock" was at theft
house and was playing on the organ
and singing with her daughter Man.
and that to the best ot her knowl
edge Alary had not left the room un
til after Alartin returned with the
news o( the fight.
Air. Alaitin, on being recalled,
staled that Smith admitted Alock
into the house and shut the door af
ter him: that he had shut it in An
ordinary manner; that Sniitji had
earricd a gun when out with his (earn
mid bad been in the Ifabit of curry-'
nig it about the yrin"l when he' Wn's
Working cm itt lixing a broken spiing.
At lfiYlfi tiro state' les'tcd its case.
Af.l o'clock, (i. ni. Julius Alook was
".tljed to (he stand and tos'tffiod as
follows;
"Aly right iirtmc i Julian Addison
Mock. I am .'17 years of age; was
bVufu in the slate of ..Missouri and
nib, jhe defoudant in this case. I
c.ime Io Aledford on the .'ils day of
March one year ago, and am by trade
1 en mentor. I have not known Jessa
wifc and 1 and Jee. "Ve luul no
luck after hunting practically u'l
day, returning to cuinp oiilv for
lunch. The next day Jess had l
leave, as he had promised some la
dies the use of the team. 1 kept on
hunting, but without success, and
When 1 leturned on Satuiday I met
Jess, who asked me if I had had any
success, mid I told him no. When
we went 011 the hunt my dog was left
behind and when we returned 1 went
looking for my dog. 1 met Alary
Martin and asked her if she knew
where the dog wus; and she said lie
was at the iMiWliilIeii house. 1 hen J
went downtown and mv wife wen1
after the dog. She vent Jo Smith
and asked it he had seen the do"
and ho said ho had not; that it the
dog was.Uiero.ho, was under the
house. Airs,. Alock lotVkod under the
house uifd did not find him, but
heard a dog whine, and some chil
dren pointed to a closet and said he
was in theic. Smith then shippe.'.
the child and turned the dog out, and
Mrs. Alock took him home. P ic
turned home from town at (5:110 and
Airs. Alock told irte about the dog,
and I thought that Smith liad done
nio a dirty trick, after my having
treated him like a gentleman while
on the hunt. Airs. Alock and myse'f
went over to the Alartin homo ,and I
asked for Air. Mai tin. Airs. Mailin
said ho was at the AfcAljillcn homo
and that she would ssend Alary for
huu I said 1 would go myself, and
walked direct from Alartin's to AI -Mullen's
and knocked 011 the door.
The door was opened almost immedi
ately by Jesse Smith 11'iVd I shook
hands with him and ho introduced me
to An-. Mullen and also to Mr. Alar
tin. 1 shook hands with them, and
then it Hashed in my mind that
Smith had'dorie nio n dirty trick, find
I turned to him and said: "Jesse,
didn't T treat you like a gentleman
when we went on that hunt, when 1
paid all the expenses and furnished
ou a gun and ammunition?' and he
said, 'You did, Air. Mock.' "Then why
did you try to steal my dog?' 'I
didn't try to steal him.'
" 'Aly wife says you had him shut
up in a closet.'
" T didn't have him vhut up in a
Hosot.'
" 'Then do you mean to call iu
wife a liar?' and he sas, 'f do,' and
struck me.
"Yion .SmiHi struck me I clinch-d
him. I awTj'he was; tiinsr 't gel to
his righ't hand lup pocked -and grAb-
mud It
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soon convince you that you have got
the wrong party; my name is not
Alock."
"What is your name?" asked Air.
Alauning.
"I'aul Jones," aiisAicied Alock.
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f ni- iii'mii, riniiiL llll'll M'illl'IICII
JAIock and found in his possession
iu pocket knife. Alock afso had with
trouble,
"I wanted to go hunting and wont
to ai tin's and asked if Air. Alar
tin's father would not like Io go with
me. Ho said he didn't think h"
Would, but (hat he knew a man who
would, and called Jesse. I did not
know what the man's last name was,
bill we made arraiiireineiils to ro
Ihini a Winchester rifle which he had ' h inting. Jeso furnishing the team,
yell downstairs daring the night, 1 while I furnished siinnlios. trims and
jlWhilc waiting for breakfast Alanniiigt ammunition. We went liuiiliiiL' mv
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bed with my left hand and prevented
ItifA getting tfnft gun, w'hich 'I mtr
'.011 f idcut that he had. How I got m
kiufe 1 do not know, but I go( il iu
jny rjght hand and struck him twice.
Then Mr. AIcAfullen' tdok holYl of m
and said, 'Ymi have hint him; do no'
hit him again.' and then Smith llnew
his head back, his muscles relaxed
and he fell to (he floor, groaning. !
looked at liiju. for poUmis a hull'
minute and renin iked that I did not
think Sinilh was as badlv hurt as lie
let on (0 be. Then my wife came
Mid asked mf fo go home. It wass
then I began to feel nervous and
feared that I had hint him badlv. I
was not particularly angrv at Sniillr
I was merely protecting myself and
my wife's honor, and Idid not know
that he was dead until the net
inoining. I did "t intend thai mv
blows should kill hiuiv. Had I desired
to kill him I could lunc cut his head
off."
Cross. culmination failed to move
Mock from his wcll-deliveied direct
testimony.
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