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28*»Tbe Charleston Gazette Fridav, Nov, 21,1947Feared Pauley Was After Gun,Elswick SaysArnold L. Elswick, 36-year-old pipe fitter’s helper of Little Sandy and father of three children, told an intermediate' court jury yesterday that he fired at Clarence E, Pauley, 27, a neighbor, killed lastf***********************JAKE OFF UP TCMskIN 10YS!4awa~cur rout via moem. houuM* MUMliNO UUMTtVtlno nnctMiNO MUST UQUini NO n*)NO «OOT(N«If Tho*e flabby bulges that spoil your appearance, thowi layer* af t~- —- --5-*- - - .aOyof ugly’fat that weigh yoa ■ arid nwntally can now be re-■ muta tion ete*aa fatl| THMETT sweet tablets. MUM MIRACULOUS RESULTS Imtfidottl Tronoottt kablota artso ecmrut-S«MC. You «to mmxrr tt»*M Itl yw WS4 *6 f«k«rm whcreur m in wtth r*o (u**k mow or ©m-JBdL mb J*u wouW tnltUT* ltd tmrwith HqrMfcrwjplrml.Dsily qoot» unpphoi i wIih Tsqafwd vltualns and mij*rmk»nd «nrr*yjooB1 WbuM OTdinarllo jprt from taxi*. Co*'rt no drua*. AbaolijtdT h»rml«S. 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Vo.Ptfon wd ... ,. .Tnwatt Tab*.TOI COHEN'S |{ DRUG STORES |#4MUMUMMMMUFT*a^lMMMMUf.A-AluMay 29, because he was afraid that Pauley was about to get a gun out of his car.Elswick related that he had returned to the home of Howard Stoffel of Elk vie w, a brother-in-law, to keep an appointment with his wife, Mrs. _Marie Elswick, as she had previously agreed to go back to housekeeping with him, and he was to give her’'some money.As he. was waiting .there, Els-, wick said, Pauley and Mrs. Elswick came in Pauley's oar.Charges Threat To Kill Elswick said that when he addressed Pauley asking him what he meant by continuing to go out .with Mrs, Elswick, that Pauley-cursed him and got out of the car with a hammer in. his hanc and threatened to kill him.Pauley, according to Elswick, returned to the car and was reaching ! for something underneath-the front! seat. It was at that time that he’ fired the shot, Elswick explained, having the idea that Pauley was after a gun. Elswick was on the opposite side, of. the car at the time the shot was fired.■ The ease: is expected to go to the Jury today after, the court in-atructs the Jury and final arguments are made by counsel for the state and 'the defendant.Disclaims Intent To Kill “I didn’t intend to kill anyone,” Elswick said, I got the shotgun simply because 1 feared for my life. •.According to testimony of witnesses., for .both-the state and defendant,. Eiswick went to the Stof-fel residence earlier in the evening, and after being told that.his wife was not there, had a cab driver take him to a liquor store, then to his home, where he procured the shotgun, and back to the Stoffel home, where his wife had been living.Elswick. said he went there simply to keep the appointment with his wife, previously agreed upon, and that he had the gun because he thought he might meet up with Pauley,Told to Mind Own Business’1 The defendaht accused Pauley of breaking up his home and of having bad illicit relations with Mrs. Ela-wick. He said his wife had left him May 10 and that’several days later a daughter told him she (Mrs.] Elswick) had gone off with Pauley ( that night.According to Elswick, when he first objected to Pauley going around with Mrs. Elswick,,Parley told him, to mind his own business, and that 'he (Pauley) would kill Elswick if. the latter attempted to break up the affair,Ernest Clendenin of Charleston, H. R Archer of Kanawha City and R. E. 'Rollins of Kanawha-Two-Mile. | all employed at'the Libbey-owens- { Ford Glass Co. plant, where Els-; wick worked, testified _ that Els- • wick’s, general reputation as_ a j peaceful and law-abiding citizen was good.Tried to Warn Pauley W. H. Collins of BFD 1, Charleston, a resident of the Little Sandy community, testified he saw Elswick in the 'afternoon of May 29, and that he “thought something was going, to happen, Collins also testified that he met. Pauley later on and tried to warn him-and keep him from going toward the Stoffel home.The state contends that Elswick is guilty of murder in the first degree. and that when he went back to the Stoffel residence with the shotgun, his intent was to shoot Mrs. Elswick and Pauley.juntil about May 10 when the Els-! wicks separated,I Earlier. Elswick's seven-year-old i daughter, Mary Ann, testified that Pauley had taken her and her mother into Charleston to see ,a doctor on May 29, and that they had just returned to her uncle’s house when “Daddy came up and- shot Mr. Pauley.”Mrs. (Hazel Cart and Mrs.. Bernice Williams, sisters of the' accused, both testified that Pauley’s visits-to the Elswick home took place frequently from the fall of 1948Marriage ApplicationsCharles Edward Aibury. 18, of Leewood and ; Clara Muc Duncan. 18. of Dscota.Fred E,. Hayes. SB. ol Blue Creek and Lillian • Alice apencor, 36. Of Qulelc. jJames Donald Maddox. IB, nl 1.110 Beech Av. and Wands. Blleeo. Uvtrigood, 19, of 632‘.a Hall St.Cl.nfer Powers, !1, and Patty Holstein, X«, ■ of Dry Branch. ij.
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Fri, Nov 21, 1947
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