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Harry J. King, who lives next door to the Horner's, was the first person to reach the house after the shooting.

He heard the report of the gun, followed by the shrieks of women.

He ran to a window and called for Dr. Simpson, asking if anyone had been hurt.

Dr. Simpson replied, I've shot Mr. Horner, and asked the witness to come over.

When he reached the house, he found Mr. Horner lying on the kitchen floor,

and Mrs. Horner bending over him, fanning him with a newspaper. Mr. King said that after

Mr. Horner had been carried to an adjoining room and placed on a lounge, Dr. Simpson returned.

As he entered the room, Mrs. Horner, who sat beside her husband holding his hand, said to her

son-in-law, may God forgive you, to which Dr. Simpson answered, I hope he may.

Mrs. Simpson said to her husband, Jim, haven't I begged and pleaded with you not to have loaded

guns in the house?

Dr. Simpson, Mr. King said, merely answered, darling don't, and left the room.

Mr. King said he heard Dr. Hayen asked Dr. Simpson if both barrels of the gun were discharged,

and Dr. Simpson's answer was, yes, both were discharged.

Quote, Mr. Horner was conscious and in great pain. At times he talked, saying over and over,

don't let me suffer so, knock me on the head.

Then he would say, kill me, please.

At one time he asked the doctors to give him morphine.

I heard him mention no names, although Dr. Simpson was in the room part of the time

and was near the lounge to which Mr. Horner had been taken."

While he was there, he did not hear a word exchanged between Dr. Simpson and Mr. Horner,

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