Montgomery (AL) Advertiser, May 6, 1910, p. 10 MOTHER OF HOAL ADDICTED TO DRINK Corydon, Indiana, May 5-The prosecution rested today in the case of Thomas J. Hoal, charged with the murder of J. Hangary (difficult to read) Fawcett, the New Albany banker, and the defense announced that it would present six witnesses. William Hoal, father of the defendant, related incidents in the boy's life tending to show that the boy was mentally defective. His testimony was based chiefly on the assertion that the boy's mother was addicted to the excessive use of intoxicants both before and after the son's birth. The husband lived with the wife twelve years after Thomas was born and had tried to raise the boy alone since the separation. "Tom was always sullen and morose," Mr. Hoal testified, "the only thing interesting to him being peanuts and dime novels." The case may go to the jury late tonight.