Arizona republican., 1890-05-28
FOR HIS LIFE. Trial of Jefferson Wilson
 Begun Yesterday. He Takes the Proceedings Rather Good Naturedly. Story of the Murder of Private Fleming---Very Little Trouble in Securing a Jury.

Jefferson Wilson is on trial for his life.
 In the district court yesterday Jeffer- son Wilson and Primus Douglas were called to the bar to plead to the charge of having murdered Private William Fleming at Fort Apache in November last.
 The story of the crime of which it is alleged that they are guilty, has already been detailed in the columns of TIE REPUBLICAN.
 Fleming had made himself obnoxious to Sergeant Logan, of the squad to which himself and the prisoners be- longed, and Logan had endeavored to induce Fleming to desert, promising to give him time to get away. This Fleming refused to do. Instead, he prepared charges against Logan to be submitted to a regimental court-martial. and on the very night before he intended handing in these charges his body was found near the post. He had been beaten, evidently with clubs, almost to jelly. An inquiry followed, conducted by the officers at the post, and the re- suit was the arrest of Douglas and Will son, who are alleged to have committed the murder at the instigatlon of Logan, and of the latter for conspiracy to mur- der. The prosecutor will endeavor to establish that the prisoners committed the deed, not alone to curry favor with hn ttyr OH tt,At .lt tnl lx l them, but also in consideration of the payment to them of small sum in hard cash.
 When the case was called yesterday, Attorney Rouse appeared for the de- fendants and interposed demurrer to the indictment upon the ground that the Court had no jurisdiction in crime committed on an Indian reservation, and upon the further ground that the indictment it. self was defective. The demurrer was argued at some length by Mir. Rouse, District Attorney Jetfords evidently not considering it of sufficient moment to squander energy upon, and was then overruled by the Court. Then in response to the Courts query as to what their plea would be, Douglas-who resembles a sable cloud in a summer sky-and Wilson-who is few shades lighter and whose face during the whole proceeding had worn broad grin as though he considered the matter a good joke-arose and responded that they were mot guilty"
 On motion defendants were given sep arate trials, the case against Wilson being called first.
 The work of securing a jury then began, but had not proceeded far before a special venire for twenty-five addi- tional men was demanded. However, the twelve to try the case were secured without great deal of trouble, but seven peremptory challenges being eX- hausted, and only two men being chal- lenged for cause. The jury, as finally constituted, is as follows: c. M. Will lians, David Kyle, D. D. Recarte, Ben Seldman, George Wilder, George Boards ley, s. P. Coble, Bruce Perley, F. A. Phillips, H. Schumacher, w. Talbot and T. P. Teele.
 But two witnesses were put upon the stand, one of these being the surgeon who had examined the body of the murdered man, and the other being Lieutenant Hardiman, who had been one of the officers con ducting the investigation into the affair on the part of the military and who had been one of the party who identified the body. The story as developed in that examination was substantially the same as has already been related.
 The trial will be resumed to-day, and will probably consume several days, there being upward of fifty witnesses to be examined