Arizona republican., 1894-07-21
WHY GREEN SHOT.
His Preliminary Hearing Con-
 CIuded Yesterday.
Mcdonald was According to His Own Story Man Most Desir-
 able when Dead.

The preliminary hearing of w. E. Green for shooting Wm. Mcdonald last Tuesday night was concluded yester- day before Justice Johnstone. Judg- ment was reserved until today.
 The defendant was accompanied by his wife and chaid. Mcdonald had also been released on uail and was present as the prosecuting witness. He took a cool and cynical view of the proceedings except at one point his temper was aroused by the lashings of J. M. Dam ron one of the attorneys for Green. Twice Mcdonald started from his seat his hands clenched as if to assault the attorney whose back was turned toward him.
 Nothing new was developed as to the incidents of the shooting, though Greens story of his motive was inter- esting. He related the attempt of Mcdonald to alienate the affections of his wife by misrepresentation and per suasion. Mcdonald had previously told him of having killed two men in Texas, incidents which accounted for his presence in Arizona. One of Mcdonald s victims by the way had vain ly tried to defend his home or hiswife's honor against the self confessed mur- derer. Mcdonald had also boasted of his conquests oyer married women, and altogether it appeared that his course from Texas to Arizona had been blazed by ruined homes and murdered men. As one auditor of the examination re. marked, according to his own showing Mcdonald is h-ll of a feller." Anyway his stories had an effect upon Green, especially when his wife told him that the bad man from Bitter Greek had attempted an assault upon his home. That night he said he lay awake till morning.
 He was confronted by @ man whose self Acknowledged career was one of lust and blood so that any move that he might make ought 10 be considered one of self defense.
 The first thing he did was to discharge his dangerous employe. Later in the morning Mcdonald came back fortified by numerous drinks.
 He had knife in his hand and ap- I preaching the defendant selzed him by the side of mustache with one hand
 
 described curved lines in the air in painful proximity to his abdomen. Green believed that he had been fore, ordained to sleep in McDonald's grave yard.
 Just then his wife called him, and Mcdonald whose gallantry smothered his thirst for blood permitted him to go. Greens next, earliest and most na. tural move was to get gun. How he used it all the world knows. It may be interjected here not only on the in. formation and belief of Green but on the knowledge of others that this Nc. | Donald is of peculiar mental character istlcs. He seems never to have learned that guns are dangerous and it is said that he will run against the muzzle of a forty-fve with the same equanimity | with which most men approach lunch counter.
 Greene wife, pleasant and rather handsome little woman, said that she did not tell her husband of Mcdonald 4 approaches until they became unbear- able. Mcdonald as an inducement to her eloping with him had generously agreed to facilitate matters and reduce the complexities of her present matri monial ties by murdering her husband This was alarming but she bravely re- mained cool and quiet until Mcdonald told her of her husbands unfaithful ness. This precipitated the disclosure on which was based the subsequent trouble of the shooting.