Arizona republican., 1903-05-12
END OF THE STORY
 or CAMERON'S DEATH
Last of the Testimony in the
 Anderson Trial
The Opening Arguments Were Made The Case Will Probably Go to the Jury by Noon Today.

Nothing remains now of the Anderson murder trial but the closing argu- ments. The case will probably go to the jury before noon today. The prin- cipal witness of yesterday was Robert Leitch, the only man who saw the kill ing of Cameron. He had been sum- moned by the defense, and he had ap- peared before two grand Juries. His story on the stand under a severe cross examination did not quite agree with his evidence in the grand jury room, though after all it differed only in unimportant particulars. Even the members of the grand jury themselves could not agree as to precisely what he said.
 He had testified once at least that just before the shooting he heard Cameron say that the thing might as well be settled then. and then he saw him "go for his gun" Under cross examination he was not quite sure as to the exact words in the conversation preceding the shooting, but there was one thing he knew and that immedi- ately before a shot was fired he looked over his shoulder at Cameron and saw him throw his hand down toward his gun.
 Several of the members of the grand jury were brought in by the territory in rebuttal. They could not remember that they had heard Leitch use the words "go for his gun" but they re- membered in a general way his de- scription of the threatening gesture of Cameron which the witness understood to be meant to be in the direction of the gun. Other members of the jury remembered the words.
 Andrew F.. Dillon, Ricardo AmaOisca, Frank Baxter, Mary H. Baxter and Con Harrington were called by the defense to testify to the quarrelsome disposi- ton of Cameron. The prosecution had in rebuttal Eva Schoshusen, John Cameron. Joe Romig and Emil Zitlar. Miss Schoshusen had testified that An derson on his return from the killing had said that Cameron was "deader n hell" and that he had killed him. In her second appearance she said that the defendant had called on her to induce her not to testify to what he had said. Rornig in rebuttal testified to what Lietch had told him about the killing. He said that after the death of Cam eron, Lietch accompanied him to the house of Camerons father, and on the way said that the real cause of it was anger toward him on account of his sister. He said just before the shoot ing Anderson told Cameron that he had disgraced his sister and he intended to kill him. It was understood that Ronig meant this to be a subsequent statement made by Leitch. but the evil dence did not show that until that time he had made any statement at all Lietch denied that he had any con versation of that kind with Romig Anderson denied that he had that kind of a talk with Cameron. There was sorne other testimony for the prosecu- tion tending to show the feeling of the Wills toward Cameron. It was said that while the body of Cameron was being dressed and put in the coffin, Henry Wills had used it roughly and expressed satisfaction at the death CT Cameron. On this point R. H. Louder milk and H. R. Wills, who were present at the laying out of. Cameron, said that no language or conduct described by the witnesses for the territory had oc- cured. The last witness in the case was the defendant himself who was put on to deny the statement of Miss Schoshusen that he had tried to induce her not to testify to what he had toid her about the death of Cameron. He said in the first place that he had never made the statement, but he had learned that she was going to testify to it ami he had visited her with the purpose O. getting her to tell the truth.
 The last of the testimony was put in at balf-past 2 o'clock and the jury was instructed. Neither side was favored by the instructions. Regarding the tes- tiuony as to the bad character of Cameron, the court said it could De considered only in so far as it woul1 show that a man of that character would be much more likely to commit such an assault as that which the de- fense said was about to be committed when the fatal shot was fired. The Jury was instructed that it might, II h should be shown that crime hao peeh committed of lesser degree than that alleged in the indictment. so return verdict. The question of self-detense was gone into fully and also the SUD- ject of reasonable doubt.
 As soon as the jury had been charged the argument for the territory was opened by Assistant District Attorney Bullard, who devoted himself to a re- view of the evidence. He was followed by Capt. Alexander for the defense, and he concluded his address at o'clocK' when court was adjourned for the day. The argument will be resumed by Judge Street for the defense this morr- ins. and will be closed by District At torney Baker. Interest in the case mas grown day by day until yesterday the courtroom was not large enough to hold the assembled crowd.