Arizona republican., 1904-05-11
THE ANDERSON TRIAL
The Retelling of an Agua CaIiente
 Tragedy.

The taking of evidence in the clse| of Josiah Anderson, c1argcd with t.e killing of William Cameron at Agoa Caliente on August Il, 1902, was b=grn yesterday Tn the district court. The territory's side hd all been put in by nOon and the testimony for the Gsf=nse was begun. The evidence is very lite different from that brought cut at the first trial of the case. The witnesses for the territory testified only to tEe things that the defendant said and did before and after the killing, the m-s- damaging of which was a statzuceut that on his return to Agua Calient7, the shooting having taken place short distance away. the defendant made an utterance which wa- construed to b a gloTinCatiOn. That was denied by the defendant as well as Q statement that some time before he had told Cameron when the question of his marriage to his sister was brought up that he would kill him or commit suicide be- fore he would have him as @ brcther-in- law. Tie defendant ssid that no suci conversation ever took place, but that on the contrary he and Cameron had been good friends up to the night Cf the shooting. The defendant himself took the stand in the afternoon and told the story of the tragedy. He sad that Cameron had been arrested on the complaint of H. M. Wills, who charged him with the theft of some cattle. The case was thrown out of court bUt Wills kept up his claim, and fearful ot arrest again. Cameron consented to al arbitration of the matter of the owner ship of the cattle It was decided bT both parties to leave the dispute entire ly 10 the defendant and he and Gamer on went to Agua Caliente where Wills lived.
 Anderson gave judgment in favor O. Wills and that night he and Gamer on quarrelled The defendant was rid ing enc of Cameron's horses. When Ee got ready to start home he took his saddle from the horsc and put it on an- other animal which had been lcanel him. He remained about the saloon for some time, Cameron in the near time having started home. About haIf an hour after the departure of Camzr- or, the defendant and Robert LsitCh started by the same road and found Cameron waiting in the shadow of tree. He rode out as they came up and the quarrel about the cattle decision was renewed. Anderson said thzt he tried to pacify Cameron until the lat ter made a motion to draw his gur, when the defendant drew and fired four times. One ball, probably the first. passed through the heart, and an other, striking tine right upper ann, ranged upward and sidewise, breaking the neck.
 In the cross examination the defend ant was asked to show how he had drawn his gun and how he fired So quickly. He showed twice with what marvellous quicknezs a gun may be brought into action. It was done So quickly that District Attorney Baker asked to be shown again. The witness declined to give a further exhibition on the ground that the district attorney was trying to put him before the jury in the light of a gun expert
 The defendant was followed on the stand by the only eye witness of the tragedy, Robert Leitch, who practically corroborated the story of the defendant. He had not concluded when court ad~ iourned for the day.