Arizona republican., 1905-04-22
STORY Is ALL TOLD
Close of the Testimony in
 the LuCerO Trial
He Tells of SaIazar's Assault Upon His Daughter-The Arguments in the Case Are Going On.

When the defense in the Naximiano Iucero murder case announced on Tuesday evening that it would only take an hour and a half to put in all the testimony for the defendant there was no reckoning on the rigidty of the for the defense and in rebuttal did not leave the stand until after o'clock in the afternoon. The opening argument for the territory was made by Assistant District Attorney George P. Bullard and at the close of it an adjournment was taken until this morning. It is not likely that the case will go to the jury before noon.
 The first witness for the day was the defendant himself. It had been an nounced in the opening statement of the attorneys for the defense that it would be shown that Salazar the vic tim of Lucero had outraged the daugh- ter of the defendant. That was not going to be offered as a justification for the killing but as an incident which led up to the necessity of Lucero shoot ing Salazar in self defense
 District Attorney Baker made vigor- 0us objection to the introduction of any testimony on that point and while the question was being argued the jury was excused. The court decided to admit the testimony.
 Lucero said that he and Salazar had been on friendly terms. They had been together in the cOmmissary tent that evening going over the books and at the close of the work they had gone to the tent saloon and had one or more T ant said that he went to the tent oc- cupied by himself, his wife, his daugh- ter and his friend Gadalbon. He found his wife and daughter in tears and when he asked them the cause of their grief his wife replied that Salazarahad assaulted his daughter the evening be- fore at the canal where she had gone after water. He immediately took his revolver from beneath his pillow where he kept it at night and started out with the intention of driving Salazar out of camp. His wife tried to dissu- ade him until morning. Gadalbon want ed to go with him but LucerO would neither delay matters nor permit his friend to accompany him. He first went to the commissary tent and not finding SalaZar there he went to the tent sa- loon where he found him. He called him out and they started back to the cOmmissary tent.
 LucerO told him that he would have to leave the camp at once and he told him why. Salazar at first said that he would go but arriving a the cOmmis- sary tent he entered it. When he came out he asked LUcero by what right he ordered him away and made an insult ing remark about his daughter. At the same time he threw one hand behind him. The defendant knowing that Sa- lazar kept arms in the tent surmised that he had provided himself with a weapon. Therefore believing his life to be in danger he fired at close range and Salazar died instantly
 The witness suffered under cross ex- animation for he admitted that he had killed Salazar in a fit of anger pro- duced by the insolent manner of Sala- examination of Lucero, direct and cross, occupied all of the forenoon and a considerable part of the afternoon.
 The daughter then took the stand. 1 Her story was brief and went in against the objection of the territory. ! She said that the assault had been ! committed on her on the evening before | the killing but she had not told her | mother about it until the next evening l and just finished telling it when her father returned to the tent. On cross l examination it was difficult to get her | to say anything beyond ''si' and shak- ! ing her head. In a moment of irrita- tiOn District Attorney Baker asked her |