Arizona republican., 1909-12-24
THE RE.IOLD STORY
 OF BOYK|N's DEATH
TRIAL OF ToMAclTO LEWIS FOR
 HIS MURDER
The Arguments In the Case Will Be
 Begun This Morning

charged With the murder ol Joiiii DoS kin. a porter at the Ford hotel bar. was begun yesterday in district court. The death of Boykin occurred at zS West Van Buren street late on the night of January e9, 1908
 Mrs. Lewis was held to the grand iury. which declined to take any other action than to refer the matter to the next grand jury. the late one which re- turned an indictment. IL had been the theory of the territory that Boykin was the victim of a conspiracy and that the motive for his killing was rob- bery. But whatever the territory might have believed, it was found that meeting of the last grand jury many links in the chain were missing. The case was probably undertaken that they would be furnished by the defense itself
 The only witnesses of the killing were the defendant and James Neal, lodger at the house as BOykin was. Mrs Lewis testified that Boykin had on at least two occasions made him. self obnoxious to her and that she had given him notice to leave. On the night of his death he returned to the room and called to her in the next room that he wanted to have a private talk with her.
 She finally went to his room. which was connected with hers by a door. and having seated herself he told her that he was going to leave She inti mated that that arrangement was more than satisfactory. Boykin asked her to have drink of wine and sand wich. She at length yielded as to the wine, but she was adamant gainst the sandwich When she got ready to leave the room she said that Boykin. who had locked all the doors except the one leading to her room seized her and attempted to drag her toward wash stand, where she knew he kept some razors. She screamed for help and Neal appeared on the scene and remonstrated with Boykin on his con- duct.
 Neal also took hold of Boykin gently. The struggle brought the trio to the door of the defendant room and there she broke away from BOykin and ran around the foot of her bed, trying to escape into another room The door was locked. and believing her life to be in danger she took from beneath the mattress of her bed a revolver which she pointed at Boykin. who was approaching her with a chair in his hand.
 He cursed her, threatening tO drink her blood, and all the time coming with the chair. Then she fired e shot above his head. but instead of fright ening him she had only further irri- tated him, and he rushed at her and seized her Another struggle ensued. which ended in Boykin's room. where the defendant said she was thrown up- on the floor, Boykin all the time strik- ing at her and Neal, a larger man than Boykin. all the time intervening to no purpose Finally. said the wit ness, while Boykin had his knees in her stomach and she had her head against his breast, in this difficult, not to say impossible position. she fired the first shot and Boykin got up.
 When he threatened to renew the at tack, sshe emptied the revolver and Boykin fell.-i She did not know that she had mortally wounded him or that she had even disabled him. for she ran to the back part of the house and awakened other lodgers. imploring their protection At this point Neal came and said that Boykin was dead Mrs. Lewis then telephoned for the police.
 There were many other details of the struggle related by her. In fact it was surprising for detail; every little incident had been carefully GOV cred
 On cross-cxanrination. the district attorney made much out of the fact that throughout this protracted strug- gle with a powerful man. intent upon killing her and slaking his thirst with her blood she had not received a blow or so much as a scratch. He also brought out from her that she had been warned by Neal in the afternoon that Boykin had said he was going to do her great harm: yet, with this warning in her mind, the district at torney dwelt upon the circumstance that at the call of Boykin on his re- turn late al night after everybody else was in bed she had readily gone to his room.
 The attention of the defense was in- vited to several points of difference be- tween her testimony yesterday and her story at the preliminary examina ton ten months ago; also to differ ences Of statement by herself and Neal as to what had happened
 The testimony of Neal after that of the defendant in a general way cor rOborated hers The district attorney tried to get from the defendant a cor roboration Of a story which had been told that she had tried to murder a husband in Texas several years ago and almost succeeded. but any testi mony in relation to that episode. if there ever. was such an episode. was headed off by objections by Captain Alexander for the defense. ..
 The only testimony introduced by the territor except formal statements by pr. Wylie as to his examination of