Arizona republican., 1909-07-08
THE TEMPESTUOUS END ] OF 4 WEDDING STORM
WHICH RACED VIOLENTLY FOR
 TWO MONTHS.
Concluded by Prosecution for Assault
 With Deadly Weapon.

W
 R. c. Welch, charging him with assaul
 with a deadly weapon. MT. Welch f
 chief carpenter at Granite Reef and il
 well known about Prescott and Phoe
 nix and has a reputation of being
 peaceable citizen. The charge by hi.
 son-in-law that Welch had tried tt
 shoot him with a revolver therefor,
 occasioned some surprise, but the po-
 lice were not unprepared for eventual.
 ities in the Kane household, for earlier
 Tn the day MT. Kane had called at tho
 station and asked that an officer be
 sent there to see that what would
 probably be a separation should bt
 carried on according to the law
 It was not long after his departure
 that Kane called and said that Welch
 had tried to shoot him. Officer Cas-
 kin went down and asked for a gun
 which Kane said had been displayed toward him in a threatening manner and Mrs. Kane, not knowing why he had
 come, gave him a revolver which was lying covered on a sewing machine. Then the warrant was sworn out. Assistant District Attorney Lyman ap-
 peared for the territory and Attorney
 P. H. Hayes for the defense. The tes-
 timony of the prosecuting witness did
 not create a good impression in his
 favor and what was subsequently
 heard did not put him in a better light
 He testified to quarrel with his wife and her father in the course of which he had dared Welch to take off 1is glasses and come out of the house and have it out. He said that his own weight was 21O pounds Welch is a man considerably past middle age and not so heavy. But Welch laid his glasses aside and followed his son-in- law out Kane said that the old man was holding revolver in his hand. though on cross examination he ad- mitted that the gun was not pointed toward him. Welch said that he had no gun and had seen none He said that when he went out Kane moved away from the vicinity. Kane had testified to the same effect, but said it was the fear of the gun tat had expe- dited his movement
 The most interesting witness of the day was Mrs. Kane, who said that their married life, which had begun two months ago, had been stormy from the outset. She attributed their failure to get along partly to the bad temper of Kane, his drunkenness, but more to his low, degraded habits" He had threatened to kill her and himself but she said she had learned not to fear him.
 On one occasion, she said, he had told her that he would like to have her perform one act for him, that of seeing that he was decently buried aft CT he had planted a bullet in his own brain. Mrs. Kane said that she knew he was too cowardly to shoot and she 1 called to him telling him that if he did ! not have the nerve her services were | at his disposal
 But all this really had nothing to do | with the matter in hand: it was thrown | put merely as an illustration of the | character of Kane. On the day in | question, she said he came to the house | and started another row Her father l with him and Kane | threatened to throw him over the fence. | He also got an ax and started toward | he house. This time he seemed to | ioNN Nipu6lll liiIilStl IillO StitIl If fury that the witness feared that he | vonld do something violent She said ! here was revolver in a trunk and | she feared that he would break the | -runi open to get the weapon. She | nteriected here that he had a mania | Or threatening to do things with that | revolver. He had frequently carried it | around stuck in his overalls On the | light after their wedding the charavari | made him mad and he had taken the | gun and discharged it among d crowd )f children
 In order, therefore, to keep the gun | 'ut of his reach, she took it from the runk and put it on the sewing ma 'hine, where it lay covered up through put all the trouble. Her father had | lever seen it and at no time during he disturbance had he had a gun in lis hand
 This was the substance of the testi- nony- In reviewing the testimony, Mf. lyman expressed supreme confidence hat Mrs. Kane had perjured herself, she smiled upon him pleas lntly. A bright-eyed little neighbor girl who sat beside her made sotto 'oce remarks about the appearance of | he complaining witness. He's got !. 'ome new clothes" said she; he looks lice in 'em: they fit him as if they we're made for him"
 By the way, it had been brought | 'ut in the examination of Mrs Kane | hat her husband had contributed noth- ng to the support of-the family; wages lad been spent for beer and riotous Il lying generally. Her father had always | ent her money with which she paid r he rent and other expenses of the household.
 In reply to the district attorneys harge of perjury. Mir Hayes said that e had never heard more consistent or easonaPle evidence than that of Mir. ! velch and his daughter On the con rary the testimony of the complaining ntness had not been consistent. For instances, he had, stated toathe court ihen he applied for the warrant that
 police officer had disarmed Welch. 'hen 1t had been shown that the re- oiver had been given to Officer Gas Tn, who said that Mrs. Kane had talk n it from the sewing machine where he testified that she had hidden it. ut, said Mir. Hayes, he would con ede for the sake of argument. though |
 was not a fact, that the defendant