Arizona republican., 1913-12-02
WORLD of SPORT
RANCHO GARCIA IS ON
 TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE
Jury Is Completed After Several
 Hours and Evidence Is Bequn.

| Francisco Garcia is on trial for his 1 life, in the Superior court, for killing l Charles Harris, a policeman of Phoe- nlX, on the night of July 5th of this
 year The state is asking for yer
 dict of murder and the extreme pen ! atty in the case, according to the
 statement made by County Attopev
 Frank H. Lyman to the jury yester- day afternoon and is pressing every i means in his power to obtain that sort of conviction. With the three
 witnesses who had been examined
 yesterday, and cross examined by At torney Whittemore for the defense.
 1t was difficult to obtain a definite ! idea of just what the defense will be- | but there are traces of an attempted ! ailbi, trying to connect another with ! the crlmc, and possible self-defense, l in the line of questioning
 | The case promises to be one of the l hardest fought cases that has be1n tried before Judge Phillips since Ari- 1 zona became state. Every question and answer is scrutinized by the de- fense and all possible objections and 1 exceptions are being made and en-
 tered of record When the court ad- journed last evening Thomas L. VII kersOn, a member of the Phoenix po- lice force, was on the stand under cross examination. Captain Brisbois of the night police had been examined as had also P. Miner, a draughtsman. who prepared a map of the scene of the crime and the finding of both the body of Harris, the slain officer and i Garcia the accused slayer.
 From the opening of court early in the morning until the arrival of half past three the entire time of both parties at issue was taken up in se- lecting a jury. Forty-four taIesmen were examined before the box was filled. The state exercised ten of it's
 challenges, while the defense excused l six. Sixteen were excused because of disqualification.
 With short intermission to allow i all sides to cool down. Clerk Thomas
 at the behest of Judge Phillips read 1 the jury the information charging ] Garcia with the Wilful murder of off cer Harris by stabbing him in the i chest with dagger. All this while ] Garcia, with a spirit of bravado. had stared at the jury in a seemingly carefree manner. He continually wiped 1 his nose during the early part of the session with a handkerchief upon which picture of the American flag was stamped. This so angered one 1 taIesman that he disqualified himself | Garcia was dressed in a blue serge | suit with patent leather shoes He wore his dark hair parted in the | middle, and sported.a little dark mus ! tache over his thin lips His face l bore little of the prison pallor, and
 in fact he looked more like a wealthy young Mexican business man rather
 than a man on trial for his life He did not sit near the jury, preferring
 to view the twelve men with whom | his fate lies from the width of the court room
 r. Miner was the first witness He
 identified map produced by County 1 Attorney Lyman as one he had drawn
 on the day following the crime and
 told what the various legends on the map signified. He stated that the
 scale was one-eighth of an inch for every real foot of that section of | town.
 His testimony was remarkable chiefly for the bloody trail" which i he described as leading from near the place where the body of Harris was | found to the place where Garcia was ! found wounded on the morning fol- , lowing. Captain Brisbois testified to ! finding the body of Harris shoftIv af- l ter midnight on July ,. He had been
 called to the scene by three shots he had heard Going down he met Will
 liam ConnOlley, q machinist. who went with him, and who, after the body of
 Harris was found weltering in blood. was placed under arrest. Rrisbois | told of the search that was made that night for the suspects, but without 1 success. and he further detailed going l to the place where Garcia was found
 the next morning and taking him in
 the patrol wagon to the police sta tiOn.
 Officer Wilkerson told of the search l for Garcia and the final successful
 end of the search after the trail of blood had been followed from near
 where Harris was found dead the
 night before to the place where Gar
 cia was found about daylight. Officer Roy Morrill, was with Wilkerson when
 Garcia was found. About midway be- ! tween the place of the killing and the place of finding the wounded Garcia
 were found a coat and vest and a
 22-caliber pistol which Garcia after
 ward acknowledged as his. Neither
 the knife nor the pistol were produced
 in court up to the time of adjourn
 ment.