Arizona republican., 1914-06-13
MRS. MULLANAX
 TRIAL TENSE
Girl-Wife Defendant Col lapses During the Morn ing Session - Details of Night of Death Told ill Words of Witnesses

i One by one the witnesses to facts leading immediately up to the tragedy in which Claude MullanaX lost his life. and for which his young wife, Mamie, is now on trial, are being brought to the attention of Mari copa county jury in Judge Phillips court room in this city. The sessions | of the court are tense with interest. Curiosity or sympathy drives hun dreds of men and women to seek seats in the room and the attorneys i for state and defense are each doing i his utmost in order that the side each represents may come off victor | in the contest the end of which meets the laws demands.
 1 Incident followed incident yester- day during the stories told on the stand by the witness, Whyte and his wife, and while Mrs. Whyte describ ed the scenes as she remembered, the young girl, who sat tense all during the earlier stages of the trial, collapsed into fit of hysterical weeping and had to be led from the court room and an adjournment taken until later in the day, to allow her | to recover from the strain which she has been under the past several days.
 The opening and closing of court in the morning was spectacular in the extreme There was a wild rush for seats on the part of both women and men, some going to the extent of journeying to the rear of the court room and standing in the Idoorways leading from the court to the jail, in their desire to lose not word from the frightful story.
 The details of the night of death were told by two people, man and wife, who lived near the premises upon which the tragedy occurred. The cross examination of Mrs Whyte however took up the greater part of the afternoon session. Already the details of the actual shots and the departure of the young woman for Phoenix had been told. The evidence of the two witnesses closely corro- borated each other when the direct testimony was being taken, but under the skillful direction of Judge A C. Baker, leading counsel for the de- fense, facts were brought out tend ing to weaken the testimony of Mrs Whyte. The conversation be- tween the two principals in the tent immediately before the shooting and after it was gone over with particu- lar care, the counsel for the defense leading the witness through the maiZes of the testimony she had giv- en before the coroner
 When the re-direct examination came the objection of the defense precluded the possibility of a further probe into the previous testimony and the district attorney temporarily was forced to abandon that line of inter- rogation.
 All durin the heat of the after noon the quiet and earnest faces of the jurymen were matched by the equally earnest face of the young de- fendant Sitting slightly apart from her attorneys in the company of Mrs Yaple, the girl wife watched and watched. The hearts of the great crowd seemed to go out to her in sympathy buoying her up for the greater trial that is to come when she tells her own story.
 This is waited for with the great est of interest It is expected to bring out the facts which bore so heavily upon the girl that she felt iconstrained to use the bullet method of severing the bonds that bound her to Claude MullanaX. Just what she suffered just what she endured. to what ends she was forced will all be told to the waiting saddened ears of twelve good men and true who are the weighers of her fate
 No trial has taken so great a mea- sure of public interest in many years as the present one. It is not expect ed that it will be completed today. As matter of precaution the jury is being kept together during the day and night, under guard