Arizona republican., 1914-06-26
However, Testimony Yes terday Was Largely of Sensational Nature, De- tailing Causes Leading Up to Booth Killing.
CLAIMED TRIED TO
 LURE WIFE AWAY
Defense Also Introduces Testimony to Effect That Booth Recognized Wig gins at Tent and Reached for Gun Under Pillow.


 The Wiggins trial assumed an in teresting and exciting aspect yester- day shortly after the afternoon ses- sion was called. The state had rest ed ir the morning, the defendants attorney had made his statement and the defendant was on the stand offering the case in chief for the defense An argument was in prog ress relative to certain testimony that was wanted in the record by the defense relative to conversa- tions that had taken place between the defendant and certain other per sons who had told him of the state ments of Tap Booth relative to Mrs. Wiggins. County Attorney Lyman objected strenuously and Ling came back
 During the encounter Attorney Ling made the statement that wit nesses had been purposely kept away by the state because their testimony would benefit the defendant, where upon Lyman sprang up and shouted;
 That is false and the counsel knows it is absolutely false.7
 Ut is not" yelled Ling, glaring at Lyman, and immediately the court stopper the controversy.
 Many times during the afternoon the two attorneys became involved in alterations relative to the intro duction of testimony, and but for the patience of Judge O'Connor some thing might have happened to make more news for the overcrowded court room to detail around among the friends that were not able to get in However. the sort of defense that the defendant will rely on, was pretty well ascertained by the time the statement was made to the jury and the first portion of the testi- mony of the defendant was before the jury.
 Self defense will be the formal plea as justification for the kill ing. MT. Ling stated in the morning that he would prove that Dr. Wig gins had been threatened by Booth many times, some of which threats were communicated to him and some of which were not so communicated That at the time the defendant went to the tent and awakened Booth, the latter at the third call of Tap hav- ing been awakened before, thrust his Sland under his pillow and reached for his pistol, saying. Yes, I know" Whereupon the defendant fired. Further the counsel brought in many references to the fact that Booth had been the cause of break ing up the home of the defendant by his conduct with the young wife of the defendant. whom he desired and whom he tried to lure away for al- l legged immoral purposes. Counsel stated that he deprecated exceeding | ly the cause that led him to open up this line of testimony but that i his duty to the living was greater ! than his duty to the dead and that in the course of the evidence he would be forced to bring out some very strong things about the de- ceased.
 1 The morning session ended after l the statement of counsel But dur
 
 cused for the purpose of allowing the attorneys to argue the matter of threats. Judge O'Connor finally al- lowed all the statements to go into the record and recalled the jury then dismissing for lunch. The wit nesses for the state in the morning largely corfoborative for the other 1 testimony. Allie Howe was on the stand a first for the purpose of identifying the cot which was left the day before, but this was refused admission. Judge Carr, of Tempe, the examining magistrate and coro- 1 her, told of the position of the body l with the right arm drawn up and the left one down by the side nearly straight. This was the first inkling of an idea that had crept in that the deceased had tried to use a 1 pistol
 | Chas. A. Slower, bartender at the
 Hoffman, testified to seeing Wiggins advising him to go and give up, di- recting him to the sheriffs office. Defendant on Stand
 As soon as court took up for the afternoon Reese Ling asked Luther Edward Wiggins to take the stand. | This he did showing about the same | coolness that has characterized his ac- tions heretofore. Immediately the tes- timony was plunged into, with admis- sions on the part of the defendant of all the facts that are generally known of the homicide, except that portion where Wiggins went into the tent. Here came Aggression from the other stor- ies and the witness testified that he called Booth three times, Tap Tap Tap" at the first call, deceased opened