Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-03
YOUTH ON TRIAL
 FOR MURDER OF Al KELLOGG
DAVE KNAPPER, WHO IS CHARGED WITH KILLING HIS STEP-FATHER AT MAYER, FACES JURY IN SUPERIOR COURT.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)


 his step-father, AL B. Kellogg, at
 Mayer last May, opened in the Su- perior court yesterday morning, the greater part of the day being taken up with the work of selecting jury which was acceptable to the attorneys on both sides. The taking of testi- many was started at 4 o'clock, at which time w. Wilkins, of Dewey, an eyewitness of the killing, was placed on the stand by the State. County Attorney Neil C. Clark is being as sisted in the prosecution by his father.
 E. s. Clark, while Knapper is repre- sented by Attorneys F. L. Haworth and Perry NJ. Ling, of this city. and Attorney Charles B. Ward, of Phoe- nix. Judge Samuel Pattee, of Tucson, is occupying the bench during this trial, Judge F. O. Smith being dis qualified owing to the defense having
 filed affidavits alleging that he was prejudiced against Knapper.
 Wilkins, who was the first and only witness introduced during the first days session, told of the circum- stances which surrounded the staying of Mir. Kellogg. Wilkins, according to his story, told on the stand, had been standing in front of the Mayer
 store on the afternoon of May Is,
 1917, in conversation with Charles
 Hooker and Dick Culver Kellogg came along and spoke to the three men and then went into the store to get some tobacco. In the meantime, the defendant had come up to the group of men and told Hooker that Mrs. Kellogg, the defendants mother, wanted to see him. Hooker is said to have remarked that he would call on the lady later in the afternoon. Knapper then took a position near | the front entrance of the store, and awaited the coming of Kellogg. As socn as Kellogg came out of the store, Wilkins said, Knapper took a step or two forward toward the di rcction C; hiS stepfather, and pro duced an automatic from his right hand coat pocket. He fired several shcts at Kellogg at a range of five or six feet, the wounded man falling at | about the fourth or fifth shot As soon as the man had hit the sidewalk, Wilkins said that the defendant fired | three or four shots into the body, | emptying the automatic. As soon as his gun had been emptied, Knappci walked into the pool room of Frank Wilson, which adjoined the Mayer store, and was later arrested there by a deputy sheriff Several men rushed to the side of the mortally wounded man, and Charles Hooker attempted to raise him to sitting position, but it was at once apparent that life had fled, and that Kellogg had passed the point where human aid could avail him anything. Most of the bullets from the automatic had struck Kel- logg in the abdominal region, inflict- ing a number of fearful wounds. The gun had contained stecl-jacketed g. cal,brc bullets.
 During the examination of Wilkins a number of large photographs of the scene of the killing were introduced by the defense, and the witness was asked to point out the exact spots where the various eyewitncsses had been stationed at the time the killing took place.
 The defense, it is said, will make an attempt to show that young knap- per had been driven to desperation by the numerous threats which Kellogg : is alleged to have made on the life of his wife, mother of the defendant, and 1 that at the time of the shooting Krapper had been of the opinion that if Kellogg was not dealt with in sum- ( mary fashion, the life of the youths mother would have been sacrificed.
 The men who comprise the jury a which is to decide the fate of Knapper { are the following: A. P. Meade, G. I II. Grosc, H. NJ. Kreiss, Thomas J. C Morrell, Beverly Burke, G. w. Caul- | der, E. H. Donaldson, F. L. Reyes, 2 Charles w. T. King, ]. II. Axton. NJ. V J. Donncll and John E. Boutwell, |
 Suit On Account l
 Mrs. NJ. L. Wells yesterday entered [ suit against Mrs. Sara Switcndick, ad- 1 ministrator of the estate of the late p A. w. Switcndick, and M R. Stod- g dard and Mrs. A. w. Switendick, the c plaintiff asking for a judgment for b s+00-79, alleging that the amount is l due her for goods delivered to the \