Weekly journal-miner., 1917-05-02
CHILD OF F 4 STAR WITNESS
 MURDER CASE
JESSIE. LITTLE DAUGH- TER OF A. WILCOXSON ACCOUNTS KILLING OF YSABEL FASIO BY HER DAD IN HIS DEFENSE.
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

(From Wednesdays Daily)
 Calm, confident, self-posscssed, 12- ycar-old Jessie Wilcoxson, testifying as the only eyewitness to the killing for which her father stands accused of murder, was the sensation of the first day of the trial yesterday The defense opened its case early in the afternoon, the State occupying but little time establishing its side and calling but two witnesses. Then, the young miss, daintily clad and pretty in spite of the fact she is under a doctors care, was called to testify in ar effort to save her dad from prison.
 Fred Campbell, deputy sheriff on the main line of the Santa Fc, was the States first witness. He established the prosecutions case by relating the facts surrounding the killing of Ysa- bel Fasio, a Mexican section hand, at Pan siding on February 4, as reported to himself and others in authority in that ncighborhood Dr. Cartmcll then took the stand and testified as to the wounds discovered on the body of Fasio. The State then rested.
 \ motion by Attorney F. l.. Ha- worth for the defense. to instruct q verdict of not guilty, being denied, tho defense then proceeded to put in some evidence. It had taken. but a short time to select jury, and the prcliminaries out of the way, the way. the case proceeded with much speed
 Self-Defense Plea.
 Sclf-dcfense is the basis of the accused mans case. The little daugh- ter of the defendant described minute ly the way her father and Fasio were standing at the door of Wilcoxson's house at Pan siding. the day of the killing. Fasio and Wilcoxson had had some words over deal in groceries, which Fasio had purchased through the home supply department of the railroad. Wilcoxson called Fasio out of a bunch of his fellow laborcrs on that Sunday afternoon and was talk ing the situation over with him. Ac cording to the witness. Fasio advanced on Wilcoxson in a threatening man ncr. reaching his hand into a pocket. as though to draw gun or knife. Wilcoxson secured his gun from with in the room, and as Fasio appeared about to attempt to enter the door, in which the defendant was standing, the latter shot him
 The door leading from the court room into the court reporters office was taken off it's hinges, SO that the aperture might be made into a graphic stage setting for the killing. Little Miss Wilcoxson then directed the presentation of tableau to the jury
 The child's testimony was inter rupted several times in order to per init her to rest. She was said to have got up from a sickbed in order to tes- tify. Each time the court took a re- cess. she would leave the stand and 90 10 her mother, who sat in the rear of the court room along with relatives and friends.
 F. A. Moore, roadmastcr for the Santa Fc at Williams, was called as character witness. He stated positive ly that he had known Wilcoxson rath. CT closely for four or five years, dur ing which the defendant had been employed under him as a section foreman, both in the Williams yards and at Pan siding. SO miles to the west. Wilcoxson, he stated, was not only a good foreman, but good man, i peaceful and not given to having fric ton with his associates.
 John Pruett, section foreman at Seiigman also testified as to Wilcox sons reputation for peacefulness in his community prior to the killing . He. too, had known the defendant for several years.
 After the character witnesses had i been allowed to testify, so they might return to their work, Haworth at i tempted to draw from Jessie the fact | that when officers had searched the Mexican quarters at Pan some time ago for goods stolen by Trujillo, Chavez and Gomez, section hands | who have since been sent to the peni- | tcntiary at Florence, she saw in Fa- sio's room, a grip, containing what to be a large sheath knife The avowal of what he intended to prove was made in the absence of the jury, but Judge Smith ruled that this line of testimony was too remote in