Arizona republican., 1919-05-09

he bore a bad reputation nor a good reputation.
 Did you ever ride the range with Newman" from the state.
 'Yes"
 'Is it not true that he is excitaole?"
 He has an excitable temperament like my own" was the reply.
 F. W. Perkins, former judge of the superior court of Coconino county who has known Newman intimately for years was another witness for his good character. As president of the Wool Growers association he said he had seen a good deal or the defendant.
 T. J. Colter. a valley rancher who formerly lived in Flagstaff and who has known Newman since 'S4, declared that he had never heard his reputation questioned.
 J. c. Rabbit of Rabbit Brothers who has known Newman p of the 8 years Rabbit has lived in Arizona Lew Charlebois, supervisor of Coco nino county, Daniel NJ. Francis veal thy sheepman N G. Laxton, pioneer resident, Charles T. Woolfok. and Harry C. Nibbon were among the other witnesses called to the stand. and testified to Newman's good reputation for peace and quiet.
 As she was driving a burro team past the Hector truck where it stood on the desert road near Nada the morning of the shooting, Mrs. Ella Lockerby testified she saw four men drive up in an automobile and noted 1 that three Of the men got out and walked over to the truck, one Of the number reaching into the front seat. She saw nothing more, but her hus- 1 band, Herman Lockerby. who was ly- ing ill in the wagon, testified that he 1 saw the man remove what rcsemhled a metal object from the seat and place it in his own car.
 Mrs. Lockerby Unshaken ! The testimony of the witness, accord l ing to the defense, bears out the self defense theory By these witnesses they claim to have accounted for the failure of officers to find Hooters gun 1 They have shown by many witnesses for the state as well as for the defense that many cars passed the truck before the arrival of the authorities. The Lockerbys were the first 10 take the stand and testify to anything being taken from the truck, however. and their statements were closely followed
 
 hours under a grilling cross examine ton which did not evoke a change from the story she told under direct examination.
 Answering promptly all questions put to her, the little woman whC greatly resembled an Indian, was short in her reply only when the county at torney asked her at what Indian schoo she received her education. She inn mediately declared that she was ar American citizen and her schooling was received in the usual way.
 Mrs. Lockerby gave her account of the happenings on the road in response to queries put by George J. Stoneman
 She stated that she and her husband were prospectors and that they were now living on a placer claim at Moore's gulch. She was going south with hel burro team on the morning of the shooting, she said, when her attention was attracted to Hoctor's truck by 1 seeing a car drive up and all but one of its four occupants leave the machine and go over to the truck. They stood and looked it over, she testified, and then one of the men reached over anG put his hand in the front seat. That was all she saw as she passed on dowr the road to New River, where she camped. The first she heard of the tragedy was the word given her by J. F. Gilfoy, a section foreman.
 She testified that she met severa cars after leaving the scene of thf tragedy and that before reaching it she passed a car in which was a mar and a woman.