Weekly journal-miner., 1919-03-12

killing.
 That the stories related by the de- fendants, Griego and Apodaca, were cunningly contrived to explain certain damaging elements in the states tes- timony in the Gonzales murder trial, was the contention of County Attor ney Neil Clark in the opening argu- ment in the superior court last night, He dwelt strongly on the fact that the defendants tale did not explain the bloody condition of Griego' 5 clothing.
 Clark opened by admitting that the character of Nellie Campbell, chief witness for the state, and Gonzales, the deceased, was not of the highest. He admitted that there were serious discrepancies in Nellie's story as tc the time of day certain events of the last Sunday in 1918. But he pointed out, nobody can, except they manu facture and memorize a story, make all the hours fit in. He held that the start of the snow storm really tlXeI the hour of the crime, and not the hours mentioned by Nellie Campbell.
 Apodaca and Griego might as well have denied ever having been at the Campbell house, but for the fact iii their agitation, they departed withour certain kodak, containing a film on which were pictures of themselves and of Nellie
 The defense's story that all the blood on Griego's clothing came from | the scalp wound in the head of Mon ico Baca, was ridiculed. Clark held that if Baca had shed all this blood he would have had to ride in an am bulance leaving Campbell's. Instead he walked to the post and beat his comrades home "The defense Is con tinually borrowing little blood from Baca's scalp wound, which didn'' even require stitching, to eNplair these exhibits said the prosecutor.
 The defendants had denied ever en. tering the bedroom, where stood th' stove. Clark called attention to thC fact it was 10 degrees below freezing and asked if 1t were reasonable to be lieve that these men should havt spent several hours in the coldes room in the house, with a fire in the next room.
 Favour's Argument,
 A H. Favour opened for the de fense. He attacked the Campbell tes timony in a very able address, calling attention to her perjury on the stan' in the matter of her recent conviction on a charge of being a prostitute H. charged that she is protecting tn real murderer. "I don't know Le Overton," he continued, and impl1e' that if that individual were interro gated, some light might be throw on the case. "On Christmas" h
 said, "he took a shot at Nellie out o jealousy, as she put it. On the fol flowing Monday he was at her hous
 and on the next day, ne helped he 2 carry away lot of bundles. Favour vigorously denounced th authorities for permitting Campbell to operate a dive, where soldier might be lured to ruin. He explain ed the bloody knees of Griego' . drawers by saying the blood hac | dripped over them as he had raise t the wounded head of Monico Baca. As a dramatic climax, he produce l smcared hat-iron and declared hi | belief that the triangular wound 1 1 Gonzales head mad been caused b : this weapon, which had never bee [ mentioned by Campbell, but whic t the military police had found hidde 1 under a shoe box on a shelf in he 1 kitchen. He also called attention f y the semi-nude condition of Gonzale
 body, and declared that he had ncvt
 been so stripped in. the course of tn s fight.
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