Weekly journal-miner., 1921-09-07
MORNING SESSION
 IS GIVEN OVER TO
 DEFENDANT STORY
CFrom Saturdays Daily)

In ndltlng na1TdtlVe III lne superior court yesterday morning how he shot and killed Undersheriff Ed Bowers and why.
 The defendant was the first witness to be called after a recess had been granted to permit the jury to view .. the premises where the homicide took place on July l. He was defending his home, he testified, against an un- identified intruder as well as his life and his wife's who appeared to be suffering an assault behind the DOT tiere.
 This, in substance, was what C. C. Norton, chief counsel for the defense, started out to prove, but he wander ed far from the path before recess was called.
 Unflinchingly George related the prayerful profanity that he and others indulged in following the shooting, though in this respect the testimony was less realistic than the day before.
 George testified that Dr. South worth on learning what had occur red, used some choice blasphemy and the defendant replied in kind Later he recalled that someone had said: You killed the whitest man in Arizona"
 The alleged murderer said he did remember the remark. And I ans wered" he replied, q had killed the dirtiest - - in Arizonap
 There was a hurried conference among the attorneys for the defense at this juncture. Such a remark did not seem to be what they had hoped to bring forth. In just what way this was expected to strengthen the de fenSe was not clear to the crowded court which had standing audience three deep in the rear.
 Having testified he did not know who was behind the curtain, it seem ed strange to his auditors that George should characterize the slain deputy sheriff in such scathing terms.
 The accidental discharge of the rifle, George explained earlier, re- suited when he was in the closet going through a pair of old trousers where the rifle happened to be. Miss Mae Belle Hazard, the star witness for the prosecution on the previous day, George said, had playfully push ed him and his right hand struck the rifle-discharging it.
 It was the sound of the bullet through the roof that attracted the attention of neighbors. George also said he had the rifle out, cleaning it for the purposes of prospective sale.
 He denied he had said he would kill the first man who put his head i'll that door" He also denied the Hazard testimony to the effect that he had said there were three bullets in his rifle-one for the person who telephoned for the sheriff, one for the officers and one for himself
 All his testimony evidently intend ed to show that there was no pre- meditation but that in self-defense and in the protection of his home and family he had shot a stranger who had shot him first:
 He denied knowing E. c. Crowe was outside until several bullets had been fired. He himself, he maintain ed, had only shot twice and not at all until wounded.
 The telphone call which brought Dr. Southworth was made by his wife. Dr. Southworth, according to George, had asked him what was wrong.
 I've been shot,' the witness is alleged to have said. "Who shot you?"
 "'God knows I said"
 It was while Dr. Southworth was dressing the wounds that the other deputies, led by Sheriff Davis, came in.
 George talked in low tone, seem- ingly inarticulate for the most part, and at times the attention of a juror 1 here and there wandered. All eyes were on the witness, how l ever, when he declared he had heard l his wife scream Don't kill my daddy! Don't hurt my daddyl" | Through the curtain, said George, he saw the form of man with a gun in hand who was throwing Mrs l George against the table
 At this moment, the defendant con tinued, some one shot him. He | thought it was the man behind the curtain and he fired his rifle in that direction, hitting Bowers. Not till he had been shot a second time did | he notice Grove outside the win