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Show OFlSlJ Defendant in Murder Case Says He Shot in Self- ALSO TELLS STORY OF JB ESCAPE FROM THE CITyIk Other Witnesses Testify as toll Threats Made by JjBg Churchm. Ip Declaring under on Hi that he flred f?lKfj Tim Churchill, alias 'Xhomas Patten, forHHIj no other reason savj that of protcchngTH his own life after he ibad been assaulted JBn and caused terrible uain by Churchill, "jBBrf William Jeffries, alias "Speedy" Jcffrlee, flBI told the story of tho shooting which ocJfifi currcd In the Heidelberg saloon shortly 4wKU after midnight on the uornlng of Au-'iflM gust 5, 1010. in Judge T. D. Lewhrs 1DP division of the Third dlalvlct court WcdBjj ucdday afternoon. ''SHj Aflcr a. number of witnesses had bean 'jPS examined for the dcfcitr.e, the principal j3g part of whose testimony coincided In the main. Jeffries was placed on the stand floi In his own behalf. He wjll be croES-EJ examined' when court convenes tlihjVEpi morning. Jeffries lestillud that ho haiUtBgl been in constant fear of his life for some H time previous to the shooting, lie ad-;;'Kp mlttcd having trouble with Churchill con- Be corning a money matter in which Stella 'HS Kelly, alleged to have been Churchill's B8 friend, was involved. -VK Jeffries denied, however, rvor having attempted to divert her attentions froin.'-M Churchill. H testified that he met Bh Churchill In Mulvcy'a snloon early fn tho H? evening of the night of the tragedy, ami fH that when Churchill etiWod he left tho bar. Jeffries testified that he went to iEg the Heidelberg sa'oon on the fatal nlfjliL -JB a per engagement with a woman named B Corrlne Gray. who. he testilled. he hud B arranged to marry on L"ecemhcr of jR2 Says Ho Was Attacked. r Jeffries did i at meet tho girl, shs having, according to her own testimony, lm gone upstairs to wait for him. As he I walked Into the. saloon. Jeffries te.stl-,sMg fled that he met Churchill, who imme- n dlatelv threatened to kill him. Jeffrlca said that Churchill caught him bv the coat and bumped his hvtd into Jeffries s jE face, knocking out a tooth. Not satis-tied satis-tied with this. Churchill kicked Jeffrie? !B several times, causing him terrible agony, fmm as lb" two backed out of the saloon dnor. jjB according to the testimony of Jeffries. 'H Jeffries, breaking looso from Churchill, 1Mb went up the street and was forced to sit 'JB down several times owing to the agony ''- caused by Churchill's abuse. Seeing sev- -H oral men leave the Heidelberg saloon ''H later, Jeffries testllled that he thought .B it would bo perfectly safe for him lo re-,dM turn. and. acting on the presumption jB that Churchill had gone, returned 'to the-SK saloon. As he re-entered Hip uai VM Churchill sprang at him. Jeffries testified, M with a knife, threatening in vkious lan- fBB guage to take his life. To protect him-self, him-self, Jefrries said that he drew his gun, SB iindwben Churchill made a lunge at him Hb Tells of His Escape. Lenving the bar. Jeffrie? testified that he met a police officer, whom he told, to IBB avoid trouble, he claimed, that he did not :SM know who had done the shooting. He then made hi? way down to Second South, according to hip own story, whorefBM he was met by another patrolman, who permitted the Kelly woman, whom Ije ipB had met. to take him away. The Kelly woman took him to the entranco of the rooming house at 145 West Second South BK street, where, he claims, she left him Sflj and he made Lis way to his room at 70 West Fifth South street. -where he had B been living. 4HI Jeffries testilled that the Gray girl re-turned re-turned home soon after hi? arrival, and iiflB informed him that lie had killed Church- v9B 111. she having learned about the tragedy 'pB after he hail failed to keep his engage-mont engage-mont with her. This was the first Intl- VBB inatlon, Jeffries said, that he had of H Churchill's death. 'SB On the advice of Corrine Gray, tho two ..BBJ left Immediately In an automobile for j;BB Bountiful, from whence. Jeffrie? said, he 'BJ traveled on a load of hay lo the Lagoon. 4SBJ From tho Lagoon he boarded a train for .BB Ogden. iind from Ogden he went to Poca- xBBJ tello. ho testified, and later to Seattle. sflBB where he was caught and returned to Salt '-BB Lake City. During the entire trip, he BB testllled. he was suffering intense agony BBJ caused by the kicks of Churchill. iSH Woman on tho Stand. BB Corrine Gray testified that she and an- flM other girl went to the Heidelberg about V-'BBJ o'clock" on tho morning of tho shooting &BBJ to meet Jeffries When he did not show BBJ up. she said, she sent word down to the 4flBJ bar lo tell him lie was wanted upstair. 3?BB When he failed to respond to the message BB she left the resort and went in scarcl) BB of Jeffries. She tcstlfld that sh went to .1BBJ several rooming houses on Third South iBBJ street and vicinity and failing to find aBB him. made her way back to the Hcldel- BBJ berg. On her return she heard soma BBJ men talking about the shooting, and she jBBJ said that she looked Into the saloon and SBB saw tho lifeless body of Churchill, who -jBBJ sho was Informed had been killed ty IBB Jeffries. Sho testified that she then at 4BB once made her way to her room, where BB she found Jeffries. -cBVJ The remaindor of her story coincided BH with that of the defendant. Testifies to Threats. Mrs. Daisy Gill, proprietress of the .H rooming house at 1-15 West Second South nBBJ street, where "tho Kelly woman and Churchill lived, testllled concerning the BB character of the dead man. She declared BBl that lie had often threatened In her pros- BJ ence to. kill Jeffries, and that upon one SJ occasion he had showed scars about van- s9B Otis parts of his body declaring that h BBl would get Jeffrles's head if it meant an ?BBJ addition to his already large collection of BB scars. She testified that Jeffries went tfBJ to her rooming house to see her husband Bfl with whom ho was friendly, and that the Kelly woman and" Churchill, whose rislu 42BB name, she claimed wns Thomas Coslett. 'JBfl had lived there. ?BB Jack Downing, formerly with a Denver JBB law firm, now a local photographer, nlBOt -.Bfl testified In the afternoon for the defense- .3BB The defense Is making capital also l4Bfl of the unsavory reputation said to havosMl been borne by Churchill, prior to his $BB abrupt ending; while tho state on the ,BB other hand is endeavoring to show tnat'!BB the witnesses presented hy tho defense are j9H themselves of rather Questionable char- |