Show MAROVICH'S S 'S WIFE IE TESTIMONY I IN m IS DEFENSE S Says She Accused Accuse to H Her r Husband nd on Day of Killing Hilling I With head bent forward just a R little and a frown of embarrassment playing about her forehead Milka Marovich leh this I I morning on the wi witness nets stand before before Judge e Geor George Georce e G G. G Armstrong and a jm jury in in the district court her husband is is on trial for his bis l t quietly told how bow Mike hid had assaulted her ncr her in the kitchen of her own home lat Into ono one night about ten or fifteen days before July 11 U when was shot to d death ath It Ills is r the story which is e expected to set borI her bor husband t at lih liberty I Mrs rd Marovich h is a a. d dark rk e eyed eel and aud dark featured daughter of southern southern Eu Eu- Eu rope rODe If If the thc jury iury that came amo to the homo homo and nd at the point of a revolver re took advantage ad of ot tb the tM wife of a i fellow workman after ho he had thrown her to the floor it is more than likely that the man may go JO free The st state tc however er is trying tJ to aho show show- that the woman 13 is' is hut hilt the common property prop prep property erty of many mon men at Bingham TelLs Tells Tells' ot of Shooting I In rn telling about the shooting on di direct I meet examination Mrs rs Marovich said id idI that was walking along like a I drunken m man n front in-front ont of their homo and that be he pulled a revolver before her herI I b husband fired the fatal fata sli tHe t. t He dr dropped the gun un and md fell fell to to the tho ground round that Steve Stevo bad shot she said id 44 I I dont don't know who was first to reach him ait after r he had bad fall fallen on Imms Imm Immediately after alter the shooting I Iwas Iwas Iwas was so BO overcome by bj the si sight bt that I fell unconscious on the bt bed d in iii the room where I r was anti and T Tit d el T member anything until it b became dark Mrs said Marovich-said ich said s she ho a the she shooting shoot shoot- in ing from rom one of the windows windoW's of her ber Continued on pale page n 9 I I I I MAROVICH Continued from page 1 home From some of the previous witnesses witnesses wit wit wit- nesses it has been beeD pointed out put th that t it was against her that had dj dj- dj some slurring in m the tho tle bearing hearing bear hear ing of her husband who vho ibo w was s standing in iii of the thc house ii doorway o I I I dont don't exactly remember I I cant can't remember what time it Jt was about ten or fifteen days before he be was WS killed Mrs Marovich's were answers to the efforts of District Attorney Fred FredI C Loofbourow on oil cr examination cross to learn the exact time at which she says she bad had been assaulted b by The wife stout stoutly maintained that she sho had bad always been faithful to her husband husband hus hus- band until that time Told Husband Huband That Morning Moring She said that she did not tell teU her husband hus hue band about it at first because she was afraid of the effect that tha it would Woul have bavo on him She told him on the morning of the shooting and it i Wa was the effect of harn hearing of her story stor she said Eaid that caused Marovich ich to shoot down on his way to work Worle was dressed in in hi his best clothes when be he came to our house with ih two to other men on that evening enin J aid Kaid the tho wife in answer to questions put to her I don dont don't t know who the thc other two men were They wanted some beer and I lot let them la e have four bottles bottes' bottes which h thor the drank They offered sonic to me re but 1 1 wouldn't take it i. i No Xo I didn't ask them to tome ome in in in they just knocked on thedoor the door and asked for beer eer Yes wo we ad sel beer to people that v we C c kow know We did not owe the Berkeley Berkele sa saloon saloon sa sa- loon on the da day of the shooting shooting Wo We only owed them about She t KoW Know I IThe The wife of or main maiv of the facts about which h Attorney Loofbourow Loof ned her bouro questioned You You don't dont t want ant to know anything except what Mr Christensen Christeusen asked you OU about do i Mr you as asked ked lr Loofbourow What I know I tell and what J 1 dont don't know I dont don't tell tel came the tho answer answer an an- an through h tho the interpreter HI Ill J tell teU everything that tha t I 1 know knon She then told about a fi fight ht between her ber husband and but she could not place tho the tim time J Judge Armstrong Armstron is is endeavoring to hasten en tho the trial as much as pO possible and with th thi this object in view the proceedings began tsan at 30 this morning morning and thet the t sessions will wi he be lOD longer er than usual from now on I L. L L A. A Ameden AmMen on one of the tho jurors has contracted a cold and is listening to the testimony with wih difficulty It I is i not expected ex that his condition will wi get ct mu much h worse Steve Sto Marovich accused of the murdel mur noun der del of M. M nt July 11 1 on tho the stand in his hiM own defense at j 2 30 Q clock o'clock thi this afternoon I |