Show I I BOY DOf IS WITNESS mR FOR MOTHER IN INA A ASSAULT SAUlT TRIAL Jimmy Wheelan Says He Heard Mendez Utter Threats ts The blackboard of ot carefree school schooldays schooldays schooldays days gave place to a blackboard Ingrim in ingrim ingrim grim and serious surroundings Monday londay morning when little Jimmy Jim Jima my my Wheelan 9 took the witness stand In Judge Judg N. N H H. Tanners Tanner's court anc and anddrew drew pictures with chalk in defense of the testimony given by his mother Mrs Mra Mary Wheelan The child was called cabled as a witness In the case of James Mendez charged with assault with a deadly weapon upon Mrs Wheelan on the nl night ht of June 7 According to the testimony of ot Mrs Wheelan Mendez came to her home West First South street when she was ill UI and brought some fruit and nd ginger ale She was in bed bedat bedat bedat at the time she he said and her two children Jimmy and Patricia were asleep in the next roOm After Atter In Inquiring inquiring In- In quiring g about h her hr r health she said Mendez talked for a while and then suddenly pulled a gun on her ana said You are my woman and Ill I'll kill you She asked hh him 1 to spare her for tor the he childrens children's sake she tes testified tes- tes titled and after keeping the gun levelled at her while he lay in front of her door the only way of es escape escape escape es- es cape he finally patted her shoulder shoulder shoulder der said Dont worry I wont won't hurt you now and left at o'clock that morning That Mendez had given her meat fruit and vegetables for tor her family during the three months she had known him was admitted by Mrs Wheelan under cross She also stated that he had threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened to kill the children her and himself If it she would not go away I with him That a man by the name of ot Wilcox Wilcox Wil- Wil cox had come twice to her room late that night while Mendez lendez had her herat at the point of ot th the gun but that she had told him t to go away was also admitted by Mrs Wheelan Under under under un un- der cross tion She said she was afraid Mendez would shoot Wilcox Confused by the alien surroundings surroundings surroundings surround surround- ings and twisting a little blue necktie necktie neck neck- tie into a mere mere string Jimmy nevertheless nevertheless nev nev-i an answered wred alertly and nd with little hesitation all questions put putto putto putto to him him by both counsel although tl there ere were were- a number of things he hedl dl didn't t remember He said sald he had heard Mendez threaten to kill his his' mother and that Mendez had come Into th the kitchen and told the children children chil chil- dren to go to sleep The light In mamas room was out he said but he could see Mendez beca because se sethe the light was on In ip the kitchen He admitted taking fruit from Mendez home to his mother and that Mendez had t taken ken him and his sister to the movies on several reveral oc oc- oc t S Mendez w was was s bound over to the district court for trial |