Show I PLEADS STATUTE Utah's Unwritten Law Laws LawSo So- So Called Is Used as a Defense WIFE ON WITNESS ss STAND I Defendant Called to Testify I Jf In H His is Own Be Behalf half As a n climax to their efforts to prove hat Stove Steve was justified In inho tho ho killing of ot Mike at fling fling- ham Mam Jul July 11 1 1908 08 the hue defense yesterday yes yos- placed Milka Marovich aro wife of ot the prisoner on the stand and followed this up b by calling Marovich to tell teB the tho story o of the tho shooting and tho details that le led up tip to It Mrs testified that thai I ten or days dars before the killing had bach attempted In indignities up up- n n her while she sho was alone in the tho kitchen of ot other her house houBe She Site did not tell teIl her husband husband hus hus- band of or toe occurrence until July Juh 11 11 an and later Inter that day da Steve Sieve k killed III Nt the them theman theman m man n who had attempted an on assault Steve Marovich was still on the stand In his hla own oun defense when an nn adjournment adjournment adjourn adjourn- ment mont was taken en last evening until 9 o'clock this morning He lie had not been cross d. d It Is probable that he his will ivill be on the stand all lay day Knew T o o Month ii Mrs Irs said she had known Polch about two months before the alleged alle assault She said he had come there often to buy beer with others other nn and drank with her husband On the night in question she said sahl came to her home with two strangers The They wrapped on the door Joor and she let them in ordered beer heel but didn't pay for or It It antI and they thy drank It Then rhon tho two strangers left ao an was alone with her Then site she said attempted tho the assault Two boarders and antl she sal said appeared at this time into and ran away Fearing the wrath of or her husband Mrs Marovich said she shio told tho two Austrians to say nothing of or the matter matter mat mat- ter ler tp to Steve Ste and eho sho did dill not tell him aBoul It But nut ten or or or- fifteen daj days s sater Prosecuting later ater Prosecuting Attorney Fred C. C Loofbourow could not find out Just how v howman man many sue many she told Steve This was the theay ie day ay of or the shooting July 11 She said she saw Steve kill kin as ns she stood at a n side window ow who Is 37 years yearn old said he worked at Murray for tWo years while his wife conducted a a. boarding house louse Then ho mo moved mod d to BIngham and she followed him There they conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted another boarding hou house ie On Jun Jut 19 Maro Marovich ich t testified and he ho got Into a fight tight n near Jr the tho blackSmith black black- Smith shop and struck him on the head hend with his fist on which was a apall pair pall of or brass knuck lIe He said that some time before this was discharged at the tho mine mino and blamed Marovich and several others I At this and other times told him ilm that they would have to finish It It which Marovich took toole to mean that they would woul have to n tight fight ht Si H N Warned Him lid Hd testified that about si six nn and a n half months month ago while they were standing In front of or the tte officE officer of ot tho the company gave him to understand he should guard himself On June 20 Steve suld suid he lie met In the company office swore at nt him hint anti and said sald I 1 will fix you About the tha shooting on July 11 11 Steve said that he hud had returned from work when came along It was on this day ay that his wife had told him of or ortho the tho a assault sault of several days be before before bo- bo fore Marovich said Told tn to Keep iCed Av WR aj testified that ho ftc told to stay stav awa away from his house and to let his wife an and his people alone He Tie said ma made e a n noise at him and pulled a revolver from his hla pocket Stevo Steve then lien sal said ne tie rushed lito his house found round a revolver came back Into the street and opened fire on killing him |