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Show SHOOTING AIRED IN CITC00RT Herbert Hessler Tells His Version Ver-sion of Alleged Shooting by Mavis Baker The preliminary hearing of Mavis Hakei , harged with aaaault with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill, SUtrted In the cits, court ihlx morning before Judge D, R Roberts. Herbert Hessler, complaining wtt-nene. wtt-nene. wa the first to take the stand. Raker was represented by Attorney W, H Racder and Attorney David Wilson The prosecution was directed ly County Altornev Joseph li. bates. Hessler under quest inning of County Coun-ty Attorney Bate, related his version of the affair which resulted In hla being shot through the abdomen. s i it rs t r Dm H Heaeler testified that he started up an irrigation ditch to shut off several sev-eral cuts which had heen made In the ditch While walking up the ditch he passed Mrs Raker Nicholas linker, link-er, 11-year-Old son of the defendant, and Gertrude Uaker. 1C car-old daurhter of Baker. As he started rloalnft tbc cuts In the ditch, the children chil-dren threw rocks at him. he alleged Me KTahhed Nicholas by the back f the neck, he claimed, and told him that he was goinR to turn him over to the custody of the juvenile court. Gertrude Uaker, be burned, set two dOgS on him. Baker then appealed on the scene, lleeslei said. His first intimation that Haker was near was when he saw- a hand carry in a revolver appear above a clump of oak brush. The revolver, Hessler told the court, was discharged In the general dlrei tb.n of th- Ut.fn - K--- 11 j Sided Baker then shot at Heosler, the latter lat-ter alleges, the bullet passing on the left side of Hessler m head. The wlt- neas said the second shot fired by : Baker struck him in the abdomen. GRAPPIii s u ITU BAK1 R I He rushed Baker nnd grappled. I Baker threw the pistol to ihe Nov. Nicholas. Instructing him to shoot . Hessler. according to Hessler s tc-stl -I runny The boy picked up the weapon and j i seised the father keeping him be-, be-, tween myself and the boy, and strlk-I strlk-I lng him In the fa-' When I became i exhausted, 1 threw the man toward! bis son nd dived over a nearby fenrf Then I made my way over another an-other fence." HeSBler said the father, who had Ihe revolver at that lime might have shot again had It not been for the son's apparent eagerness In getting , possession of the weapon He claimed ; rhat the boy expressed desire to have I his father 'shoot him again.' In ihe encounter with the Baker t . Hesslei I testified that ho was handicapped b two large dogs which attacked him .Mi.- tjertrnuc Hessler, allied to have fhul Hessler. had nothing to do ! with the affray, Hessler remarked, unless It was setting the dogs on him. Attorney Rreder cross-examined the witness until noon today when an adjournment was declared by Judge D. R Roberts Ihe court room was filled with spei tators and witnesses were excluded exclud-ed from the room while testimony of Hessler was taken |