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Show I BAKER GIRL IS I DRAWN IN CASE Defense to Try to Show That Defendant's Daughter Shot Messier 9Aw When the stal" restedi at noon to- wSM do In the etfe of Movlf Tinker. jlSt charged with a.ssuolt Ith Intel" i" commit murder for the uiieged ihooi - !&8 iiir of Herbert Hesalcr lat .M i b. u9 Attorney Oeorpo Ralvtrsoh. eouns flK for Baker announced thai th defense IH will now cndfiivoi- to show that Oer- Ih irudf Haker, 1 5-year-old i;ughter of 1 ; tht defend nd nol ' 1 1 B Qg fired the shot inio rlassler's body. Hesslcr was shot on .1 farm b -longing n9 to his mother-in-law. Mrs. Matin mm Morn, at Thirty-third street and Tay- 3 lor avenue following trouble with MM linker over an Irrigation ditch ll.s- - -mi iccordlng physicians I id 1 jM" ' iillrdnilou -.. f..n d-utli. 'he bullet entrrlnx hi udomcn and lodft--1 ins In hia har k. The bullel i iu 1 Ud l-fcssler's iod I IKES SHOT lira. .Mollle Kama, etatni of Mr. 91 Horn took the witness stand this IB morning and alihOUgn "he testified WA lh.it ahe did not uitilefts th,- mini. I Hj k. she UW Baker run from his j 1W barn toward the Irrigation diteh and' j9a fire H shot 1(1 Ihe nir from .1 revolver. MB At this time Messier was said to bvi H been bringing NicK Maker. ou of Mr :tl BakOI toward the house after he had 'jnt found him interfering with the watOI mm . Mr. HeMSlei. when on the stand, dc- f9 ( la red that he did not .strike or shake . ih" hoy. hut simpl led him toward 1 ! the house b the collar ljM Mrs. Karns testified that after she m saw Baker running tith the pistol she hfl ian Mrs H easier corning from the di-' i& rectlbn of the Irrigation ditch. SUp- Ifl porting Mr. Heasler, who had been; shot. Mrs. Messier "houted to her to' IH call a doctor, she said and us lln-v MUf r -ached the rear door of the ROUSe, Mr. Heasler's strength failed and Mr.'( Messier fell face downward upon the! a floor. J LISTEN'S IN M lieorRc V'opi-1 w ., to.- in t w iii , - T called and declared he had ".listened '- In" on telephone conversations in which he heard Mr. Baker sn y that it tlie trouble between himself and Hes-. Hes-. sler did nol stop he would ' use a gun m on Messier." IrJ A few minutes befon the noon re- J cess District Attorney Stuart P. Dobbs BV announced that the state rested ity igH case The defense v. ill call witnesses Ml this afternoon. The case will probabl go to the jury tomorrow. -v. The jurors In the cise are Henry r, f Kleeell, Carl E. Peterson, William G. jy happle. .John McFarland. David E Rat Hopkins. Edmund T Saunders, Thorn- B as E. McKay and Charles II St." |