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Show M mm ' SHE SHOT MAN Court Believes 15-Year-Old Is Trying to Shield Her Mother EVERETT. Wash., Feb. 4. With both the state and defenso resting at 3-30 p. m Friday, in tho trial of Mr Bertha Wilkes, and her IB -year-old daughter. Trova Poto, charged with the shooting of Gus Danlelson hero N'oveinber 6. a new and spectacular angle had developed In the eleventh hour testimony of Trova Pote that It CVS8 her hand that fired tho second and third shots at Danie:son. Tho startling disclosuro on the part! of the girl who has heretofore been j h Id as an accomplice to tho deed, is a i fut.-ition of her general story embodied embod-ied in a signed statement from Treval earlier In the trial. STRUGGLE DESCPvinr:!) ' Treva's story was told to Judge Guy C Alston after tho jury had been sent from the room and the Judge had ask-ed ask-ed her to say whether or not she shot 1 anielson. SIp then told of the struggle between be-tween Danielson and. her mother, recounting re-counting how her mother fell on a couch. Danielson, she said was choking chok-ing Mrs. Wilkes. When her mother called on her. to get possession of tho revolver that had fallen to th-floor th-floor during the struggle. Treva said she picked it up and fired at Danielson. Daniel-son. He th"n came toward her, she I lid, and she fired at him again throwing throw-ing the gun away after tho second shot. After she had fired at Danlelson Danlel-son the leoQiifl time. Treva said, heri mother, who had fainted, revived and seized Danielson. and then Danielson! fell. According to the slimed statement. Treva Pote gave the police the night of the shooting, ill three shots were fired y Mra tikes, durlnc the struggle for possession of the gun. Mrs. Wilkes testifying Thursday said that Danielson. who was living in tho house with her, complained because Isupper was late and that a quarrel, which led to a struggle between Danielson Dan-ielson and herself followed. In this Struggle, she said, a shot was fired, buf She did not know by whom. Then she 'swore, she lost consciousness anU jwhon sho regained It heard two more jshot-s fired. j It was these two shots that Trevti Poto said she fired. Judge Alston declared that the girl was Innocent of crime, and said she had been made to testify thai she did the shooting by her mother, but Tre-j va remained unshaken in her latest version of the shootinc. When asked why she did not tell the truth al f Irsi i she said sho wa-s afraid to do it. |
