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THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
February 28, 1925
LAWYERS BEGIN ARGUMENTS TO JURORS
(Continued From Page One)
JURY INSTRUCTIONS:
The court instructed the jury that:
- Adams, as a deputy sheriff, had the right to carry a gun;
- The jury must not determine whether Staggs had right to carry a weapon, but whether he had the right to use that weapon;
- Testimony of witnesses as to the reputation of the slain man may be considered in determining who was the aggressor;
- Declarations made by either Staggs or Adams at the instant of the shooting should likewise be considered in determining who was the aggressor;
- Adams' dying declaration was admissible as evidence in the case, but should be received by the jury with caution;
- The slain man's reputation for truth and veracity may be considered in weighing the deathbed statement;
- If Staggs' plea of self-defense was sustained beyond reasonable doubt, he should be acquitted;
- Conviction is not justifiable on the strength of theory, but that circumstantial evidence is admissible in determining the degree of guilt or innocence of the accused;
- The entire jury must agree on the verdict.
STAGGS IS RECALLED
Staggs was recalled to the witness stand by Prosecuting Attorney Edwin Gruber and E. D. Kenyon, deputy prosecutor, for cross-examination this morning.
His testimony was brief, and included a general denial of the intention of slaying and that he had carried the weapon, with the declaration that he had had the gun "for some time" for purpose of protecting himself.
Staggs said there had been numerous holdups in the city, street car conductors and others falling victims at the end of the lake street and North Garden street lines. He said work often called him out late at night and he felt more secure when armed. He testified that he usually left the gun in the street railway company's tool house before going home.
When Prosecutor Gruber asked Staggs if it was not true that he got mad easily, defense counsel objected, insinuating that the state's attorney had assumed the role of persecutor and not prosecutor.
"You were pretty mad that time you hit Peter Clark in the face down here at the ball park, weren't you, Mr. Staggs?" Gruber had asked.
Staggs did not answer, but later testified that he believed there was "no man on earth" who could take more than he could without getting mad.
TESTIMONY RULED OUT
Mrs. Rota Adams, her face drawn and haggard as the result of her collapse late Friday when Staggs and Attorney Sather enacted the shooting before the jury, was called as a rebuttal witness by the prosecutor. He had asked her whether she had ever known her husband to carry a gun, when Sather objected on grounds of improper cross-examination. Mrs. Adams had answered that she did not, however.
The court ruled that such testimony was incompetent after authorities had been offered by Mr. Kenyon. The witness was not further questioned.
LEGAL WRANGLING OVER EVIDENCE
The trial was reopened with a tilt between attorneys this morning when Sather intimated that he had no objections to the records of the lien proceedings which Adams had started against Staggs' home as the result of their dispute over a building contract, going to the jury.
Before the jury was admitted, Sather had made no objection to the admission of the papers. When the jury was seated he reiterated his "willingness" to permit the papers to go in, but in a manner that was taken to indicate that the prosecution was "desirous" of entering the exhibit.
Prosecutor Gruber took issue with the defense attorney for his attitude before the jury in a matter that had been agreed upon in the jury's absence, holding that the defense attorney's statement, and the tone in which it was uttered was highly prejudicial.
STATE PLEADS FOR FIRST DEGREE
Deputy Prosecutor E. D. Kenyon opened the argument for the state at the afternoon session, pleading with the jury in behalf of the state's charge that the shooting of Adams by Staggs was premeditated and constituted murder in the first degree. He declared that since the world war a spirit had developed tending to hold human life on a cheap basis.
In connection with Staggs' plea of self-defense, Kenyon quoted the testimony of Mrs. Pauline Rickerson that Adams appeared hypnotized or dazed by Staggs and he asked the jury whether it was reasonable that Adams had said, "Now I've got you," as Staggs testified, since the only weapon he carried was a pearl-handled knife.
In connection with the alleged statement of Adams, "I'll get you if it takes ten years," that had been attributed to him by witnesses, Kenyon said that this need not be construed as a threat to kill.
Kenyon concluded with the statement that the defense had made an effort to justify the killing and to blacken the character of Adams. He said that evidence had not been presented to show in the true sense of the word that Adams was a drunkard; that there was no evidence that Adams had been drinking and that the introduction by the defense as exhibits of two bottles of liquor was intended to prejudice the jury.
He quoted the sixth commandment, "Thou shall not kill," declaring that it is the highest law of man and of God, and asserted in closing that Staggs is not a safe man to be at large.
DOWNER MAKES ARGUMENT FOR DEFENSE
George Downer, who made the opening argument for the defense, said that homicide may be lawful or it may be unlawful and declared that Staggs should not be punished for taking the life of Adams. Killing had been justified in the world war, he said, and he went on with the statement that self-preservation or self-defense is greater than any law of state or nation, that it comes from God himself, and that it is justified by the laws of God and man.
Downer contended that Staggs was justified in carrying a gun and in using it, taking in consideration the fact that Adams had threatened to "get" him. Staggs, he said, was in mortal fear of Adams; that being a cripple, he could not fight or run away and that he had armed himself, not to kill, but to be prepared to defend himself when the crisis came.
The defense attorney charged the prosecuting attorney with being overzealous, saying that Prosecutor Gruber, in his zeal to win the case had presented testimony that he himself did not believe. In this connection he cited Adams' antemortem statement, prepared by Gruber, in which Adams had said he came out of the California Fruit store and was shot by Staggs, whom he had seen through a window. Later, Downer asserted, Gruber, in his opening statement, announced that the state would prove that Adams had emerged from the store, walked half a block eastward to the alley with another man, and then returned to the point where he was met and shot by Staggs.
A recess was taken at 2:45 and arguments were to be concluded thereafter by Prosecuting Attorney Gruber, for the state, and Charles Sather, for the defense.
WOMAN SWOONS DURING DEMONSTRATION
Struggling to her feet in the crowded courtroom when Attorney Sather, late Friday afternoon, requested Staggs to demonstrate with gun before the jury how he drew the weapon and shot Adams, Mrs. Rita Adams, widow of the slain man, became hysterical and cried: "Oh, Lynn! Oh, Daddy! Oh, Daddy!" She screamed and articulated unintelligible words and swooned to the floor in a dead faint.
Mrs. Adams was carried from the courtroom and a few moments later removed to her home. Dr. C. E. McKinnis stated that Mrs. Adams was suffering from shock and nervousness, but that her condition was not alarming. He attributed her collapse to the mental strain under which she had been during the four days of the trial. She had been a constant witness of the proceedings.
Staggs had been on the witness stand in his own defense for an hour and a half when, shortly before 5 o'clock, Attorney Sather requested the accused to take the weapon and show the jury, with the attorney representing Adams, just how the shooting occurred.
GRIPS REVOLVER
Staggs gripped the .38 caliber nickel-plated pistol in his right hand at his hip pocket in the manner which the defense claims Adams had made a move as if to draw a gun from his pocket. Staggs pointed his pistol at the attorney's right hand. It was at the instant of this demonstration that Mrs. Adams struggled to her feet, cried out and fainted.
STAGGS' TESTIMONY ABOUT THE SHOOTING
"I was standing near the curb at Railroad avenue and Holly," the prisoner said. "I stood there I suppose, about a minute and a half, and glanced down the street again to see if my boy's car was there and did not see it. I just turned to go back to throw my switch--just turned around to walk back--I don't think I made over one or two steps toward Elk street when all of a sudden Mr. Adams popped right up in front of my face, coming straight toward me. He was looking vicious. He looked bad. 'I've got you,' he said."
"What did he do?" Sather queried.
"He made a quick move toward his hip with his right hand. The first thought that popped into my mind was 'I'm going to be killed.'"
Upon questioning by Attorney Sather as to what he did, the witness continued: "As quick as I could I jerked the revolver out and I fired."
Q. "When you fired were your eyes on his hands?"
A. "They were."
Q. "Where could you have shot him?"
A. "In the eye. In the heart. I didn't want to kill no man."
Q. "Point at me and show me how you shot."
"My eyes were watching his hand when I shot," Staggs continued. "He fell to his left side. He tried to get to his pocket after he fell. I believe today the man had a gun on him or he thought he had a gun on him. I stood over him and kept an eye on him. If he had pulled a gun I was going to kill him. I would had to."
"As he lay on his side I walked up and pushed him over so he couldn't reach his pocket and get the gun so I'd have to kill him."
Q. "Did you kick him?"
A. "Absolutely not."
Here the old man, standing before the jury, gun in hand, broke down, and said with tears streaming down his cheeks, "I am not a coward. I couldn't kick a man when he was down. I couldn't kick him."
On further questioning Staggs said: "After he fell I made the remark: 'You won't make a move at your hip pocket, will you?'" (A similar statement of Staggs' appeared in Adams' dying statement.)
Many in the audience were crying, unashamed at their inability to restrain tears.
"When the police came I pushed my way through the crowd to give 'Mac', that's McMurtrie, the patrolman, everyone knows him by 'Mac', my gun. I said: 'Here, son, take it. I had to do it.'"
Staggs declared he never said a word before the shooting. This bit of testimony contradicted previous state's evidence that it was Staggs who said, "Now, I've got you," and shot. Some witnesses for the state said they did not know who said, "Now, I've got you," while one said it was Adams who made the remark. The defense introduced witnesses who declared they heard Adams make that statement.
STAGGS' BACKGROUND
At the request of his counsel Staggs said he was born in Wayne county, Tennessee, fifty-nine years ago, went to work at the age of twelve years to support the family after the death of his father; married thirty-eight years ago; lost his foot while working as a brakeman on a railroad thirty years ago; is the father of eight children; came here in 1903 and for the past eleven years has been employed as a switchtender for the Puget Sound Power & Light company.
THE CONTRACT DISPUTE
Then his attorney had him go into the details of the house renovating contract which resulted in the dispute between Adams and Staggs and the latter's death at Staggs' hands, and tell how and where he had been threatened.
"We had a seven-room old style house at 2101 Ellis street," Staggs said, "when I first met Mr. Adams." (The witness always referred to the victim as "Mr. Adams.")
"October 21, 1924. About noon that day Mr. Adams called me by telephone and introduced himself and said he understood I calculated to make changes about my house. I told him I thought it was too late to make renovation because winter was coming. Thirty minutes after the phone call he came out and him, me and my wife sat in our kitchen and talked. I didn't think the work could be finished before winter. I was afraid cold weather would catch us with the roof off."
"Mr. Adams insisted he could save me money by the work done then, from $100 to $150. I told him what I wanted to have done. Take off the old roof, put on a new one, change the partitions, change the stairway, fix a chimney, fix the siding. I asked him what he would do the work for. He said 'I can figure that mighty close.' He figured for about two minutes and said 'I can do that for $475, you furnish materials.'"
Staggs then told of Adams drawing up a contract which he did not sign at first because it contained no provisions for the tearing down of the brick flue, nothing about removing wiring, certain work pertaining to the siding, nor the cost. The witness declared Adams said it was impossible to get everything into a contract but that those details would be looked after.
"It was agreed that I would pay $100 down and another $100 two weeks after the work started, with the balance to be paid at $50 a month," Staggs testified.
DEMANDED MONEY
"A week after I had paid the second $100, making $200 altogether, Mr. Adams came up to me on Elk street and said 'Staggs, are you going to have some money for me today to pay my men?' I says 'No, there isn't no money due you, you're to be paid $50 a month.' He says, 'There's two ways to look at that. I count from the time the contract was signed and you from the time you paid the first $100.' He turned around and started to leave then turned part way back and said:"
PERSONAL THREAT
"'Now, look here Staggs. I'll get that money out of you or I'll get you.'"
"I said 'that's all right, Mr. Adams, you don't have to get me, when the money is due you'll get it.'"
He testified that at that time the residence was torn down, the siding was off, the ceiling had been removed and the house leaked badly. Adams refused to attend to the wiring, tearing away the chimney, put on a new floor, rebuild the ceiling and other repair work because they were not itemized in the contract and when he did put in the floor he charged additional, itemizing it as 'extras.'
Afterward the prisoner had other carpenters inspect the work and they declared it a "botch" job. He put the matter in the hands of an attorney when conditions became so that when he spoke to Adams about the work the contractor would fly into a rage.
With the matter in attorney's hands Adams was said to have left the job, leaving a letter announcing the fact and also that Staggs would be sued for $50. The carpenter was "fired" from the job at his request, Staggs said.
OTHER THREATS
Staggs testified that Adams had spoken to several street car operators regarding the contract dispute and these men warned him (Staggs) to be watchful of the contractor. He declared once while standing in an alcove in the Bellingham National Bank building, Adams and a male companion passed him and he heard the name "Staggs" mentioned and Adams remarked: "That's all right, I'll get him one way or the other."
"Two days before the trouble occurred I was working on a switch in front of the post office," the witness continued. "I knew Adams wore a deputy sheriff badge and he told me once he was a deputy. I thought he was armed. I supposed any officer was armed. He came out of the post office. He had on a pair of gloves. He walked out of his way, jaywalked, toward me and pulled off his gloves and dropped his right hand to his side."
Staggs said he stopped work and stood still, keeping an eye on Adams, but the contractor merely passed him with a mean look. He said he complained to Walter Callahan, patrolman, of his fear of Adams and was advised to see Sheriff Al Callahan.
The witness testified of two other occasions when he thought he was followed by Adams.
DAY OF THE SHOOTING
Under Sather's questioning Staggs told about working on the day of the shooting from the time he went on duty at 9 a.m. until the gun affray, in an attempt to disprove premeditation on the prisoner's part. He told of greasing tracks in various parts of the city, a visit to a friend at Eldridge farm and back to a troublesome switch at Elk and Holly where he worked for nearly two hours.
He told of his belief, a few minutes before the shooting, that an automobile going down the street contained his son Earl Staggs, a steamboat engineer who was expected to arrive January 1, and walked toward Railroad avenue. His story of the shooting affair has already been told.
Court adjourned at 5 o'clock until this morning with Prosecutor Gruber conducting the cross-inquiry of the man he charged with murder.
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Executive Chairman and CEO, U.S. News & World Report
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President, Pew Research Center
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CEO, The Harris Poll
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CEO, TIME
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CEO, X
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