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Show MARSHALL HELD TO DISTRICT COURT ! ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS WIFE! "The judgment of the court is that a crime has been committed and UTat there is sufficient evidence thereof to hold this defendant for trial, and the order is that he be held to answer to the same In the district court of the Third Judicial district, without bonds." In these words, Justice of the Peace L. R. Martlneau, Jr., Saturday Sat-urday morning disposed of the case of Dr. Herbert D. .Marshall, charged with the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Stewart Marshall, at their room In a Salt Lako City hotel, November 28, 1915. The judgment of the court came after a preliminary hearing extending over eight days of court sessions, the last testimony having been taken and the closing arguments made Friday afternoon. after-noon. Judge Mnrtlnoau adjourned court immediately after pronouncing pro-nouncing judgment. "I think the rulings of the court have been fair," said Dr. Marshall, Mar-shall, Immediately after the judgment was announced. Considering Consid-ering the circumstantial evidence and the fact that the alleged attempt at suicide 'van allowed to go in, I presume it was to lie expected that I should be held." Dr. Marshall then added that he was confident of final acquittal. The case of Dr. Marshall has aroused more interest than any othor preliminary hearing on a murder charge had In many years In Salt Lake City. Mrs. Marshall was admittedly shot to death In her room at the hotel shortly before noon November 28th. Numerous Nu-merous witnesses heard the shot, but no one save Mrs. Marshall and the defendant himself, if lie be guilty, saw it fired. Dr. Marshall was not placed on the stand, but his version, as told to several witnesses, Is that he was coming from the bathroom, bath-room, whither he had been sent by Mrs. Marshall, when he heard the shot. He demanded an inquest into his wife's death. It was refused, and he was-arrested after he had reached Sabetha, Kan., ! with the body of his wife, which he Had taken to her former home I tor burial. . The stale introduced evidence to show that Dr. Marshall, di-I di-I rectly after the shot was fired, went to a telephone in the lobby of the hotel and summoned Dr. Frnost Van Cott, Mrs. Marshall's physician, making the statement that his wife had accidentally j shot herself. The state also sought by export witnesses to prove i that the wound from which Mrs. Marshall (lied could not have been Ixelf-infllcted. The defense held to tho theory that Mrs. Marshall had com-i mittcd suicide, and in proof thereof introduced testimony to show1 'that the wound might have been self-inflicted; that Mrs. Mar- shall was in poor health and despondent, and that she feared that she suffered from an incurable disease. The defense nlso showed that the relations between Dr. Marshall and his wife had been 'pleasant and that he had treated her with kindness, tenderness land consideration during her illness. j The only motive for the alleged murder, so far as the state's .testimony was given, was the fact that Mrs. Marshall possessed liihoul two thousand dollars in cash, secured from a mortgage due I in January, 11)17, and about a thousand dollars worth of furniture. I The cash was held by the Marshalls under n joint account. Most of the furniture had been the property of Mrs. Marshall before her marriage in June, 11)1-1. |