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Show MA VIS BiER Judge Pratt Announces Continuance Con-tinuance of Trial Until Monday - Postponment of the case o( the slate against m.i:s Baki r nras ordered until Moiiday morning i 11 o'doch with the closing of yesterday afternoon's after-noon's session. After several Jurors In the case had requested to be given their liberty at noon today Jnde A. E. Prat! announced continuance of thv trial until Monday. Gertrude Baker, it year old daughter daugh-ter Ol Mavis Baker. :.h- defendant, who IS charerl with th.- shooting of Herbert Her-bert Hessler, was calle.l to (ho si.md yesterday afternoon, Th" criri testified that she. ami not her father, fired the revolver bullet into Hessler's boelj The pirl declared lluil she heard her brother, Mil;, 1 1 years of asc. yell, after Hesslcr had gone lo the Irrigation Irriga-tion ditch over which Hessler krrd Baker had trouble. t?he said she s;iw her father run from the barn toward the ditch and .-h- ran to the house. While her mother was telephoning, she testified that she procured the pistol 1 and running to th Irrigation ditch: fired the shot at ReeslOr The girl said shf- had heard that HesSlor might kill her father. Nick Baker, the Ktrl's brother wis placed on the stand and told a Similar story about the shooting. i |