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Show Lin Is Partially Kcntlficd as itc flan Seen at mt : ; A : .Hr tbc Victim's Dcor. x ! ' - 4 haS ti,no nfw fct, her testimony '"Beutler -s room, the ?TA, K Ho,t- laughter-ln-law of h nf?0". w,tneo8- tened that on kltrhin if.e mu-der she wa In the flxe hadt,.lnin the Beutler room, and tt t,m at 8:20 when h heard I,"?1 Her crosexamlnatlon brought out no oonlllctlng evidence. Telia of Death Scene. . teunh V"n calIed W B Ho. who with S rw offlcera- He went lockrf the door' which was un- JocKea. and entered with hm n The chief Incident of Interest In the trial of John Rice for the alleged mur-der mur-der of Pred Beutler. In the Third District Dis-trict court this morning, was the testimony testi-mony of lira Ann Chapman, who lived nt door to Beutler's room. She testified testi-fied to havlnreen tw men standing outride her window at o'clock the night before the murder. .She had a lamp in her room, which threw a light on the men. They were talking and pointing to Beutler'a door. One of the men waa heavier and taller l-!B.!5Sther- Wen asked concerning riS atSrT ad on nla fackV'wlth raga stuffed in his mouth. rai Ter"0 Ni,Holt and Mr wasxvfr.fU.caIIed- Thelr vidence prUeJedtUa,,y Une " that which MrtrB,S!!lbet5 daughter of ZI d, to 1,v,n had a conversa-f conversa-f money and mlser-Uke way of St.nS k Mr8i Hunter was on the "clock. COUrt dJourneiI nntU- S Afternoon Session. theStUaty..,She1T.r- R Booth." one of wrk1teP,in0,pa, wltne. ho Is graSart t dKthat he ""'Iked frtm the afanary to the scene of the crime In thirteen minutes. Unon rr.-..Vmein ' mT;.mfnyv(tlvn ,n tn Prellmlnar? be4 Vn,dN,,ed much of t and h C nT' 81" "tated tht he aro n5 ?fc Hunter once twelve years fr iJ?lihouh ,d no Prtlcu- ' orJVLd h'm'nl Rice as the mn murder. th nIht bf0re taa I Wot Positive. : onntI!!!:eXam,naUon by Mr- Hamll-lf Hamll-lf w 'Witness aald ahe would not say Rlce n1 Hunter, and that she ed d?e.?r.rftn n UnU1 h Point! iL?-Ut n Preliminary hearing. next night, and It sounded to her as If SSInflhSf iiiT" ?:"lll,n "d a noise - "dmg like a choking or strangling. The neat witness; called by the State . MrR-Emma Holt On direct tx- mlnatlon by Mr WhlttakeT she deavorVd to", J" M' Hamilton thTnh.hlgCl a Mpert 0Pnlon as to tior aVt ufc.psy' uon3 Performed the there weriBeu.t.Ier' testified that thl .1 n dlscoloratlons on the skin of th throat and the larynx and interior of durth.tCSdlt.,,on J the train he in! ooler Bitler had died from a p- f7i!e.ther wltnee called during the p2r3mWr J- A' S1,ver' E. D. Hoi Patrolman Shannon and John Eslinger thetlme ofa.Phain ',the nce ' tiflU th-?Kthe murder. The police tes- to the sceeLre.lelVed. a te'ePhone call o-cloot L thf crlm at about 8 o-ciock in the evening, and on arriving found Beutler lying dead on the flodr with rags stuffed ln his mouth ' |