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Show MYTON TO FACE MURDIMflGE haiku: or oi.imtauv man- KhU'CIITKIl IS KINOHKO. Dlrtrlet Attorney I,eitllicrMKd lllrs An Information Charging SeeHind DegTrv or Crime, Ignorln I'lndlngs of the Junllev U 11. Mnrtlnenu, Jr., t the l'n llinliinr) Hearing. Though the Justice court nt Salt t-nko City bound Major II P M)ton over to the district court on n charge of voluntar) manslaughter, for the killing of Hoy Norton, the district nt-torne) nt-torne) K O I.entherwood, has filed nn Information In tho district court barging Major My ton with murder In tho second degree He wilt go to trial on this offense This offenne Is l.nllable nnd Mnjor M)ton Is still out c f i iiMod) nn the IhiiiiIs he furnished nft.r having been bound over on n i huge of voluntar) manslaughter Lciitheruiiod explains that he Is not bound b) the action or thn Justice i jurt necessarily nnd enn rile nn Information In-formation ehnrglng nn) degree of rime he ma) think fit ns long ns that degree Is Included within tho crime on which the neeused tins had his prelimlnnr) . hearing "On the face of the evidence adduced nt thn preliminary hearing." hh)s leather-wood leather-wood 'the rlme committed by Major Ma-jor M)ton nppenrs to me to be second degree murder" The i otniflnlnt Issued b) the count) ntt iruev ngnlnst Major M)ton chnrg-ed chnrg-ed murder In the first degree nnd he wns given n preliminary hearing nn this charge Thn Justice of tho peace, I It Martlnrnti, Jr , considered that the evidence showed voluntary manslaughter man-slaughter nnd ordered the defendant bound over on that charge. The Justice Jus-tice ordered that the county attorney Issue a complaint charging manslaughter, man-slaughter, and that thn defendant bo taken Into court on this new complaint. com-plaint. Thn district attorney objected on the ground that tho raso could not be tried on n note complaint Issued by the county attorney without n new preliminary hearing nnd ho was sustained sus-tained by the court. Tho Justice Indorsed the first decree de-cree murder complaint, stntlng that the defendant had received n preliminary pre-liminary hearing on that charge and had been bound over on tho lesser degree de-gree of voluntary manslaughter, Major Ma-jor M)tun, who was several )cnrs ago Indian agout for tho Utes nt White llo-ks ngenry on tho former Ulntnh reservation, has many friends nt Price nnd elsewhere who are watching watch-ing his case with much Interest They will not believe him guilty of murder In tho second or uny other degree until un-til the courts nnd Jury have so said |