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Show IS BOUND OVER. M "" " 1 1 " 111 'SbbI CONNERS WA8 HELD YESTERDAY -BH WITHOUT BAIL. b1 Chart-oil With tho Mnrdcr of Speclftl ' flB Oflicer William Strong Ofllcer'i Predict a Conviction, Bfl The preliminary hearing of FranV mW Conners, charged with tho murder of Special Otllccr William Strong, was. hoid before Precinct Justice. S. K. :BJ King In tho district court room yester- 'fl day and occupied practically all day. 9B Thu Stato was represented by County 'H Attorney Jecob Evans, while Conners " BJ was defended by Attorneys M. M.War- wB nor and George R, Lund, Bb An Interested crowd attended the mm examination. B Tho prosecution put the following tBB witnesses on the stand in the order Bh named: Policeman Frank; Tucker. JmW Deputy Sheriff J. T. Wllliums, Sheriff' mA Guo.A, Storrs, Marshal Nowell KuIgM, mW Mrs. Husolla Graves, D tvld Johnson, BB Thomas Suddock, County I'hysluiaa V.BB Geo. E. Roblson, John Buck, Joseph 1 Bfl Blackyou, M. O. Newell, Deputy Sher- mmm Iff R. E. Knowlden and F. N. Smart. jfl Tho defouse refuted lo put in any eyl- Bh deuce. JBh Iu brief the prosecution's evidence . iBH consisted In the following proofs! That Ba Conners cams in on tho midnight BH train the night of tho murder, that nt. WB was In hiding afterwards and threat- jBJ ened thu life of another citizen whon discovered, that his weapon wliea ' '"Bj found proved to bo uf corresponding $b1 calibra lo tho one cxtructol from "II Strong's body, that Strong was at tha ' wB depot when the trails arrived and wal Imu seen to go towards town with u prison- Bb er whoso height corresponded with Oouncrs. . jjjBJ Attorney Warner claims that th JBb liullats In Conner's gun are shorter and Ba consequently lighter than the on? BJ which killed Strong. Ho made re . iBJ peatod efforts to have tho court order one of the bullets extracted from ' ' ;tBl Connor's woapon and measured and tkm compared with the one taken irom the -SmmW body of 'tho murdered man, but was BJ denied. WB It was a mattor of great surprise that Frank Moirls, Conner's partner,, BJ was not placed upon the stand as he Is Bj believed to bo the prosecution's star LM witness, mm At the couclmlon of the prosecution's case the defense refused to submit any . " uvidoiicc,ahd Justico King summed up H iho case and held Conners without ball jBJ on thu chargo of murder In tho tint de B On motion of County Attorney im Evans, Suddock, Blackycn and Bock BJ were ordored held as witnesses uuder BJ bonds of $250 each. , rm i ."ircsri" '1mm |