Show i LIVINGSTON HIT BY DECISION OP OF JUSTICE Self defense Only ble Me Motive l Ruling iu in Hyde Murder Hearing TRIAL IN DISTRICT COURT IS PREDICTED I 1 Def Defendant Declares He Dj Did Not Intend to Hit Lad h When hen He fIe Fired The Tho most Important development de nt Q t tho the preliminary hearing Yesterday esterday of Vl Clarence Livingston for tor the Shooting or Arthur Hyde was vas a ruling or of Justice 01 the Peace Frank B. B Scott that evident bearing on the state of Livingston LIvingsto mind mind when he hf fired tho shots was vas It In admissible unless It II could be ho that he shot In self scle defense The cai was wat being argued when hen court ad Tho The self defense ruling is taken tak I b man many who followed the case calle to that ln LI Livingston slon will be he hold held to n to 10 a higher court No evidence zu su sup supporting porting a self HeIr defense plea has baa bt introduced b by Livingston Livingston his wife and Fred B a. fl lIart well the time conductor who t I Livingston Ll of the thc prowler about hit hi house on the tho morning of ot December 2 U testified to their belief that Hyde T wu th Livingston I i t denied shooting at H Hafter Hd after ho he had fallen tallen to th the the- Wound I Is ed Time Tho question of ot the thc wound In fn th its front of the neck came up again w Roy Rov R It Hu Russell an n embalmer who reo re c the tue bod body and amid removed the clothing clothing cloth ing Il testified that It would have havo beto betl impossible for COl tho bullet to enter tilt neck without piercing the tho shirt which was not pierced Just before the testimony was all i ithe h the defense called II II S. S hyde lather father the dead bo boy who Is pushing the pro 1101 cution cullon Mr Ir Hyde was as asked about the complaint which he had signed and tbt tin defence e raised a technical point against Interlineations which had been mad made In open court afterward The court held held that as ns the amended complaint hat had had been admitted without protest on the i iI I part of or the time defense the objection was I not valid nUd Livingston slon in his testimony laid laM emphasis em em- upon statements that he JU dill not Intend to 10 hit Hyde and rind did not kno know knolt he ho had done so when he dragged his bod body to time the porch of or his houe house Will iii Story Countering ing tn LI Livingston's statement that he did not to hit Hyde the j state tate Is expected in mm its argument to today today to- to J i ida da day to point to tho the testimony of ot Police Po Po- Po- Po lice lIeo Lieutenant William to th the effect that Livingston had made a. a statement at al tho the police station vb tt's 1 came sanio night In which ho said alII he thought t tIt It was a ha rood good Job Th The tc testimony o of lIar Harwell Har vell who uld saihe he was jure sure Hyde was Va the tto prowler aha ShO that ho he did not see ce the between the time he had notified Lit Lit- ingston of or the circumstance tanco and when he saw Hydes Hyde's d dead dad ad some time later The Time last time limo he saw taw the prowler prowl prowl- er ho had testified fre ti's day lIay before wis J as wh when n tho the man disappeared just ul as art automobile Lame alon along the street befOre before be- be fore ore the tIme witness went to lo Livingston's house hous Mrs Irs Livingston told him bun she saw a aman man through a window and Mr lr Lit LU- ingston got goot his revolver and went out out after atter him After the thc shooting she he said her h husband told her the time mar man was faS I shot and to tu 5 send 1111 fur for a She also alo said that she did dill not miot know the man roan was shot hot until she sho ho saw caw blood on tho front of or nis imis shirt Didn't Think WIM 1 lilt Livingston saId salil that after ho lie had hd fired the second shot phot and the hc I man an di I on oil his knees s. s Hyde cried out out on LT God you youve you've vc shot me to which LI ivings ivingston ton replied No o I haven't He lie said he then took him b by the baCkof back badi backof of or tho the collar toward the house and de demanded de- de mantled wh why ho he had hud been prowling around his hiM house to 10 which Hyde madino madeno made nuJ no reply He lie said he hc toM toll his wife to notify tl tM police that he l hl got ot a prowler and aDd of that he took the man on tho Limo porch o. o his house ou ouse e to see xeo if Ir he nc hall hail a sun gun un ana was as telling the tho truth about being shot she I His Ills wife returned to tho the door he sal sali and noticed nolie the blood on Hyde's Hydes shirt j At this thiN he said laid he lie told her lice to tele telephone phone for Cor a doctor He lIe said the m mil mU 1 him wr wh from was Is about th thirty rt yards yards from he fired He lie insisted ted that he did not vile had hall been shot until M know I 1 hyde i I wife Ife called his attention to tIme the blew on hi his t shirt blurt r The courts court's decision following the n conclusion of cot arguments Is j t today a |