Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-05-15 | Page 9 | Bit of Suspender and Shoelace Are State's Evidence

BIT OF SUSPENDER AND SHOELACE ARE STATES STATE'S EVIDENCE Watch Found on Maslich l Also Ako Has Important Effect Effect Ef Ef- Ef- Ef feet in Murder l Trial I A tra frayed ed piece of ot suspender tto to to which was ott attached Ched a broken shoestring was Introduced as evidence against Stove Maslich who Is being tried for the murder of or Marco Lauss Jauss in Judge Harold Harold Harold Har Har- old M. M Stephens' Stephens division of tho the Third district court yesterday W W. E 13 chief deputy sheriff testified he found tho the broken suspender suspender der by the body of ot Marco Lauss when the crime was discovered at th the n mouth n n not of ot Parleys Parley's canyon August 3 1919 Tho The prosecution contends the tho shoestring vas wasI was I attached to a wat watch which the murderers stole Tho The watch which was was was' taken from Maslich when he was arrested In Butto Butte Mont promises to be the tho states state's most Important exhibit according t to the tho prosecutiOn n Evidence for tor two da days s 's has been largely concerned with when It was purchased MasUch Maslich ac according according ac- ac cording to tho the opening st statement of Baldwin Robertson prosecutor told lo local local local lo- lo cal officers ho had carried the watch for tor years Paul H Ray R-ay formerly as assistant assistant assistant as- as county attorney testified that 1 told him ho hart had carried the watch two t and one half years John who was brought to Salt SaltI Lako Lake from Elgin Jn Ill stated the tho watch witch I left the tho factory at which ho Is employed em- em plo ed after actor March 12 1918 I Hand n Brit Inert I Marco liolich Bolich who vho stated he had I lived with the tho murdered man at Telluride ride Colo Cob examined tho the watch on tho the stand yesterday but was unable to I state whether it had belonged to Lauss Ho said Lauss had a watch of I the same size and make r Testimony at tho the begin beginning ninE of ot the trial b by W W. E. E Winney that ho saw i one of or three men in a scuffle at tho the thoI I mouth of Parleys Parley's canyon hit a second secondI I man In the face was recalled reca yesterday yester yester- I day when L. L L. L Larson police officer at Butte Mont testified MasUch's Maslich's hand was bruised wh he was arr arre arrested ar- ar r re rested sted at nt But Butte c. c UN SIN flad nd Man nn Larson averred Maslich told two stories sto sto- rice ries of or how go ge got the bruise the first being that ho he had been In ina a fight and tho the second that ho had f fallen llen downstairs downstairs downstairs down down- stairs in a Salt Lake Lako hotel but had spread tho time story ho had been in a n. fight ht so gamblers In Butto Butta would think ho he was ns a n. bad man The Tho letter in tho the possession of ot the state which was admittedly written h by Steve Stevo MasUch Maslich to Mary Massura assura an important state witness has been I translated from the tho Austrian but no not notI I introduced as evidence The Tho letter was delivered by a mysterious woman o oI of I dark darl complexion after tho trial wasI was begun bes I