Show FOR THEIR LIVES I Lynch and King on Trial For Murder of or Colonel THE LINES LINE OF DEFENSE t INDICATED BY y ATTORNEYS ATTORNS IN INTHE INTHE THE H SELECTION OF OP JURYMEN JURY 1 Seven Se jurors Juror jU lied had been chosen ye yes ye at the th close e of or opening scene in the trial tr of James Jamea 1 Lynch and Rob Robert crt ert Crt L L Kin K King accused a of murdering God Godfrey Go Godfrey frey wWI wisH white attempting to hold holdup up UI the Sheep Sp Ranch Rach a Commercial Co street t gambling bosses ho w over ever which better known about at town a aTe as i iThe C The Te Coonel presided pr Incidentally those who watched wah the tb proceedings proceeding c body losely thought they tb could cl detect front from the questions question put to by the prisoners attorney atory that an attempt v would be b made m to t prove that If It was not I Lynch bullet ballet that ended the gamblers ers I Ilife life and that tbt the defense defee e of King ICing lay 1 along the th line of an alibi The Jurors I a and sworn were William See Seeley Susie ley gardener West e t I Sf 5 on i South Thomas Thomaa Stokes farmer from Draper I T Ti n W McAllister ill SR South Eighth E Last East t Arthur Winter stenographer te Church Ii of Jesus J t of Saints 3 3 North Third West John B Shorten mason 1 17 West Vest Filth Fifth FJ fth North orth Bernard plasterer residing outside the city O sear ar Evans 85 I 5 West North Temple lemp e The ease case a e was set t for hearing before fore Judge Tu Norrell but his hie honor baa has been under the weather for loi M a few days dar and did c id not feel equal to the strain of a It protracted trial and Judge Booth Boot was wa culled cu lied to i preside re Story of or the Crime TIme shooting affray in which the are ap said HId to have figured oc QC at about abut 2 In the morn niece morning mornIng ing log of the of September Colonel Irot two tet or three players and the attaches of the house were still r ing in the Sheep Ranch when the door opened and two men IDen par partially Pa Ily masked by handkerchiefs stepped in followed by a third Ac According cording ruling to the accounts given by men will ill be lie witnesses It in the trial the thein Intruders intruder in t rude covered the inmates with re reI I I IH rH and ard ordered them to hold bold up tin t b tends Dds The rho howe tomo had bad been robbed in a elm sim ilir Un r manner m only a few months before rid nd 1 the colonel declared he be would not 1 aught raught napping again a He immedi immediately grabbed his hie gun and opened lire fire on un 1 his hl assailants Th The Te first finn shot missed it 1 its 11 mark and one of f the intruders I u bred red a snot shot which resulted in the death is 1 r I S I DEFENDANTS AND ATTORNEYS IN THE MURDER CASE cf Pro less lens than hours hour ir It tr r Despite hi his hili wound the preen j i fIr r tired again bringing down own Lynch v ith ih a scalp 81 wound near the temple i 1 i scar rr of which is still visible through iSo th prisoners prisoner hair Another shot haul hod been fired which M untied Ernest Sidell an employee of or ort ti t house and It vas nas as thought tb the bed Jf 3 t I fame came from flom Lynchs pistol until ox X showed that only one cham 1 or had been emptied Lynch was ar ari i sf n red d at nee more but the other two seen men C Clues led the police ponce to BUS sus p Pt Ou t King who is now on trial with his bl j i w IW prisoner The Defense 8 of Lynch The Tho Th question put by Attorney Will WillI I l r Wanless Vanless who ho with Frank C Lee Las defending the prisoners th that t some somei i t ho he h more attentive spectators s In the i urt room t thought hough t showed the tuck tack 1 defence would take to clear dear Lynch I i r i L lie he u barge harK of murder was w Enn though you thought that one i I the defendants defendant elt was guilty of some me ole with the one ODe charged v mId ulli that make you hesitate to acquit Turn if yo 0 had a reasonable doubt that thai Ji It ia W was guilty of ot th tm the crime charged This was put without fall fail to every i i nn nir man and the knowing ones nod nodi i and whispered t one another that M t 1 Wanless was evidently prepared to toi i 1 Jut nt t u up a plea that though Lynch L had hadt I II I t 1 tempted robbery and had tired fired one Mi ph ht t it was as not his hit bullet but one from 1 he r revolver of ot his companion that It hal hail been expected that Kings ICings s de def f 1 use would ouM be an alt alibi and these the our sur rn so leers looked wise we when the defenses lawyer begun began asking the question Will WID Try to Prove Alibi Would the fact Cart that the two de tie defendant H are arc on trial together and have bave f I the th same me counsel lead Jed you to form f rm tilt hit impression that they the were together gather t rethel on the morning of ot Sept 11 or I yeu u from considering each earls case I on its t wn own 0 merits ta I There was a noticeable difference In Int t thu it bearing of the two prisoners as ast they hey t sat listening to the tedious pre preliminaries of their trial Lynch though Ins his lis chances of escaping the gallows are arell 1 ll by fur far the blacker of the two showed little concern In black coat standup I cullar and suit ed trousers tro lie he sat satI looking I r king sleepily ly ot out of his hint small entail 1 deep et eyes H as though the whole proceed proceeding ing i Inca 1 were WErt nothing more than a m slight ur re to him King K on the other hand band about in his hip chair twisted his blonde Monde moustache mou nervously and was WU evident I lv ill III at ease King KinK affects an lir at I which Is foreign to his corn com He lie wears wear a Ii natty suit of olgay o gray his hI hair In ill the middle and his h J hands ar arc slender and delicate Brother Drother of Dead Man Here Hare Among th most interested ted of oC the v s Ia ds 1 George torge Prow Ie a broth broch ur r of th the 1 nut i l gambler wh h had come com IO from C Cs to bo be b i r sent nt sit t the trial Hf Hr ni i vi H II hack back in the court lUIt t and divided bw his time tune between I I listening to the t proceedings and study lug inc the tIme faces of o the two to men accused of pf killing hi his hiM brother At the Ute opening ope n of the session County Attorney 1 aham F 10 Putnam who I with Assistant A County lunty Attorney Van Vait cott ott is ill conducting the prosecution had the information tion changed so Si that the name of the murdered man read God Godfrey I frey Pro e instead of George Geore Prou ee |