Show DEFENSE GRILLS TWO MO WITNESSES Hopes to Show Gun Found Near i Murdered Mans Body I Was His Own PLEA IS SELF DEFENSE DETERMINED EFFORT EFF RT TP DIS DISCREDIT DISCREDIT DISCREDIT CREDIT STATES TESTIMONY 4 t 4 N 4 4 The plan of or the defense In the trial 4 of Steve Marovich charged with the 4 murder of Mike lIke is being 4 4 gradually outlined by the cross 4 4 examinations of the states witnesses es 4 4 will be one plea made to 4 the jury The attorneys attorns for tor the de tie defense 4 have hae made long cross 4 examinations of Belich and Bogdan 4 if In order to show shoe If U possible that 4 these men who claim to have hae seen 4 the shooting and to have seen Maro 4 throw the gun alongside Popo Pop i 4 after the latter fell from the i 4 first shot The defense expects to 4 4 prove proe that was carrying ca 4 I Ithe 4 the gun himself and that It fell feU from 4 I 4 his hll hand after atter he was shot It Is for forthe forthe 4 the purpose of discrediting the wit witnesses witnesses 4 4 nesses who state that they the saw 4 4 Marovich throw the he gun near noar the 4 body of that the exhaust exhaustIve 4 ive lve questions regarding locality and 4 distances are being put to the wit witnesses witnesses 4 nesses It is also possible that the 4 defense will Introduce testimony as asto asto 4 4 to the alleged assault on Mrs Maro 4 Ich by b This If It proved 4 4 is an adequate ate plea for acquittal 4 I 4 according tp tg the laws of or Utah 4 44 4 4 4 tf M M M M M M Joe Bogdan and Pete BeUch Belich witnesses for the prosecution in the Marovich mur murder murder der case spent an uncomfortable day yes yesterday yesterday es esterday Before he lie was released by b the closing of or the days hearing Bogdan had contradicted himself and the tIle testimony of Dobra and while Belich had flatly denied statements made by him at atthe atthe atthe the preliminary hearing in Murray last July Jul So far Belich and Bogdan who all aU claimed to have seen the shooting shoot shootIng shootIng Ing have located the place where they stood when the shooting took place at different points along the canyon canon Be Belich Belich lich and Bogdan tell teU conflicting stories as asto asto asto to the details of or the affair alair although tho the statement of these two and and Dobra are so similar that they the could scarcely be told tola apart regarding the main events The stories are told in almost the same words and the defense Is mak making makIng making ing an attempt to show that there has been collusion among them and that the story stor told by all has been carefully re rehearsed rehearsed rehearsed j Austrians Profound Ignorance The usual difficulty was encountered In getting the Ule Austrian witnesses to fix the positions of or the various actors In the th drama and the distances between them The defense went through all aU the known system s stem of linear measurement In the ef effort effort effort fort to find lind some standard known to Bog Bogdan Bogdan Bogdan dan He professed Ignorance of ot the length of an Inch foot yard Jard meter kilometer sol col an Austrian Inch or a a larga which wh eh Is supposed to be the distance from the elbow joint to the fin finger finger finger ger tips All AU that could be gleaned from his answers was the forty to steps which all aU the Austrian witnesses have fixed as the distance between them and the murdered man at the time of the shooting He was finally ordered to take a ste step which was as measured The cross examination of or Pete Belich was continued at the morning session After a long series of questions he ad admitted admitted admitted that the view from front the upper road was obstructed by b a barn a number num number ber of ot houses a tramway tower and tea a large pile of or manure He fixed the po position position position at which he and his three companions com companions companions were at the time of ot the shooting as on top of or the manure pile had previously stated that the four men were in the center of ot the road when the shooting occurred He also aiso fixed the place where the four left leU their dinner buckets In a different position from irom that given by any an of the previous witnesses Physician Is Recalled Joe Bogdan was called to the stand but after atter a few tew questions concerning the themen themen themen men who were at the Highland Boy of office lice flee when he and the murdered man Pop were at that point he was dis dismissed dismissed dismissed missed and Dr F P G of or Bing Bingham Bingham Bingham ham was called He stated that he had been called to attend Mike flke on the of July and that after making a a hasty hast examination of the body bod he lie had ordered it taken to house where the wounds were dressed by b him He stated that the wound in the leg was a graze wound and did not pene penetrate penetrate penetrate the leg He lie also stated that he lie had found no other wounds upon the body except this graze wound and the wound in the head which had caused death He stated that from the holes In the clothing he should judge ju 1 e that the bullet which grazed the Ibe right leg below the knee kne had been fired from behind Bogdan was then recalled to the stand He told toM the same story stor told by and Belich stating that In company com pan with Belich and Lorich he had gone up the canyon camon about forty or or paces ahead of that he had seen Marovich standing In front of his house with a gun In each hand that he had turned at the first shot and had seen Marovich shoot three times and throw the gun from his left hand band to the IsIde side of or the body of On he testified that none of the four men had lind been on top of or the manure pile but that they the were alongside the road at the foot of the Ui pile and that ho he left his dinner bucket at the side of or the road When asked how far it was from the place where he left the dinner bucket to the Io Xo G 6 tun tunnel tunnel nel ho he said It was thirty paces He lo located located located the position of or when the first shot was wa fired tired on the chart of or the scene of the murder and located his own position but feet from the thc point where he said that fell Testimony Is Repudiated Soren X 1 Christensen then put a long series of questions concerning the possibility possibility blUt of oC seeing the Marovich house from above and below and established the fact I that Marovich could not see as he came canle up the canyon until he was close cl Se to where whre the shooting occurred He fixed the point at which the four men stood when the shots were fired as along alongside alongside alongside side the manure pile land and In th the road Mr Ir Christensen then read a portion of or orthe the testimony of Bogdan at the preliminary preliminary preliminary nary hearing at Murray in which he tes tea testified testified tilled to having seen Dick Bray the shift shirt boss sitting In the Ule doorway of ot his house as Bogdan and the others came up the canyon Bogdan denied haying having I having testified to this fact and said that ne no e I had seen Bray just as the latter was go going goIng going ing into the house and that at the same time he be had seen Marovich with the two guns The portion of his testimony showing that ho he had declared he lie had never said saida a word with regard to seeing Marovich with ith the two guns as the four men went up the road was also read He also de denied pled nied this testimony and stated that he had Imd said to his companions Why is Marovich holding the two guns He said that he though was the man who replied to his question by saying that he did not know lenow what Mare Maro Marovich Marecich vich cich Ich was doing with the guns When hen asked to explain the contradictory state statements statements statements ments he answered that he had not un understood understood understood the interpreter when questioned at Murray y John who Is also employed in this case was the Interpreter during the Murray hearing He was then made to show the tile position position position tion of the body bod of after the shooting which he did by getting down on the floor The attempt to get him to fix lIx the distance between himself and Pop at the time of oC the tIle shooting was a failure although nearly nea rl every ever known 1 standard of measurement was tried upon him He attempted to become facetious in his replies to the questions and was immediately reprimanded by b Judge Arm Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong strong He was asked Did anyone anone hire you to testify In this case but he lie strenuously denied that he ho had been given any instructions as aI to the story sto he was to tell He also denied that the story stor had been rehearsed by b Belich Lorich and himself The defense will resume the of Bogdan this morning |