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Show SHE IS H1SJ3ETR0THED. Pretty Mna Osgood Admits That She is tho Fiancee of un Alleged Horsetluef. THE STATEMENT A EELUOTANT ONE She Blushes and at First Refuses But is Ordered to State Whether She is or is Not. The trial of Willian Fenstermakcr forstealing horses is in progress before Judge Zane and a jury in the Federal court. Fenstermaker, together with William Marshall and Sara Read, was indicted on the charge of stealing two horses from John F. Hicks and Frank Sickles in Box Elder county, on tho night of September 10. Read and Marshall pleaded guilty to tho charge and each got a year's sentence in the penitentiary yesterday. Tho court and jury proceeded to try Fenstermakcr, when he put up a plea of innocence. One of the most interesting witnesses this morning was Miss Nina Osgood, of Stocktop, Utah. She is quito a pretty young woman of perhaps 20 summers, and sho is in love with tho accused horsetluef. Sho appeared in the court room in compauy with au aged mother. Nina was very neatly dressed in a gray suit and a spring hat. Sho appeared a little nervous when the prosecuting attorney commenced to cross-examine her, but while she was on the stand for the defense sho evidently tried to show by her own .evidenco that Fenstermakcr, who by the way is a young man, was in company with her on tlio night of tho alleged horso stealing. steal-ing. Nina got along very nicely until tho prosecution asked her: "Are you engaged to bo married to the prisoner?" Nina colored up aud looked haughty. "We object to that question, as it is immaterial and irrelavent," interposed tho lawyer for tho dofenso before the blushing young woman could collect her thoughts. "Tho interrogatory is necessary to show that tho woman is testifying in his behalf." "The witness may answer tlio question," ques-tion," remarked tho court. "Yes," was Nina's faint reply to the query as to whether or uot she intended to wed tho young man. Tho defense vested its case at noon, and in the afternoon tlio prosecution put on a number of witnesses in rebuttal rebut-tal testimony. Among them were Read and Marshall, for whom tho court issued is-sued an order for them to testify in the ease. If tho arguments aro concluded this afternoon the case will be given to tho jury for delebcraliou. |