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Show ; I BER DAUGHTER'S i ' ' Missing Witness in the J Rice Case, Says She Understood Sho ' Would Not Be Wanted 1 TIN Saturday. I Her Abstuco Resulted in tho Discharge Dis-charge of the Prisoner on Trial ifft for Murder. jmfTlTHIN' two liours after' John Rice was discharged for his al-mKi al-mKi JcSe(1 complicity in the murder pft of Fred Beutler,- Mrs. Emily juKjIur.cey, the witness whose nbsencc re-tHfjIW re-tHfjIW 'n lbe summary release of tho fBpMeadant, was found at tho home of lKl:r daughter and taken to the court- ,j S Mrs. Muncey, it was auegea, nau hfrard several conversations between 1 nKke and her husband which corrobo- rated the latter's confession and tended rj f to connect the former ' with the mur-. mur-. f der. When she was called to the stand ,-i jjand failed to respond the prosecution VjTvaE helpless. A deputy sheriff went "H.H Jto the house on Third South where the iiroraan had been rooming, but could . j 3 get no trace of her. When he made his anrH jjreport It was intimated by the State 4 -lhat sne n:ifl been ,1,lluced to Iceep j jaivay hy the defense. The attorney for -( I the defense hotly denied the Inslnua- illon. The fact that she was not there & $vas, however. In the opinion of the r'M 'Jcourt. enough to warrant the discharge ecli t "f the prisoner. j In the meantime Deputy Sheriff An-a An-a idrew Smith had gone to the home of .gjjjij jjjlrs. Muncej:'s daughter, Mrs. Maltese, 4 ion EiRhth street, and there found the s mining witness. The old lady was Jury much surprised when the bench Mnn i warrant was served. Vim n "I had no intention of hiding-," she declared. "I was told that I would not be wanted before Saturday morning, and I thought I would spend the afternoon after-noon with my daughter. I left word that J could be found here if Uncalled Un-called for me." Mr. Smith took I he woman before Judge Morse, to whom she repeated her explanation. Judge Morse mildly censured her for her negligence and permitted her to go. Tn almost any Slate but Utah the confession of Muncey would have told heavily against Hlee. but the State statute requires Unit the guilt of a defendant de-fendant in a criminal action must be proved Independently of the testimony of an accomplice, the latter being accepted ac-cepted only as corroborative. There is nothing which prevents- the using of Muncey's admissions to convict him, but there i.s no disposition on the part of tho District Attorney to carry the matter further, and the Beutler case will be relegated to oblivion. |