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Show SUSPECT EieiEUIEl W A CDROKH'S JURY Finding Is Thnt Richard Lawrence Law-rence Did Not Cause His Wife's Death. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN", Dec. 2D. Notwithstanding tho testimony of ono witness, who declared that she heard Corlnno Lawrence, tho negro woman who was found, dead. In bed Saturday morning, cry out for mercy tho night beforo and beg her husband not to kill her, tho coroner's jury conducting tho Inquest over tho dead body returned a verdict late this afternoon exonerating Richard Lawroncc, tho woman's husband, of having been Instrumental In any way In causing her death. Following this verdict. ver-dict. Lawrence, who has been held at tho city jail slnco last Saturday, was released. re-leased. The inquest, which began this morning, consumed tho entire day boforo Judgo J. D. Murphy In tho police court room. A number of witnesses who wero with tho deceased on Christmas day, and who heard her outcries whon she reached homo that night In an intoxicated condition, were examined by County Attorney Nathan Na-than Harris at the morning session. Ono of the women, Maggie Kennedy, declared that the blows which 3ho heard wero so heavy that they caused the house to shake, and they wero followed by screams from the woman, in which she begged her husband not to kill her. All of the negro witnesses agreed that tho woman was drunk Christmas day and that she was addicted to tho habit of using intoxicants to excess. It was also proven that she suffered from a weak heart and had on several occasions been attacked with hemorrhages of tho lungs. This fact, with the drunken spell, is believed be-lieved to have determined the jury In Its verdict. Lawrence took tho witness stand in tho afternoon In his own behalf and gave- his version of tha affair. Ho denied some of tho statements made by witnesses who preceded him, but neither affirmed nor denied boating his wifo Christmas night or at any other time. The jury concluded, after hearing all of the testimony, that tho woman came to her death from exposure, which, added to her unhealthy condition and the drunken spree, was tho causo of death. |