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Show .U'RViSKCnRBD IX NEGRO MURDER CASE Special to The Tribune. OffDBN", Jan. I. ---After exhansUnv: all their peremptory challenges, the attorneys attor-neys engaged in the trial of CInreice Lrnsl, charged with murder In Hie first degree, finally agreed upon a Jury In the 1 1 district, court late this afternoon. The introduction of the state' t; evidence will begin tomorrow morning. f F.rnsL Is charged with tho murder of I Charley Staples, a member of ids nice. The shooting of Staples followed a quarrel quar-rel over the possession of a. small amount 1 of money which both claimed to have r won In a. card game played In Ernst', ! cigar store on lower Twenty-fifth streot. After a violent quarrel, Staple;; left the 4 place and later In the evening: ho and . 'JSrnst met nt Twenty-tlfth street and I I '.Lincoln avenue. "Without u. word Ernst fired. Thi ball entered the, victim's abdo-' abdo-' men, causing his death a few hours afterwards. Xo weapon of any kind was found on Slaplcs's porsou after the sliooL-j sliooL-j ing. |