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Show I WOULD SHIFT BLAME FOR LIBEL ARTICLE Drectors of Bnte Pacer Say Stenographer Ste-nographer Was Responsible for Story About Pufahl. BOZEMW Mont Dec 12 That Clarence A Smith mayor of Butte re s gned the editorsh p of the Butte Socialist So-cialist on October 7 last and had noth in to do with the publication on Oc tober 17 when the alleged libelous ar tide regard ng Otto Pufahl was pub lished, was the testimony given in the tr al of the Butte mayor here today by directors of the company that pub lishes the paper These witnesses said that M ss 4my Edmunds a stenographer n the off ce of the mayor acted as ed tor of the paper until after the elect on in No vember when Lewis J Duncan for merlj mayor of Butte took the editor sh p The trial is the result of a pobhea t on n the Socialist reflecting upon Pufahl dur ng the oc upat on of Butt bv tho in 1 tar Pufahl bought a dr nk f o two sol 1 ers n a aloon The defense rested alter Major Sm tb testif ed. |