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Show WITNESS TESTIFIES HE WAS INTIMIDATED Testimony ln Bernstein Case Ruled Out by Court Further Hearing Is Continued In the hear ng on the order to show cause whv Isaac Bernste n should not lose his 1 juor 1 cense tor operat ng a poolroon m connection w th h s sa loon at Seconl South and State streets the c ty sought to show ye terday that ts pnnc pal w tness had been intimi dated and driven out of town Tho w tness is B 11 Morr s who testif ed to having made a bet n Bern ste n s saloon ou laces un at Bait more He w on the f rst bet he sa 1, but tho next day he made anothe bet and was told that even ng that h s ho se d d not win The follow ng dai he learned that the horse he had bet on did not even run Morr s was b 0 ght back from Po catello by W C Zeese a detect e n the police department He told ot hav g been approached last Saturday by two men whom he knew as freq enters of Bernstein s place and warned to get out of town before the hear ng was held The warning was repeated w th the threat that he would have h s head knocl ed off if 1 e d d not leave Tr ghtened he took the tra n tor Po qatello The city sought to enter test mony concerning the alleged intimidat on but the court riled it out on the gro nd that there was noth ng to sho v that B rnste n had au3 thing to lo th it The hear ng went over for several days yesterday |