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Show MANSLAUGHTER CASE is cmmor trial Echo of Automobile Accident Acci-dent in Which Two Were Killed Heard in Court. " i In the ease of Jesse Gesas, charged j with involuntary manslaughter, a re- j suit of the death of Edward Davis, November No-vember 13, VJlo, from being run down by an automobile which Gotas was ! driving, t j i rt was begun yesterday morn- . ing before Judge C. W. orse of the tlurd district court. A jury was obtained and three state's witnesses were, examined lief ore adjournment ad-journment Tit 5 o'clock. In the information filed against Ciesas, it is alleged that he was driving a car at a high rate of speed, past a ! street car that had stopped at the inter section of Fifth East and Seventh JSuntli streets, when his car struck and killed Edward Davies and fatally injured his fiancee, Miss Gladys Mitchell, an instant after the two had alighted from the street car. Davies was pivked up dead and the young woman was taken to the emergency emer-gency hospital at police headquarters, f here she died without regaining con- sciousiiess. The two were to have been j married the day following the accident. Drs. 0. L. Shields and II. B. yprague j and Undertaker E. M. Qnalt rough test i- J lied on the stand yesterday as to the nature of the injuries sustained by the victims of the accident. In his opening statement to the jury, E. O. Leather-wood, Leather-wood, district attorney, explained that s the damage sustained' by the front of the car from tiie impact of the bodies of the vk-tims would be submitted to the consideration of the jury as evidence that the automobile was traveling beyond be-yond ihe speed limit at tlie time that they were struck. It is understood that the defense will contend that the automobile was not being driven beyond a reasonable rate of speed when the young man and the young woman were struck and that it did not pass the street car while the street car was standing. At the time of adjournment hist evening, half a score of witnesses, who have been subpoenaed for the trial were called before the court and sworn. They were warned not to eut'M- the court 'room during the progress of the trial until called and not to confer con-fer among themselves or witli anyone as to thi; nature of their testimony. |