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Show WOII 10 SHIELD FORMER 18810 !Mrs. Harriet L. Berry Says She Will Not Appear as State's Witness. Special to The Tribune. OGDEX. Dec. 7. Declaring that she would refuse to talk even if placed on ; the witness stand by the state, Mrs. Har-! Har-! riot U Berry, victim of the alleged murderous mur-derous assault by her former husband, : Frank G. Berry, last Saturday night, an-nounced an-nounced her intention today of taking no part in his prosecution. It was the first attempt of the authorities to obtain a statement from the woman rnd her firm stand was finally modified only to the ex-, ex-, tent of desiring to consult an attorney, i according to Sergeant O. H. Mohlman, : acting chief of police, who had the interview in-terview with her. Mrs. Berry has been gaining strength rapidly and it is now believed that she will entirely recover from the bullet wound through the upper right side of her body. Although she displayed bitterness bit-terness ag-ainst her former husband shortly after the near-fatal shooting, Mrs. Berry now refuses to make a statement concerning" the probable cause of the shooting and also fails to give a reason for her silence on the subject. "I will not make a statement and T will not be a witness against Frank," : was Mrs. Berry's first assertion when 1 questioned at the Dee hospital today, according to Sergeant jIohunan. "Even if you put me on the witness stand will refuse to talk." . After considering the matter as presented by the officer, Mrs. Bern- said she would reach a decision de-cision regarding a statement as to the cause of the trouble after she had consulted con-sulted an attorney. Serjeant Mohlman said he would immediately im-mediately subpoena the woman as a witness wit-ness for the. state in the proposed prosecution prose-cution of Berry, there being no bar under un-der the law to prevent her from testifying- because of the divorce which she obtained ob-tained more than two years ago. |