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Show YOUTH PLEADS SELF DEFENSE 1MOCHK. Nev.. Au. 19. HMD "It v.ns hu; life or mine." Tim:; did Kenneth Carter, on the witness stand today, explain why lie killed his partner, Herbert jhilne tit Logan last December. Carter and Joseph ' M or lock, Jr., :u e he in;; tried on the charge of inurderim "Hulsr. A wccond charge of murdering Joseph Morlock, Sr., j pending. j Carter followed young Morlock to I the stnnd late Monday. He will testify ihc greater part of today. j Morlock, Jr., admitted he and Carter killed Hulse. He described how he laid a cap over Hulsc's mouth to check the blood, how they laid the body in a stable and then, hours later, dragged it into a manger. The Ohio youth said he came to Logan for clothes and for partnership partner-ship money, in which he had an in terest. After killing Hulse, he and Carter fled. They didn't know anything any-thing about "self defense" as justification jus-tification for homicide. They simply knew they had killed a man and felt, whatever, the motive, they were in danger. Carter's attorney, late Monday, i described Carter a3 a garage mc-1 mc-1 chanic, married three years and a partner in the mining enterprise In which Morlock, Sr., and Hulse were the leaders. |