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Show CHARGES FILED AT NEPHI IN MURDER CASE NEPHI, Utah, Nov. 23 (U.R) First degree .raurder charges were filed today against Victor Steedman, 32, who shot and killed George Wilson, member of a Union Pacific survey crew, in a beer tavern at Mammoth early Sunday morning. County Attorney C. N. Leather-berry, Leather-berry, who filed the murder charge, said it was uncertain when Steedman would be arraigned. arraign-ed. The shooting of Wilson followed an argument at a dance hall which started when Steedman reportedly began dancing with Mrs. June Reed, Wilson's partner. The two went outside and fought with Steedman getting the worst of the battle. Friends of Steedman, who was said to have been drinking heavily, heav-ily, took htm home, but he later got a gun, went to the bar and fired twice at Wilson. One shot struck Wilson in the mouth, and h edied a few hours later in a Payson hospital. Steedman, member of a prominent prom-inent Juab county family, was held in the county jail here. |