Show SLAYER lA I IS FREED OF f fM M MURDER Wielder of Crude Wea Weapon Pon P- P on of Death Wins na LibertY Liberty Lib Lib- erty on Defense Plea Victim Started Fight P Positive sHive testimony that P. P W W. Wil Wll Wilson Witson Wit Wit- sori son trl tried d to drag L. L A A. Wilkinson over Ver the bar of the M M. M. M saloon caused Judge E. E A. A Rogers today to find Wilkinson Wilkinson Wil Wil- kinson inson not guilty of f murdering Wilson Judge Judg R Rogers gers decided Wilkinson struck the fatal blow in self defense Wilkinson proprietor of the saloon at South West Temple killed WI Wilson Wll- Wll son a blacksmith with a club during an an alter altercation on August 26 i. i t tRobert Robert De Boud was th the principal witness for the defense De Boud said Wilson was drunk and creating a disturbance that he called Wilkinson who was acting as bartender bartender bar bar- tender vile names and the latter ordered him from the place H He refused refused refused re re- re fused to go then then seemed to change hl hi hi mind and reached across the bar aa u if to sh shake ke Hands fiands with Wilkinson He seized the saloon man and Bt started to drag him over the barIll bar Ill ni bite your our ear off the blacksmith blacksmith blacksmith black black- smith said ac according to De Boud It It was was was' then lh that t Wilkinson reached f for r his Cl club b and struck the drunken man man over the be head He sank to the floor and nd di died d almost immediately Other witnesses were Charles Cannon Cannon Cannon Can Can- non Ray Lahham Arthur Merrick George Lally and John Dingman |