| Show STATE HINTS DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE Mrs Jensens Jensen's Actions After Murder Described by Witnesses MARSHAL TAKES STAND Tells of Noting Blood on Mattress Mattress Mattress' Mattress Mattress' Mat Mat- tress tress' in Home Special to The Telegram MANTI July 18 Testimony 18 by which it is believed the prosecution will attempt to show that Mrs vadel Ivadel B. B Jensen on trial for lor first degree murder in connection with the slaying of her father Andrew N. N Bjerregaard on April 12 sought to destroy evIdence evidence evidence evi evI- evi- evi dence of value in the case was presented presented presented pre pre- by states state's witnesses before Judge Dilworth Woolley and a jury in the district court here her Monday Monda C City t Marshal Chris Beck of Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- raim testified that he had observed observed blood alood spots on a mattress in the Jensen Jensen Jen Jen- sen sea home Mabel Anderson of Nephi a granddaughter of the murder victim victim vic vie tim testified that while at the home honie of Mrs Jensen following the murder she saw Mrs Jensen lift the cover and tear out a portion of a mattress later burning it When the tri trial 11 recessed today the state had presented evidence nce from 29 witnesses witnesses- It is believed that this nearly exhausts th the list of prosecution prosecution tion witnesses and that the state will soon rest its case The co courtroom was vas crowded again most of the spectators being from of town TESTIMONY SAME John Jonn M M. Johnson testified to the same facts he had offered in the trial of Mendon Draper convicted of the killing and sentenced last week to serve a life lite sentence Dr Draper per was the asserted suitor for Mrs Jensens Jensen's hand handover handover handover over the objection of ot her father This circumstance the state contends led to 0 the struggle in the Bjerregaard home which resulted in the bludgeon and torch murder to which the district district dis dis- dis- dis attorney charges Mrs Jensen was an accomplice Marshal Beck said when he called at the Bjerregaard home to investigate investigate investigate gate the killing he found a twisted bit lit of paper which appeared to have haic been seen used as a stopper for the openIng opening opening open- open Ing of an oil can It was aflame on the Bjerregaard bed He said that when he ic searched the Jensen home two days after aUer the murder Mrs Jensen sat all the while on the center of a a couch in the room Later when he heWiS was WiS in the home investigating further he tc discovered that a portion of the mattress had been torn out He said he ic also atso observed two small blood spots on the mattress cover CANT CAN'T CRY ANY MORE MOREIn In talking with Mrs Jensen at the time ime Marshal Beck said that she told I him I cant can't cry any more Im I'm all cried out Then she said he testified that hat only she and her small daught r could prove Mendon Draper innocent The state slate offered a bar of iron taken from rom a stove in the Bjerregaard home homen in n evidence Marshal Beck testified that hat it was from the stove and that he had examined the thc stove carefully Continued on Pare Pace Two I ala I I I I I I L I I t I STATE ST ATE HINTS OF Continued from Pits Pan One at the time of his hl Investigation an 1 that he failed to discover an any blood bloodstains stains on it as had been testified bloo toa to t i the Draper hearing Henry Peterson repeated his hi test tej mony as given at the thc Draper trial tri tes to the effect that he had hd passed t UN lb BJerregaard home hom on the night t o a the murder and that he had observe obere smoke issuing from the house the fol id lowing morning te f. f Miss Anderson Aderon said that h when shi si went to the thc Jensen home on Apr 15 at the request of Mrs Mrs Jensen ih eb poured out the contents of a patti filled tied gallon falon jug Mrs Jensen told b her he hershe she said that it contained stale bee and was unfit for consumption sh said sid that the following day she h hn ha seen Mrs Jensen tear out a of the mattress matress from beneath beneat its lb CO coer cov cover er remarking that a stain on It i wa wi perhaps chewing chewIn gum gm She said Mn Mr M MI Jensen burned the portion porton of the rna mal tress she had removed m NOTICES BRUISES 1 While Mrs Jensen was Wa dressing dresing e 0 ethe on the day of the Bjerregaard Bjerregaard funa funeral Miss Anderson testified she had obI observed ob ob- served on Mrs Jensens Jensen's left leg twI tw two bruises both very ery dark One leI lef-leI was wa relatively rel reI small smal and just jut below the knee while the other ke was as large as coffee cup and was located on her herI left lct hip Miss Anderson tt testified led that at thai that time Mrs Jensen had told her that thai tt Mendon Draper had been very good to her during the winter She goo ahaI also aha testified that she had told her that thai that he had been with her at ather her horm homi all the time from from 7 p p. m. m to 1 a. a m. m m or on the 11 night ht of the murder o J. J Louis Larson Larsen chief hie of defense couri coun sd sel objected to Miss Andersons Anderson's coun test mony on the ground that it i was wa irn irn- and Mr Larsen Lsen entered an ac material The Thc court overruled the ob exception j I J |
