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HICKMAN TRIAL OPENS JULY 9 8 Engineer Pleads Not Guilty to Charge of Murdering Louise Jeppesen SAN FRANCISCO May 24 W- W The trial of Millard l Hickman was ordered to lo open on July 9 as the marine engineer appeared before Superior Superior Su SUo Su- Su Judge Judg Louis II H. H Ward today I and entered a plea of or not guilty to a charge sla Miss MEss Louise of pf slaying Jeppesen Jeppe- Jeppe sen en of Ogden Utah 0 Hickman is accused In nn an Indictment Indict Indict- ment merit of strangling the girl whose body was found in Golden Gate park here on the morn morning In of ot Ma May 13 Defense Attorney Harry McKenzie II and Assistant District Attorney P. P JJ Mullins announced they had agreed on the trial date McKenzie then obtained permission from the court to examine all aU evidence evi dence in the hands of or the police The evidence e includes the dress worn by Miss Jeppesen when she was slain the strands of hair allegedly found foun in her hand at the time of the autopsy autopsy au- au au 1 I topsy and statements of or various wit wit- wit wit-I I nesses I McKenzie 1 said the defense plea plea would include the theory that Miss 1 Jeppesen was attacked by some other person after aller she left leU a party part at atI I Hickmans Hickman's lick mans man's hotel and the testimony mon of alibi witnesses I |