Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-24 | Page 13 | Jury Expected to Get Murder Case on Friday

JURY EXPECTED TO GET MURDER CASE ON FRIDAY Freeman Declares He Cant Can't Remember Fatal Events Trial of Albert L. L Bud Freeman Freeman Freeman Free Free- man 19 charged with first degree murder in connection with a two- two death traffic accident last May 1 I will likely be concluded late Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day Third district court attaches indicated Thursday as the trial was recessed for Thanksgiving Testifying in his own behalf the youth who heretofore has been considered considered considered con con- by authorities to b be 20 years old said he is but 19 and declared that his memory of events which led up to the fatal crash in the block on South State street was a complete blank Two Killed I Driving a car he allegedly stole a afew afew few ew hours previous at South Main street Freeman crashed into another mother automobile killing Mrs Stella McHenry Edwards 36 of Murray passenger in the second car and Brady Wayne Vayne Poulson 18 I Leland avenue Defense and prosecution attorneys rested their sides of the case late Wednesday indicating that Judge Herbert M. M Schiller will start delivery delivery de- de livery ivery of his instructions to the 12 man jury shortly after court reconvenes reconvenes reconvenes recon recon- venes Friday at 10 a. a m. m With the left side of his lips drooped to a narrow triangle Freeman Freeman Freeman Free Free- man spoke his testimony indicating that hat his memory of events became hazy after he and Poulson consumed consumed consumed con con- part of a bottle of wine while attending a carnival near Ninth South and Main streets The defendant said he recalled vaguely of being in an automobile which was not mine and driving into Coon Chicken inn on Highland drive near Twenty-ninth Twenty South street In Ambulance The next thing he remembered Freeman testified he was in an ambulance at the Salt Lake general hospital I at the county jail I Ivas vas was taken in hi and out of the cell numerous times It was a bed- bed lam am Nobody seemed to care whether I 1 was in pain or dying I couldn't stand it I 1 told them I 1 didn't know now nothing I was telling the truth ruth then and I am telling the truth now said Freeman