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Show DR. PAYNE SET FREE BY ORDER Of COURT The trial of Dr. Edward S. Payne, who was accused of causing the death of Miss Alice Ferguson by means of a criminal operation last August, came to a sudden end in Judge Armstrong's court late yesterday afternoon. At the conclusion of the State's evidence. Judge Powers, attorney for the defendant, defend-ant, moved that the Jury be Instructed to return a verdict of not guilty. The Jury was so Instructed and returned the verdict without leaving the box. The motion of Judge Powers was based on lack of evidence on the part or the State. Whet, the case went to trial yesterday morning. District Attorney Loofbourow announced that he had been unable to find Mrs. Anna Ferguson, mother of the dead girl, who was the State's most important im-portant witness. Her testimony, as given at the preliminary examination, was read, muck of it, however, being stricken out on motion of counsel for Payne. The State had but few other witnesses and Judge Powers Insisted that a conviction could not be had on the unsupported evidence of an accomplice, accom-plice, which the evidence showed the mother to be. |