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Show WOULD GET FREEDOM m FOR MRS. DOUGLASS ! : - i ; Before Judge . Armstrong yesterday, j, James Ingebretsen, attorney for Mrs. , M. I. Douglass, who la charged. with an attempt to murder Mrs. Mart'n, en- , tered a motion to cuash the Information Informa-tion on the'ground that the court has no Jurisdiction; that ho cotnpalnt has been filed against the accused and that ' she has had no preliminary hearing. s . It was charged In the City court that Mrs. Douglass assaulted Mrs. Martin In a rooming-house last December,' with a deadly weapon.- ' On the charge she t waived examination and was bound over. When the information reached the District court she was charged with an attempt to murder. The statute provides that the charge against a prisoner can not be made a i more serious offense unless the testl- . mony at the preliminary hearing justl-. -flee it. As there was no preliminary hearing Mr. Ingebretsen argued that his client had never been arraigned In the Police court on the charge contained in the information. Judge Armstrong will decide the case March 24. "j" ' |