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Show nunoN jones UP FOR TRIAL Case Continued Until Monday Mon-day for Court to Pass Up-un Up-un Objections to the Testimony. Tes-timony. The preliminary examination of the ease of the State, against ..William R. Jones, Jr., former superintendent of the County Infirmary, on a charge of embex-Iement, embex-Iement, was commenced before Judge Dlehl this morning. ' ' The complaint, upon which the warrant was issued, charges Jones with having taken nearly 800 articles from the In- - flrmary. The articles range from two broken tumblers, valued at 1 cent, to a wardrobe valued at $15. County Attorney! Parley P. Christen-sen Christen-sen represented the State and Attorney Soren X. Christensen the defendant. The first witness called for the State was John C Mackey of the Board of County Commissioners. County Attorney Christensen asked the witness for the substance of a confession which is alleged al-leged to have been made by the defendant. defend-ant. Counsel for the defendant objected and the objection was sustained by the court. . Mr. Mackey was excused for the present, but may be called later. .The next witness called by the State was County Auditor I. M. Fisher. County Attorney Christensen bad a large pile of what was said to be county vouchers before be-fore him. He offered one W 'the witness and asked him to. Identify it as one that bod been paid by the county. Mr. Fish9r did so. . The voucher in question was attached to a bill from the Nebraska Furniture . company and was against Salt Lake county, coun-ty, the amount being $21. The bill attached at-tached to the voucher stated that the amount was for a steel bed, $6, and a wardrobe, $15. Counsel for Jones objected to the voucher, for the reason that it did not show that the goods bad ever been de- - livered to the Infirmary or that Jones had ever had them in his possession. For. thirty minutes Christensen and Christensen not brothers, no relation-argued relation-argued the point, at the end of which the court announced that he would take the question under advisement and would render his decision Monday morning at 10 a. m.. to which time the case was continued. |