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Show CORPSE FIGURES IN : EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL A. Ol Knott, charged with having em-betzxled. em-betzxled. '$200 from Mrs. Tufts of .this .city, was given his preliminary hearing hear-ing before Judge C. B, Dlehl this morning: morn-ing: 'The case was taken under advlae-meiit.,'' advlae-meiit.,'' J, ' . , ' " ; . 'Knotf was an .employee -of E. H. Brundage, - an- undertaker of Dilloo, IMont. A -daughter of Mr. Knott recently re-cently died at Dillon and Brundage was Instructed by Mrs. Tufts to send the remains re-mains tor this city foe burial, and have a man accompany them. Knotf was sent with the body and presented the bill for $200. which Mrs. Tufts paid upon Knott's representation that be wa- Brundage's authorized agent -The money was not . paid by Knott to Brundage, It Is charged. ' ' Knott's arrest on a charge of embes-slement embes-slement followed. E. H. Brundage, the Dillon undertaker,' who had been subpoenaed.' sub-poenaed.' on the , case, testified that 'Ktiott had no authority to collect the amount. - ' . Tse case was taken under, advisement advise-ment until Monday. ' In the meantime It is possible that a new complaint charging Knott -with grand larceny will be CleSt . V. |