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Show JURY CONVICTS SALT LAKE MAN IN MORALS CASE Defendant to Appear for Sentence on Saturday Harry E. Erlckson, 40. musician, Thursday awaited sentence la district dis-trict court aa a charge of earnal knowledge of a ls-yeer-old Salt ' Lake City girl on February T. Ho will ba aentenoed on Saturday. A jury of eight men found Erlckson Erlck-son guilty late Wedneaday after deliberating de-liberating approximately (our hours on evidence pro and eon of tho crime allegedly committed aa tho child rode with Erlckson ostensibly, to a Sabbath svenlng moating. Defendant Convicted By Ita verdict the jury found categorically cate-gorically that Erlckson did not take the child to church and did not attend church that evening himself, that ha drove with her to a location loca-tion near Forty-fifth South and! Thirteenth East streets, where tho morale offense waa allegedly committed. com-mitted. After a day of tensely dramatlo testimony and strongly worded summation arguments by counsel for the prosecution and defense, the taleamen returned their verdict at p. m, to Judge Haxbar, M. ' SshlUer. ''' Wife Testifies ' , Besides Erickaon'a denial that ho had ravished the girl and his statement state-ment that ha attended the evening church meeting, but after meeting granted the girl'a request that aha be allowed to ride with him to Sugarhouse, where ha Intended to seek mechanical eervlcee oa his automobile, the defenee Introduced teatlmony from Mrs, Erickaoa and her lister, Mies Florence Davison. The dsfendant'a wife testified concerning Erickaon'a physical dls-abilltlea dls-abilltlea for the purpose of showing it would have been impossible for the act charged to have bean committed com-mitted by the defendant. Mies Davison swore under oath that abo saw Erlckson In church and epoke to him on the evening ef the alleged . offense and at a time when tho prosecution claimed Erlckson, with the child victim, waa elsewhere. Alibi Contradicted Testimony ef Mrs. Vera C Boer-era, Boer-era, who presided at the church meeting In question; Rulon B perry, an officer of the church, and N. O. Morgan, a speaker at the meeting, waa introduced to refute the alibi set up In the defendant's case. The three key witnesses said they did not see Erlckson at the church; that they knew him and ware seated at points where they could here seen the defendant had he been seated where he claimed ho waa. |