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Show COUJtT DOORS LOCKED AT TRUSKETT TRIAL ' I INDRPRNDRNCE. Kan.. March 14 Such a crowd waa present when eeurt opened In the trial of A. A. Truakett. chanted with kllllnsr J. D. 1. Neely of IJms, O.. that liidae J. M. Flannelr, who Is presldlrur. ordered ' the doers of the courtroom locked. Ureal' Interest In the trial la being shown bv farmers of this county. where Truskett. the seventy-year-old defendsnt, Is prominent.- Ths oouaty attorney announced his witnesses today would continue to testify slona the line of ths state's theory that Truskett deliberately planned the killing to "net even with" Neely, whose company, com-pany, the Wichita Pine Line romeanr. had Instituted proceedings to declare II-leaal II-leaal aa oil lease that .Trnekett owned. After the objection of the defense te her testimony hsd been overruled. Mrs. Mary Lapoon, associate proprietress of the Pastes hotel, where tba shooting occurred, oc-curred, took the stand. She asld ahe heard shots from the rear of the hotel and aaw Neeley fall. ahe toll how Neeley died without uttering a word. During Mrs. lappon's testimony Mrs. Neeley was In tears. Truskett sat etolld. unmoved, but following every gesture and expression of ths witness with close attention. |