Show MURO MURDER SCENE ELOQUENT l Of HARD Men Who Found Body of Laus Testify at Trial of Nick Warden St Storrs Co Confirms firms Story ACTS pertaining to the find finding F FACTS ing of the body of of Marko Laus in a s small all canyon near the peach orchard on the state prison farm vin in Sugarhouse on the evening evening eve eve- ning of ot Sunday Sunda August 3 1919 were brought t out today by a state witness at the trial of Nick charged with the murder of or Laus H. H E. E Marshall an inmate of the state prison at the time of the murder and now paroled testified that he and Jude Snider another Inmate pf of the the- prison who has also been released from the prison since the murder were proceeding up the canyon on the afternoon afternoon after after- noon of August 3 1919 1910 for the purpose of oC opening a a gate In an irrigating ditch when they came upon a scene which had Indicated that a life Ufe struggle had taken place The witness also aso told of how several feet up the canyon and partially hidden in a clump of oC small trees they found the body SCENE OF FIERCE COMBAT How the weeds eeds and the ground surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding the spot were covered with blood and how a considerable area of ot weeds the had been waIl wallowed owed down as asIf asif asif if by a person rolling roiling about over them w was s told by Marshall The The witness testified that he and Snider did not touch the tIie body but ret returned immediately immediately imme imme- I to the prison and informed the warden o of what they had found WARDEN TESTIFIES Warden Varden George A- A Storrs of oC the state prison testified that he had been Informed informed In in- formed of or the murder by the two tva trusties Snider and Marshall He stated that the time was about 6 o'clock Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day evening and that he A. A E. E L Lewis and W V H. II Lee who were visiting at athis athis athis his home and the two prisoners prisoner went to the mouth of the canyon In an auto auto- mobile The testimony of or the first witness witness wit wit- vit- vit ness was corroborated with respect to lo lothe the location of ot the bod body and the condition condition con con- of the surrounding territory Mr Storrs Storrs' stated that the body was covered a blanket t to ab about tl the e 11 knees and nd that the feet and lower le legs s protruded from under the shrubbery I where the body had evidently been dragged V The hearing in the case of George I charge charged l with intimidating ting a stat states state's s 's witness witness-In in the case Is scheduled to continue this afternoon in n j Judge Harold M. M Stephens' Stephens court |