Show 1100 11 OUI-N OUI IN GOlD GOLDON ON N rE PERSO ON Of MA lAU State Proves Possession of Money by Victim of i f Cri Crime e Committed Near St State te Penitentiary P PROCEEDINGS in n th the case of f i- i ithe the state against Nick zalo charged jointly w ith Steve Maslich 1 with Avith the murder of Marko l Laus August 3 1919 in ina m ma a ravine near the state prison farm In Sugarhouse were continued today when counsel for tor the state called to tl the e stand st nd John Sem proprietor of a soft sott drink establishment on n East Second Second Second Sec Sec- ond South street street LAUS HAD GOLD Sem testified he he had accompanied Laus to two of the local banks banks' three or four days before he he was found round murdered for the purpose of depositIng depositIng deposit- deposit Ing 1100 in gold which Laus told Sem he had The m money ney was was was' not deposited because the the b bankers nl ers would not agree to pay pay all gold to Laus upon the closing of his account ac according according according ac- ac cording to Sem's testimony When cross examined by counsel for the defense Sem r st staled staged ted he had told no person except his wife of or making the trip to the bank with Laus until after the murder He stated he told his wife where he was going the day they visited the banks Sem also stated also stated that Laus had been in his place of business between 12 and 12 1230 30 o clock of the same afternoon after atter- after j noon on which he was murdered Herbert M M. Chamberlain cashier of ot j Walker Brothers bank was next called caned by the state state but could not substantiate Sem's story as several instances such I as as' as that described by bv Sem happened d during ri g August at the bank I CAR DISPATCHER TESTIFIES The Tle states state's next witness ss N N. R R. Fox cl chief ef d dispatcher spat h r of the Utah Light I II I Traction company testified as to the I schedules of cars on lines by which the I scene of the murder could have been I reached and the connections these cars made with the lines that run to Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- MurI I ray Sandy and Midvale Assistant I District Att Attorney Baldwin Robertson I Iem em emphasized particularly the time It I would take a car to run from Seventh South Mouth and State Stat streets the transfer I point for cars coming from the prison to Murray lines s to a point near the number South State street i V 1 I Th Thomas m s n Ramage mage couns for the de defense defense de de- brought but out In the cross exam nation that the schedules were based upon time taken at both terminals of I the lines and that therefore any time tims designated at at points between the two terminals would b be purely guess work I on the part of ot the w witness |