Show I I CHARGE MURDER IN fiRST DEGREE AGAINST ERNST The Preliminary Hearing Comes to End Prisoner LocKed Loc ed Up for Trial Trial OGDEN May fa 27 Murder Murder in the first degree will wi be the charge upon which h Clarence I Ernst must face a 1 jury in in the district court cout as a result of tho the prelim I mary inar hearing hEarin which closed before Police Polo Judge Murphy last ni night ht Judge e Murphy or ordered the prisoner committed to the tho custody of Sheriff Sherif Wilson at the conclusion of the tho testimony offered b bj by bythe the state Ernsts Ernst's attorney offered no testimony at the hearing and sought to have e havethe the case a so dismissed claiming that the evidence was not sufficient to connect the tho prisoner with wih tho the shooting In den the motion to dismiss Ju Judge e M Murphy in describing tho the manner man maii- nor ner in which the n negro ro Staples was killed said laid Ernst shot him him from the side as he Staples was turning into tho the doorway Staples was not advancing in ing ingon on the tha defendant as the tho course of the bullet which passed paled through h the theman's theman's theman's mans man's body will wi show The w witnesses examined today offered offered of of- no additional facts to the te k killing ln than those already made malIe public at the tho coroners coroner's inquest and sail the first day of the tho preliminary The charge against Ernst looks look to be a stron strong one ono Some of the witnesses told of tho the gambling game ame which was bein being played in l' l Ernsts Ernst's s 's place a short time before the shooting in which Staples won a small sum sum lum of money but hut which he lie was prevented pre pre- vented from taking bv by b bone one of the other other oth oth- from tho the table er di- negroes grabbing it r anti and making his way out of the tho room When hen nt Staples returned to learn lear why the pot he had won had been ben taken he I IW W was ordered from the place by hy Ernst A After fer notifying the police that Staples I was creating a disturbance anti and ane while the officer officer- wits was searching for him the tho two men mon met and Ernst fired fred No weapon capon was wall found on the tho dead deat nl negros negro's ros ro's body except a small jackknife unopened unopened unopened un un- un- un opened in ii il his bis left If trousers pocket |