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Show MURDERER DEWEY , HAS FORMAL HEARING Sergeant J. H. Johnston, the popular police officer of Salt Lake City, who was shot by Elmer L. Dewey, a half crazed roomer in the Albert hotel in Salt Lake, died last Saturday afternoon. after-noon. The arraignment was made before be-fore Judge J. M. Bowman before whom the formal charge of murder in the first degree was filed Monday. For a time it was not believed that the complaint would charge murder in the first degree, but it was decided to so draw the complaint com-plaint with the understanding that if the evidence submitted by the prosecution prose-cution at the preliminary hearing is insufficient in-sufficient the charge can be changed to murder in the second degree, voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter, man-slaughter, all of these charges being grouped under the higher charge of murder in the first degree. To sustain a charge of first degree murder it is necessary to prove premeditation pre-meditation and malice aforethought. The policemen declared to Willey that they expect to prove all this when the case comes to trial and declared that they will put forth every effort to convict con-vict Dewey of murder in the first degree. de-gree. The funeral services of Serg. Johnston were held Wednesday morning at St. Mary's cathedral. A platoon of police escorted the body from the undertaking parlors to the cathedral and thence to Mt. Calvary cemetery. The Salt Lake city council appropriated the sum of $300 to defray the hospital and burial fees of the dead officer and adopted resolutions of regard for his services and sympathy for his bereavtd ones. |