Show MURDER CHARGE REDUCED REDUCE 0 IN COURT tills this morning in the city court before judge nels jenson the case of dries charles me keller chaigen charged with mur in the first degree came on tor for preliminary hearing there were lire present a large company of prominent residents of tooele thoele who appeared as character witnesses for the defendant and they bore testimony to his good character as evidenced from the fact that he had been elected to public office upon the representation made it was stipulated by all parties concerned ed that the charge should be reduced from murder in the first degree to manslaughter and defendant then agreed to waive the preliminary hearing and go into the district court on monday ot of next week and plead guilty to the lesser charge this case had its beginning on the ath day of november when the defendant and win mccuistion neighboring ranchmen ranchman ranch men in utah and nevada met just over the box elder eider tooele thoele coun tyline ty line and got into an altercation over a heifer hard words are alleged to have been spoken and threats were made whereupon mckeller shot and killed mccuistion Alc mckeller Keller then telegraphed deputy sheriff J R olsen telling what had happened and and asking him to come out and get the defendant which was done and he has since been occupying a cell in the county jail from the action taken today it appears that the case will be stripped ot of all its luridness which is a good thing and will come to a quick and quiet close |