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Show Mrs. Southard Refused Bonds Twin Falls, Idaho Motion of W. P. Guthrie, counsel for Lydia Meyer Southard, seeking admittance of the murderess to bail, was Thursday morning refused by Judge W. A. Bab-cock Bab-cock in the district court. The motion mo-tion was presented to the court last Monday and was based upon the statement state-ment of counsel that evidence adduc-. ed in the preliminary trial in probate court contains nothing to warrant holding the prisoner without option of, bail. Summing, up his denial of the bail petition, Judge Babcock slad : "I do not wish it to be understood that, when I deny this application, I Infer that the defendant is guilty, or thttf; innocence cannot be shown on trail. This court passes only on testimony before be-fore the court, and on thin alone Is the opoinion predicated and the application appli-cation denied." Judge Babcock said he considered presumption of guilt great. |