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Show TESTIMONY OF GtRl. j HORRIFIF.I JUROP3 Cleo Helen Barker Tslls if Her Relations Re-lations With Lonj Biach Millionaire. Los Angeles,, Sept. 10 George H. Bixby, tho Long Beach nilllhiiniie who is being tried on tho cnirgj of contributing to the delinquency of Cleo Helen Barker a girl of 19 today was obliged to henr from her lips a statement of their relation which caused the Jurors to avert tho'r faces. Tho nec3sslty of fu nts-Jlni; n certain cer-tain description caused (hti girl almost to fa'.nt and tho prosecutor hurried to her with u glass of water. Blxby's heavy rod (ato beenmo purplo and ho sennned tho Jurors nn clous) Thoro wos a dramatic moment when Miss Barker having nlnudy testified that Bho Is 19 was shown n trans script of her testimony beforo tho grand Jury In which ah3 stated that me was 23. Sho admitted that tho had so testified. "Then you lied?" asked tho nttornuy for tho defense "Yes I lleO, ' sho admitted "You know it was morally wrong nnd that you wero coaimUiiig perjury?" per-jury?" quired tho atto'uoy. "Yes" sin cried, "1 told that lie to savo my parents from knowing I was a bad girl. I camo to tho cl,ty against tholr wlBhos. They thought I was working, thnt I was being honest Thon this camo up. I was called beforo be-foro tho grand Jury and I thoaght thnt If I Hwore I was moro tVm 21 nothing would bo dono to mo and my parents would nover know about it.' Later, her paronts, who aro leally her fostor parents testified, Tho f alitor alit-or Is n Cl.iremont ratrno' the mother moth-er n gray haired woman, Tholr on-trnnco on-trnnco into the cbbo was pathetic Mrs. Ircno Mario Iirown,-Lovy, a former Inmnto of tho Jauqull apartment apart-ment nnd ussorlato of itelcn Barker, took tho witness stand In tho afternoon, after-noon, but tho defenso argued against tho ndmlsslon of her testimony and woro still nrgulng when tho caco nd-. nd-. Journed until Monday. Court was adjourned untU Monday when Judgo Bledsoo will rule upon tho admissibility of tho testimony of Mario Brown Lovy, another girl whom Blxby Is nllcged to havo wronged. Attorneys for tho defenso argued that It was not permissible whero a defendant de-fendant was charged with a specific offenso to Introduce ovldencc ns to anothsr offenso of a llko nature. |