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Show The Hobson Trial ' The prclhnlnaiy hearing of Win. I Hobson, who killed James Lynch In a I box car on the O. S. L., came oil be-' foie Justice Thomas X. Smith Tiiurs-1 day morning at 10 o'clock. After hearing hear-ing consldeiablc evidence Hobson was I sent to jail to await trial. Shcrlll Belnap, of Weber County, testified that Hobson had confessed to him that he had killed Lynch, but said it was in self-defense; that the two wero In a box car on Nov. 2 as It was being hauled over the O. S. L. Hobson was seated on a bench of a pile of lumber In tho car when Lynch sat down beside him. Hobson told him theie was not room there and with that LynclT began to go through Hobson's clothes as if ho wero after his watch. Hobson moved away and after some bad language on the part of Lynch he made as though he was going go-ing to pull a gun from his pocket. At this Hobson pulled his gun and fired. Sheriff Rlgby of this county, and Wm. McCarty, iard clcik at Ogden for the D. & R. G. also offered testimony that was not dan-aging In any sense. Alfred Paisons, brakeman on the freight at the time Lynch was killed, testified that he saw the men at Cache Junctlonand talked with Lynch there. As he was passing over the train just before reaching tho place where Hobson said he shot Lynch, he saw the men In the car and called to them. Ono hollowed back to him that they were all right. This rather conflicts with statements made by Hobson. J. II. Barker, Jr. testified that he sold some cheese to Lynch on tho evening of the killing, and thatat that time Lynch said ho had but fifteen cents. Hobson was not put on the stand, and his attorney, Winters of Pocatcllo, asked that he bo discharged. Con-tiary Con-tiary to the expectation of some who heard the evidence, Hobson was sent I back to jail. |