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Show I Joe Data Gets Preliminary Hearing Judge E. E. Dudley 'sat as committing Judge at preliminary . hearing of Joe Data charged in " a complaint with first degree murder, held at the City hall on Wednesday. Data shot and kill-ed kill-ed Tony Santa Ferrara at the Highland Boy after returning from the Columbus Day celebra-" celebra-" tion in Bingham. The arresting - deputy sheriff, John Knudsen testified as to his visit at the Data home after the shooting of . Tony Santa Ferrara, also the voluntary statements made to T the, deputy at that time. Dr. W. N. Cain was a witness who .. testified having received a call to the Highland Boy to visit the victim and also made statements as to the probable cause of death. The defendent on the stand related re-lated the particulars in conpec- " "tion with the shooting who said in part "After returning from " --Bingham Ferrara, himself and . wife returned to his home, and after a short time he (Data) retired re-tired to his bedroom, leaving Ferrara and his wife in the living liv-ing room, while Data was asleep Ferrara made advances to Da- ta's wife, which advances were resulted by the woman. Data on hearing the scuffle arose . from his bed and secured an automatic au-tomatic revolver and in the struggle which ensued the re-' re-' volver was discharged wounding Ferraro so badly he died shortly short-ly after. Mrs. Begliniu Deltrude testified as to Ferrara coming to her home after the shooting and complained Data had shot him. Mrs. Joe Data, wife of defendant, defend-ant, who was the only witness of the shooting testified as to the - intent of deceased and the ad-V ad-V t vances he made. . At the wish of County Attorney George Cannon the case was discontinued for a , week. Wednesday Nov. 29th. The trend of defendants testimony testi-mony might induce one to be-f be-f lieve that the defense intends to invoke the statute of the penal - code wherein r the "Unwritten : Law" is a definite law in this state. Attorney A. C. Cole of Bingham looked after Data's de- , fense. Mrs. Rose Preloran acted act-ed as court interpreter. |
