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Show JAP MURDER TRIAL IS NOW ON In tho criminal division of tho district dis-trict court this morning, a Jury was selected In the case of the Stato against George Kawshata, Japanese, charged with the killing of a fellow Jap, November 25, 1910, in Ogden. Following are tho Jurymen: J. M Carl6on, A. T. Wright. B. G. Blackman, R. A. Slater, Louis Bltton, J. W. Wotherspoon, O. A. i-ttrmley, John Larltln, Lorenzo Ward, Henry Wees-ler, Wees-ler, J. B. Cawley and Arthur G. Barrett. It required the entire forenoon to solect the Jury, no testimony being introduced in-troduced until the afternoon session of the court. It Is oxpocted that the case will not be long continued The Information alleges that the defendant, de-fendant, on November 25, had an altercation alter-cation with a fellow Jap, Kanze Okana, and that Kawshata shot and killed Okana, and that the killing was dono premedltatedly and with malice. It will bo remembered that tho killing kill-ing occurred in a Japanese boarding house on Twenty-fourth street, between be-tween Grant and Lincoln nvonues, the morning following a wrestling match between a Japanese and an American. A bet of some kind had been mado between the parties to tho tragdy, a dispute regarding the terms of tho same arising tho next day. A fight ensuod. tho result being the death of Okana. According to the testimony given at the preliminary hearing, there wero no eye witnesses to tho killing, except ex-cept tho principals. Ho stated that Okana attacked him with a revolver, firing two shots at him. Ho succeeded succeed-ed In getting possession of the weapon wea-pon and fired a ball Into the head of .his assailant, killing him Instantly. Ho claimed that ho shot the man to save his own life. oo |