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Show uu TELLS FALSEHOOD TO GET EVIDENCE Salt Lake. March 6. On tho wit-1 wit-1 ncss stand in police court yesterday, during the trials of Mrs. A. H .Ewlng and R- M. Park, charged with practicing prac-ticing medicine without licenses. Miss . Iola Francis, a corsot demonstrator, ' freelv admitted that she was employ-1 employ-1 ed by tho state board of medical ox- aminers for the sole purpose of seek-I seek-I Ing treatment at the hands of the dc- j fendants and thus gaining evidence 1 on which to prosecute tbera. Miss Francis was the only witness ( called by the prosecution In either case Following hor examination the cases were continued until Saturday 1 morning, when arguments will be , presented. I The point to ho placed before I Judge J. M. Bowman for decision In- j I volves somo interesting hypothetical ' conpectures. Among other things tho court will be asked to determlno whether the manipulation of a person's per-son's spine for the replacement of an : Injured vertebrae or tbe reduction of Inflammation or a sprain, or the application ap-plication of a lotion for the same purpose, pur-pose, constitutes practicing medicine without a license. V In the case of Mrs. Ewlng, Miss ' Francis testified that she went to the defendant's offico January 2C and asked to ho treated for a wrenched bad:, received In a railroad wreck, sho said. Tho witness admitted under un-der cross-examination that sho had never been In a wreck and that there was nothing tho matter with her back. "Then why did you go to Mrs. Ewing??" asked tho latter's attorney. "To got evidence on which to prosecute pros-ecute her for practicing without, a 11- I cense' the witness replied. I ''What you told her was false, then?" sho was asked. "Certainly," was the reply. At tills point Judge Bowman took a hand in tho examination. He drew from tho witness that she was in the employ of tho state medical board and that she visited the office of R. M, Park, the othor defendant, for tho same purpose of gaining evidence. |