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Show DORR TO CLAIM SELF-DEFENSE Salem. Mass., Feb. 2.r. The case I of the state against William A Dorr, areiiFed ot the murder of doorse B I Marsh, was Closed toda and the opening op-ening speech of the defendant s ooun-j ooun-j sel in Heated that an attempt would bo made to establish that Dorr had I shot the aged man in self-defense The lino of defense had not been dis- c'oserl before "The jury may take as true the n,flonco thai Dorr came east, that ! Ihe bullets which killed the Lynn: man came from his (Dnrrsi revolver,! ani that the revolver was held in his1 hands when the bullets sped and' kiHe-l Marsh," said Dorr's attorney. 'Counsel assumes that the district attorney will rlalm this to he first dfgre murder because It was premeditated, pre-meditated, but the jurv may fin 1 the defendant innocent because hp acted in defense of his own life or thoucht tha he was so aetlnp " |