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Show REHARKABLE CASE ON TRIAL AT MOAB Moab, April 17. The stage Is now set for the third and concluding act of the notorious Turnbow case. Twelve men will this week decide the fate of Marvin Turnbow, who faces a charge of murder In the first degree. On December 24, Turnbow, without warning, shot and killed Clyde Bailey ds the two stepped from a train at Thompsons. lie declared that Bailey had stolen the affections of his wife, and had ruined his homo and that, having tried every" peaceful means ol ending the Illicit relations between Bailey and his wife, nothing remained but for him to kill Bailey. Two months later Mrs. Turnbow shot to death her three little children and committed suicide, leaving a statement state-ment declaring that life had become a hell for her and that her children had better be dead than to live with a stain on their llveB. Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock will , commence the trial of Turnbow in the district courL A jury will decide .vhether or not TurnbUw was justified in killing Bailey. Incidentally, it will decide whether a guilty conscience drove Mrs. Turnbow to commit the wholesale butchery of her children, or whether suspicion cast upon an innocent inno-cent woman was the cause of the desperate des-perate act. The trial will be the most bitterly contested in the annals of Grand county. Turnbow is represented represent-ed by Attorneys Samuel A King of Salt Lake City and C. A. Robortson of Moab, while District Attorney J. W. Cherry and County Attorney Knox Patteison will appear for the state. The entire w.eek will be taken upon :n the trial of the case. The charge against Turnbow was rcrmerly murder in the second degree, but this was withdrawn this morning by the state and Turnbow was reai-raigncd reai-raigncd on a charge of 'first-degree murder. He waived preliminary examination. ex-amination. .The information was filed in the district court and the defendant defend-ant pleaded not guilty. Tho case was set for tomorrow morning. Judge A. H. Christensen is the presiding judge at tills term of the district court. Today's session was taken up chiefly chief-ly in the hearing of probate matters. The caso .of the state against James Payson came up for trial and as the defendant had no counsel the court appointed Attorneys Robertson and King to defend him. The trial of this case will come up later Payson Is charged with having beaten James Jackson to death with a stove poker, the alleged crime having been committed com-mitted at Nelson. |