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Show JL sm CHARGE IDE . 'i JGISI CONDUCTOR IBY A GIRL The preliminary hearing of the case wf the State of Utah vs. H. L,. Bra-shear Bra-shear was started this morning before Municipal Judge George S. Barker The defendant is charged with havln had carnal knowledge of Yolande Jew-'cll, Jew-'cll, a 14-year-old girl whoso mother, Mrs. Florence Jewell Is the complaining complain-ing witness in the case. The offense is alleged to have been committed on the night of January 19th. Witnesses examined before an adjournment ad-journment of court was taken, were f Yolande Jewell, Amelia Laucirica 5and Joseph Laucirica. The prosecution prosecu-tion was conducted by County Attorney Attor-ney Joseph E. Evans and Attorney "W. H Reeder Jr. acted as counsel for the defense. Miss Jewell was first called to the stand. Her story was to the effect that she met Brashcar, who was a conductor employed on a local trolley car, last June, while riding to the Dee hospital on his car. A few weeks ago she moved, with her parents, Into the Brashear neighborhood on Ogden avenue, near 30th street. She was a student, she said, of the Plngree school and the defendant, within the last few weeks, had mot her. They had also met surreptlously several times near their homes and had become be-come quite friendly. On January 11. the witness declared, Brashear took her to a lower Twenty-fifth street restaurant and acted in a familiar manner. He also made an engagement engage-ment to meet her, she said, on Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon. This engagement was kept, the witness stated, and her further testimony was a substantiation substantia-tion of the allegation made in the complaint, com-plaint, the witness stating that Bra-shear Bra-shear accomplished his purpose in the Royal rooming house on Wall avenue. On cross-examination, the witness admitted that she had willingly received re-ceived the attentions of defendant and falsified to her mother in order to prevent the latter from learning of bik them. She also contradicted several I of her previous statements, admitting, f I among other things, that she could not ' I remember what had been said at the y I restaurant. Her testimony as to the I alleged commission of the crime, how- s H ' ever, could not be shaken. : II Mrs. Laucirica testified that Bra- 1 Ijjtlto shear and the girl came to their room- fvhfc ' ing house, the Paris, on Wall avenue u y ' and tried to engage a room, but she d I ' refused to rent one to them. Mr. Laucirica said the defendant asked him the previous evening if he could h get a room at the Paris on the night H p of the 19th, but was answered in the Htfj negative. ?j The case Is being continued this Htfr afternoon. |
