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Show Brother Takes Blame in Trial of Sister I MARYS VI LLE, Cal., Jan. 31. Fred- erick A. McCormick, formerly of Des Moines, Iowa, testified in the trial of his sister. Mrs Gertrude Wilson, charged with the murder of Charles Brown, a rancher, that he shot Brown. McCormick also charged with the murder said he had accused Brown of intimacy with Mrs. 0. J. Howard, one of McCormick's sisters and that Brown denied the charge. Later, after a dispute, dis-pute, McCormick testified that Brown fired a revolver at. him, the bullet entering en-tering his cheek, and that he obtained a rifel in a shed and shot Brown. It is the contention of attorneys for Mrs. Wilson, that McCormick fired the fatal shot and that Mrs. Wilson fired shots into the body of Brow.n I after death had occurred. ! oo |