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Show GOVERNOR REFUSES TO SURRENDER I YOUNG OGDEN WOMAN TO POLICE OF I I TEXAS; TRUMPED UP CHARGE ALLEGED ! Govornor Bamberger today refused KM rf (o honor requisition papers from the W& ;I governoi of Texas. so Mrs, J. T. Is 111 I'.v,Hh- formerly Miss Margaret Grii: flV : of Ogden. will not be required to go MB i bacK to Ranger. Texas, as a witness JH in a murder case. f In their efforts to obtain Mrs. Lynch fl:-!as witness the authorities had the ' 'grand jury at Ranger. indict her. on a jS clifSP of first degroe murder. ; r Telegrams from Texas proved thai U i the young Ogden woman had absolute i y no connection with the murder 5 I other than witnessing it. -In view of ,lm sovernor refused to surrender ( ' her to the deputy sheriff who came ' from Texas. rKi c : During the hearing held in the gov : crnor's office yesterday, tie action of f?i 'J the Texas authori'ips in charging an li.tG ' innocent person with murder in an at fji L L 1 tempt to obtain that person merely a witness was characterized as an "out rageous proceeding. J Mrs. Lynch, who is a daughter of PhiTip Grill. Ogden business man, and win is widely known in Utah because of her musical ability, went to Texas wor.il months ago to visit her husband hus-band who was in the army. Later she went to Ranger to direct an orcnestra in a theatre in ihe largest hotel of the oil metropolis. O i (be occasion of the murder. October Octo-ber 16. 1019, Mrs. Lynch and a friend were entertaining a party of young wonen friends. Two young men. who had acquired considerable wealth through the sale of oil lands, called They were C. Barnes and Leon Wil-'i on They apparently hnd been drink-1 inT. ! i Later Carl Gallagher and T. Schenk joined the house parly. It was known that Barnes and Wll son had quarreled with Gallugher anu Schenk, so the girls sought to repa-rat? repa-rat? tln pairs. When Wilson's coat was handed to him, il was discovorod there was a pis.ol in his pocket. The pistol was removed But later he said he would leave quietly but he wanted his pistol His promise not to use it seemed so earnest that the pistol was returned. iiui -he failed to keep his promise. Instead he went into the room vhere the other men were. There was a quarrel and Schonk was shot dead. Gallagher lived about one week. Wilson and Barnes were indicted. Mr?. Lynch was a wilness before the grand jury. The indictment or the two was taken as exoneration of her. 5he remained In Ranger lor three weeks and then came to her home in Ogden. It was not until January 15 Ihe grand jury returned an indictment charging her with first degree mui- Yhe telegram which convinced the state authorities of Utah tha'. the chai-ge of murder was a blind to obtain ob-tain her as a witness was from C G. Hazel, county attorney of Eastland county, Toxas. The text of this telegram tele-gram follows: 'I repeat former proposition that if Miss Marjorie will come to my .if fice ' 'and make good and sufficient "witness bonds she will not be arrested, but 1 will lile a motion immediately ic dismiss dis-miss hei case. "Only want her testimony. 'If this is satisfactory wire immedi ateiy and come direct here." J. W. Hague, a deputy sheriff from Te...p. declares that the contention? of ;he Ogden woman are correct I oo |