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Show MANHELD FOR TRIAL ON MURDER CHARGE I JUOEE ORDERS DETENTION OE OGDEN WOMAN I Mother of Several Children to Face Accusation in District Court Here I PHYSICIAN TESTIFIES BARKER WAS POISONED Poice Who "Shadowed" Woman After Husband's Death Testify , Mrs. Laura Barker was ordered held for the district court yesterday by City J Judge D. K Roberts to stand trial on H a charge of first degree murder in H connection with the death of her bus- J band, Charles Lee Barker.' Mr Harker died on July a of ar-Ben ar-Ben leal poisoning, according to the testimony of Dr R. E. Worrell, the H Attending physician, who has been the tor the state at the pre- H liminary hearing which occupied the H greater part of two days. It came to H a close with continued session yes-terday yes-terday afternoon The prosecution H directed by County Attorney J. B. H ftfrs. Barker Is the mother of ten childrtn, according to Captain Burk. H .The captain quoted Mrs. Barker as raying that she abandoned a husband H i and seven children In Texas. She as H the cornmon-law w lie of Harker, Cap- H i tain Bark said, and bore him three H children, two boys and a girl H R. H Wootton, chief criminal depu- : ty sheriff, and Robert Burk, chief o: H detectives of the Ogden police depart- ment. were also witnesses ystrday. H in Worrell testified that he had bH the Harker home on three oc- H I easlons prior to the removal of Mr LLLB j Barker to the hospital. H symptoms DESCRIBED, He minutely described the symp- H toms of Mr Barker's illness and tolci of the nature of the medicines pre- sssH scribed H During cross-examination the do.- LLH ! tor admitted that arsenic could be fLI administered with a hypodermic s - iH I tinge for treatment of a venerial dl's- LLH eas. . of which he said Mr Barker sSsH , was suffering. H Arsenic taken into the system bv LLLV I this mean- might, Under certain con- LLH dltions. enter the stomach, the doctor LsH At the conclusion of the cross-e.- LLI : animation by Attorney George Halvei - LLH ' son for the defense. County Attor- LLH I ney Bates asked the doctor if h, I Opinion regarding the nature of Mr LLH ,!"rk"r s di ath h id changed b: re fl ,son of th.- various questions he hael iLLi I been asked. 1 DOCTOR t ONVTXCED. Dr. Worrell replied that he re LL niained firmly convinced that Mr iLI ' Barker came his death as a dlrei I LLLl ) result of arsenical poisoning LH Deputy Sheriff Wootton Was the ggsH ; next witness He told of eonvrsations LH .that took place between Mrs. Barker LLH himself and Captain Burk, prior to LH , the woman a arrest. He testified that ggggfl a Mexican named Espinoga had been ggggfl paying marked attention to Mrs Bar- LLsH J ker hefore her husband died. Mrs LLH ' '""ker, the officer slleged, admitted ggggfl . that Bsplnosa had suggested that she LLH poison her husband Mrs. Barker h LH asserted, also admitted having said ggH hat she would like t0 poison her hus- LH band, but told tho officer, he tesilfled HLf that this utterance was made In a gggfl Playful mood and that she had no (intentions of committing such a deed LH WOI LI BE BETTEK off. j The officer also substantiated Or. LLH Worrell's remark that Mrs. Barker LLH ! said she would be better off If her LsH nUBbond was dead 1 I Mrs Barker at first denied pur- LH Chasing an) poison, he said, but later admitted having pun based the ..r.-enic for the purpose of poisoning rate H When asked if she kneW how to ml-. j : the poison so that rats would eat it she said no. but that Rsplnosa had LLH showed her how. At the conclusion Of ootton's testimony. Captain Burk of the police department was called I by the defense. He corroborated testimony given by Deputv Sheriff It was also brought out during the course of Wootton's testimonv that . Mrs. Barker entertained a man named George" on the three nights follow- ' , ing the funeral of hor husband. The man, It Is alleged, remained at th. I Barker home until 5 o'clock In the I morning. Search for him by the po-1 po-1 lice has been in vain. Mrs. Barker has also realized, it was stated, on at least one insurance policy of her husband's Just hefore the court adjourned j Judge Roberts recalled to the mind of Dr. Worrell that the doctor had I been guilty of contempt. of court by I being late Tuesday afternoon "Don't let It occur again," the judge said. |