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Show Rice Freed of Murder H Charge at Hearing H SALT LAKE, Sept. 1 1 E. C Klcc. aHH v ho shot K A .Meyer to death at the 9h?I Roy hotel on the afternoon of Septcm tJHUcnl ber 2. was discharged last night at Mnjatj the conclusion of hla preliminary hear- Hmk9 ing. The hearing was before City ffiffa iiidci Henry '. Lund, who found that HcXrcl the killing had been committed in ianRi defense. B i in th.- w itness stand, Hire related iasVS the circumstances of the fatal shoot- BssWQi Ing. Tho men quarreled two hours ILaKa prior to the affair At 4 o'clock h Nfl returned to his room nt the hotel and MEga Meyet was seated just within the door. Uttta When Klcc appeared, Meyer sprang at FSIk! him, shouting he would kill him. Rice i-igs said he backed out of the room, hold- !? ing the door shut with hoth hands, then with his left hand while he drew $BV his istol Meyer, ho said, succeeded in opening the floor and had a pistol BBcai aimed at him. RlCfl fired the fatul rwUE 6hOt which entered Meyer's face tin- M 1 1 r i the left eye and entered his broln. HEg |