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Show Damaging Testimony Given in Juvenile Court Murder Case at St. Louis ST. LOUIS, May 6 Ursula Erodes ick, 16, on trial in juvenile courf; here charged Tvith first degroo murder for killing her stepfather, Joseph F. Woodlock, in April, 1919, had made repeated threats against his life, according ac-cording to the testimony of Mrs. A. It. Pearson, a new witness for tho state who took tho stand late yesterday. Under cross-examination by counsel for the defense, Mrs. Pearson denied that she had quarreled with Ursula and had voluntarily offered to appear against her. Sho declared, however, that at one time Ursula lived at her homo and slic had been "robbed by the girl." This is the third time tho girl has trials occurred in both previous instances. in-stances. The girl asserts sho shot In defense of her honor. In October of 1916, then only twelve, sho shot and killed her father, Thomas P. Brod-erlck, Brod-erlck, but was exonerated by a coroner's coron-er's jury on testimony that she fired in her mother's defense. |