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Show MISTAKEN IDENTITY IS pEFENSE'S PLEA SALT LAKE, June 10. Mistaken identity was tho plea of Attorney Samuel A. King, couhcel for Andrew Haravgls. wlien the state rested Its case In the Scott murder trial in Judge Harold M. Stephen's division of tho Third district court yesterday. Mrs. Nellie Scott, widow of William H. Scott, who is alleged to have been murdered by Haravgris. returned to the courtroom yesterday afternon Tuesday afternoon, at the close of a gruelling examination on the witness stand, Mis. Scott had fainted and had been carried from the courtroom. Physicians, who were summoned, stated stat-ed she had suffered a serious heart attack and should rest. Paler than at previous court sessions. ses-sions. Mrs. Scott was in her usual chair directly behind District Attorney F. S. Kichards," when court opened yesterday yes-terday afternoon. Her eyes were dry and she seemed too tired to follow the testimony as she has done at pre- vious court sessions. According to prosecution testimony, Hnravgis and Scott fought after a quarrel over Mrs. Scott's affections and at the conclu-1 sion o the fight, .witnesses say, Haravgisflred the shot which fatally wounded Scott.' oo |