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Show i Tears Wet Face of Prisoner on Trial for His Life at i .Salt Lake SALT LAKE, May 21. Steve Mas-lich, Mas-lich, -with tears rolling down his prison paled cheeks, protested to the jury before be-fore which he Is being tried in the Third district court, his innocence of the murder of Marco LauB. He declared de-clared that he was "broke" and had no friend in the world with the exception of Thomas Ramage, his attorney, who was appointed by the court to defend j him. I The break in demeanor occuiTed when Mr. Ramage, after eliciting a denial de-nial of having committed Ihe crime charged against him, invited Maslich to tell the jury anything he knew that might throw a light upon the killing of Laus. Maslich said that he probably could prove many things but was without with-out money to procuro the attendance I of witnesses. Later, under cross ex-I" ex-I" amination he admitted that the state . had called in for examination, at the j state's expense, every witness whose if; names had been given to the officers h by the defendant or his counsel. f Maslich denied the story of Tony Massura to the effect that Maslich and ! I Tony Oblizalo, who' has been convicted convict-ed of the Laus murder, invited Massura Mas-sura to join them In a plan to rob I Laus of his money. Massura testified I that Maslich was at his house at the 6 time and had held a conference in the B hallway two days before the murder. 1 Maslich denied having paid Massura $160 in gold late on the afternoon of i the murder. He claimed that if Massura Mas-sura had told the truth that it would have coincided with his own story of r having been at theCUassura house all during the afternoon on which the 4 murder was committed. |