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Show OMER WOODS IS HELD TO TRIAL h Salt Lake Man Must Stand Trial for Murder of His Wife SL,T LAKES, .Tan. 2 7 Following preliminary hearing esterday before 'It-. Indue Kred W. Crockett, ' 'rner B. Woods win hold to the district court to stnnd trial for murder In connection con-nection with the death of ln wife ICaryeCta Wood. whoso Inelneratcd body wa found upon a bed in tho Pauline apartments jnnu;ry 9. Woods was remanded 'to the custody cus-tody of the sheriff at the completion of thfl lvarlnp: and was placed in the county Jail without the privilege of ball Apparently the verdict of the rour' was not a surprise to Woods si he did not seem disturbed, imt maintained tne same Rtolcal expression that hus char-nctcrlzod char-nctcrlzod him ever since the crime wee discovered. Miss Tee l-e Woods, the dnutchter of the murdered woman or.l ..fcwif.X m:n nlsn maintained it ST composure, although, apparently, ."he , did this with difficulty. Bhs was at her fathers side during practically all I of the hearing POIJ r i Sfl INT) Evidence was offered yesterday fore-, noon by Chief of Detective- Riley M ' Bccltstead. Detective J. A. Egbert and , C. N. Thaxton, a clerk In the Bchramm-Johnson drug store at First South and Main streets. The detec-tives detec-tives recited the stories as told by Woods in explanation of the crime on i tho afternoon and evening of the murder, mur-der, bringing out that these were not Identical In the two Interviews "no was held shortly after 2 o'clock In the afternoon and the other at uhout S o'clock In the evening. Mr Thuxton positively Identified tho defendant as the niun to whom he had sold a bottle of benzine between be-tween 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon and lL' .TO o'clock In tho afternoon of .lan-uarv .lan-uarv 9. He said the sale hud been impressed on his memory because men 'seldom buy benzine and it Is seldom bought in quantities as large as what I he termed a short quart. He said that m first offered Woods a pint bottle. out mat oons aici ui vttm..-u . ger bottle, a ho had considerable cleaning to do Mr. Thaxton further wrapped tho bottle as he said hoi wrapped the bottle for the d 1 rid a n 1 and as other witnesses said It had. been wrapped when found in the Woods bathroom, following the murder, mur-der, except that the paper at the top had been torn open. No DEFENSI OFFERED. No defense was offered by Thomas i llanuige. counsel for the defendant j Neither Woods nor his daughter took, jthe stand. The court visited the scene of the crime yesterdav during the noon recess re-cess and experimented with acoustics in the apartments of the Pauline, In addition to Judge Crockett. County Attorney At-torney Arthur E, Moreton and his as-istant, as-istant, Wallace B. Kelly. Mr. Ram-age Ram-age and the defendant went to apartment apart-ment No. A In the Pauline, where the charred body of Mrs. Woods was found early the afternoon of January 9. iThere were also several wltneaesfl present and testimony was received there from Mrs. F. V. Kaege. who WM 111 In apartment N'o. 3. Just across the hall from the Woods apartment, and I from Mrs. Katerine Malone. who lives I In No. 7. but who was with Mrs. j Kaege In No. 3. Both of these women wom-en testified regarding the placing of the blind or shade over the window 'in the door leading to the Woods apartment. Their testimony tended to ilwv that it was placed there late the night of January T Mrs Kaege also testified to having passed Mr Woods ll.. . I..II .. V. n Mkm i.nlnrnir I he apartment at about 12:45 o'clock the dav of the crime. " RELATES CONVERSATION. John Malone of No 7, Pauline apartments, was the first witness called call-ed yesterday morning He testified regarding a conversation he had with the defendant after the tragedy in which Mr. Woods save his version of tho affair. C II. Feddlngton of the National ( aaualty company testified to selling two assurance policies to Mr Woods, one for $5,000 on tho life of Mr Woods and the other for $3,000 on the life of Mrs. Woods Both policies, he said. illed for double indemnity in case of death in a burning building and under some specified other conditions, ay. death in a railroad wreck, the insured in-sured being a paid passenger. This meant he explained, that, had Mrs. Woods's death occurred in a burning building Mr. Woods would have received re-ceived double indemnity, or 10,000 GRUESI nil' Ml RDI It The murder of Mr?. Woods occurred occur-red in her home in No. A Fauline apartments at about noon on lanuary 9. the bodv being discovered In a charred condition when the fire department de-partment answered a cull there at about 2 o'clock that afternoon. The evidence advanced during tin- hearing tended to show that the woman was killed before being placed on tho boa where tho charred body was found When the bodv was found there was a gag In the mouth, two towels tied about tho head and neck, the hand, wore tied behind the back and tho feet had been tied. When tho alarm was given and before tho apartment could tie entered. Woods opened the front door from the insldo and staggered stag-gered out with an electric light cord dangling from his feel. He said his feet had boon tied together in the bathroom He said two burglars entered en-tered the apartment and overpowered him. He said ho did not know what they did to his wife After Investigation Investiga-tion Woods was charged with the crime of murder in tho first dKerc; on which charge ho has been held over to answer in the die trie t court |