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Show NOT GUILTY IS WOOD'S PLEA Salt Lake Man Arraigned on Charge of Murdering His Wife SALT LAKE. Keb. 11. When arraigned ar-raigned before JuclR. L H Wight of the Third district court here todav Omer H Woods, charged with murder mur-der in the first degTee for the alleged killing of hl wife, Marietta Wood-, whose 1 1 fries.- body wis recovered from the flames of n burning )"d in the Pauline apartments, January entered a plea of not guilty. Tils asc was not definitely set for trlsl. although both the state and couns-l for the defense Indicated that they were readv for an early trial Woods listened attentively to h , .-.1(1111!.' ..I in- Mlf.T'uHtlor, v hu h ic- i aaea hitn of causing the death of I his wife bv c hoklng. strangulation. ! striking and burning. There was no Hign of emotion on 'his countenance and he announced In a clear. stcu-H voice thMl his pleg to the tnformatlo I was "not guilty '" Counsel for the defendant announced announc-ed that he wished Vt toho understood ! Hint the pica wan entered with the understanding that a demurrer to the complaint might bo entered later If the defense sees fit. Tn? court grai l-ed l-ed this :md later Thonius Kamag". the defendant s attorne , inquired !f IMst Atty K A. Itogers if b wished to amend th Information as to the names of witnesses. The district at- j tomev sa-ld he did not. II is under I stood that Mr. Uamage discovered a mistake in the initials of one of tht , witnesses. Tho body of Mrs Woods badly burned was discovered b firemen who responded to an alarm She I . on the bed, bound ubout the irriM and unlcles, with a gag in her mouth The Woods anartment. was filled with smoke and the bed on whih the woman's bodv lay was In flames. Benzine, Ben-zine, declared to have been purcnas-ed purcnas-ed by Woods on the day of tho murder mur-der was found to hnve been sprlnl.led over the both and bed clothes. Woods i la lined thut his wife was the victim of two men who came into the apartment for purposes of robbery. rob-bery. He claimed that ho wait bound and placed in the bathroom, wh le the thugs murdered his wife. Mot-withstaiidlng Mot-withstaiidlng these ulalms nothing la known to have been stolen and ther was money In a purse on the sud -hoard and $100 In the pockets ' cf Wood when he was arrested oo |