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Show NEGRESS FACES COURT MAR. 17 Laurine Griffin to Go on Trial for Alleged Slaying of Chinese Opdcn s first murder tri.1 in several sev-eral months will open March 17 in j Judge George S. Barker's division of the district court, when Laurine Grlf-jfln. Grlf-jfln. ncgress. will be tried for the I murder of Loo Tun. one of the proprietors pro-prietors of the Vienns caf According to an alleged confession confes-sion made by the woman to the police po-lice following the shooting, three shots were fired point blank at Tun's head while ne i.iy m Den in a room 'In the ro.ir of the cafe He was instantly in-stantly killed. Oho of tho reasons given by the negress for the alleged slaying of the Chinaman was that he had taken a sum of money from her with Whii h to make Investments and in n shr demanded the return of her ."-a . ings he refused. Then she said she shot him the police sax The woman h 1 1 worked In the , ife for some time before be-fore the murder. Just what the defense of the ne-gr ne-gr will he when she comes to triil Is .1 mysterj She has retained Arthur Ar-thur Woolley and C. R, Holling-worth Holling-worth as counsel and has entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of murder In the first degree The woman wom-an Is now held in the women's ward at the county jmi ;md appears to be little worried over the coming iritl which may result in her being put to death. |