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Show i WOMEN ACCUSED AS PARTY TO MURDER SALT LAKE. June 11 The state introduced testimony yesterday in the trial of Mrs Martha Gardner intended intend-ed to prove that the woman was n party to tin shootlm; ol 'o.s ili Irvine Ir-vine by George H. Qardhfir at Welty April 15. The woman is being tried on a charge of murder in the fliwt degree. de-gree. The state contends that the defendants defend-ants not married to Gardner, and that her true name is Mrs Martha Gerrana. Assistant District Attorney Hutchinson yesterday asked, permission to amend the complaint to read Mrs Martha Gerrans, alias Gardner, but wlthdrei his motion, saying that he would agtgn make such a request after proving the woman was never Gardner's legal J wife. Deputy Sheriff Don Gardner, one of tho principal witnesses called by the I slate, testified yesterday that Un Gardner brought a horse to George 11. Gardner after he had killed Deputy Sheriff Gordon Stuart Deputy Sheriff 'Janlner further testified that Mrs. Gardner overed him with a shotgun while George H. Gardner mounted the horse and pursued Irvlno down a ra- Vlne r. .i '. Me 1 ' ill' b |