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Show I TESTIFIES LENDING REVOLVER TO FORMER UINTAH PRINCIPAL P William R. Stoddard, farmer and ejellroad man of T'intuh. MM the prin-otpal prin-otpal witness for the state this morning: morn-ing: In tho trial of Mario w J Chriaten-ten, Chriaten-ten, former principal of tho Uintah H school, charged with murder n the B first degree for the alleged shooting H ol Lloyd Bybee is years of ge. a H Uintah, March 22. 1 Mr. Stoddard testified that ho Ion! H thjp revolver which Christensen 1" sl-H sl-H leged to have used, to the school prln-H prln-H curni during the latter pari ot tobi i B Tho witness said that r"hrlstenscn H came to his home for water nnd milk B often :tnd hllp there nt noun one dsj H ho saw the gun upon shelf. He 1 asked that he might hormw Mr H Stoddard said and he consented. After Chrixt n-. n bad taken the gun H and placed It In his pocket ho ro- I marked that h had boon threatenen by Lloyd Bybee, the witness declared lll vi li ll KE OIjVER Mr. Stoddard identified tho revolver which wri producer! In court aa bi--longing to him! Dr. Leonard R. Jenkins of Ogden was the first witness called this mortiv Ing and testified to h.ting lccp called to I'intah to attend Lloyd Bybee shortly short-ly after the shotlng Ho said that after aft-er the lad was brought to the gden hospital his condition became worse and an ojioratlon was performed I The bullet, he said, a was Indicated In x-ray photographs, pierced the abdominal ab-dominal walls and the liver and lodged in the lung tissues. Death resulted! tho physician said, ns a result of pneumonia pneu-monia whict't was caused by the bullet lodging In the lung tissues. CO! s i BOTH li s Melva B bee, 21 years of age. and a teacher at the Uintah school at tho time the shooting occured. testified that Lloyd Bybee was her third cousin. She paid that Lloyd and Ja k I'ringle had met her and anottlex young teach-! er at n train and hud carried th-ir Suitcases for them after ihe had been' away for the weekend. A tew days following this incident M,s Bybee said that Christensen took her and the other teacher Into con-f con-f ni e at the school and said "If you go with those young men you will ruin your reputation." Miss Bybee said thai Christensen cautioned her several times against going about with Lloyd Bybee nd his friend. Norman Bingham, related to tho Uybce- hv marriage, testified that he, I uj u the hospital much of the tlmei before the death of Lloyd Byboe nnd; he was present when Lloyd gave a s itement Of the shooting in wrltlne to Sheriff Richard Plncock. This .statement haj not yet been pro-iluccri pro-iluccri In the ctr OOMPA N I C N ST A N I). David "Rusty" Penman, a. chum of l.loyd Bybee and who was present 'when tho alleged shooting occuied. was 'on the witness stand during much of yesterday afternoon's session and told ihow he had gone with others to see l.loyd "bent up" Christensen on the .night of the shooting. The witness admitted that six hoys had fathered to seo Lloyd attack t.'hrist ensen upon his return from the Bybe homo, where he hnd gone to complain regarding the action of Qr-'vllle Qr-'vllle Bybee In school, i Penman resented the inference ;hat i h? was 'crunching" in the iirush at jfhe lde of the road, waiting to help 'l.loyd II be was unable in successfully jattack f hrlsiensen. WAIT BY ROM) i i nmrm adniliterl triatwnlie no wit n I Byron Bybee, Victor Sundberg and! ljOSter Miller, was standing at the side of the railroad track In I'intah. Lloyd I l'. be., passed and lie called him back 'and told him Christensen would be along soon. Th boys then went to 'different places along the roud to hide: land watch the fight. 1-ennixn said .that he went with Mpyd Bybee to 'the turn In the road. I Penman said. I "Iloyd was at 'he luin In the roadi When 'hrisi ensen came ironing along' the rood. When he saw Ivloyd he stop- , Iped. They were not far apart then . W hen Christensen slopped he took one ,or two steps back and to the side of the road Lloyd moved to one side of the road andtarted toward Christ-j ensen. "Christensen commanded him to "halt right where you are.' Iloyd kept on going toward 1 hrlstcnsen, who then i put his hand to his hip pocket. He called to l.loyd to halt, nnd when about six feet away Christensen firnd and l.loyd sank to tin- ground Uoyd called call-ed to me to gt a doctor. 1 rushed toi his side and lifted him up Christen sen started down the road and met Orvllle Bybee. who begat; throwing rocks at him, and Christensen fired two more shots." Penman said he laid Uoyd at the side of the road and went to Orln M -bee's home and Called B doctor, later l.loyd was brought to the Bybee boms for treatment and then sent to the hospital In Ogden, where he died two clays later. t'lher witnesses on the stand were William Bybee, Orvllle and Myrtle Bybee By-bee and Josephine Bobbins a school tea. her. |
