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Show I ACQUITTAL IN KIDNAPING CASE Theodore E. Peterson Freed of Charge in District Court. Jury last nlffht In th district rourt found Theodore "E. rworson, former railroad striker of Ogden, not ffullty of Iho charge af falsely Imprisoning Vernon Ver-non Ynrrlngton. a shop worker, July 17, last-Peterson, last-Peterson, with three other strikers, was charged with having klrlnape1 Yarrlngton M he was leaving his homo tor work one morning, to have taken him to a point south of I In1rh. stripped strip-ped him of his shoes and left him to walk back to tho city. The Jury after threo hours' deliberation, deliber-ation, retUmad an acquittal lout nlghr in Judge George S. barker's division if the court. The court fhfn ordered f'eterson discharged and released from bond. YAIUrt IXtJTOX TF.STI PI EB The COSe opened yesterday wltlii Vairinpton as the chief witness for the state. The rullroad workai t 8-II 8-II ttfled that shortly after ;. o'clock on H the morning of July 17, bound the railroad shops, he found Ills road blocked ofal a canal bridge on st Thirty-fifth street, with a machlns which b id baan parked across the hridg" lie Saul In: lilHMUg";d tu drive H l.uM ,but that tour nu n, one or theffl I'eterson, ran alongside his car and turned off th EgnltiOII switch. V.nrlntoii said the men then too. lm truin the car. liauU-d him Into another an-other mAchtuo and drovo to the power plant In the mouth of Weber canyon, lie said he benrd them discuss what ... 1 ..I 1 I ..! ti II lie J BIIVUIU Jo rrilll i .in, aiivi . nally decided tliat If they left htm !i. r. it would be too certain tor him to get a ride hack to th- city Yarrlngton then Bald the rai n drove lilra south along n road which branches branch-es off the main highway, near the mouth of tho canyon Stopping at a point two or three miles BOUth, he said, he heard the men debate as to what Jkhould be his punishment. He testified testi-fied that ho heard th' words, "rope" and "water" mentioned. Finally his . Aptors removed his shoes, thrusl nin from the car and lro aw.-.y, he said. MKF7TS POLK'K Yarrlngton said he walked to the ridge which crosses the W bet rlyoi lust south of i Intah, and then ihel the police car which had been sent out in search for him. He was taken home. S rgeant C. E. Noble of the police ftepartmsnt testified that h- was on... Of the officers detailed to search for Yarrlngton. and met him on the roftd near I'lntuh. District Attorney Joseph E. Evans ftandled the prosecution of tht case. Rollo S. Parnsworth, counaal for Peterson, called but two wltneSSi the stand. They were Charles 'Clark and Howard Williams, who testified that they were neighbors ' ivt.-r-o.-and that they had always known Po-lerson Po-lerson to be a law abiding citizen NO ARG1 MI N I Attorney Parnsworth then suhmtl-ted suhmtl-ted the case without argument ur..i Mr. Evans announced ho would also dispense with argument. Judge Barker Bar-ker Instructed the Jury and they went to the jury rooms for deliberation. Shortly before 6 o'clock last nigh:, jury reported the verldct of not guilty. Cases against strikers who are alleged al-leged to have been with Peterson during dur-ing the kidnaping are to come up later la-ter In the district court. The Jurors in the case wer.' C. W. James, Parley I'. Taylor. Joseph Chas C. J fcorenson. Emanuel Mradshaw, William Treseder, Lorenzo Ward and i Jesse G. Burton |