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Show ILLECAL DEER The case of illegal deer killing, kill-ing, charged against Ksem Jes-person Jes-person of Huntsville. has occupied oc-cupied the attention of tne municipal court yesterday, little progress Doing made. A number of witnesses' were called by the counsel of the defense, Attorney Attor-ney Kimball, and County Attorney Jensen Jen-sen also provided the stato with scv- j era! witnesses. Those included Joseph Jo-seph C- Wangsgaard, Alma Peterson, John Jorgenson and Peter Olson for the defense, and Jack Smith. Sam Allen, Al-len, Game Warden John M. Grow, and Carl Stromberg, for the state. The morning session was largely taken up with the examination of Jack Smith, who afforded the crowded spectators with considerable amusement during the progress of hia testifying. Jack, told how he had started with Jesperson up toward Skunk creek and how they had separated, each going his own way on the lookout for game. Some time afterward he heard Jesperson calling to him, and presently he discovered dis-covered tho defendant dragging a deer down tho hill. Jack was afterward uncertain whether It was deer or not, and opined that It might have been h sawlog. Whether or not it was a saw-log, saw-log, Jack admitted that a portion of it was afterward found in the pot over his campflre by Warden Grow. When asked if he was aware that Mr. Crow's investigations while "prowling around the neighborhood" were for the purpose pur-pose of ascertaining "who shot the deer," Jack stated that he was rather "scared" that It was. He was questioned ques-tioned regarding some liver which he hod In camp, and replied that all the liver he had seen had hair on IL He also Inferred that he was a judge of liver when the same was covered with hirsute adornment, Wangsgaard, Allen Al-len and Stromberg were, each examined exam-ined before the uoon recess, little of moment being obtained. The case was continued throughout the afternoon. |