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Show MAY BE A WOMAN IN THECASE Although tho verdict of the coroner's coron-er's Jury ax-.the Okano inquost held yesterday afternoon practically exonerates exon-erates George Kawshata of all blame in the man's death, tho slayer is stlil being held a prisoner at the city prison pris-on nnd It Is likely that County Attorney At-torney David Jensen will file a complaint com-plaint this afternoon cbargln,?: the prisoner with murder. This morning the pollco were presented pre-sented with a large photograph of the slain man taken after tho romoal of the body from this city to Salt Lake. Tho photograph shows the left hand of the dead man, on the middle mid-dle finger of which 1b plainly visible the. signet ring. It ia expected that this ring will play an Important part In the prosecution of Kawshata and the photograph will be kept aa a tangible tan-gible part of tho circumstantial evidence evi-dence which hangs ndoso-Uke over tho head of the prisoner. Another clow which may prove of value to the police in tho unraveling of the mystery which surrounds the Japanese shooting was brought 10 the police station this morning by Peter Anderson, the Grant street tailor. This is a woman's scarf, made cf white Chinese silk. On the morning of tho homicide Mr. Anderson, who is acquainted ac-quainted with Kaw6hata, was standing stand-ing in his doorway and saw the Jap pass. From the trouser leg of tho man the tailor noticed something trail ' lng and called the Jap's attention to it. Kawshata reached Into his trou sers at the top and pulled the object up the leg and out of sight again. This incident took place while Kawshata Kaw-shata was on the way to the pollco station to give himself up to the au-I au-I thorities. When the Jap was on his way back to the house, where his victim vic-tim lay dead, he paused long enough in frout of tho Anderson store to draw from the inside of his trousers the long scarf and throw it in the tailor's doorway. In this act he was unobserved by the two officers who were with him. s This was not a difficult diffi-cult thing fir the man to do as he was not at that time a prisoner and the detectives were making no especial espec-ial effort to guard his actions. When Anderson found the scaif he remembered that it was the same object ob-ject he had seen trailing from Kawshata Kaw-shata s trousers. Of just what value the 6carf will be to the police is hard to conjecture, but it is one of several minor clews which Indicate that the eternal feminine was not altogether missing from the case Detective Pender has entertained a suspicion that there would be a woman loom up in connection with the killing of Okano and, while there has been no definite information to bear out this theory, the opinion Is sti engtbene J by the finding of the scarf. |