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Show CLEARS COURT ROOM WHEN PEOPLE JEER DENVER. Colo , Dec. 1 "This man Ccnkio Mitsunaga, although a foreigner, foreign-er, is being tried by a jury and not by a mob." With this rebuke to a laugh that swept the court room. Judge Hubert L. Shuttuck ordered the bailiffs to clear the room of all spectators. The Judge gave no intimation as to whether this order will be revoked at tomorrow's hearing. The defense lu the trial of Mit-cunaga, Mit-cunaga, the HttloJapauese houbcclean-er, houbcclean-er, for the murder of Airs. Kathcrlne Wilson, failed today in its attempt to separate tho three counts ouwhlch the defendant is being tried. The prosecution said it hoped for conviction on tho charge of murder and nothing else, whereupon the judge overruled the defense's motion for a separation of counts. Drs. A- L. Dennett and George II. Lee, who performed the autopsy on Mrs. Wilson, were the first witnesses ceiled. Dr. Uennett stated that it v. as highly probable Irs. Wilson died In a furious struggle for her life. Rldgely Wilson, husband of the murdered woman, took the stand this afternoon. In cross examination the defense endeavored to undermine Wilson's Wil-son's alibi, preparatory to laying the foundation for Its charge that the murder was commuted by some person per-son other than Mitsunaga. I |