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Show , - V 1 - -The Murder Case ..McPherson is On Trial in tha District Court at Provo for the Killing ' of Luther C Palmer at Richfield March 15th THE DISTRICT COURT AT PROVO From ihe Utah Fuehrer . Saturday, April 25. - The case of Thomas Fowler vs Benjamin Ben-jamin Bachman, was ssubmitted to the "Jury on Sot ur day afternoon, and a verdict ver-dict for the defendant was returned. Monday, April 27 The curt convened this morning,, but ,bere being no business 011 hand. An .adjournment was taken until Tuesday 'morning, Tuesday, April 28. The case of Jacob Houtz vs James , . .Whitehead and Trovo Co-op vs Gotl'eib Klinger were dismissed by Mr. King. y v Wklknsday, April 29. ' The ease of the People vs Donald Mc Phetson was set for hearing this morn- ing and a large number of witnesses were in attendance. McPherson is carged vi itr having killed Luther C Palmer, at Richfield, Sevier C' un!V, on Sunday, , March 15. by shooting hire with a pistol A full recital of the case and preliminary examination has heretofore appeared 111 'the f'.nqitirtr. McPherson, as his name .implies, is of Scotch parentage, and is 37 yeais'of age. He is dark complexion ed, heavy set. and muscular. He appeared appear-ed perfectly cool, self collected and easy when he was brought into court Mr J M Zane appeared for the prosecution prose-cution and Mr A G Sutherland for the , defense. Mr E A Wedgewood was sworn as court reporter. The entire forenoon was 'occupied in securing a jury The following jurors were excused for cause: Barnaby Middleman had formed an opinion; Richard Brere,ton opposed ihe capital punishment. .. . Thefollowing jurors were peremptorily peremptor-ily challenged. ' By the prosecution W W Dame Robert Rob-ert Bridges, William tout, A L Hamil 'ton and Joseph Cheever. Bv the defense Thomas A Foote W A .Moiilg6ineiy. C S Thompson, T'tomas Beesley. Anilrew S Peterson, Chailes Fletcher, IVier Briccson.Ephraim Homer, Hom-er, Willian D Roberts. S K Roberts and William ifroneit The jury as empaneled is as follows: Alexandea G Hespir, W A Pitt. Wm ) Thomas, Wi'liant Memmot, Willard Rogers, Grant Simnions, Georg Porter, Willi. n M:Kenis, V Hiairi Ha.vs, Hen rv E R iwliugs, T C Sagers and J C 'Moses. ' In order to secure the panel of jurors': It was nece saiy to issue open ' Veniies lor five juri'ts. Mr. Zane made a statement of the1 cae for the prosecution, and Mr Suth erland asked that all of the witnesses be 'excluded from the court room except as . placed on the stand. Granted, with the exception cf Mr. L. M. Palmer the father . of the muidered man and one other witness who were allowed to remain to confer with tha prosecutor There were . ., 'polled futii teen witne'sses'for the prose cution. ; ' Dr Henry Neil was the first witness j1 calltd I am a physician and surgeon. - Have had knowledge nf gun shot ' wounds. Knew Luther C Palmer. Saw , him on the evening of the 15: li of March 4 , ' (tuhlimud.) |