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Show HARAVG1S FREEDJDF GHARGE Allegation of Murder Falls to Stick Against Scoficld Man. a Andrew Haravgis, it Scofield resident resi-dent snd on tiiisl most of last week for the murder of William II. Seott nt the Weldou Hotel in Salt Uke City on December 21, llllll, left the court room there last Saturday a free mini. After being out for four hours nnd thirty-four minutes, the jury' returned re-turned n verdict of not guilty and Judge Harold M. Stephens of the iTloiil Distriut court, before whom the I trial was hold, ordered the discharge of the defendant. Mn. Nellie Seott, widow of the slain man, eollsed when the verdict I was read and Ituri to be led iit'U tnc I court room to her room in the Moxtuu I Hotel by inentU. Friends of llantv-is llantv-is oriisl out and for h few seconds wigugeri in it dciiMiiiol ration of jo. A rohuke from the court relored iquieU The defendant left the court rooiu in comimny with bis aiiorney, 'Samuel A. King. I Tho riefenm succeeded in establishing establish-ing in the mind of tho jury a doubt as to whether the fatal shot was fired by Humvgis. The defendant took the stand iu his own behalf r'riris) afternoon. after-noon. Hi) admitted that he whs at the Weldon with Jim Knterakis, alo charged wfith murder, but never apprehended, ap-prehended, on the night of the shoot-ing-and that they bad been in the company com-pany of Mrs. Scott. llu said that he left Kntcrukis at the hotel nnd that while he was there , Scott did not come to the room. His , story contradicted the previous tci.li-, tci.li-, moiiy of Mrs. Seott and I. K. Mid-, Mid-, dleton, the latter formerly proprietor of tho Weldou. |