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Show Witnesses Pile Up Evidence In BeBee Murder Trial Hyrum BeBee went on trial Wednesday at 10 a. m. in Sanpete county courthouse charged with first degree murder, and Duane A. Frandsen, district attorney, introduced in-troduced six witnesses to open proceedings before Judge John A. Hougaard, Seventh district magistrate. mag-istrate. Spectators jammed the court rooms to hear dramatic details of the shooting of Lon T. Larsen, Mt. Pleasant marshal. Vadis Johansen was the first witness introduced by the state. An employe at the tavern where the quarrel preceding the shooting shoot-ing occurred, he gave an account of the altercation between BeBee and Marshal Larsen before they left the Tavern. Douglas Sparks, co-owner of the tavern, corroborated corrobo-rated Johansen's statement, and Pearly Johnson, a customer, also testified. Knute Kolstrom, also a tavern co-owner, substatiated the story of BeBees actions before leaving the establishment, and testified he watched Marshal Larsen put the defendant forcibly into his truck. Larsen left the truck and stepped up on the sidewalk and talked to a lady who came out of a near-by store. While the marshal was standing stand-ing with . his back to BeBee's truck, Kolstrom said he heard a gun me. ne saw me marsnai stagger and fall, then saw BeBee get out of the machine and walk toward the marshal. As the marshal struggled to get up, Kolstrom testified he saw BeBee allegedly shoot Larsen a second time, saying "take that, you little ' pup." Cross-examination by the defense counsel brought out that as it was growing dark, Kolstrom could not positively identify BeBee Be-Bee as the person who fired the first shot. Last witness of the day was Willis Draper, whose testimony colsely paralleled Kolstrom's. He also identified BeBee as the man who fired the second shot. The trial was continued Thursday Thurs-day at 10 a. m. when the district attorney for the state of Utah continued to pile up evidence against Hyrum BeBee as eyewitnesses eye-witnesses to the shooting testified in district court. Mrs. Delia Scow testified she saw BeBee step from his truck, point his arm toward the marshal as he lay on the ground and fire the second bullet and identified . BeBee as the man who did the shooting. Loraine Beck, the barber in front of whose shop the shooting occurred, stopped work at the first sound of gunfire and saw BeBee get out of his truck, walk to the marshal and fire a second bullet. Mr. Beck said he was prevented from going to the assistance as-sistance of the dying marshal because of BeBee's pointing the gun in his direction. Bennett Madsen and LaMar Syndergaard, who were in the barber shop at the time of the shooting, also testified BeBee as the man who fired the second bullet. An attemt to take BeBee from the moving truck as he drove away was made by Don Ruesch, who testified he heard the second bullet fired and saw the truck as it backed away from the curb. He jumped on the running board of the truck, to pull BeBee from within, but Mrs. BeBee pointed a gun at him and forced him to get off. Russell Stringham, in the immediate im-mediate vicinity of the shooting, said he saw BeBee fire the first bullet at the marshal as he stood on the sidewalk with his left side toward BeBee. At the time of the shooting the marshal was looking away from BeBee. Stringham saw BeBee get out of the truck, but did not see him fire the second bullet because he had turned into a doorway for safety. He heard Mrs. BeBee say, "What did you do that for?" and heard BeBee reply, "I got the last word in that time." A description of the wounds was given by Dr. G. B. Madsen, who attended the marshal. He arrived on the scene about two minutes before the marshal died. The doctor gave as his rofessional opinion that either one or both of the bullet wounds would have caused death. Judge John A. Hougaard, before be-fore whom the case is being tried, recessed court until Friday at 10 a. m. when the state continued to present additional evidence. Testimony of officers who made the arrest at Spring City and from Joseph Ursenbach, who prepared pre-pared the body for burial was given. Exhibits were introduced as evidence in the trial Friday morning when Dist. Attorney Frandsen offered the gun taken from BeBee when he was arrested; ar-rested; the empty cartridges which had been fired, and the remaining unfired bullets found in the gun at time of the arrest. BeBee made no objection to the exhibits being used as evidence. Sheriff Ulysess Larsen said BeBee at the time of his arrest said the gun was loaded "with the exception ex-ception of two bullets I put into the man in Mt. Pleasant." At the close of the state's testimony, testi-mony, the defendant put before the court a motion asking that the jury be directed that the hignst crime for which they can find the defendant guilty be voluntary vol-untary manslaughter. Because malice and premeditation essential es-sential elements of murder have not been proven by the state's attorney. Cousels for both sides argued the motion, and Judge John A. Hougaard, before whom the case is being tried, denied the motion. The state rested, and by stipulation stip-ulation of both attorneys the trial will be recessed until Feb. 13. The defendant informed the court he will be ready to present his testimony on Feb. 13 when I court reconvenes. .' |