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tted of Murderlot more dc-r own stale-tuisband?'*ithchey’s liter) testimu-indmolber in e time af the Burnett said. (Fruthchey's y puts Mrs. ! hallway of e time of theO GIVE less 10 testimony !e who took underwent don than to who refused submitted a t is protectediy-client rela-Jcness of the rning, it was ^possible for to have fired; that hit Jim she says she umett said, puty WilliamR. Farrington, of the sheriff's homicide detail, challenged Mrs. Morgan’s statement.He testified the woman told him twice she did not leave the house during the backyard shooting of Frutchey, Former Los Angeles lumberyard owner.Under cross-examination by Ball. Farrington admitted there was no written report made in Mrs. Morgan's allegation that she was inside the house when the fatal shots were fired.Ball, in his final argument, said the prosecution must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, ‘'and this they have not done.**•f v * *“MR. BURNETT has not told you what happened that night in the Frutchey backvnrd b-cause he obviously doesn’t know,” Ball told Miller.“Mr. Morgan went to that house that night not to kill Fmtchey, but to help his wife.“Mr. Burnett lias cast many aspersions on Mrs. Morgan's statement but 1 would like to ask Mr. Burnett two questions:“Whose gun shot Mr. Frutchey? Certainly not Mr. Morgan’s. Second, do you think Mr. McHenry shot Frutchey? And if he didn’t, who did?”• “The most importantthing in this case.” Ballsaid, “is that Mr. Morgan’sgun, which is in evidence,bad only been fired once.* * * *“THE POLICE testified it couldn’t be fired because it was damaged. And the last person who had that gun was Mr. Frutchey.”Police said that when the slaying took place, Morgan and Fmtchey were fighting in the backyard after an argument in which Morgan claimed Fmtchey had mistreated his daughter, Chur-lene Jean, 37, Frutchey’s wife.Mrs. Morgan has not been charged with the crimeARTHUR V. MORGANand is not in custody.During the Friday morning court session, testimony was heard from three other witnesses: Jack Light of Newport Beach, who said he had known the victim for 25 years;.Tim W. Raker, who spent last New Year’s Eve with Frutchey, and Dale Yates, a businessassociate and fraternity brother of the dead man.Light testified Morganasked his help in persuading his son-in-law to doDOROTHY MORGANsomething about, his daughter’s drinking problem/“I don’t know what I am liable Lo do. I think I might have to kill Jim,” Light claimed Morgan told him.* Raker told the court that during a New Year’s Eve gathering at his home last year. Fmtchey told him he lived in constant fear of Morgan.Yates testified Frutchey told him: “I am afraid that he (Morgan) would shoot me in the back.”Norwalk’s First Mayor
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Sat, Dec 30, 1967
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