The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-08-04
WELCOME AND EMERSON.
The Pair are Brought Together
But Welcome Will not Talk.
Jack Emerson Valves an Exami'
nation.

Tuesday was taken before Commits.
9 sioner SprAgue on the complaint,
: charging him with murder In the
1 first degree. He plead not guilty
and waived examination and was
, remanded 20 custody, this class Of
cases being unbailable, even if be
. could secure bail. Welcome was
. brought IN from the Penitentiary
|. yesterday, and for time the pair
we're placed together 10 the City Hall.
:, Emerson started on Welcome and
|, asked why be accused him of the
murder. Welcome, however, would
not talk, and save the interchange Of
, a few oaths at each other nothing
Was elected from either. Emerson
/ was closely questioned about the
I affair and sturdily denies having any
. thing Whatever to do with the
murder, and TO having ever seen the
young man prior to the murder or
, after. He says that if the body was
carried IN one OF the wagons he knew
nothing OF it, and if it was left in
Echo'Csnon he was equally innocent
of the TACT. In number of particu-
lars their stories are precisely alike
save that each blsmes 1t On the other.
Welcome said that on the night when
they camped a. Echo he went TO bed
and slept and that Emerson stayed up
for several hours and made himself
some tea; while Emerson states that
he went to bed and Welcome re-
manned up and got some tea and was
about for several hours; each says that
if the body was moved during that
time he knew nothing about it. Wei
come says that Emerson told him on
the morning after the night they
camped 10 Echo that he had put the
body away; while Emerson never, &C.
cordiug to his story, said anything
about it, because be knew nothing
about it.
After Emerson had been taken out
to the Penitentiary in the afternoon,
Sheriff Turner and several others took
Welcome into q room and questioned
him again thoroughly and severely.
He denied that Emerson ever spoke
him about any stencil. or gassed him
about his feet, or that he ever made
any response; he also emphaticRlly
denies that Emerson ever mentioned
Anything about there being blood on
the pillow, and declares he never saw
any blood on the pillow. The state
ment made by him before regarding
the manner Of the murder was de-
tailed again without any material
deviation; he never has admitted that
he locked at the body and every
effort made to draw him into
such an admission has failed.
He states that he did help
to lift the body into the wagon after
it bad been wrapped up, but never
touched it or looked at it after that
time. He was closely questioned as
to how he knew that the young man
was dead, and since he had professed
to care for him and feel cut up at the
crime, why he did not examine him
and find out whether or not he was
only stunned. but no direct or salts.
factory answer could be obtained. He
sWore and hoped God would paralyzs
him if he knew that young Turner
wss 10 be murdered that night.
During the questioning Sheriff Turner
bid Welcome look him in the eye,
which be did uDfinchingly, and told
his statement. At one time he cried,
and throughout he looked somewhat
troubled by fear.
He was also questioned as to other
and newer particulars. He told the
route he had taken and what had
been done on it. and to the know
ledge of Mr. Turner told some truths.
He was asked il be knew whether the
young man had any knife or pocket
memorandum, and denied having
any such knowledge; but seemed
lconfused when Mr.. Turner told him
he was deliberately lying, as tie knife
and notebook OF the boy had been
found in Welcomes vslise; he then
said he did not know the knife was
Jobnny's, and that Emerson had
given it to him, and that he found
1.-The notebook in the bottom of the
/ wagon. He also denied knowing any
thing of the axe With which the young
man was murdered, and seemed
again confused when MIR. Turner
) told him it also had been found with
the blood on il. He explained as the
reason why he had sold the teams as
his own was because Emerson de.
, sired it. At billiard the latter picked
: up an acquaintance called Roach.
who knew him and knew be could
; not own the teams, and at Emerson's
request this man was travelling with
them; in view OF this fact, Emerson
: told Welcome be would have to claim
the teams, as Roach would know that
Emerson was lying if he claimed
them.
In regard to Emerson's statement
! that he never saw John F. Turner at
} any time in his life, Welcome avers
: that he can prove positively that
Emerson was with them on the night
of the % in Creeks saloon, and by
, another party who saw them together;
g be also states that the fret time he
7 ever spoke to Emerson was in the
i presence of young Turner, who told
him that Emerson was also going to
Montana with them. Il is also IN
derstood that on q night about. the
time of the murder one OF the two
d, parties entered drug store and ap
a piled for some stryohnine, aud the
!, druggist is in town and will doubtless
be sole to identity the man, if it be
., either Welcome Or Emerson. Wei
come admits that all three of them
stood in front OF this place on a GER
}. tain night, but denies that either en-
tered and applied for slrychnine
while the other t8o remained out
side.
So far it looks So though the whole
q matter had been premedltated and
carried out by both, aud that each Is
now endeasoring TO put the crime on
the other. Emerson's surrender il
in his favor, bat it is highly impro-
bable that Welcome would ever have
carried the body as be did and taken
'. a man with him and slept with him
who knew nothing about the presence
fe of the body, and who was liable &c
: discover it and betray the murderer
besides, if it is proven that he had
been seen in the company of young
= Turner st the Park, then the whole
= of his story will fall through.
AR. Turner states his positive be
oi lief that his son never had any idei
s OF going to Montana; his relations q
lei prov6 unre suph that ha rznf1id M