The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-06-16
THE PARKER MURDER
Dalton Confssses to Aiding IN the
Commission Of the Crime.
He Names His Accomplish. b
Who is Now Under Arrest.
The Particulars of 0us Of thu Most
Horrible 0utragsS on Record.

The following further particulars Of
the outrage and murder of the old
lady, Mary Parker, near Rockville,
some time ago. are taken from tee
last numbtr of the Silver Reef Miner:
The particulars Of the Parker muir
der, which was committed near Rock
vile, Kane County-a few miles
northeast OF Silver Reef-in the latter
part of April, will still be fresh in the
minds OF many of our readers. II
will be remembered that Mary
Parker, an old lady, 60 years OF age.
was found in the foothills between
5pringdale and Rockville, with her
throat cut and her person outraged,
and that a young man by the name
OF Jared Dalton Was arrested on sus
picion of being the perpetrator of the
deed. he having been seen with her
laet, alter having brought her the
news that her son had returned from
Nevada and was in the mountains
near by and DESTROYS of seeing her.
The evidence at the inquest was
deemed strong enough to hold Dalton,
and he was bound over to await the
action of the grand jury. since which
time he has been incarcerA:ed iu. the
county jail at Toquerville. Shortly
after his arrest a Miner reporter in
terviewed him in jail, and although
Dalton protested strongly that he was
innocent, he admitted that circum-
stances were against him. 10 the in
tervieW the accused stated that be
had been out on the range the morn
ing Of the murder, and had there run
across Sam Parker, who desired him
to take a message to his mother, he
being afraid to go into SpriDgdale on
account of having stolen a saddle and
gotten into trouble with girl before
be left. Dalton further stated that
he performed the GRAND AMI that
the old lady Immediately set out in
quest OF her SOD, passing him on the
road while he was talking to = COM
panion, and that that was the last
time be ever saw her alive.
Diligent search was Immediately
instituted for young Parker. and on
the 2Ssh of last month he was found
at Deseret, Juab county, being then
On bis way home ID Springdale, having
heard OF the death of bis mother but
four days before. He dsnounces the
representations made by Dalton to
the Miner as to his whereabouts at
the time OF the murder az being base
fAbrications. and says that at that
time he was herding sheep in Nevada.
On Saturday last Parker reached
Toquerville, and when the accused
was informed of his arrival be be-
trayed considerable uneasiness and
asked not 10 be lett alone, as he was
afraid that Parker would endeavor to
shoot him through the bars. Fear
and guilty conscience subsequently
obtained the mastery over him, and
when his next meal was brought he
told the jailer to bring a sheet
of paper and that he would
soon make everything right. In
the presence OF witnesses Dali
ton then confessed that he and an
accomplice by the name of Georgs
Jenning had followed the old lady
from home, ha1 seized her in the
foothills, and after violating her per-
son, in order 10 conceal their crime,
one OF them had held her while the
other cut her throat. They then
doubled up the body and partially
covered it 0oith rmhhiah, where IL lay
until found by the eearchers. After
making this confession Dalton stated
that be was tired OF living and would
like 10 be shot
George Jenning the accomplish in
crime OF Dalton, has akeady been
captured by Sheriff Spillsbury. but We
have not yet learned the result OF bis
examination. The reason that DIAL
ton gave JeDning away lie said to be
because Jennlug promised to bring
him tobacco to the Jail and failed TO
fulfill his promise.