The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-02-18
THE HOPT CASE.
The Jury Impaneled and Work
Commenced.
The Case to be Pushed Through
Rapidly.

e The Case to be Pushed Throug
: Rapidly.
AT $50 o'clock on Thursday morn
ling, the examination Of person
Summoned as jurors in the Hop
case was resumed. Before a jur.
had been secured the venire o
twenty-five, returned in the morn
ing, had been exhausted. and tel
more were drawn. Out Of the las
drawing the jury was completed, a
about 1890 o'clock, when an adj
ljOurnment until o'clock was taken
The examination for cause and I'm.
piled bias was continued, and many
excused on these grounds. The de-
Tense exhausted its entire number OF
peremptory challenges, fifteen in
all, of which SIX were consumed on
Wednesday afternoon, and the re-
mainder ON Thursday morning. The
prosecution only excused two on
peremptory challenges, these being
VIM. Mcqueen and John c. Young.
At 2 in the afternoon the court
room was crowded TO its utmost ca
pacity outside the bar, while there
was quite an attendance inside the
enclosure. The jury was sworn as
follows:
NJ. Desenberg, W. A. Pitts,
VIM. SchAde, j. II, NOuBnan,
Chas. W. Mann, w. p. Jack,
Geo. Marriott. Minor q. Atwood,
Z. T. Ashton, F. Bollwinkle,
+. g. S. Lynberg, Thos. Goodwin.
After a few minutes delay, Dis
trict Attorney VanZile commenced
the opening statement He had
just started, when Judge Sharp, for
the defense, asked that witnesses be
excluded, under the provision of the
statute admitting of an order to
that effect being enforced. The
court ordered that the witnesses
present retire into the court cham
Der, and they left the room. The
presentation of the case was then
resumed. 1t gave the theory of the
prosecution, and at its conclusion
the examination of witnesses was
commenced.
JOHN W. TURNER
Was the first witness: Mr.. Turner
said he lived at Provo; L know of
the case on trial; the deceased was
my son (the witness was overcome
and heSitated a few seconds before
he answered); he was about five
feet six and a half inches high;
rather dark compleXiOned; his hair,
Just before leaving, had been cut
very short all over his head
had no beard; he was
dressed, when he left home, with
lightish colOred, heavy pants; chey-
lot shirt, l think a plaid, inclined to
be light; he had on Il pair of boots
made at Provo; wore Il frock coat,
both vest and coat being made of
the same stuff, with pockets in the
back of the coat: | think he had two
hats, one d brOad-5Timmed chip and
the other a wool one he had silver
ring on the left hand, pretty well
worn, which he had worn for three
years or more. He went away from
home to work with his teams;
started for Park City; he took four
horses and two Fish Brothers wa
CONS, one 4 shOrt-tOngue trail
wagon; both being coupled together
when he left; he left home on the
of the 18th Of June; one
was a new Steel-Skein wagon, be-
longing to him, which l bought of
John W. Lowell, on the 18th of
June; l shipped 1t to Provo i'll my
name, and my name was on every
separate piece of the wagon which
was shipped in pieces; these marks
were on it when he left; the other
wagon was 80 thimble-skein Fish
Brother wagon, run about one and
a half years; one team was pair of
horses, greyS; he had two harnesses;
one a heavy Concord harness, the
other an old one, which was on the
greyS; one horse in the other team
was brown and the other a roam;
before he left, he lived at my house;
he left home with $500 pounds of
chopped barley, in sacks; some in
common and some in seamless
sacks, some of the latter being bran
ded with my name; most of the bar
ley was loaded in the foremost
wagon; l did not see my son alive
after he left on the 2Sth of June. l
heard of a rumOr of a body being
found in Echo Canyon, on the 20Vh
of july sent my deputy, Thos.
Fowler, and my Son-in-law, Silas
Alfred. to make an examination Of
the body, while went to Piedmont.
| had started on the 10Th for Park
City in search of my son; l arrived
at Piedmont little after daylight,
and commenced the search for prop
erty; about noon | saw some hired
men of MIR. Moss, and l identified
the old wagon being used there; l
also found the trail tongue in a
shop; W. II. Moss
claimed the wagon; l found also a
bell which my son had used as a
horse bell for Il number of years; l
then proceeded on farther east; |
went to Green River, where found
the new wagon-the same wagon L
have previously described my name
was marked in several places on 1t,
and recognized it in several
other ways. On subSe-
quent trip | found couple of quilts
and a pillow; some grain sacks were
sent me from Evanston with my
brand on them; some Of my sons
were sent to me from Green
River; the quilts and pillow l iden-
titled as the ones my wife had
given my son when he left; the pill
low was very bloody; the outside
covering was off; Mr.. Hanson, pro-
bate Judge Of Green River County,
brought it to me; l have known the
defendant by the name of Fred.
Welcome since about year ago
last July; l think it was on the Sd
of July, 1879; l had him in my
charge as sheriff, until the Septem-
Der following; he stayed at my place
until the 10th or 18th; he was work
ing at my place; my son and Wei
come were working together most
of the time; when my son went
away l suppose Welcome was in
Park City, he having left for that
place a few days before Christmas.
/ met him after he left my place on
the 18th and 18th of June,
lin Salt Lake; on the 18th
[ rode with him out to the
Penitentiary. After l identified
The property at Green River, 1 took
a freight train TO RaWlinS, and