The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-02-19

Park City; I went and looked at tn
teams; of the head team, one horse
was brown and the other nearl,
black, the other team was gre,
team; one was a new Fish wagon
and the other was an old one
he made inquiry about work ant
board; he said he had picked up al
old associate on the road, and tina
he was taking the other man Il
drive the second team, and said b,
had to pay for them; he offered tt
sell the grey team for 5000; l asked
Welcome what kind of bill of sale
he could give; l told him l wanted
to know if the team was his and he
had right to sell it; he said he
could give me references at Park
City; l inquired as to the price he
paid for the new wagon, ETC.; also
said he sold 1,2O0 pounds of barley
to a gentleman in Evanston; finally
| bought the team and he gave a
bill of sale. This bill was here
recOgniZed) l looked to see
if he was embarrassed, but he did
not appear to be; the justice of the
peace and one of the men with him
witnessed it; under the circum-
stances 1 considered the team SIS
or $50 cheap; l traded with him for
one sack, and he sold me the others 4;
some of the sacks had on j. w.
Turner; saw the name painted on
the inside of the new wagon bed {;
this team was claimed by Mr.. Tur-
ner about fourteen days after l
bought it; Welcome said he had
owned the grey horses for four
years: l paid him in S20gold pieces.
Recess till 2 o'clock pm.
AT pm. the court convened and
work was resumed.
DIR. J. NJ. BENEDICT,
Who made the post norton eXamin-
alton of the body was called. The
doctor brought skull with him, by
means of which he explained to the
jury the wound that had been in
flicted ON the head of the deceased,
and which had caused his death.
On Wednesday last he went to
Provo, and the body was taken up
to enable him to make a further
examination. In his opinion the
blow had been inflicted by a blunt
weapon, such as the back of an axe.
A wound Of this character would
be likely to cause a sudden squirt of
blood, so much so that person in
fiicting it would be unable to escape
getting blood ON his clothes. He
had been shown an axe, which he
had examined, and found it blood
stained. Gan axe was here produced
which the doctor recognized as the
one shown him. He said the blow,
in his opinion, judging from the
nature of the wound on the skull,
must have been struck by a left
handed person. He could not tell
from the blood whether it was that
of brute or a human being. The
doctors expert testimony was very
clear and concise, and was more III
the nature of a dissertation or an
than of an examination.
His crOSs-eXaminatiOn did not elicit
new. He said the axe had
been shown him by Sheriff Turner.
Sheriff Turner was again put ON
the stand and testified that the axe,
which was now put in evidence
under an exception by the defend
ants, was the property of his son,
and the one discovered subsequent
to the murder. He was cross
examined on the subject closely, but
that he knew the axe
was the one his son had taken away
with him.
The bill of sale made TO Mr.. Moss
by Welcome was here introduced as
evidence as follows:
know all men, that 1 have this, the
9th of July, 1880, sold and received pay
ment in foil for one spsn of gray horses,
branded "Cr ON left hip and 10 years
old. The title of the same ntee.
Sold to w. ii. Moss. ISigned.)
Fred. II Welcome and John Emer-
son. Witness, c. Gill, Justice Of the
Peace"
PIEDMONT, July 9Th.
Geo. p. Campbell, of Green River,
was sworn, and testified that We'll
come and Emerson had arrived at
Green River with a team and wagon
in July. They sold the team to
Nh. Hall, now dead. He said he
had conversed with defendant. In
one conversation he told witness
that he had not slept well for some
nights; said he was was afraid of
Emerson and had to sleep with a re-
volver under his head. In one of
these conversations he said to me,
& never killed a man'-and then he
stopped and said, Yes, have. /
have killed a young, innocent man
in cold blood"
Dissemination: was tending
bar in a saloon at the time; Wei
come was drinking at the time; had
never seen him before nor since he
left Green River until to-day; two
persons were with him; one called
Emerson and another The Dutch
man." this was between the 18th
and 18th of July; he remained two
OF three days at Green River, trying
to dispose of his wagon; he was fire.
uuently in the. saloon while there;
he was drinking pretty freely;
Emerson called him by the name of
Fred; that is all l heard him called.
HECTOR s. WISNER
Was sworn: l know the defendant;
first saw him a year ago last Au-
gust, at Provo; knew John w.
Turner, and once saw John T.
Turner; Welcome bought of me a
pair of sleeve buttons; he said that
J. F. Turner had bought his saddle.
horse and revOlver-a SiX-ShOOter-
and had not paid for them as he
agreed to; Welcome said, by God,
I'll kill him if it is ten years from
now: I'll follow him to his grave"
CrosS-eXaminatiOn: l first saw
the defendant ut Turner's house; we
were pretty intimate for about SIX
weeks; the conversation occurred
twice while we were in the jail; he
was at work most of the time, and
not confined to the Jail l never told
it to anyone, except my wife, and
that's bow it got out; l was no
friend of Mr.. Turner's; he had me
in custody and used me as a gentle
man: there is no unkind feeling be-
tween me and Welcome; we had a
little difficulty one day, but 1 would
do as much for him as any man to-
day; I never told one of the guards
up at the Penitentiary that L would
he revenged on Welcome for giving
me away; because he never did give
me away.
OuestiOn-Did you never make
such a statement to a man DriscOll? ?
Answer-NO, sir.
O.-Is not there a man there by
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