Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-09
NOW, THIS IS RICH.
A Split Among the DeniZens Of Vine
Street Gives Away a Hard
Formation.
The Gentle Jennie GOeth Forth In the
Morning and Tuneth Her Harp
to Her MOurnful Lay.
Her Life is Threatened and She
Seeks the Protection OF the
AIl.POWerful Law.


this morning by the examination of q
young girl who had been charged with
threatening to take the innocent life Of
one of her own sweet sex. 1t appears
that certain portion of Vine street, on
the Seventeenth ward bench, has long
been the seat of war between two OPP
posing factions, and the affair was only
eliminated by the swearing out of a
complaint and the consequent examina-
ton of the offending party.
THE COMPLAINT,
Which is sworn to by one Jennie Hicks,
alleges that on the 9TH day of September,
! 1886, one Josie Reese did unlawfully
! threaten to take the life of the said affi-
ant, and did then and there say that she
would kill said affiant the first time she
caught her out alone, and this affiant
AYERS that she has reason to believe and
does believe that unless the said Josie
Reese be restrained she will either kill
affiant or do her great bodily injury.
Wherefore affiant prays that the said
Josie Reese may be required to give
security to keep the peace against this
affiant.
After the court had waited for some
time for the appearance of the affiant,
she presented herself at the door in COM
pany with one old jay calling himself
Sydney Hudson, and after making low
bow to the court the pair took seats to-
gether.
The first witness called was Jennie
Hicks, the affiant. She said: live in
this city; am divorced lady; know
Josie Reese have known her over year !;
there is just an alleyway between our
homes; she tantalizes me; | found out
her schemes; night before last she got
mad and said she would kill me;
HER SCHEMES ARE DEEP;
She has laid them deep; Dollie is her
subject, and she trains Dollie to tantalize
me Dollie threatened to thrash me; Mr.
Hudson let me have the house live in,
and l tried to rent part of it but couldn't;
night before last Josie said to me: II
will kill you;" we were in the alleyway
and she was attacking me with rocks /;
Dollie threw piece of looking glass at
me; last summer she came out and
showed me loaded pistol; | asked her
if she wasn't afraid OF a loaded pistol,
and she said "No, can shoot; I've got
another in the house" Excused.
Sydney Hudson, the gentleman for
whom Mrs. Hicks keeps house, was
called and said know these parties !;
have known them about year; am
mechanic; Mrs. Hicks has lived at my
place about a year; day before yesterday
| heard the words that have been refer
red to; heard
ROCKS FLYING AGAINST THE WALL;
Saw Miss Josie with large rock in her
hand asked her what she was going to
do, and she said, Pm going to kill that
woman" Dollie took rides with Josie the
trouble first commenced by number OF
young fellows coming past our door to go
to their house; Josie took particular
pains to mimic Mrs. Hicks; | tried to
pacify them, but Josie said her tongue
was her own, and she would use it as
she pleased; there used to be d dozen
boys coming there, but there are only
two now; they keep up a racket until
after midnight; I've heard that Miss
Josie was married, but don't know how
they got apart; nephew of mine owns
the property where they live; these girls
look after the property for him; don't
know who they pay rent to; Dollie was
keeping house for my nephew and Josie
came there to live with them; he then
lived in this house with these two girls;
Josie was always mimicking her; when
she went into the house to
PLAY HER HARP OR SING,
Josie would mock her; Josie was always
tantalizing her, and l could not make
them behave. Excused.
The next witness called was Josie
Reese, the defendant, who is rather
fresh young girl of Is summers.
She said in answer to the questions put
to her: have known Mrs. Hicks ever
since she came to keep house for Mr..
Hudson she was very pleasant for the
first few days then | went over 10 see
her one day and she slammed the door
in my face; one morning she came out
and stood in front of our door and
SANG sMuTTY SONG;
She had the song written out on
piece of paper and she put it under our
door; she's crazy; she writes poetry and
she don't know what she's doing; on ac-
count OF this don't take much notice of
her; she calls me all sorts of vile names.
Witness here gave some specimens,
which were not at all Slow. On the
evening in question was in the garden,
when she came out and said: Hello,
hello" | picked up a cobble and
went to throw it, but Dollie grabbed one
hand and Hudson grabbed the other;
MIS-. Hicks ran into the house and stuck
her tongue out at me and spat at me I
did not say I'd kill her, said
I'D LICK HER.
Reese is my true name; my father is
school teacher at Provo; was married
about two years ago to a man named
Mackey, in Wyoming; lived with him
only four months; Hudson has dance
hall in his house, and has all kinds of
there were a lot of little Nineteenth ward
Mormon boys there; there were seven
boys and fifty girls; the boys were drink
ing and smoking outside; one of the
young men comes to see me and the other
to see Miss Mcintyre; Hudson wanted
me 10 join some lodge, and wants us to
wait till the kingdom comes
Judge McKay-And l suppose YOU
didn't want TO waltz
Witness-No; l don't belong TO the
kingdom. Excused
The next witness was Violet Mcintyre
(Dollie). She said; l came from Des
Moines, Iowa; have been in Utah about
two years; am II years old; l came
here alone; have lived at this same
place ever since came; came here to
keep house for Austin; did not live with
him as his wife; he pays me TO keep
house for him; he pays me So a week;