The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-31
COMING SLOWLY IN.
The Pearson Case Going on
at Provo.
HE EVIDENCE UP TO DATE.
The Father and Mother OF the De-
PENDANT Both Placed on the stand 3
Pearson IDjurfes

Pearson $ Injuries
On Friday afternoon the. Pearson
iase was continued by the calling o
john Rollo. He testified that ne had
lived at Nephi seven years. Was born
in Scotland; am % gears of age; b,
profession school teacher. got &C
quainted with the defendant in the lat
ter part of January. On the day of tn,
shooting, was with the skating party
in the meadows; we sta rted home be
tween and o'clock; Mr.. Blgler anc
Mr.. Ord and boy were with Mr.. Pear
son when we came up; we thought ht
was drunk. and ne looked to see hi1l
fall of his horse every moment; as he
would lean on one side of the horse il
would turn the other way and as be
would lean on the other side the
horse would again turn IN the
opposite direction; he did not seem to
know anything; the wagon tongue
struck the horse on the left side; we
slackened speed he looked up; his eyes
were dull and heavy, his face
bloated and red; he was play
ing with his nat a good deal.
We next met SheriffS Cazier and Hyde.
We asked what was up, when they told
US o, the shooting; they asked if we
DAD seen their man. replied that we
had, and that they would have no
trouble taking him, as he was crazy
drunk. l had never seen or heard OF
the man Pearson before. We stopped
our team there and witnessed the ar
rest; the defendant did not nave hold
or the reins at all, and was leaning on
the horn of the saddle, When he was
searched the knife was handed to me
after this l went to town, and saw the
d q man in Chalmers yard; | looked
at 1t and tnen went away; [ saw the de-
fen0ant next day; he was IN a'store
buying some canned goods, about
noon.
Cross examined-I saw him at the
jail; he did not seem so drunk when
going from the buggy to the jail, but
staggered little.
SATURDAY MORNING.
Don \. BIGBY.-I live in Nephi-was
born there; am a farmer; l am some
what acquainted with the defendant; I
have met him-seen him around before
the shooting took place; 1 saw him
January 10; he was intoxicated; I was
ABOUT a hundred yards from where the
shot was fired; saw the smoke; l was
standing on the San Peter abroad track;
l went TO where the body lay; there
were four or five people there when l
got to it; he was alive when got there;
l remained there about half an hour;
1t was about ten minutes after | first
saw him till he died; his head lay in q
hole, and [ proposed. to raise up his
head; but officer BorroWman would
not allow it to be touched u1til the
Coroner came; said we ought to pull
his boots off at least and not allow him
to die with his boots on; proposed 10
put coat under his head and do what
I could so he could live if there was any
show for him; DR.. Don arrived there
soon after | did the body was
not changed from its position
DR.. Don felt of his pulse; l saw the de-
tendant again coming up in a wagon;
l was just going home from Chalmers
they mad ahold of him in the front
seat; that IS, he was leaning against
some one.
FRANK RUsHToN was the next expert
witness Was a gunsmith; produced
pistol and Wads of red flannel. l lived
in Provo two years; came from Ogden
here; originally ,ame from England;
served my II ade in Birmingham worked
aC the trade from the ume l was nine
years Did till the present time; worked
at it England till 81; worked a while
when | first came to America in New
Haven; then at st. Louis; then at Salt
Lake two years; then at Ogden; from
there to Provo.
Q.-What kind of a pistol is that?
producing the pistol.)
A.-Forty-fOur Colts; a frontier
shooter.
Q.-What pressure did it take to pull
the trigger?
At took about two and a half
pounds pressure to pull the trig-
ger; have had that pistol
in my possession about a week; l
got IL from you; it takes a Winchester
cartridge; the experiment l made at
your request was to see if it would
burn all the powder, and tn distance
it would shoot; l doubled a guuny-
sack four times and tackled it at the
nd OF my shooting gallery to represent
the resentment of the human body;
me gunny.5ack would yield about as
much IS the pressure of the human
body; two pieces of flannel was pro-
duced to represent the thickness of an
overShirt; | tackled the flannel over the
gunny-sack; 1 measured off TWO feet and
shot l found that the powder which
had not burnt had penetrated the
first and gone into the second
fla mel; the powder spread on the
nrst flannel about six inches: |
ind these Colts pistols about uniform :;
again tackled up two other pieces of
flannel and shot at the distance of four
feet; the powder scattered seven inches.
Cross-examined-It takes three and
one-half pounds pressure to pull of
regular new pistol.
MIS-. ELIZABETH PEARSON was sworn
Have been married twenty-eight
years; l am the mother of the defend
9 t; he IS 81 years cid; he lived In
California till ne was II years of age:
went to college there at San Francisco:
be then went to Arizona; was there
three years and then returned to San
Francisco he went to Colorado while,
men come to Utah; we kept the Russ
House at San Francisco; our son had a
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