The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-09

| IN love her and protect and defend her
from all assaults whether to her person
or reputation, and avert from her all
danger and peril. And she undoubtedly
confided fully in you: for the evidence
establishes beyond all controversy that
] aim of her life was 10 assist You in the
successful pursuit Of your profession
I with that object both she and yourself
/ ;oined several beneficial societies, and
gs a result thereof each of you had your
lives insured for the benefit OF each
otber for the considerable sum Of
sI7 600.
There was some evidence in the case
tending to show that your love for the
deceased waned. and that on many oc-
casions, in speech and BY personal
chastisement. you wounded her feel
iugs and person, and made 1t apparent
to others that your affections for her
we're dying. Indeed the evidence
showed that you frequently tantalized
ner with suggestions that you were
carrying on correspondence with other
| women. You thus undoubtedly, aroused
in her a spirit OF jealousy which caused
dissensIons and chickering's between you.
Thus matters continued until the month
of August. when your wife was taken
III. and while she was thus Ill and par
tally under your care and ministration,
il was claimed by the prosecution on
your trial, and the jury have found
i such to be the fact, that you admins
tered to her IRON time to time phosphor-
Gus, deadly poison, with the intent
and for the purpose OF feloniously tax
ing her life. IL seems almost incredi-
Die that while the deceased was thus
lying sick you, her husband, OF all
Others, should have administered this
deadly poison TO her, and remained By
her side watchingits effect and witness
ing her terrible agony. Yet such was the
charge, and under the evidence such
the jury found the fact to be. IL the
testimony in the case be true. and /
have no doubt OF 1t, with resoluie and
premeditated atroclty you resorted 10
means TO cause her death, which left TO
your victim no power OF self defense. no
suspicion OF your intent. no thought of
your deadly purpose. for at your earn
est entreaties she willingly, yet ignor-
antly, took the deadly potion under the
belief that you, her husband, and as a
physician. were doing all you could to
relieve her sufferings and restore her to
health and happiness. This very conf
dence she had in you insured the
speedy and certain accomplishment OF
1.-THE means used. the position you
occupied 10 her, and the silent. steaithy
mqnner in which the fatal drug "
administered. all coucur in sho in you
~ Oe devoid of all human feeling. In
deed, l doubt if the annals Of crime
present a more horrible and diabolical
taking-Of. II is not necessary for me,
nor is it my purpose TO refer to your
past life, further than to say that from
the evidence IN the case il is not spot
less.
1.-The motives which led you to the
commission of this terrible murder
must have been, as the prosecution
claimed, two of the basest known TO
humanity: lust and the illegitimat
love of gain. And yours is another ex-
ample of the trite saying that lust and
che evil passion for unearned and un--
merited gain when INDUCED in lead
their victims by straight and certain
paths to swift destruction: no amount
of cunning or deceit is OF avail to
screen the guilty to enable them 20
escape the keen eye of justice, or to
eiude sure merited punishment
I'm vain are such foul deeds per
petrated under cover Of secrecy or the
darkness of night. In vain was the
body OF your victim committed TO the
earth and its lonely grave. In vain did
you believe that no eye saw you admin
lister to your poor, deluded and conlid-
ing wifet desdly poison, thereby coIu-
uniting this foul and unnatural murder.
You probably forget that the eve of
God was fixed upon you. You prob
ably forgot that you were IN the pres
ence of Him TO whom the light OF day
and the darkness of night are the same
and that he witnessed all your move
ments. You probably did not think that
by the aid of science and the very eIe-
ment that He creates your crime could
be traced and proved and your guilt
demonstrated.
II say TO you, not in words of anger.
but in pity and sorrow, that the sword
Of human justice trembles over you.
and is about TO fall upon your guilty
head, and that soon, perhaps sooner
than you expect, you VIII be called upon
to take your final leave OF this world
and to enter into the untried and never
ending eternity. Under the circum-
stances, as shown in this case. and in
the face of the verdict which has been
returned against you. you cannotexpect
or ask for mercy or clemency. for IL this
verdict be true one, and have no rea-
son to doubt it, you showed no mercy
to your victim. And, therefore. the
stern, yet just and impartial demands
of the law and justice, must be regarded
and fulfilled.
LET me in conclusion entreat you, as
/ now do from the bottom of my heart,
to discard and throw aside the spirit
of indifference which you have ex-
hibited heretofore and beg of y u TO re-
feet upon your present situation and
prepare for the great change that
shortly awaits you. Turn to the conso-
lations of religion and supplicste the
| Judgment seat of God. your Maker. for
mercy and forgiveness.
And now there but remains for me
! TO pronounce the dreadful sentence Of
| the law, which is that you, j. Milton
Bowers, for the murder of Cecilia
Bowers in this city and county. on the
first day of November, A. D.1ss5. OF
which you have been duly convicted.
be taken hence to the County Jail of
the city and county OF San Francisco
| and there detained and remain untilsuch
day as shall hereafter be named and
DESIGNATED in the warrant of execution