The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-18
WAS 1T MURDER?
Examination of the Alleged
LyncherS Continued.
TWO OF THEN DISCHARGED.
DriscaIl, O'COnnor and Atkinson Al
lowed Bail-rhe Others Commit
ted without 'It-Notes

terday morning, were brought in from
the Pen yesterday, and added 70 then
were.the two more recent arrests-Dar
Shields and J. T. Harrington.
Judge Bennett and A. G. Sutherland
Jr., appeared for the prosecution. Sew
eral witnesses who had been heretofore
examined were recalled by the prosecu-
ton.
I CHARLES NoEL said-I heard a. n
Dodd, Pat Reagan, Josiah Dallin, John
Letham. Pat Cusick and RED Patsy
Harrington threaten to hang Fisher
Malcolm and were placed on guard
about fifteen minutes before Fisher wa:
taken from the jail; saw Phil Green
throw a rope over the jail; 1 saw Sulli
van, Harrington, Shields and O'ConnoI
there.
J. G. MALCOLM was stationed at the
Jail as a guard; was placed there about
thirty minutes before the lynching; did
not recognize any one who was IN the
crowd; heard some one say that IL was
about time TO make the break; saw
man throw rope over the Jail; some oil
the men we're armed.
J. W. SAVAGE had heard old man
O'Connor say that Fisher ought to be
! hanged.
81 Il. TAYLoR-I live in Eureka; was
! there on the 9th inst; / heard quite 3
! number of threats; l do not know any
one who made them; there was one
man, whose name 1 dii not know, bu;
whom l could identify, make threats; l
saw Phil Green at about , O'Clock in the
afternoon with a rope in his hand il
was a new rope; L heard Pat Shea say
that the son of a b-h ought to be hung
/ lust before Fisher was arrested l saw
! O'Connor Trying to get at him with a
knife; | was at the jail about 6 O'Clock
in the evening; l saw Willis Maxwell
there.
JACOB 4. BEAMAN was in Eureka from
"a D. m. on the 9th to a. IN. on the 9TH T;
l was at the Jail about five minutes be-
fore the lynching took place; O'Con-
nor came forward at the head OF a
crowd and told me to take a walk;
heard 0'CGnnor say. He killed my
son, aud now it's life for life, so get
away from here
RoBERr HENDERSON lived il Eureka !;
was there on the 9Th; heard no threats
that day; saw no one with a rope.
HARRY THOMPSON was a resident of
Eureka; he had heard threats made.
but could not identify anybody who
made them.
! JACK HUMPHRIEs was called, but his
testimony was unimportant
/ ID. HARRISGTON and Peter Burke were
both called and both were absent
Miss JANE BAXTEE-I was stopping
at Tim Sullivan's house on the 9th
| Tim and Dennis Sullivan, James Har-
rington and Pat harrington were
there Twas employed at their house; l
was cooking for them; was not there
ell day; left at about 1l.30 am. and
returned soon after L pm; never heard
any threats made; l heard that they
were going to kill me; am not now
afraid TO tell what l know; the threat
alarmed me at the time, and l don'i
/ think l am safe yet; heard Jerry Sulli
van saw that Fisher deserved to be
hung; was at the Jail after O'Clock
| that evening; Mrs. Bacon went with
me: Dennis Sullivan, the defendant
was there, and another Dennis Sullivan
/ from Diamond was there; Mrs. Bacon
and 1 talked to Fisher; when Fisher
got through talking Sullivan said; ''I'
that all you've got to say?" l went tC
the Mammoth and returned to SuuI
vans on Friday, to get my wages, and
he said he didn't have time 10 pay ms
then; l was at Sullivan when the lynch
lug occurred; the moon had gone dnwn
I saw the CT Jwd come up the hill: hearC
them ask for the keys; the men named
above we're sitting around the door ant
they all left sbout the same time; was a
,heir house the next morning; the!
were very quiet; would not stay IL
that house again. because l heard thel
had threatened my life.
4 - IL N-aaa Nn
Pat Harrington and John Murphy b
tha they had been in any manner con
nected with the lynching.
The two men were accordingl.
told that they woul1 be allowed 4
depart, and they left the court room il
considerably better spirits than whel
they entered.
JUDGE BENNETT then asked that Johl
Quinlan be discharged on the san
ground. Mr.. Dickson, however, op
posed the motion, and Mr.. Bennett
nally withdrew it.
, A recess was then taken until 3O'clock
1t was after o'clock, when Nj
Mckay entered the court room. IL III
meantime the prisoners, under tn
charge of several deputies, were loungin
about the room in various attitudes, an
most OF them Win looks on l1elr lace
the reverse Of joyful. o d man O'Con
nor dozed in corner. and seemed TO o
: completely used up. Some of the other
} conversed in knots of twos or threes, an
others sat moodily alone, expectorai
ing huge streams OF tobacco juice at in
tervsls. II was 10 O'Clock when Nj
d ckson entered and
ME-. WHITAKER was instantly Gale
TO the stand-I recognize J. T. Harm,
ton as the man who came into the stor
to purchase the rope; he is in the DO
now.
ALBERT ETHER II recognize !
7. Harrington as one or th
, man who called on Stanle
to give up the keys.
Nh. DICKsoS to Mr.. Sutherland-Ths
l. all
Ne, SUTHERLAND Call Mike Lear
Mr.. MCKAY-0 e moment: is
, agreed between counsel that this vii
ness is for Timothy DriscoIl alone9
Nh. SUTHERLAED-IeS.
NIKE LEART-KnOw Timothy Dris
croll; he worked with me on the 500 foC
level of the Eureka; I'VE went TO work !
s O'Clock in the evening; Pat Shea wa
PIE sent; we had some conversation wit
: him, and then went down the mine
! DrIscou came up TO the surfsce at abou
+ IL O'Clock and came back in about twent
minutes. have known DriScoli for ahor