The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-01
ON TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE.
Evidence in the Case Against
Neal Mull0y.
THE SHOWING BEING MADE.
The Story of an Eye-Witness-
SweenoY's Part In tbe Tragedy
Continued To-Day.
The SHOWING BEING MADE

-COEt1nued To-Gay.
The Hughes murder trial now on in
the Third District Court attracted a
large number of spectators yesterday
In the morning, DR.. Manton was the
first witness called. His testimony was
brief.
JAMES MoFFATT
was next called. He said: On the LIST
of August last l was living near Park
City; it was Monday, election day; |
was in Cupit IL Brennan's saloon; Neal
Mulloy and George j. Hughes were in
Park City on the evening of that day, at
the saloon: little after p. m. saw.
Mulloy there; saw Hughes few
minutes afterward; they came into the
saloon separately; Mulloy had been in
the saloon, and went out before Hughes
came in; he returned few minutes
later, when Hughes and were stand
ing at the bar; Mulloy came up ana
said he had voted, but had scratched
the ticket: he was addressing Hughes
and me; Hughes said he voted the ticket
whole; Muiloy said he would not be
compelled to do anything he did not
want to; Hughes said he would not
el,her; Mulloy said he had been once;
Hughes said, Yes, L Was, several years
ago.
WAS MET on THE STREET
by masked men, and at the point of the
pistol was forced to run an engine down
to Coalyille." Mulloy said, you knew
everyone on the train" Hughes re-
piled, mo, did not" Mulloy called
him liar. Hughes said he was not
liar. Mulloy said he was liar and
coward, or he would fight. Hughes
said he would not fight, as Mulloy was
too small man; man named Shears
came up and said he knew Hughes was
not a coward; Mulloy again challenged
Hughes, and they went out TO the mid
die Of the floor; Mulloy then wanted to
go out, and they went; Shears and |
tried to keep Hughes back; he SAID
there would be no fight, as he would
talk the matter over with Mulloy and
settle it; they then went out the side
door and up stairs. the crowd following
A diagram of the building was intro
duced and explained TO the jury)
Mulloy went up stairs and to door
that leads to the higher ground at the
back of the saloon; there were about
thirteen steps to the platform,
and then the door led out; Null
10y went on the platform first, and L
passed Hughes and followed him;
Shears went outside; Hughes stood just
inside of the door, ard | stood behind
hun aud Mulloy; Mulloy said:
Hughes, you heel yourself, l am
heeled," and moved outside into the
open air; Hughse jumped back to the
middle of the platform; Shears and l
tried to keep Muiloy out, but he turned
and came back to the door. which was
which he had q pistol; he stepped in
lam, pointing his right toward Hughes:
heard a pistol shot, and Mulloy said,
Take that. YOU s. of a -" Mulloy
held the pistol in his right hand;
Hughes was going downstairs, looking
backward; Hughes staggered against
the wall his left breast was exposed to
Mulloy's shot; he made no threats,
either by language or movement; when
Hughes staggered, Mulloy looked at
him for moment and then went back;
Shears asked, What have you done,
Mulloy?" Mulloy warned him to stop,
but ne did not, and Mulloy warned him
second time, raising his pistol and
saying, IF you come another step |
have bullets in this for you, too"
Shears then stopped; the next l saw
of Hughes, he was lying down in the
saloon, and they said he was dying;
the whole transaction took place before
sunset.
On cross examination Moffatt said he
and Hughes were members of the same
lodge of A. o. G. W.; had not seen
Mulloy before he came int court;
had an argument with him at that
time about election matters; about
week ago looked at copy of my tes-
timonY before Commissioner NOrrell:
did not read it, because | knew what |
had testified TO; when Mullov and |
were arguing, the barkeeper told Mulloy
that the language he was using would
not be pc rmitted; he was talking about
D. G.. Mclaughlin: had drank two or
three glasses of beer; l was not drunk;
thought at the time there were two
pistol shots, but I think it was the echo,
aud there was but one: was consider
ably excited 1 went onto the street aud
shouted to lynch Mulloy; D. G. Nc
Laughiin stopped me; l knew what
MulIoy meant when he spoke of Hughes
having been compelled to do something
which he did not want to do; they did
not say anything further about the
lynchlng of Murphy; l came up from
Price, Emery County, TO vote.
EDWARD SHEAR
testified that he was a carpenter by
trade, and resided at Park City; was
in Cupit and Brennan's saloon at
D. M. on August l !; heard the defendant
say to Hughes, You was On the train
which carried the men who lynched
Murphy, and you know every man who
,roc on tho train ~ HI1phoS dapiod tb;c