Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-11-29
OUR LETTER FROM PROVO.
Items OF Interest Gathered In the
Garden City.
FrOm our sreeial correspondent

From our Special Correspondent
The police this morning arrested
some Juvenile distutbets Of the
peace for making n noise outside
the Methodist Church Sunday eve
ming. Lawyer NJ. NJ. kellogg swore
out the complaint.
McFarlane, assassin OF the two
members Of the II. q. w. surveying
party at Manti Saturday night, ar
rived here on the Utah Central ex-
press from the south at Ais this af-
tern0On, heavily irOned. He will
have an examination before Com
missioner Hill tomorrow. Public
indignation runs high against him.
The man Hall, whom / wrote
you rs having escaped from the
Nebraska State Prison, in January,
1857, is Gagged in the county Jail
here, and will remain so until Dan
Hopkins, warden Of the State prison
at Lincoln, Neb., arrives for him.
visited him in jail today, and had
lengthy conversation with him.
The story he tells Of the crime for
which he Is under life sentence j.
as follows: SIN January, 1852, Hall
had charge Of large store and stage
line at camp Clark, on North
Platte River, Nebraska, for the firm
Of Gilbert, Salisbury x Co. He had
a number Of men in his employ,
among whom was one named |
Schlegle. On the Srd Of Janu-
airy, hail returned from a lengthy |
trip in the interest Of his firm, |
having left this man Schlegle in |
charge. He found matters in a
very unsatisfactory condition on his |
return, and the two had a quarrel !
over some money taken in Hall's |
absence. Hall was seated at his /
desk during the quarrel, aud while 1
his back was turned, in the act of
taking lamp from a bracket on his /
LEFT and setting it on the desk in
front Of him, Schlegle grabbed his
(Hall's) pistol, laying on the desk,
and snapped il ut him twice. They
scuflled, Hall trying to wrench the
pistol from him. Schlegle leveled
ii ut him again, but Hail grasped
his wrist and turned the weapon on
Schlegle and fired. The ball entered
Schlegle's right temple and he fell.
Hall Immediately set out for Sydney,
on the line Of the Union Pacific, and
gave himself up. He made no
statement as to the shooting only to
his attorneys. His ease came on for
trial at an aggravated term Of court,
ON account Of there being three muir
der cases on the docket besides his
own, which was a very heavy GRIM
inal calendar for a small place like
Sydney. Col. John W. Strong, Of
ST. Joe, Missouri, editor Of the ST.
Joe Herald at that time, was en-
gagged as leading counsel for the de-
PENDANT At the cOrOner's inquest
the pistol was produced, and the two
found in the barrel, bear
ing evidence Of their having been
As the defendants cOun-
sci found It impossible TO get a salts
factory jury, they advised him to
plead guilty TO murder in the ..
second degree, with the understand
ing that he would not get over ten
years imprisonment, and that they
would secure executive clemency in
I very short time. He did so, but
Judge Gaslin sentenced him TO I'M
for life. ON the fifth Of
April. lSS2. he was taken to the
state prison ut Lincoln, Nebraska,
md commenced upon his term. /,
Here he worked himself up until he
vas made book-keeper for the West
srn Manufacturing Company. He 2
continued 10 receive additional pro- \
until finally he was made
'lerk Of the prison. He then
lad comparative freedom, hav- 5
ng charge Of the records and :
everything else. At this time
here were 275 convicts there.
IN the evening of January ), 1857,
ne conceived the idea Of escaping.
This action was doubtless the result
f mental alteration, Hall having
,een at the asylum at Lincoln for
even months just prior TO the shoot
ny. The day after the escape he :
'egretted his action exceedingly, and
10 has been in trouble over the mat
er ever since. Since he has been a
II liberty he has endeavored TO live q
quare with the world, and has held a
rood positions. all Of which he has G
lied with credit. But he could not 1
'emain long in any one place, with a
nut running across former inmates
# the prison. Ii was on account of I
Meeting n fellow convict a few
months since that his former identity
vas discovered.