The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-07

tramp through the EDWIN S. CoNGER.
south, and turned up in Cincinnati in March
of last year. When his life learned that he
was back in town she sent for him and asked
him if he could do anything toward keeping
her. He could not and so informed her. He
did not remain in Cincinnati long, but
again became a wandering vagabond
He tramped to Topeka, Kan, thence
to Gameville, Tex, proceeding onward to the
Indian nation. He says he went away both
times to save himself from killing his wife, as
the temptation was strong upon him. He ar
rived back in Cincinnati dirty, unkempt
tramp on last Christmas morning. He met
his wife on the street, and she told him that
she had hoped that he was dead-a not par
ticularly cheerful welcome. The man got a
Job at Harris theatre, rni one night he saw
his wife there. He called tC see her the next
day, and was probably well received by her,
for thenceforward sue contributed la. ELY to
his support, while lie was drunk "-Jst of the
time. The fellow openly toasted that his
wife supported him out of her i'll gotten
earnings. A short time before the murder
the man again saw his wife at the theatre
At the theatre the woman met man known
as Charlie, who it SENS was rival Of Con-
gers in his wife's affections, and the two got
stupidity drunk. Conger, in a state of ugly
drunkenness himself, watched this eScapade
TEE CRIME.
4 short time afterward he went to see the
play of the Wife," and although there is
nothing whatever in the play TO suggest his
case, in his drunken mind he imagined that
the woes of the hero were his own, and grew
so nervous that he left the theatre, saying to
the tdeorkeeper Ethat sit was a pretty good
play for a man in my fix" The next day he
had q quarrel with a man at the Grand Opera
house, and after it was settled went t. Nine
Newton's house of Ill fame, where his wife
was. He was very drunk. When hi wife
saw him she cried. "Well, youare herea, air.
you id bloat, amt YOU Lis retort was
characterized by the same delicacy that dis
tinguished his wife's utterance, but the quar-
rel soon stopped, and the man lay down upon
n sofa. The woman set down at the piano
and began to sing. The man rose from -
sofa and walked over beside her She nllr-
INJURED something about his drunkenness. he
pulled out knife with three inch blade,
and very sharp, from his breast Leaning
over he plunged it into her breast. The
knife reached the heart, and severed The
aorta
The woman ROSE from her seat. Her face
wore terrible expression of pain. Taking
a step forward, she Kissed out an awful curse
against her husband and fell to the floor and
died with the oath yet upon her ashen lips
The man walked out. He returned In mo
ment and said, SIS she dead yetF' mo; but
she will be in five minutes" responded wo-
man. To which Conger rejoined, "Oh, well;
all right" When he was at last told that
death had taken place be quietly said. my
Godi What have l doneY" He was taken to
police headquarters by an officer and assumed
a disgusting air of bravado, calling his wife
all manner Of vile names He told the story
of the crime with wretched air of theatri-
cality, and short time afterw2rd retracted