The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-24
A DEEP DYED DEVIL.
How PettuS Accomplished the
Ruin of Mrs. SOuthWOrth
TAINTED HER WITH HER SHAME.
and Villifed Her Behind Her Back - The
WOman's Story as Told by Her Brother
What the Defense is.
Special 10 THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. J

woman mas Deen interviewed anu gave
kfaphic account of the causes which led to
the shooting.
''Soon after making my sisters acquain
lance" said Mr. Martin last night, "he
importuned her in person, by note and by
telegraph to accompany him to various
entertainments and places Of amusement,
but she would not go. Finally he asked
her to go with him to the American Insti-
tute fair. She went. She soon discovered
that he was not interested in the sights
there and asked to go home. He acquiesed.
They had hardly lef the place, however,
when he suggested that as it was yet early
they make short call ON friend of his
living not far away, also southern lady.
Well, as 1 said, he asked her to visit this
friend. She went in that house We
know she was drugged with an evil pur
pose and that that purpose was accom-
plished by force. For .hree years their
secret was their own. The secret would
still have been dead, Pettus would never
have paid for his villainy with his life had
he not gone around vilifying her like
sneak, not openly, but with demoniac in
situations not to be misunderstood. Then
after she had suffered long enough she
resolved as she afterwards confessed to US,
that he must suffer with her.
During these three years, however, my
sister used to send to him and she relieved
her injured soul by vilifying the man
whom she hated with her whole soul. He
Y6ud complain bitterly, often made over
Eares for a renewal of their enforced in
>timacy, but she only reviled him the more.
, For three years, say, this continued. His
FNguilty conscience, fearful of exposure,
compelled him to go when she would send,
out with foxy craftinesS, at the expiration
of the time when by law his foul crime was
technically outlawed, he refused to crafty
her within and did not come Then it was,
rs he confessed afterwards, that he told
all TO his wife, and sent his wife's brother,
Joseph Elliot, in response to one of Han
nah's requests for an audience. He warned
her to forever keep quiet. My sister
knows all he said.
Then il was my sister confessed all to
my mother. After that mother went to
California and my brother went to Pettus'
house and told him what we thought of
him There, on his benddd knees, he
begged for mercy and asked US not to ex-
pose him, saying he would do anything we
asked. We asked for nothing; We wanted
nothing. The second time we had an inter
view with the scoundrel was through the
kindly offices of Lawyer Edward Lauter
bach, who was a mutual friend of the fam
lily. 1t was for the purpose of devising
some plan for frustrating an insane desire
for revenge which continued breeding had
filed my sisters mind. As l say, he would
no longer answer her summons and let her
vent her penJ-up feelings in bursts of
abuse he so richly deserved. Already she
had threatened to kill him, and he was fear
full lest she should. One day she said to
him: What Mary Gilpin was to John
ThrockmOrtOn 50 will be to you, if it takes
me twenty-seven years to enjoy my re-
yenge. YOu know that terrible Kentucky
life. She kept her word, poor girl Well,n
l.. ~. -
silence, lat their meeting 1t was under
stood that she might say anything to Pet
t5s She choose and he would remain quiet.
then suggested that she be sent 10
Europe nc offered to bear all expenses;
we rel u lated the offer. Our sisters dis
honor could not be wiped out with money.
There were present then Mr.. Pettus,
Mr. Snedeker, of the company, and
my brother William. All of us
have Inundated ourselves, fearing such
climax and its results to US from
this matter and his brutal treatment of her.
The physical torture she has since been
compelled to undergo from the effects of
his bcstial force had became mania with
the girl and preyed upon her mind until she
could no longer control herself. We knew
il would come. l am sorry he did not know
who cut him down; he died too quick. One
of our wealthy relatives here in Brooklyn,
u second cousin, asked some time ago why
a
IAN asylum asked. No, let her kill
him; he deserves it
Mr.. Martin further said that there was
an abundance of evidence to bear out his
statement in full, letters, confessions. etc,
which have been, for safety, duplicated
and photographed and are now in the pos
session of Howe IL Hummel and in a safe
deposit vault The family have the names
of all connected in the matter and a cOnfes-
sion from Pettus himself and that un-
-suspecting woman who was his tool in
bringing about his sisters dishOnor. Now
that the denouement has come, they can all
be produced and placed in evidence before
the jury which will try and which can be
counted on almost as surely to acquit her.
The murderess, a beautiful, golden haired
woman, moaned as she lay down to sleep
in the Tombs last night. She had delib-
eEAtely shot down in the street Stephen l..
PNtus, her betrayer. treasurer and secre-
tary Of the Union Elevated railway, of
Brooklyn, and member of the Cotton eX-
change. The details of the shooting have
been told to the country by the Associated
Press. II is the surrounding circum-
stances, the inner history of the tragedy,
the more purely dramatic side of the trag-
edy, tiat / shall detail. She killed herman
thoroughly. In less tlau one minute she
had fired five shots, then she stood as
though in a dream, but she seemed to hear
or ace nothing. A policeman touched her
on the head. She turned TO him helplessly
and he took away her pistol. y crowd had
gathered close around her.
SIS this yonr husband:n she was asked.
''NO, he is not. | have nothing to fear
nor to live for This man took my honor
away
The crowd was pressing closer and she
turned 10 the policeman and said:
'Please don't be rough with me-" She
spoke pleadingly. He led her away and
she said no more.
\ Z Goodwin was indeed gentle. He was in
Che presence Of some great mystery of
yoman's life. He offered her his arm. She
refused 1t and walked by his side Not a
word did she speak till she was in Captain
McLaughlin's Office. The police captain
questioned her in vain. She only said, de-
spairngly, HE ruined me; he has now
his just deserts"
To the coroner she was more explicit.
AZ shot that man; am glad that | did;
he ruined me, he dishonored me, he be-
traAed me- He took me once to an evil
housSin Brooklyn; we both lived there.
He decoyed me there; he drugged me; he
accomplished his vile design, and then he
threw me off like an old rag" She trem-
bled as she went on. THAT man, do you
know what he has done! He betrayed a
young woman friend of mine and ther hold
ing the fact about her head as a constant
Threat. compelled her with fear of publicity
TO aid him in his evil purposes"
Her throat filled so that she could hardly
speak, but she struggled on:
''He compelled her, say, on instant pain
OF his displeasure TO bring me in his grasp.