The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14
, that her countenance had a blank and va

that her countenance had blank and va
cant stare.
She stood there then, rigid as a statute
She stood with her little hands folded over
/ that letter that she had carried down town
after she had written it, and carefully car
ried it back, pinching it with those little
fingers until it was stained, sticking to the
gloves, into the station. There she stood
clutchlng that letter and clutching her
handkerchief, and in her pocket was the
revolver. Up to that moment she had
NOT FORMED THE THOUGHT OF MURDER,
clearly, and with such generalization as
would make her guilty. She stood there,
and they came along, and they passed
| by her. She was induced to stand there
/ Just as we are induced TO do things without
rayme or reason. Don't you know that
peculiar influence, that, as you sit here in
this crowded room, you may look in one di-
rection, and presently you feel an uncon-
cious impulse compelling you to look
another way, and on doing so find
that someone's eyes are peering into your
owns There are things that move US with
out rhyme or reason; and that night that
girl was induced to stand at that tree with
out any thought as to the consequences,
and without any reason as to why she did
it. The fact is, her mind had reached that
| point that
SHE WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE
at all for her acts, and was not able to con-
troll herself she was at that time simply
acting from impulse; and the impulse came
upon her 20 stand by the tree; and when
| they came along, and she looked at the man
she loved, and he walked along there in
that loving way with Mrs. Hart, her heart
burst forth once more, and she said ooh,
Frank, how can you torture me!" He said
nothing. Mrs. Hart suffered from her
hearing, and did not hear the remark. She
knows that the girl said something. She
was attracted toward her-and / direct
your attention to this, that she was within
four feet of her. and she did not hear that
hopeless wall that came from that poor
girls heart They passed little farther.
From that time the girl is unconscious as
TO what she did.
From the manner in which the ball en-
tered the mans head, as they passed she
must have hurriedly drawn that pistol from
her pocket. ran off toward the east at right
angles, and almost reached the railroad
track; because he must have stood just
about on the first track, as they approached
1t, when he was shot. Having arrived
within sthree feet of his head-yea, nearer
than that, because the card boards that MIR.
Lacon showed you prove that at three feet
distant from the mouth of that pistol the
powder scatterS over an extent of four or
i've or six inches in diameter, and DR..
I Meacham says that the powder marks
showed out around the front of the ear,
the ball going in about three inches above
the opening of the ear, and coming out
above the line of the center of the head in
dicating that 1T was held at an angle, and
indicating also that the little girl ran down
there, for about twenty feet, and reached
within two feet of that mans head when
she fired. Those must be the facts That
of Itself shows that that girl was craZed
and Irresponsible. She Just runs right
uown there.
LIKE A CRAZY PERSON,
and fired that gun. You have seen her
stand up here. She is only about so tall,
[lndicating. Hall, assuming him to be a
man Of ordinary heighJh-tive or SIX feet
tall and assuming that she got within two
or three feet of him, the ball would make
Just about the angie indicated.
SIZE hURRIEDLY RAN
from her station by that tree, hurridly drew
that gun from her pocket, ran down there
and shot within two feet of the man. upon
his left side. This mark here represents
the point where he fell indicating on plat
his head falling on the rail on this side
directed Major S1anton's attention to that
as taken in connection with the two walks
You see, therefore, that he was not walking
on the edge of that walk but was walking
toward the center, ana hence Mrs Harl
must have been within three or four feet Of
IL at girl when she passed down this side
and yet she was unable to hear the girl say
oh Frank, why do YOU torture men
Now, if she was within three or four fee
of that girl, and had been attracted to hel
by tle peculiar LOOK upon her countenance
by the "deviliSh" look In ner eye, ana was
looking at her at the very moment that the
girl spoke, and when she was not filed witt
excitement, as she wss after that shot haC
been fired, how can she say conscientiously
that she could hear what the girl said wher
she was twelve or fifteen feet away, and il
a moment of excitement! She says that
The girl stood up then coOlly and said
, Yes, and | will nix you, TOO" Il makes NJ
difference in this case whether you
believe that she said that or not, bu
simply direct your attention tt
the fact that it would be impossible fol
Mrs. Hart TO hear, at the distance of fifteeI
feet, as accurately as she could hear at tnG
Gi stance of four feet or three feet; and in
the latter case it was time WHEN she haC
plenty of opportunity to look and listen
and was attracted toward the person
while in the other case. when the girl wa:
fifteen feet away, it was Il moment of in
tense excitement, and people were gather
ing around. There is very little depend
ence to be placed upon her testimony upor
that point, and it has very little bearing in
the prosecution as showing an abandoned
and malignant heart. Suppose she die
say that! The girl has
NO RECOLLECTION OF IT.
Now, the girl testiies that immediatel!
after the man fell and her attention wa
; called to it.. she started and ran right dow
: the street. That shows how little sh
/ knows of what she aid ut that time Straul
and Wilson say that she started and RAJ
toward the east, and then, as if attracte
by something. turned and ran back towar
| the man whom she had just shot Then sh
started, partly staggering and partly run
ming and came down the walk toward Brig
l ham street She met them, passed in be
! tween them, and their attention was at
S tracted by her countenance and by tn
= wild look of her eyes. One of them say
| that sue looked like Il woman forty years o
age. DO You beGSVe that both those me
{ are classifying TO you! Both of them com
{ here and testify to that same look. An
isn't il a little strange that there was n
: person who saw this girl that night tina
4 was able to testify that she had the look q
/ a sane person-not Que: Everybody wa
4 attracted by the distracted countenancc
! Everybody was attracted by the wild loo
f in the eye. Everyone saw the hunted ex
). preston. Everybody said she did not hav
+ the appearance of Il sane person.
t She went down to Brigham Street Fror
r Brigham street she passed west, and met
: when she had got half way down here t
the policec station. blr. Murdock Muir
dock mad known her for years. He ma
I visited in the family. He was well &C
p ouainted with her And vet such was he
5 countenance that night, and such was Tn
Of