The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-26
PAR TX CITY.
TUESDAY,
April &c.
A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Murder and Attempted Suicide-"Patsy" Trot-
man Shoots His Niece in Fit of Jealousy.

Murder and Attempted Suicide-''Patsy" Trot-
man Shoots His Niece in Fit of Jealousy.
Park City has undoubtedly been the
, scene during the past six weeks of enough
excitement and crime to last the balance of
3 the year, though it is not often that the
annals of crime show such shocking one
as that perpetrated on Sunday last.
, Hope Fuelling, the daughter of A. H.
Fuelling, proprietor of the City bakery in
this city, was bright and pretty pert young
miss Of seventeen years. Numberless suit
ors have been paying their attentions to
her, but among them all she appeared to
prefer the society of one Louis Paradise.
This fact has been a source Of great annoy
ance to her parents, who, for reasons of
their own. did not approve of their
daughters choice.
Patsy" or more properly speaking,
Milton Trotmau, the murderer, was in
censed az his niece on account of his rival,
for, besides being the girls uncle, he was
also sutton for her hand. The girl, as
stated before, had given her preference to
Paradise, and Trotman, who possessed a
mean and violent temper, had once threat
F! This threat had apparently little effect upon
her. AT the same time she was engaged to
one I. Witten, who is at present travelling
in Germany, but she did not like him.
On Sunday, before the preparation of
the crime the girl had either inadvertently
or purposely met young Paradise at the
, Utah Central depot, about 2 o'clock. Trot-
man, who happened to be in that vicinity at
the time, saw the meeting, and the sight
threw him into perfect frenzy. He "cut
4 across lots' and met the couple walking
down the Utah Central track just beside
! Rasband's slaughter house. He emerged
9 from clump of willows beside the track
o and began talking in violent manner to
the couple, at the same time flourishing a
! revolver.
Young Paradise, seeming danger, started
to run toward the east, followed by tw 0
y harmless shots from Trotman The girl,
! upon hearing the shots, started to run, and
the now thoroughly infuriated man fol
d lowed. The girl had run a distance OF
e probably two or three hundred feet, then
. started across Louis Snyder's field. Trot-
man followed, and when he was about
: fifteen feet from the fleeing girl, opened
e fire. shooting twice in quick succession.
t The girl fell at the last shot, the first hay
: ing hit her in the small of the back and the
- other at the base of the skull 1t is pre-
I sumed that she died instantly, as when
Trotman reached her she was dead. The
: man lay down beside her, and putting. he
/ pistol, a IS calibre bulldog, and which con
, tanned but the one charge, to his forehead
S pulled the trigger and fired
[. News was brought to town by an en-
), ployee of the Mayfower mine, and Marshal
Bennett and Policeman Joe McGhie were
r soon on the spot where horrible sight mel
their gaze.
70 The poor girl lying in the cold embrace
p of death and beside her, groaning witt
II pain, was the murderer. Marshal Bennett
o Immediately sent to the city for. " convey
e ance, and when it arrived the dead CIR
1t was sent to her parents home in the real
Il of the City bakery. Trotman was taken tt
- the city hall, where he was examined by
j, Doctors Wilson and LeCompe After prob
e ing, the bullet was found embedded two
'o inches Immediately behind the fronta
10 bone. During Sunday night he passed the
" time very uncomfortably. Three or fou1
l. Jllu6S ulu LIZ NULull, anu GdCu lI1uS Sllld-
= particles of brain matter may have beer
N observed. His right side appeared to b.
paralyzed, and he seemed incapable o
id motion on that side.
O. In conversation with
A. h. FUELLING,
PC the murdered girls a,her, he said:
at was entirely unexpected to me
On though 1 thought something serious nigh
ae come of the girls attention TO Paradise
" Her mother and have told her time ate
rt time to keep away from him, but to n
Id avail. The girl would stick with him
KS Trotman is pretty well off. He owns con
e. siderable property in Los Angeles, and
L. interested in the bakery with me-"
70. In answer to the question; what kin
s of a man is Trotman!" he said, "Weil,
re have always found him peaceable enough
drinks very little, but is possessed of on
of the meanest tempers have ever seen
a person"
20 Continuing, he said: ~ do not see VIII
Trotman should shoot the girl; it seems t
en- me he would have vented his wrath o
Paradise"
se The poor mother is nigh heart-broken.
When the news of the murder of hi
IN daughter reached him, Mr.. Fuslling we
sitting in his store reading the paper. c
Se a sudden a wagon drove up, and the drive
alighting, informed him that his daughte
was killed
cd The feeling in the city is very stron
against Trotman and whispers are hear
he all over the city to the effect that in cas-
ny, he should by some manner might get wei
ito lynching may follow.
ed The girl was very well liked in the cit,
and the crime has placed a gloom over II
40, entire city.
Groups of men hover about all publ
is places, and IN front of the city hall, whel
en- the man is lying, all excitedly discussir
the matter.
ais The bullet has not been extracted fro
Is Trotman, and it is expected he will die.
no TIE INQUEST.
IN The inquest over the body of Miss Hov
Fuelipg was held in the court house We
he terday at 30 p. NJ, Messrs. E. c. William
srt son, a. 4. Richardson ana j. II. Roger
o. acting as jurors. with Coroner Watson pr
siding.
10 During the time before the examinatic
SIS the jury examined the pistol with whil
-, the deed had been committed. The pist
w is q 3S-cali5re American bull dog. TT
chambers were all empty.
at A. II. Fuelling, the girls father, beir
no sworn, testified: l am by occupation
De baker I am the father of the decease
My daughter was II years and months OIL
ON The last time l saw her was when al
lat went down to visit the ranch, to see II
L. sa