The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-19
RHYMES STORY
As He Told 1t Upon the Witness
Stand.
BETRAYED BY HIS FRIEND
The Interview with His Wife When She
Made Confession OF Her Guilt-He Did
Not Know He shot Montgomery.

LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 1s.-[Special tele-
gram to THE HERALD. 1.-The eighth day Of
the Irvine trial was profuse of incidents.
All day the court house was crowded,
especially the rallied enclosure designed for
the occupancy of attorneys and litigants.
Scores of ladies were IN attendance when
the court opened in the morning and the
number increased until the adjournment of
court when every chair was taken.
The defendant who was on the stand o
greater part of yesterday afternoon was
recalled when court met this morning. His
testimony yesterday WAS relative to the
discovery of his wife's ipfdelity and the
circumstances surrounding her intimacy
with Montgomery.
The first question asked him this morn
ing WAS concerning the meeting with his
wife at the Wellington hotel at Chicago,
her confession and their conversation as to
the future. After they talked for a while
he asked her whom he should send for her
mother or her brother.
She implored not to send for the brother
what he was going to do with himself; he
replied that he did not know VIVA. would
become of him, he would kill himself.
| She leaped to her feet and exclaimed:
81 will do it; will do it," He started TO
leave the room and she said she would fol-
low him. He refused to allow her and she
said she was going anyhow. She would go
to drug store.
He then detailed his visit to the Grace
hotel, the payment of money to the clerk
and the porter and the securing of the tell
tale page of the register and the look at the
rooms occupied by the couple which ad-
joined aud connected with door. Hs rec
ognized his wife's handwriting on the reg
lister which bore the name of Mira j. II.
Miller"
He returned to the Wellington and found
his wife lying on the sofa partly uncon-
scious with the smell Of chioroform strong
in the room, he finally awakened her and
asked whom he should send for, finally she
asked that her mother be sent for aud it
was done.
Meanwhile be again questioned her re-
garding her intimacy with Montgomery
and she acknowledged she had CORE
sponed with Montgomery since 1890. He
had addressed her IS sweetheart. Had
told her all about his business affairs and
been kind to her. He told her that her
husband was untrue to her and did not
treas her right,
"Why" asked Judge Powers, who was
conducting the examination, did you come
to Lincoln."
ITO sse MIR. Abbott, the nearest friend 1
| A. -
and ask him for Gods sake TO help me-"
was the reply.
"Did you come TO Lincoln to shoot Mr.
Montgomery
Il did not" was the reply In curious
blending of emphasis aud tearfulness. al
never thought of such a thing"
He described his visit as nearly as he
could recollect from his dazed condition Of
mind to the hotel, to MIR. Abbott's home, to
his old residence, there and back to the
hotel, his wanderings around there and his
awakening few days later in prison. He
could not understand for long time why
he was confined.
| All this time he was conscious of bright
halo of light, now In front and now by side
and again in his rear 1t followed him at
sll times, while at the same time be felt as
though a thousand electric wires
were pricking his body, he felt
as though he were burning up with heat
yet he wsa cold.
| He had no recollection of Smith and did
not remember OF having seen Montgomery,
Upham, Richards, Dorgan or any Of the
witnesses who testified to seeing him No
memory of the shooting or of going up to
the dining room, but has sn impression of
the halo exploding and disappearing
| He had not the slightest idea of killing
Montgomery and first learned that he had
done so after his arrest. He had eaten
nothing for twenty four hours and had not
slept for two nights, and only after he had
been removed to the peniten6iary did he
sleep.
| At the conclusion of Irvine's testimony
a number of insanitary experts were ex-
amined. They described the symptoms of
the different phases of mental trouble and
the conclusion reached was that Irvine was
insane.
| An affecting incident of the proceedings
yesterday and today was the presence in
the court room for brief time of little
F'lossie, the eight-year- old daughter of Ir-
vine. Her tears mingled with those of her
father and did not fail to create an impress
sion favorable to the prisoner
BURNED TO DEATH.