Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-22
THE wHlTE.MARsHALL CASE.
preliminary Examination Before Com
missioner Cross. NJ Ogdcu'


m, wbue.Manhall adultery case
... hoard before Comni.sIouer Cross
y,.t,riay. The time had been SCI iof
. a. M. but II was fully O'Clock be-
s,re the case was taken up. MI Am
',n pro,ecuted and l.. II. Rogers anu
G. X. Pash deiunded'
Mis-. Anna Mortesen testified mat
,stndant had visited Mr.. }. Wheel.
,rishp. house while Miss Mar'hHli
cas- staying there and spent the even
ing with her. ,,.,-
Geo. wheelwrigbi testified to White
keeping company with the girl on hef
visits " Ogden. He had seen 'nenl
onl together ~ late a. 10 O'Clock, ana
had seen them At ma querade na'I''
witness had y ring Of Miss Marshal'-
aud received letter from deichnhh'
4, die effect that though lie might
tbink i, Orange to got letter "as M
vle. requested mo to write
ysu concerning ring You nave
b,louginE 10 her Il d. nol
nd of plsce. Please leave u ttio
y,ns, Al her auut's, Mrs. Joe Whtnl-
,,,hiu Witness sen, word bacf 20
T,isr,iant telling him to tell Helen 90
-. M a she hal borrowed" The
t.,isr Va pfodurrd Rnl tie siRnNturr
10y. ACKNOWLEDGED, but dcluniant
'isim.I ID was a JOKE. lie was per-
mitt,i ~ requttl the attendance OF w"
wlinssses. .,,.,.t.
IN h,rnished rooms on Grant; that
white engaged room there ana liNeu
there for three weeks aud three days.
h.. came there with Mis-. Marshall and
intr0Juced her At Mrs. White; they
came there ns late NJ II O'Clock IN the
eyening and went up stnifp togelhoti
Ina the morning there was only ohc
led In the two rooms occupied ~
Waite and Helen, and 20 demand Tor
another war made, the bed had been
oreupi, d during each .'ghl; clothing
worn by Helen was hanging ON the
rack.
40 far NJ seeing them together ia the
evening and often heani voices ahd
other noises IN the adjoining rooms
ocospied by white ana Helen, " late
Hs midnight.
Is. JUs.up testi fed that he had seen
White and Helen together at theif
rooms; White called her Nellie ana nj
one tune eaid: "rheru's ~ nice aglfl
as YOU ever saw, aud 80 / get rid OF my
family troubles t'll marry her."
On cross.examination he said ne had
seen no lmpropriotles.
Helen Marshall testified that she
was IS years old; have known While
FOR ten Year,; have known him for the
past wear aud half; white had de-
Tended a cousin Of mine several times
I went with my aunt to Whites orlce
two OF three TIME; have never been
married 10 Mr.. White and never l0id
anybody 30; White rented a room
Tor myself and my aunt because
We asked him 10 do ~; j don't
understand that White Introduced
inc M his wife Ia Mrs. Brown
White did not stay with mci White
would take me home 1T times anu AZ
other times would come up anu take
me TO breakfast; at that time | knew
him to be married; ut times went Out
buggy.Tiding With White; | was under
bonds for Few days after the arrest
and when released went upWlth White
~ hi. office.
]. T.. Wallace testified lac had had
several conversations. The last time
he eald that "hiiss Marlhall was
good vlrtuous girl until lac tWhilel
met her;" also that he had not seen ms
wife for i've years but no WAS Wiling
to 20 bsck and care for her aud care for
the children, and asked me 10 speak TO
her aud ask her, Mrs. White, to forgive
90 d had a Ia
further said that Miss MRfshall got
advantage Of her.
On cross-examination the witness
stated that White was not talking with
MIN Professionally because he already
had lawyers 10 defend him aud thUTe
was no money In sight for another en-
gagement. Write was talking too much
Tor sober man.
This ended the case fdr the prosecu.
tiou, and the defense put defendant on
The stand. 10 direct questions lac
stated that he had never been unduly
Intimate with Miss Aiarahall; had never
introduced her ~ his wife of talked OF
her AZ being his wife. lie denied
the truth OF Wallace's testimony; said
Wallace had sworn falsely anu that
he was "psrRlyzed drunk" at the
line named. Wallace was pumping
me aud giviHg me advice about my
family, that II was shame to
leave them, etc; what told
him was that she was suffer.
ing through my association. On
Gtosz-eHami nation hc stated that dur.
ing the past two year, he had prac.
ticed law, worked In the sheriii's
Office, In the saloon business aud In
training prize fighters. lie said Miss
Mgnhalps character was unbleuished
and tho newspapers were seeking TO
ruin her character.
At tho close OF the testimony the
case was briefly presented by each
aine and tho commissioner reserved his
declslOn until today.