Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-10
ADJACENT CITIES
PROVO.


Regular Nets Correspondence.
Provo, April l0.--rho testimony In
the Nelson parrlcide case was CON
cluded on Saturday last. The defend
ant WINS placed on the stand. Aitef
making the preliminary statement that
he was 90 years Of age. tue eldest oil
four children, and that he had helped
support the family before his employ
ment In the bank, he came to the nigh'
OF the tragedy. On that evening he lett
homo ut $3.50 to 20 TO the bank. Hewen'
on the street west Of Main. On the
way he went into the Fisk saloon, got
u couple OF cigars, and then went into
the Oman hotel office 10 look at some
bank statements as Published In the
Salt Lake papers. From here he pro-
ceeded directly 10 the bank, to attend
to correspondence, M was usual. He
picked up paper and read short
time before commencing work. He
stepped out Of the bank for minute or
two during the evening, and while he
was ut the bank, Mr.. Rosensione, who
Ia In Pattison, New Jersey, came to
tho bank door. At 1880, he received
word OF his father being shot, and
with his informant, he won't to his
fathers side. From his grandmothcrs
he went home on account OF illness.
In tho morning, he went to see his
father, and while there covered up the
tracks with blanket. After he had
gone TO bed on tho night OF the shoot
tug, Mr.. Anderson, n director OF the
bank, came for tho keys. He refused
to deliver them ~ his father alone was
responsible for tho keys. He was In
formed by his father and mother on
the morning following the shooting,
thai he was suspected OF having COM
mitted the crime, and ON seeing
Sheriff Burns, he handed over his re-
volver. There were four cartridges
with the gun at the bank. He un.
loaded the gun on the Friday proceed.
Ing the shooting for tho purpose oil clean.
Ing the gun, but had not cleaned
II, rs the ramrod was not at hand. He
had an Idea, and had had all the time
Nm 10 who shot his father, but he did
not commit the deed. His father died
In his arms. A pair Of old ovorshoes
were identified by the Defendant rs
being his.
Nielson's testimony ON direct OK
animation was delivered In frank,
Straightforward manner, but when Mir.
Zane directed n steady gaze NJ him
aud subjected him TO a most severe
oatechisation, he first Looame technical,
then short and snappiah and finally u
little indifferent IN his replies.
A shoemaker testified to a measure.
ment OF Nelson's old shoe being .Ol
inches. (rhe tracks Ia the snow
measured 81 inches.)
Two witnesses testified that tho
father, q short time before his death,
had stated that he did not believe
Peter was guilty.
A couple ofwitnesses were examined
In rebuttai. Two days will perhaps be-
occupied by tho attorneys IN arguing
the case.
II has been suggested by one Of the
ecent employees OF the Deseret Paper
Mills Go. that In the event OF the mills
being rebuilt II would Mt least be feast.
BILE, AMI perhaps advisable, to put In q
wood pulp plant on Provo river. neal
the mouth OF Provo canyon. Wood,
which forms two.thirds OF Manila
paper, could there no obtained In
abundance at n comparatively smnl
cost, and the water power Of tha
vicinity Is unoxcelled In the west.
The building Of the new COngre'
gatiOnal church Mt the corner OF J anu
Tenth streets has been contracted tC
Cummings a Daily. Work Is to com
mence Mt once.
Winter apparently il not over yet
The people Of Utah valley awakened
from their slumbers on Sunday morn
Ing TO find the ground covered with
snow, with here and there u plant OF
flower peeping through the whit,
expanse.
A case OF diphtherla has appeared IN
the First ward. The patient Ia an In
FAINT.
Deputy Marshal Clark went TO Sal
Lake yesterday 10 get Enoch Davis, tn,
murderer, ana bring him before Judge
Black burn and arrange for his sen
lence. Hector Green, the alleged horst
thief, will also DO brought down from
the pen to be tried.