The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-25

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suit jump over Robinson's fence into our ,
lot, when we lost sight of him. We went |
on into the yard and met Mrs. Barratt, /
who told US that Clyde had been shot. |
saw no other boys about, and do aot
know who did the shooting"
DO you know that several parties saw
you and Hammond run from the yard
after the shooting?'
No replied Gayler, somewhat
DO you know that Clyde was killed
with No. shot, the same size that your
cartridges were loaded with, and that
girl says size saw you in the yard when
Hammond fred the shot?''
eAYLER BREAKS DOWN.
Gayler broke down completely here,
and bursting into tears said, ssWell, any
way, didn't fire the shot,
s'No one says you did, but if you are in
nocent, or the shooting was an accident,
don't you think you had better tell the
truth?''
Yes" replied the boy between his
sobs, ut would be better to tell
the truth, !" and then, realizing that this
was confession that he had not told
the cell, and refused to say anything
more.
Heber Gayler, aged about 10 was also
moved to tears when his brother broke
down and wouldn't talk at all, further
than to say that he thought ''they had
better tell the truth and not be sent to
the reform school,"
HARRY HAMMOND TALKS.
Harry Hammond. who Is believed
by the police to have fired the
fatal shot, was next seen and his
younger brother occupied a cell on the
upper floor. Harvey is only II years old,
but he possesses much more determine
ton than Gayler. When asked if he
would tell what he knew about the shoot
ing, he said: 81 went out hunting with
George Gayler this morning, taking my
fathers gun and fifteen cartridges. We
fired all the cartridges before we came
back, shooting the last two just the other
side of the river. When about block
from Robinson, we heard a shot and ran
towards the place.
ssWhat made you run there?o
"Oh, we thought somebody might be
killed. I thought my little brother
might have been killed. Well, when we
got there they told US Clyde was shot"
PLEADED NOT GUILTY.
''What did you do thenT'
'I went home and told my mother 1
didn't kill him.
What made you tell her that?"
"Well, she had heard about it,"
ssDid your mother think you had killed
him?"
81 guess she thought so, but she felt of
the gun barrels and found they were cold,
and that showed my gun hadn't been
fired lately.'
''But that was at least half an hour
after the shooting.'
'Maybe it was, but anyhow mother
felt OF the gun and don't know anything
about this shooting at ALL"
''You know that girl who was look
ing through the fence says she saw you
fire the shot?''
The boy at once lost his nonchalent air,
and replied in the negative.
"You know MIR. Whipple, don't youW
'sYes.''
s'If he says he saw you running out of
the lot after the shot was fired, what do
you say?'
Hammond wavered moment and then
followed Taylor's example by breaking
down and beginning to sob.
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD PRISONER.
The reporter next turned his attention
to Carl Hammond, aged z, who said that
he stopped at a place where they herd
COWS while his brother and Gayler went
shooting, but met them when they came
back and was walking toward Robinson's
with them. The boy was going on to re-
late what occurred after that, when his
brother interfered and promptly put
an end to the conversation.
MURDERED BY HAMMOND.
The fact that these boys mad a quarrel
In the morning with some other boys,
Clyde Robinson probably being one of
mond fire the shot, that others saw the
four boys running away immediate Y
after the shooting, that their cartridges
were loaded with very small shot, OF the
same size as those with which the boy
was killed, that Gayler stated to Detec-
tive Sheets that he saw Hammond
''throw his gun on Clyde and shoot"
make it exceedingly difficult to reach any
other conclusion than that Harry Ham
mond did the shooting and did it inten-
tionally. And appalling as this conclu-
sion is, the officers who investigated the
case are completely satisfied that it is the
correct one.
THE CoRoNER's INVESTIGATION.
Coroner Taylor reached the scene of the
i, tragedy about the same time as the police
now at the morgue. The victim OF the
tragedy was a beautiful child. He re-
ceived the full charge of shot in his
breast, the lungs and heart being pene-
trated, causing instant death. The COR
oner has the shotgun and about peck of
cartridges found at Hammond's house in
his possession, and was busily engaged
last evening in arranging for the inquest,
which will be held tomorrow morning.
| WAS HIS MOTHERS IDOL.
AS stated before, both Mr.. and Mrs.
Robinson were away from home when the
shooting occurred, and Mr.. Gaylor, a
neighbor, whose son is implicated in the
affair, at once clme up town to notify
them. He succeeded in finding them and
! informed them that Clyde had met with
an accident. When the mother reached
home and learned the truth her grief was
something terrible to witness. Clyde
was her only boy ana she fairly
idolized him. The DOOR woman
seemed to think she had been
to blame for not taking him up town
with her, saying she had a premonition
that something would happen to him.
Mr.. Robinson is we'll known in the COM
munity as a contracting mason, and for
some time he has been engaged more OF
less in the real estate business with A. J
White, and during conference he acted as
a special police officer.
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