Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-31
RIDDLED TO DEATH.
Harry Hammond's Trial For the Kill
lng Of Little Robertson.
A MOTHERS POIGNANT GRIEF.
Testimony For the Prosecution begins
"A Ghastly EXh bit-rhc Dead
Boys Photograph.

year, at MOTOR Avenue, Eleventh
= nth, street commenced Ia the Third
District court this morning, Judge
Baftch presiding nj the ttlaL
Mfs. Hammond and her mother
arain sat beside the defendant, whose
uemeanor was one Of entire unconeern.
Geo.. Gaylor, Hammond's accom-
plice, was also present He, too, did
MT seem TO renlzs his position.
the prosecution was represented by
Assistant District Attorney Howat
viii Attorney d. J. Few associated;
Mrssrs. whiltemore and Waite de-
icHdUu.
A goojly number Of spectators were,
rs yesterday, seated In the rear Of tue
cIuft room.
The dead boy's father, mother aud
sister were seated during tic Jay ia
that PORTION u the court room act aiHtt
ior me accommodate on of thr public.
Alp. Robertson was vlsiDly Al
i,eteI al certain stages Uf the
iequify, especially when rcirf-
elCu was made to tue last moments
her CHILD, aud liktwisu when tue
b 0odetaiued, sh1t.gtddiUi garmuula o.
tue little fellow were uniOided rom
sheet OF newspaper aud exhibited for
the purpose oil evidence. hhU was Then
overwhelmed with grief gtd sued BIT
ter tears. The utad bOy's sister, Mary,
ALEC displayed c1usidufabli vm itiOn,
Aud the father with utiiuulty fet-
rinci his tears. Young uA.u mOnd
b VI forward and gg1ui onri1usly al
IA blood hesmifCutu co hlng, but
& ,erWisc etafdrd tho proceedings
vita Apparently aus llte Indifference.
Margaret ,. Robertson, mother OF
Ia uecvnHtd boy, WHO was nearly i've
....d hail ybAf4 Old At tue timrOi niH
uutOttuuatu death, WAS the nrst wit.
meas called LOT the prosecution. sue
aui her husband were absent
from home at the time %
fuc killing ut littu Clyde,
b I Mm. EIters1n now nyerr, u
tltt Hairy Hamut ul passed tue win
dtW,uf urt house ab0u I l'ciucA on he
afternoon OF the kiiiug carrying q
fuut uu ~ his hanu, anu SIC WED" Il
her ns he went uy; also upon his Return
coon Afterwards. he WIN accompanied
'y au lnrl 10Y, Wines hau not
ki.wu HammIud up to that time, aud
uiI not remember having seen him be-
,ofe.
Mary Robertson, aged II, sister Of
Clyde, ttsuutu that sue ana nor lltlu
tr0thcr were ia the back yEfd VI the
house at play on the afternoon Of the
kiIing. CLYDE was standing ON the
ivnct WHOM he was shot, nnl she went
- catch him a. ne fell. Tho discharge
came from tue direction VI Mr. WHIT
ilg's h9ust. Witness SAW lhu do,vnd-
hut hammond between II Rua ~
O'Clock the same morning, near this
housr. He called her brother "s-
Of b." AMI sad be would XII him
before nl.nt. size had never heard
him use threats before then. Her lille
bfnthrrhaI NOT been play Ing with tuu
Hammond anu q ylor bOys.
In cfOsi-t1a animation by Attorney
WniutnoIe the wituetB sud that
Harry Hammond threw stones at
Clyde during tho same morning, aud
that ono OF tbuta struck him on the
back Of ihe utus.
NJ. Whli.,mlIe-How do you know
that he meant Iiyuu when hu said lac
would kili hlm before uighH
WituUtE-bccauso be called him ~
his name.
AtIrn,y Whl;omoro was proceed
INK TO read the shorthand transcript OF
the questions anu answers upon the
examination OF tue witness beIOfo the
committing magistrate, when the pro.
teCuiiOu buOugly objected, c1ntcnding
that it WIS wholly Unfair Tor counsel to
nqursiiOn n witness IN tuch way.
- b. ID 10 a prolonged controversy
and the consequent consumption OF
some Il ar.
IN court ruled that while the de-
Tense might interrOga,e the witness
60 what SHE testified to az the pre-
lin nary examination, the direct
Tra Ing NJ the former questions auu
an 9era 10 that end WAS not allowable.
ino cr0sn.eInniiuGtiOn OF tho witness
VISA tedious aud weatisome process,
Bat nothing new was eliclted, aud
rne adhered closely to her examination
Ia chief,
George L.. Savage testified TO having
taken a photograph (produocd) of the
dead boy ia June last, by detection OF
DT. Benedict. The body, ut tue time,
lay nj Skewtb's undertaking establish
ment.
Henry l.. Whipple, a builder and
contractor, VIII. rosido, IN the neigh.
horhOOd Of Major avenue, near The
deceased boy'a pateuts' house, stated
that he was IN front Of his workshop at
the limo clyde was shot. Hearing the
report OF gun, followed hy screams,
lie went along and found Clyde Ia the
arms OF his sister Mary. Witness iOlk
the child flom her. lie then lay mo.
tionlesF, Tut few moments later
'stltlened out" anu was deaf. There
was dense powder smoke around, aud
witness came ACROSS "a shotgun, To,
Gently discharged, In the corner OF u
fence nenr by,
At the request " the prosecution the
wiinesu temporarily retired and DR.. J.
NJ. Benedict was called 10 the stand
lie simply teatlilsd that the b0y'a
uealh wna OccnslUued by RunshOt
wounds Ia The chest. The photograph,
again hnud. II b., showed the poor
tuy's chest % have been drilled all
over win small shut.l
MI Whipple was lhon recalled aud
was sllll uuuer examination when the
uOuT' adjourned for luncheon.
During the FOR noon Prosecuting
Attorney H0wat aud Attorney Waite,
NJ cOuuBrl Tor HE defense, had suudry
little slhia IN refer, nee to tbs admiss-
ability or uihetwiss OF certain piece, oi
tVi 20. nei htd aoverel limeH Judge
BtTich utemoi It nereWhr 10 qulstiy
iuterpuse aud call them tp order
When court re'usspmblpd this afltr.
noon Mr. Whlpple ugt Ia went upon the
witneastu.Du. He said 1t was ahou
4.3U pm. when ClS 10 WIS shot aud g