The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-31
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them, it is impossible to believe that
he was not trying TO prevail upon MS
wife to give him q confession.
After his trial and acquittal, ana
about the 10th day OF November, 1872,
be desired an interview with his wiie
at the city of Omaha. and he secured
it through Mr.. Austin. Mr.. Ausun
suggested that they meet at his house,
where the defendant was staying, put
the plaintiff preferred that the meet
ing should be away from her relatives
and at the hotel and a room at the
Mercer hotel, in the city of Omaha, was
secured On the 18th day OF NoVem-
her 1892 she went TO the room After
she had been there some little llIfle.
Mr. Irvine came in. He came III, as
she said, walking with q cane; he had
the appearance Of a man greatly en-
aciated, and wasted by trouble and
distress. In fact, the plaintin himself
saws he had been in great distress and
was at that time, as he naturally
would be.
He asked her, in substance, If she
was willing to trust him, and if she
was willing to aid him. She says that
she was moved by his appearance, by
his enlaciated condition, ard she told
him that she was willing to do any
thing. He then, after some CONVERSE
ton, asked her for some bank stock
that he had given her. and & contract,
or writing, by which he had undertaken
TO settle upon her a large sum Of
money; L believe near twenty thousand
dollars, and also a paper in which he
had consented that the wife might
have the custody Of their daughter.
She told him that this property was
in the hands of Mr. Austin, and she
consented to obtain it. Mr. Austin,
having received it from Mr.. Smith,
who it appeared received ii from the
defendant, did not want to deliver it,
The plaintiff insisted upon it. and the
defendant insisted that Mr.. Austin
should give il up, and legal proceed
ings were suggested to compel Mr..
Austin TO give it up. and finally he did
give up everything but the paper
which gave to her the custody of the
child
The plaintiff also, as the defendant
says, expressed great affection for her.
He staid there several hours that day,
and the next day he again visited her.
on the 18th. at the same hotel, and
had a long talk with her He spoke of
his distress of mind He referred to
visions of Montgomery, dead. He re-
ferred to dark clouds. He asked his
wife. as she says. to go to the bed.
and join him. and they went there and
laid upon the bed. and talked the mat
ter all over; and there. as she states,
they resumed matrimonial .coha bitatiou.
This he denies. She states that they
were not undressed: that they got out
Of bed. and he put his arms around
her, spoke of her as his wife. EXPRESSED
his attachment for her and said to let
bygones be bygones and referred to the
future, and the happiness that awaited
them and the child: and with his arms
around her he prayed. She had never
-,-I = he -l,1 e-4~
a PRAYER does not mean much for peo-
pie who do not believe in il, but for
those who do believe in it. it is the
most sacred thing in the world, the
most sacred act that a person can per-
form. Through that. the believer in
prayer believes that the petition
reaches the ear OF the infinite God.
that being Who glances through all
DISCUSSES and sees the motives. and the
Intentions Of the petitioner A person
who SO believes cannot understand how
the petitioner can be insincere. with a,
being who is the author of all things,
who sees through all DISCUSSES, and
SEES the motive of the petitioner as it
is. On such a person as that prayer
undoubtedly has great effect. This eff
feet, IL seems, was produced upon this
wife. He prayed three times and final
~ he desired that she should give him
a confession. He had been acquitted.
to be sure. but his justification must
stand still and stood before that tri-
bunal before which all self-respecting
men quail at last. public opinion. He
wanted to be justified. He wanted it.
probably, as the evidence shows. for
another purpose He wanted it for the
purpose of using in the obtaining Of a
divorce While processing great love
ana attachment for his wife. while
giving to her that assurance which if
given to a YirtuouS wife is unqueSuon-
ably most potent and most powerful
having sexual intercourse with her, he
said, that they we're TO live together;
he spoke OF q home in New England
and in foreign lands; and while he had
the intention of getting this for his use
for d divorce. he misied her. The ev-
idence shows that. IL must be regard
ed as a deception which he was prac-
ticing or her, He must be regarded as
having been inSincere at that time in
his statements to her and in his PRO-
fessions Of great love for her.
Those interviews show that at those
times he was guilty of the greatest of
insincerity and treachery. No honest
man could do as he did there. and
think the evidence shows it, No truth
ful man could do ii.
Afterwards, and during these inter
views. in which ne says that nothing
improper occurred between him and
MS wife, assuming that he intended to
locked the door upon one of these occa-
sions; that he closed the transom;
that the lights were out: that they
stayed in the room until II o'clock at
night. in the dark, on the bed. Mr..
Austin states that he came to the door,
that there was no light coming through
the transom, that there was no light
in the room, and that about 8 O'Clock
he raped on the door. After while
mr.. irvine came and unlocked the
door. as he said. Mr.. Twins says the
door was not locked, but il was open.
Mr. Austin said he could see that he
struck a light, came to the door and
unlocked it; that he heard him unlock
it He said his hair was diSheVelled
as a mans hair would be if he had
been lying on the bed. Here is Mr..
Austin'S testimony against him. / must
say that Mr. Austin, so far as any
thing that occurred on this trial, and
his department on the stand, showed
him to be at least apparently a candid,
honest, truthful man, and ! am dis
posed to believe that he told the truth.
believe, from this evidence, that
this woman substantially told the truth
as TO that. She states that when he
insisted on this confession, and she
told him it was not true, he said if
she would give it to him it would be
"a great comfort 10 him: that he wanted
70 wear it nearest his heart; referring
to the visions, and the trouble, referr-
ing to MONTGOMERY and he was peti-
tioning her to give him that confession,
accompanied and attended with prayer
Under all the circumstances she finally
said TO him. If you want il to carry
with you on your journey, You can have
It but suppose you should be killed.
and this should be found out, it would
disgrace me" He said, as she says,
that he would seal it up and direct it
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