The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-06
THE NELSON nIURDER CASE.
Several Witnesses Examined Yesterday
but Nothing New Developed.

Several Witnesses Examined Yesterday,
but Nothing New Developed.
Provo, April 5.-David Porter. who
gave testimony last evening in the Neil
son murder case, was cross examined at
considerable length by Mr.. Thurman.
He accounted for every moment of time
that elapsed from the moment he heard
the shot until late in the evening. Neil
son, the defendant, was seen at the bank
few moments after the shot and it was
the object of the defense to show
that he was there during the shoot
ing. The witness said the shot was
fired at or little after. Other witnesses
will state that Peter was at the bank five
minutes before and labout five minutes
after o'clock. Ii it is shown that the
shot was fired ten minutes before or ten
minutes after Z, the defense expect to
make point, as they can then account
for Peters presence. Witness chung to
the opinion that the shot was fired about
o. CLOCK, or Immediately after.
THE PHYSICIANS TESTIMONY.
DIR. 4. G.. Davidson has been a ply
stefan for twenty three years; he was
present at Mt. Pleasant the evening OF
the shooting. The first witness gave
him information about the affair and he
went to NELSON'S house, where he saw
the wounded man, who said he was shot
through the heart. The ball entered the
breast OF Nielsen, about an inch to the
left of the breast bone, and came out
near the arm pit. The doctor
life became extinct, and assigned
the cause to be the result of gun shot
wound. Davidson dug the ball from the
wall, where it went from NELSON'S body;
it was sunk about two inches in the wall.
There was broken window at the west
side of the house, where the ball entered.
On cross-examination the doctor said
he thought Tor time that Nelson would
recover.
Porter told the witness that the shot
was fired about clock.
D. Olsten testified as to the wound, and
stated that the ball passed within three
fourths of an inch of the heart and was
necessarily mortal.
DIRECTOR ANDERSON ON THE STAND.
Rasmus Anderson was familiar with
matters and things about Mt. Pleasant,
and was associated with Nielsen in the
banking business. Peter was book
keeper and his father was cashier. Wit
ness is director. About 1880 the even
ing of the occurrence, he heard OF Nielsen
being shot. He left home at O'Clock
by the watch accompanied by little
boy. It was six blocks to the bank and
he came along to that point at a moder,
ate rate. Upon arriving there he looked
into the bank and saw that the lamp
was in an unsual Iplace on "a table
in the center OF the room, but could see no
one. The south blind was down, but he
could see under it. The east and south
east window blinds were up. Witness
went block and half west to store,
where Porter came, and told of the shoot
ing. Andersen thought he must have ar
rived at the bank at about 7:15, and while
he was meandering about the bank he
saw no one enter or come out of the bank,
and did not think any one could have
done so unless he saw them.
The instructions of the directors were
that the blinds be up, SO that officers or
any one passing could see II everything
was all right.
When the witness went to Nelson's, a
conversation took place between him and
sistent objection was made against this
conversation being gone into, as it related
to the disposition of Neilsen's property,
wherein he only willed his boy $50. The
objection was sustained.
Witness discovered tracks twelve or
thirteen feet away from the west WINDOW
where the shot was supposed to have been
fired. The tracks led west, and the
maker OF them jumped the fence near the
corral. At the window the left foot
was forward, indicating that rife had
been used if the person who shot was q
righthanded man. The tracks were then
examined by the city marshal. Over
shoes were on the person who made the
tracks; they were fine ones, rather mar
row and long, probably No. 6 or z.
When Anderson went back to the bank
that night the southwest blind had been
pulled up, but no one was seen in there.