The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-25
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OGDEN DEPT.
RERaLp BRUNCH OFFICE,
513 yTAR LOAN & TRUST BUILDING.
Ogden, October %.
couGHLIN AND GEORGE.


The attorneys for Patrick Coughlin
did some hard work after the adjourn
ment of court Wednesday evening. 1t
I seemed apparent to many that a weak
case had been made out, and for the
! defense only one witness had been e1-
amined and that one Upton, a man
| serving in the penitentiary for the crime
| of horse stealing. The defense have all
along insisted that it was not ready for
| trial, and have urged delay on all pos
slple occasions. After the adjournment
| OF court when it had been already de-
clded to begin the arguments at the
! opening of court yesterday morning, the
attorneys declared that they had some
Bartch they got an order for subpoena
Tor the witness, and getting the clerk
| out of bed secured the necessary papers.
a deputy marshal left about midnight,
looking for a man named Moss, whom
1t was thought knew something about
the case. The court allowed the case to
be reopened yesterday morning and the
testimony of this witness taken. 1t then
developed that this man did not know
about it. but that his brother did, and
on the man making statement to me
would testify TO, the case was continued
till Saturday and a subpoena was dis
patched for the other Moss.
Attorneys were reticent as to what
this mans testimony would be, saying
that they could not disclose it until the
proper time, but the confidence with
which they assert that the evidence VIII
clear their client, is such as to be
worthy of a Depreuy They say tlslt
having secured this important testimony.
the instructions which they had expected
TO ask from the court would have to be
discarded. The attorneys for the defense
were in high glee over the brighter out
look for their man, but the prosecution
seemed in no whit disconnected. They
took the delay as a necessary out unfor-
tunate incident, and governed themselves
accordingly.
From conversation with Coughlin and
others apt to know something of the
case a Herald reporter learned enough
to be pretty sure that this man Moss
testimony is expected to be to the effect
that he heard Constable Stagg say that
he intended to shoot Coughltn on sight
The prosecution introduced some testi-
mony yesterday morning to the effect
that Coughlin had made d similar threat
against Stage.
Just prior 10 the opening of court yes
terday afternoon, Coughlin became
quite laxative. and said he thought
Cook. the deputy marshal who had gone
out into the mountains TO find Moss,
would have a hard time of it, as he had
heard the man was a sheep herder and
might be anywhere within hundred
miles of the place where Cook was go
ing. The success or failure of Cook was
bearing on his chances of acquittal did
not seem to enter into his thoughts. He
seemed to take it as rather a good joke
on Cook to have to take such a trip:
He was interested in looking at the
pedestrians crossing the street from the
Utah Loan and Trust building, to the
z. c. NJ. l corner. 81 bet that girls from
the'fcountry" he SAID indicating a lady
with market basket on her arm Il
wonder if she has butter and eggs in
her basket"
He also called attention in a some
what fippant fashion to very pretty
girl with bows Of green ribbon on her
dress crossing the street. He would
laugh and joke when two pedestrians
would run into each other, and his com
ments would be Of such nature and
accompanied by laughter that seemed
appropriate for any one rather than a
man with two indictments for murder
hanging over him.
Later in the afternoon Deputy Marshal
Cook returned having by rare good for
tune met the man he was looking for
in the canyon on his way up to the sheep
range. Whether the court will now re-
scind the order of postponement of the
case till Saturday or will resume the case
today IS not known.
After the noon adjournment the case
of Frederick George, implicated with
Coughlin, was called. AS was expected
his attorneys, Gilbert Boreman and Viii
liam H. Smith, moved for a continuance
on the ground mat they were not ready
for trial and supported this by an atti-
davit. The court, however, overruled the
motion and called the case. The attOr-
neyS LOOK exception TO the ruling Snd
asked that the record show that the
court had granted motion that the de-
PENDANT, George, have a separate trial
and that the case of COughlin was still
on trial when the George case was called.
The record will show this. me time yes
terday afternoon was spent in examining
jurors for the George case.
An ingenious theory of defense seems
to have worked somewhat in the case of
Coughlin., This theory is that Stage was
the one who shot Dawes. Their respective
positions would make this possible if
Stage. were not at himself 1t was ap-
parent that this theory was in the minds
of the attorneys as was shown by their
cross examination in manner meant to
show that the position of the body and
location of the wound. in Dawes body
bore out this theory, There was also an
attempt to prove that the wound N
Dawes body was made by a larger bullet
than could be, if from the gun of Cough
lin.
However, the discovery of the new wit
ness seems to have turned their efforts
into the line of self defense
POLITICAL, POINTERS