The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Inc preliminary hearing or hose
Browning on the charge of poisoning
Alvin Green, was resumed yesterday
morning before Justice Sanders at
| Murray. DR.. Nesbitt was examined for
the prosecution and testified in effect
that he had known the deceased for a
| long time and had been in his COM
pany on the day before he died. He
was strong, healthy man and al
/ though sometimes addicted to drink,
could take a good deal of whisky with
out it producing any apparent effect
on him.
Saloonkeeper Maxfield testified that
he had seen the deceased, man
named Anderson and the woman drink
ing in a, saloon in this city, and that
the next morning the two men came
to his saloon in Murray, they were
both drunk and Green complained of
being sick. They had some whisky and
Green asked to be allowed to lie down
in the back room. He lay down about
8 o'clock and at u the witness heard
him snoring, apparently fast asleep,
and at in the afternoon he again
went to see how he was and found him
laying dead. Witness at once called a
doctor but nothing could be done for
Green.
SLEPT ON THE BILLIARD TABLE.
The bartender at the saloon kept
by Mrs. Paffin said that about o'clock
in the morning of the day on which
Green died Green, Andrews and the
woman came to his saloon in a wagon.
They We're all very drunk, but ordered
and drank more whisky and the de-
ceased brought out of his pocket
quart bottle about half full of whisky.
Witness placed it on the sideboard and
1t remained there untouched until
about Z o'clock Green and the woman
lay down on the billiard table and
Andrews reclined on the cot. They
slept in a drunken stupor until to-
wards Z o'clock when he woke them up
and then they all drank from the bot
tie Green had left with witness before
they went to sleep.
The woman went to Mrs. Paff1ns
house ana about o'clock the two men
drove north to Maxfield's saloon.
Andrews, Green's companion, was
examined but he could remember very
little of what happened. He said he
was too drunk to know anything
One or two other witnesses were ex-
amined, but their testimony was unim-
portant. 1t was claimed that Green
had 81 in his pocket when he left
home the day previous to his death,
and that Andrews had $40 and neither
had any when their spree terminated
A MORPHINE FIEND.
The constable who arrested the wo-
man said he found her at Mrs. Paffin's
house in Murray on March ?, where
she had been for several days He did
not search her, but she told him she
was in the habit of using morphine and
could not get along without it. She
had a white powder in bottle which
witness supposed was morphine She
had about $3.50 worth of jewelry and
diamonds and $11.50 in money when ar
rested
HELD TO THE GRAND JURY.
There being no evidence to connect
the woman with the crime if crime
there was, the defendants attorney.
w. R. Hutchinson, put in no testimony.
but asked for a dismissal The broth
ers of the dead man., however. said
they were going to have the contents
OF the stomach of. the deceased ana
yzed at their own expense and they !
also expected to produce other evil |
dence, and in consideration of this his
honor held the defendant to await the |
action of the grand jury without
bonds
j. M. Tanner and Frank B. Stephens |
the case for the prosecution |
ana Attorney w. r. Hutchinson de-
ended the accused.
1T has been CLEANED that Mrs Brown
ng's true name is Beckstead, and that
she was born and brought up in Brig
lam City. A brother-in-law of the
woman, Hiram Hansen, from Oxford.
IDAHO, was in Salt Lake looking for
Ter on February q and 2S She is in
crested in the estate of a deceased
person in Idaho, the affairs of which
be settled up without her
presence. Hansen did not meet her
tut she left a note for him at KelIy's
aloon saying she was going to Murray
M thence to Ogden and gave an adj
ress in the latter city where She
night be found.