The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-05
SALT LAKE TRAGEDY
The Preliminary Examination of Harry
Hynds for Killing DinwOodey.
TESTIMONY OF THE WOMAN
She Admits Her Guilt and Says
She's to Blsme-Told by the Ser
vant-Cigarettes and Glasses
About the Shooting.

SnOOllIB anu hlilill6 w dibCA Dih"OC1Nf
last Sunday morning. appears in the
Salt Lake Herald of Tuesday. Most OF
the testimony varied but little from
the accounts already printed in the
Standard Much interest, however. at
taches to the testimony of Mrs. Hynds.
the guilty woman, and Miss Annie
Greene, the servant, who was the only
other person in the house at the time.
The latter testified that from five TO
eight minutes passed from the time
Hynds first discovered Dinwoodey until
the fatal shots were fired. The testi-
mony of Miss Greene was as follows:
II was in the kitchen getting break
fast ready when the door bell rang.
did not go to the door. but went into
the dining room. There / was met by
Mrs. Hynds in her night robe. She
opened the door leading from the main
hall into the dining room and told me
MIR. Hynds had come home. She then
went back into the hall and I returned
10 the kitchen and closed the door
after me. After a short time, Mr..
Hynds came back into the kitchen and
said he had found a man in bed with
his wife and he wanted me to come
out as a witness. / went with him to
the hall leading into the bed room and
saw Walter Dinwoodey standing in
the clothes closet across the hall from
him.? Mr.. Hynds said. 1 replied. Yes
Then I went back into the kitchen and
closed the door leading into the dining
room as we'll as the one leading into
the kitchen. I stayed in the kitchen for
FIVE or eight minutes and then / heard
two pistol shots fired in rapid success
sion. / then ran into the laundry and
stayed there probably for half an hour.
Then / returned to the kitchen and
stayed there a little while and stepped
into the dining room. After few
more moments 1 asked Mr.. Hynds IL
he wanted a cup of coffee, but he de-
clined and / again returned TO the
kitchen"
This was the main story told by the
witness. The elapse of time between
Hynds' discovery of Walters presence
and the time the shots were fired was
something of a revelation to the prose
cution, and Attorney Zane here took
up the questioning, which. up to this
time. had been conducted by Attorney
Harrington. The importance OF the
point was at once obvious-it was to
show premeditated malice on the part
of the defendant, who, according to
this story, did not kill Walter at first
sight, but only after the elapse of sew
eral minutes.
Witness felt quite positive, however.
that the time mentioned elapsed, al
cited from the time Mrs. Hynds came
and announced that her husband had
returned.
Mrs. Greene was then closely ques-
toned regarding any conversation with
Mrs. Hynds. She said:
After the body had been taken away
Mrs. Hynds had a cup of coffee. l
asked her IL she was going to stay
there. and she replied that she was not
She said she would go somewhere"
Was that all the conversation you
Gad?" was the firmly directed query of
Mr.. Zane.
Yes, SIR
Are you posttive?"
Il am. We might have talked about
some trivial things"
The attorney evidently was not sat
isfied with the reply and reiterated his
query, but she positively denied haV-
ing any further conversation with her
mistress touching upon the tragedy
Judge Powers then began to cross
examine.
When did Mr.. Dinwoodey come to
the house?"
Il don't know what time; he was
there for dinner Saturday night?"
When did you have dinner?"
About half past s o'clock"
Did you see him after that?"
mo, sir; the last I saw him that
tNtiuHS WIS ut ulnncT
DO you know IL MIR. Dlnwoodey
stayed there that night?''
mo. sir: do not"
Now, there were two bed rooms I'm
the house. Did you notice IL more
than one bed was occupied?"
only one bed was occupied"
Judge Powers then began to question
about the beer bottles and the broken
package OF cigarettes that were on the
stand in the bed room. but Mr.. Zane
interposed an objection.
These matters" he said, may be
proper for public speculation, but are
hardly material as bearing on the
shooting"
we are not trying this case I'm the
manner suggested by counsel for the
prosecution" holly retorted Judge
Powers. I'VE want to get at the facts
as much as possible, and l think II is
very material to show that these peo-
pie were there together in the evening
and that he was found at the same
place In the morning"
After some further squabbling the
questions were not allowed
II was then elected from witness
that Mr.. Hynds had asked her IL she
knew Walter was in the habit OF visit
ing the house regularly. to which she
had replied In the Affirmative. When
asked by Hynds why she did not tell
him, she said she couldn't.
After testifying some further about
the condition OF the bed in which she
said she could not Judge whether IL
had been occupied by two. as the
clothes were pulled of. Officer Shan
non was again placed upon the stand.
He said the bed bore Indication of hav-
ing been occupied by two. He also
reaffirmed the former statement that
Walter while lying in the bathroom.
said: Il deserved IT."
The defense was then ready to put
in It's testimony. Owing to the precari-
Gus condition o; Mrs. Hynds, it was
deemed advisable TO retire into the
back room where she was resting on a
cot and take her testimony Accord
ingly the attorneys. stenographers and
newspaper men repaired 20 the room, TO
the disappointment OF the throng OF
spectators.