The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-21
THE SALT LAKE HERALD SUNDAY JUNE q. 1896


WHO COULD HAVE STAYED HIS
HAND THEN?
To the man Hynds, enraged, as he
was. yet striving to contros himself,
all at once there came an overwhelm-
ing passion, to control which all his
efforts were in vain, and at that
moment, without reason, without
knowing what he did, he drew that
gun and whirled and fired a mo-
ments lapse only and he knew what
he had donel Then there came to him
the thought that a human being had
died! And yet how could he have
stayed his hand under the circum-
stances? And what difference does it
make whether the man was shot in the
back or shot in the face? 1t was not a
dual! 1t was not the act of n respon-
slble being! It was the desperate act
of a foully wronged husband, and the
bullet fired from a gun held by the
hand of one who avenges seduction
always goes unerring to the mark.
Amanda Olsen, who never in her life
before had fired a pistol, stood one
night in the cleaning on the corner
! OF First and c streets, in this city,
and, coming down the street toward
her. walking with another, was the
man who had betrayed her. She stood
there, pistol in hand, and spoke to
him. He refused to speak and con-
temptuously passed her by. She whirl-
ed and fired, and the bullet from that
weapon, fired by a hand that never
knew a pistol before, sped into his
brain! She was tried by a jury in
this city and found not guilty.
1t was not Hynds who fired the shot
that killed Dinwoodey. 1t was a man
who had just lost ali control of him
self. When Hynds found that man
there, under the circumstances that he
did, there was a perfect cyclone in his
heart You have read lately that the
winds, gathering UP their strength on
the prairies of Missouri hurled them
selves with resistless force upon the
city of st. Louis, grinding great build
1ngs to powder. carrying widespread
! obstruction to property, and taking the
lives of human beings by the hun
| dreds. That was a cyclone of nature.
1t was nature when she had lost all
control of herself. And so on that
Sunday morning, when Hynds found
from under his feet, when he found
that his little wife whom he had
/ trusted was not. after ALL the wife of
his bosom, then there was a cyclone
in his heart; then there was a cyclone
/ in his brain; there was a crush and q.
jamming of thoughts; there was an
overpowering passion upon him and
| liz COQlO AOl COuLIOl HlIIlSGI. AIQ yet
the states attorney stands here and
demands blood-asks for the life of
this man because he killed another
under such circumstances.
THERE IS A LIMIT To MANS
sELF-CoNTRoL.
I ask you to tell me, gentlemen, if
all that you held dear in this world
should at once be swept out of exist
encc, and you were left to look upon
life as Hynds was I ask you whether
YOU could control yourselves under
those circumstances? 1t WIS ali one
transaction from the time that he
went into the house, and tEey cannot
take and separate 1T, and say that the
man had time to cool. There was no
GOODNESS there! There was a perfect
furnace in his brain, seething and
burning and boiling, from the time
that he found Dinwoodey in the house
and told him to get out of there, until
the fatal shot was fred Then came
the relaxation. Oh, that suggestion
that he stood over the deac man, and
demanded a deed of the house from
his wife! Think of a suggestion of
that kind from the state that should
only want justice donei Those people
were there in the house toc a long
time after. Why shouldn't he ask 1T?
Doesn't it go to prove the fact if he
did ask it, that he had trusted that
woman? Doesn't it go to prove chat
he had never found her out before?
Doesn't it go to prove that at that
time and at that moment he realized
that his life with Maud Hynds was
ended-that that life was ended for
ever, and that he wanted to quit her,
as the law says he has the right to-?
And yet they wanted us to bring her
here and put her on the witness
stand; they wanted an opportunity to
cross-examine her, did this remark
ably fair prosecution, to which I will
now pay my respects.
OH" SAYS MR.. WHITTEMORE.
1.-THE shrewdness and cuteness of the
defense that takes from us the witness
es we were so carefully treasuring and
saving up!" why" says he "for
days and weeks 1 have been herding
this colored lady. l have paid her out
of the county treasury, just as / paid
Davis. had her waiting and waiting
that l might suddenly, in one Of my
dramatic frenzies, produce her in re-
buttal! 1 had the police officers sit
ting back there on the bench, and I
was saving them up Oh, 1 was saving
them so carefully! What business had
the defense to bring them on the
stand? 1 was going to use them in
rebuttal, and I was going to wipe the
case OF the defense clean out of exist
ence! l hadn't put them on the wit
ness stand because L wanted to use
them at the last end. Then 1 was go
ing to come in and crush this defense.
But the defendant put them on the
stand and got the start of me. His
counsel drew out the truth when l
didn't think q would fpp1 craat1y
grieved over this, gentlemen of De
jury; and 1 trust you will convict this
man because of the fact that I mis-
placed my confidence in the counsel
for the defense, when | believed that
he would omit to call the witnesses to
the stand, and would permit me to
save them UP and make my case at the
last end, when there would be no OPP
portunity to meet it,
Now, let us see. If there was ever
a case presented to a jury in a man
ner that is worthy of the severesi
condemnation it is this case. What
, did they submit to you at the outset:
! Simply the testimony of the doctor as
to the nature of the wounds; the tes-
! timony of Miss Noble, that Mr.. Hynds
, came to the door and called her; the
! testimony of the brother as to the
! powder marks upon the clothing-anc
then the prosecution rested Yet tbs
: prosecution knew that Mr.. Noble was
in that house a short time after the
. shots were fired; that the colored cir
: was in the house all the time, and thai
} Officer Shannon and Officer Pratt
2 were there shortly after. The prose
5 cution had at hand testimony to show
e that this man was not guilty! Thinl
: of that! If they had permitted the
entire n oO Y