The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-21

Inc fnOtner VIII SacrlIlce her Ire 1cI
her child: The sister viii go upon the
witness stand. when necessary, and
periure her soul that she may save her
brother: the mistress who does not
have the maria ere relation to unite her
Nith her master, will stand between
him and death, If need be: and The hus-
band. united in a relation that is sane
tilted Of God-what can be said of their
love. OF their supreme Affection Why,
1t is the strongest attachment, with
the exception of the ma ternal love, that
exists upon earth. This man did love
his wifei He was kind to her. There is
not q. suggestion in all this testimony
that he ever did toward her an ,un-
kind act. He was generous to her.
There Is not suggestion in all this tes-
tinony that he ever denied to. her
single thing; but he treated her, as
the testimony discloses. with a con-
fidence such as you give your own
wlves-such as wives are entitled to
receive from their husbands He had
concerning her absolutely no suspic-
ion. Naturally he would suppose that
this girl. who had been led astray,
VINO had tired of the life that she led,
ana who had taken upon herself the
holy relation of maria gel say, nat
uradiy enough he would suppose that if
any woman on earth would be true,
that woman would be. when she real
a1SNA AltN hlAlSISIte between TIE StlQd-
ton she was then in and what she
might have been, had not Harry Hynds
taken her by the hand and elevated
her and made her his wife, So l say,
concerning her he had absolutely no
suspicion. Do you suppose if he had
any suspicion in his mind with regard
10 his wife's fidelity, that he would
have left her, as the testimony shows
that ne has done, days at a time, while
he journeyed to Butte and elsewhere
on matters of business? No; he had
no suspicion that anything was wrong
in has own household. He came home
On that evenfful occasion just as any
OF you gentlemen would go home after
a business trip. He was in no haste
TO get to his house; but it was his de-
sire TO spend the Sabbath day at his
home and in the company of his wife.
THE RELATIONS OF DECEASED
WITH MRS. HYNDS.
And now it becomes my duty to dis
cuss brieffy-and 1 shall refer
to this matter no more than
justice to my client compels
me 10 - the merits and dement's
of the deceased. If 1 could have my
way | would say not one word con-
corning Walter Dinwoodey. He is
dead. The grave has covered whatever
faults or virtues he may have had.
But so closely connected with this case
is he that l am compelled, as 1 say, in
my duty to my client, absolutely COM
PEELED, gentlemen, to refer briefly to
him And I shall indeed be brief. l
hope also that 1 shall be fair l hope
that shall do no such injustice, either
TO the dead or the living. as has al
ready been done to this defendant.
Mr.. Dinwoodey came of most eX-
cellent and well-known family in this
dor 1a+ liz 10 Il
such as the youth should have-a
training such as ought to have placed
him in a position where he would never
have yielded to the solicitations of the
wife of another, if any We're made to
him, as here argued. 1 feel for the
bereaved family; 1 appreciate the ma
tural sorrow that comes to them. [
can with charity look upon their Wig
orous prosecution Of this defendant,
Knowing that when a dear one is
gone, his Immediate relatives cannot
look upon the surroundings as they are
looked upon by other people. Then, we
should always be charitable. We ought
20 be charitable especially to those
who have suffered bereavement: and
we certainly should be charitable to-
ward the dead. But, gentlemen, Wal
ter Dinwoodey was not a boy. He was
about the age Of the woman. That
young man knew that his course was
wicked. He must have known it. He
must, Sunday after Sunday. have at
tended in his youth, with his relatives
and friends, the great tabernacle in
this city, and he never heard it preach
ed there that anyone had the right,
whether tempted or not, to enter into
the family of another If he ever read
his Bible, ana I assume that he did,
he must have read the story Of Joseph,
who, when the woman tempted him.
said to her that he could not-he could,
not and he would not yield, l said that
this young man knew that his course
was wicked, and it is not manly, it
Is not fair, to charge all this trouble
upon the woman-this woman from
whom they have been soliciting testi-
mony 10 help them; whom they address
as 3heir Dear Mrs. Hynds;" whom
they suggest could help them very
much in convicting the husband
against whom she has done such
grievous wrong 1 say it is not fair
for them to lay too much upon the
enough to say, Il tempted this young
man." Yet. after all, we must Judge
Of human nature as human nature is.
You know. and [ know, that the
neanest woman on earth will not sur
render her virtue-nay, one who has
lost her virtue viii not surrender up
her body to another unless approached
10 retire, to hesitate. to decline; it is
the nature of man to press forward,
to advance to insist. We haven't yet
reached the period where women do
the seducing, however much others
may seek to convey that IDEAS they
argue from the testimony given in an
swer to one Question-that walter
was trying to keep away from her
What strings did she have upon him,
except the strings Of an illicit love?
How were they woven? Perhaps by
the mutual intercourse of this young
man and this woman. But the prose-
cution has no right to say that the
woman vas entirely and alone in the
fault We know not how they came
together. We simply know that from
the time when she gave to him those
elaborate and expensive suspender
buckles, purchased undoubtedly with
the earnings of her husband, that they
were more or less intimate-intimate to
an extent. finally, that it caused the
loss of his life. And the only sug-
gestion l desire to make concerning
Walter Dinwoodey is this: That l do
not believe. 7 cannot believe, that the
woman was entirely to blame. With
her home now broken up, at present
staying with her parents down there
at Cedar Rapids. under circumstances
which must be sorrowful indeed, under
clouds that are black and deep and
dark, that never viii again be lifted
from her life. say that she ought not
10 be charged entirely with being the
sole promoter of this tragedy. There
was at least mutual wrong.
To say the very least, and to give the
Host charitable construction the
wrong was mutual. She did not take
him in chains and drag him there TO