The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-13

camp. He remained behind as they APP
preached the camp. Had been ahead
at first, but they had lost their way
several times, so he dropped behind.
He sat down just before the shooting
VS. over. Saw some one running and
thought it was Ike Stanton. Shooting
was going on at the same time. He
saw Warner shoot, but not Wall. Knew
the guns were fired from the tent be-
cause he saw
THE FLASH AND THE SMOKE.
Denied that his gun was accidentally
discharged. 1t was not discharged at
all. He got the gun from the horn OF
the saddle, but did not attempt to use
Mr.. Evans asked the witness to think
over the events of the shooting again.
To imagine the first shot fired, note the
time and tell him when the thought a
period Of time equal to that tween
the first and last shots had elapsed.
Mr.. Evans held his watch and said,
Now"
There was absolute silence in the
court room, so that each man could
hear the ticking of lis watch.
AT length Mr.. Coleman said: well.
l guess time is about up"
Evans.
Warner also told Swift to take those
guns ana go and get Ike's gun. When
this was done he told witness to come
up, winch ne did. Melton was lying
close to the front part of the tent. He
was sure that he had his pants on.
DID not know about his shoes and over-
shirt Was sure about his having his
pants on.
Warner went right over to Ike with
out paying much attention to che 9TH
ers. Took a knife away from Ike
Warner had told him to see if he had
pistol, but he did not have one. Ike
told him how he wanted to be heIned
and Mr.. Coleman helped him.
Several times he heard Melton saw;
Matt l don't blame you boys at
Mr. Evans-Did he not say 81 don't
blame you at all. I blame that old
man. leaving out the names, who prom
lsed to bring $500 and he brought you
boys instead?'
Witness-Yes. sir.
!. Did you not know that Melton had
made a discovery over in that coun-
try?'
had not"
Did he not tell you that he had
MADE find over on the reservation
and wanted your influence to have the
lands opened up?'
HE told me he had made find
necessary influence in Washington to
get he lands opened up"
That isl said Mr.. Powers, "he
needed a
MEMBER OF CONGRESS-"
Witness had been a miner a long
time and thought he could have the
law protect him in making the loca-
ton, but Swift had said the lawyer
told him otherwise.
Redirect: Had directed Swift to go
and see the lawyer. The exact words
said to Mr.. Benion about the money
were: I consider this nothing more
nor less than blood money" Witness
: had had stomach trouble for many
years, which panied him if he rode
, fast.
t William Wall was next put on for
continued examination. Could not say
how many shots he fired He saw Mel
ton firing from behind some pillows in
the tent
, Cross examined, he said he had lived
with his uncle, Richard Barron, in
e Illinois, but came west without good
: reason. Had a sister living in Denver;
, lived there awhile, then went to Wyo-
ming.
( A LITTLE NONSENSE
Judge Powers-Mr Evans do you
think it is an evidence of depravity for
anyone TO i've IN Nerndl!
Mr.. Evans-Judge Powers knows
very well what the purpose of this ex-
, animation is.
t Mr.. Powers-I myself wanted to get
your idea of Vernal.
Mr.. Evans-I never was there, judge.
Witness said he and Warner got S100
$ down and were to get $500 more. Wall
get $50 from Warner and was to get
3 half of the rest.
2 Nothing was said about armed men
I at the time he first discussed the mat
/ ter with Warner. Later-about two
/ hours later-it had been mentioned
/ Matt had said that there were some
E armed men up there and he
E GUESSED 1T MEANT BLOOD.
They were going to move the camp
to Goslin mountain. Matt had told him
$ that he thought they were trying to
run a bluff on the old man.
Did you intend to let them locate
if they wanted top
Yes, if they got there first"
you took your gun, didn't your
=, 1--WE had en-"
you took your gum"
, eve had en-"
!. ''Was it loaded?'
Il guess so-it generally was"
. His pistol was loaded, too. He al
| ways kept it loaded Matt and he were
r, in the lead most of the time Coleman
u showed them the way. They stopped
; once at Dry Fork, but did not think
i they made a fire.
It SOMEBODY BLUNDERED
Was sure the horse that was killed
o did not have shoes on; was positive of
/: it because he owned the horse. Shown
l: the hoof with the shoe on, which had
t been testified to by several of the de-
|; fense's witnesses, he still insisted that
the horse which was shot had no shoes
on-not a single shoe
He threw himself off when the firing
= began; grabbed his gun as he dropped
II off the horse; fired the first shot at
random-just to scare them.
The first shot he fired at anyone
e was at Melton; shot his rifle twice
: then dropped it and ran around behind
= a tree-not the same tree as Matt. He
u emptied his revolver at Dave Melton
+ who was shooting from the tent while
lying on his stomach Neither he nor
;. any of his companions were touched
All the others except Swift were either
/ killed or badly shot The other party
7 were all in ambush, lying in wait, but
d they did not get in an effective shot
n Was sure Melton did not have his
d pants on, positively sure. Was shown
il the pants and overalls by Mr.. Evans
d and declared they were not the ones
1t Was positive of that. but on being
e pressed. was not quite sure. The bullet
70 MIGHT HAVE DONE ITS WORK
d without going through the pants, be-