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


he mounted his horse, the clock was
striking 10. The cabman returned to
his stand at 10 o'clock He left the
cab stand at 9:35. and there was TWEEN
ty-five minutes for him to drive up
and back, and it would naturally take
him longer to get to the Hynds house
than it would to return to the stand,
because the snow was deep and he
climbed an elevation all the way, and
he had a heavier load. We will sup
pose that it took him twelve and one
half minutes to get to the house. Hynds
then, reached home somewhere about
9:47 or 9:4S in the morning, about
twelve minutes to 10. DR.. Richards
told you that few moments before
10 o'clock he received a call to go to
the Hynds house. The exact time we
do not know Mr.. Noble says it took
him two or thrle minutes after he was
/ notified before he went over to his
house and came back again If Mr..
Hynds get home at 9:47 or 9:4S in the
morning it was somewhere within two
or three minutes of 10 O'Clock that the
shooting occurred. After he entered
the house there was the talk with his
wife; there was the time covered by
their conversation. and the going from
one place to another, and there was no
hurry upon their part. Hynds stood
at the front door for two minutes.
Then, after that he discovered those
things in the bedroom, and after dis
covering them and she had made her
/ explanation, as he said here today, L
might have been LED out of 1t, if that
! was all there was" He was willing to
accept any explanation.
THE DREADFUL TRAGEDY OC-
OURS.
He left the spare room and went to
! his satchel, which stood on the din
! ing room table, for the purpose of
taking some articles therefrom; and
as he stood there, the situation SO
troubled the wife. her conscience was
being so operated upon, that she
sought to draw the curtains over that
closet aperature a little closer together.
If she had not done that Walter Dim
woodey would have been alive today
But there is a fatality in those mat
/ ters Sooner or later, the man and
the woman who pursues a wicked
course, are sure to be discovered.
Sooner or later the evidence comes
| into the hands of the one who is
wrongad, and veng ance follows. When
| he saw her moving that curtain there
was something that told him that
those movements were for a purpose.
1t is true and we all know it, that
mankind is oftentimes informed of
things in other ways than by language.
A movement often tells as much as a
sentence of the most eloquent words.
A sound, though it may be almost I'M
| intelkgible, transmits TO the human
| brain thoughts. You may never have
heard the hiss of the rattlesnake, but
if you go up into the hills, the first
time that the sound reaches your ears
you know what it is. There is an in
stinct, an indefinable something baf-
fling all analysis, that tells man
things that he ought to know them.
And when Dinwoodey was in the clos
ct, and the wife was arranging the
curtains, Hynds was ted as plainly
THAI something was wrong, as if she
had spoken to him. She said that she
was getting her dress. She had already
put on her wrapper. He thought that
she was hiding something. He
walked over, and reached in, but found
nothing. Observing her nervousness
at this action, he struck a light, and
then she said, Don't do thatw and
blew out the light Then he said, Il
wanted to know more than ever" And
naturally he did. So he held her away
as he struck another light. And he
| looked in the closet, and there, hiding
they would have you believe was con-
niving at these things, was Walter
Dinwoodey! If Hynds had connived
at that, Dinwoodey would not have
hid himself in that closet. If Hynds
had connived at that, Dinwoodey
would not have said. We'll, Harry, you
nave caught Us and you had better
make the best of iti'
What suggestion to make to an
other 11ndar SI1rb oirc1Jr11 c q n
Found with the wife in another mans
house, hiding from him, partly
dressed, lately from the adulterous
bed: Harry. you had better make
the best of itr' Yet Hynds controlled
himself. I dare say you men of the
jury feel, as you consider the situation
here presented, though you knew the
jaws of hell were yawning to receive
you the next moment, you would have
rushed upon that intruder with tiger
like ferocity and would have literally
torn him limb from limb! Then il
was that Hynds turned and struck his
wife-the first blow that he had ever
dealt her, the first unkind thing thai
he ever did toward her, because he
could no more control himself thar
could any man of you under the cir
cumstances. Then he rushed to his
already open satchel and grabbed The
gun. And still he was trying to con
troll himself. Great God, gentlemen Of
the jury, must it be held against 6
man, because he tries to retain hi;
self-control and keep from striking
down another, that therefore he shall
be convicted Of murder? Yet tina
very effort on his part, they argue t.
you here, shows deliberation anc
ought to secure a conviction.
Harry Hynds, enraged as he was
struggled with himself there anC
thrust the gun into his pocket Then
he says, he knows not why-they say
that he was DESTROYS of securing evi
dence for a divorce suit-he rushed GU
for the colored woman. 1t is only fit
teen feet from this point Qndicatins
the point on the diagram) to poin
opposite the door-only a few steps
Mind you, when a thing Of that kline
occurs people do not move around de
liberately.
EVERYTHING IS ACTION THEN
brought her there; he said, do you Sc
that man? Would you know hin
again?" She says, yes" frightened
as the girl naturally was, and sh,
rushed back into the kitchen; and sh
says it seemed a long time, it seemed
half an hour, before she heard tn
shots fired. Why did it seem SO long
Because she knew that there wa
trouble imminent in that house Hynd
had gone to the kitchen where sh
was and had taken her thence ant
asked her to look upon Dinwoodey a
he was busily putting on his vest
That was sufficient to raise in tn
heart of that colored girl a terribl
foreboding; and so she rushed back t
the kitchen and felt that it was thirt,
minutes before she heard the shot
: bedroom, and all he said to the de
J stroYer of. his hapniness was Ito ge