The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-20

cutlon, With the exception Of the read
ing of the testimony given by Mrs.
Hamilton at the coroner's inquest in
case Judge Norrel admits it. If it is
not admitted the prosecutions case is
closed unless they have something to
offer in rebuttal.
OPENING STATEMENT.
Attorney Fred 7. McGurrin in a, very
earnest and effective manner made the
opening statement for the defense. Mr..
McGurrin said the time had EIoW come
when Mrs. Hamilton would take the
witness stand end detail with her own
lips the circumstances of the killing
OF John II. Hamilton and other wit
nesses would be put on the stand
whose testimony would substantiate
the theory Of the defense. Every act
and circumstance of Mrs. Hamilton S
life viii be placed before the jury and
the county attorney. The defendant is
q. young woman in her sd year,
scarcely more than entered upon NO.
manhood. She was born in London,
England. Her parents we're converted
to the Mormon faith and came here,
bringing their daughter along when she
was ) years of age. She attended school
in Salt Lake and lived here all her life
The circumstances of the family
We're such that at the age of ID Lou
had TO 90 out 10 help earn her bread
She obtained work in the job depart
ment of the Salt Lake Tribune She
worked there hard and faithfully and
earned the respect OF her associates and
all those with whom she came in con-
tact. At the age of Is and while still
working in the printing Office she made
the acquaintance of Hamilton. They
kept company for two years. He asked
her to BE his wife and she consented
and they We're married by Bishop
Whitney. Hamilton was not a rich
man and his wife did her own house
work Their married life was happy;
no serious difficulty arose until March
3 of this year. On the evening Of that
day Hamilton had attended a meeting
of the lodge of which he was q men,
Der. When he came home his wife was
waiting up for him as usual. He called
her to his side and told her he had
heard story connecting her with an
other man. She denied it. but he in
sisted that il was true and said he had
been told of it by a friend whose We
racity he could not doubt and urged
her TO tell him with her own lips the
truth. She assured him she could never
make such an admission. From that
time he debarred her from his room
and that night she walked the floor till
morning. He treated her coldly the
next day and for several days went
out and in scarcely speaking to her
Then he told her he had heard some
thing else about her, that she had been
flirting with man for months Nnd had
met him down town and had gone to
his office He again urged her to con-
fess TO him and said she would never
be the same to him unless she did, and
he continued in his cold treatment Of
her.
BEGGED FOR KINDER TREAT
MENT.
On March 5 she threw her arms
around his neck and begged him to
treat her q little more kindly. On the
afternoon of that day he told her that
he had proofs which would make her
confess that she had been crimina!!y
Intimate with w. c. Pavey and that
PaVey had sent her q present at Christ
mas. She admitted receiving a pres
ent. but told him that she didn't know
from whom it came. there was no name
on it, or anything 10 indicate who
sent i. Hamilton then declared he
would 20 ard see PaYey and left, and
his wife then telephoned to PaYey that
her husband WAS going to see him. and
to deny everything, just as had been
testified to- That night her husband
told her that he had seen PaYey ana
present and also admitted having been
Intimate with her.
Hamilton again urged her to confess
and promised that if she did so II
would be all right and she would be
the same 10 him as before. He prom
fsed :.ot to tell living soul anything
about it, and she disclosed to him all
her connection with PaVey. de, how
ever. told his mother and sister about
that she threatened TO commit suicide.
WROTE HER CONFESSION
On March Hamilton talked to her
about coming 10 some Arrangement
satisfactory 10 both and asked her to
make her confession in writing. He
promised not to show it to anyone and
said he had no thought of divorce. She
wrote the confession at his dtctation-
He. after that, insisted that she leave
his house and go home to her mothers
and after pitiful pleading she went,
taking oaly a few necessary clothes
win her. She met him q few days
afterwards and asked him TO let her
have little money. but he told her
he wasn't compelled to give her money,
and told her TO go TO her lover and that
all the town was talking Of the scandal
She took q pistol from Hamilton
house TO her mothers. not with the in
tent of killing Hamilton, but with the
fun purpose Of killing herself. After
that they did not meet for three weeks,
and when they did. it Was at a social
gathering OF the lodge of which Ham
ilto., was a member. He there
asked her to return TO him the plstoi
and she told him it was all right; thar
he might have it Her mother ana
sisters chided her for speaking to him
at all. but she said he was stu 'aeI
husband and that if she couldn't tax
TO him and see him at her mother
house she would go some place where
she could and she left and went to
6el1don's. They had interviews ct va
rious times with a view of coming &c
some understanding and had met at a
lawyers and talked over the question
of divorce. In the meantime, as he
did not supply her with money. she
obtained work at Kelly d Co. book
bindery. bWt when the scandal became
freely talked about she was discharged
and then the article appeared in The
Herald and Mrs. Hamilton was so dis
another day and asked Seldom TO buy
her the cartridges. but her intent was
not 10 kill Hamilton. but to Kill her
10 kslI her husband. She. bought the
cartridges herself. as stated, eXcepl
that she bought them in the forenoon
| instead of the afternoon of April IS
Hamilton called at Seddon's in the
afternoon Of that day, remained only g
( few minutes. but came again in the
evening In the interval Mrs. Hamil-
ton took the pistol and went into the
hacly va nj with tho durpuf of ShOOtinc