The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01


dispense with the minister until after
ne should get work and become indie
pehhent. When her mother was spend
ing a month in Nebraska he was up
at the house nearly every day.
Later he went to California, worked
whiie and came back. She was as
aHecuonate as ever. He learned from
1er that McCebe had asked her to
promise that in case she and Edison
ever broke up that she should go with
him.
CONSIDERED THEMSELVES MAR
RIED.
They considered themselves married
al this while. Along in July he be-
gan 10 notice a change in her. He
frequently demonstrated with her about
McCabe. She asked him for her letters
seVerai times and he gave them to her.
AZ TINS point Mr.. Peyton asked what
time court intended to adjourn, and
When Judge Rolapp said 1890 Mr.. Ma
Slnnls Whispered a few words to the
court, who promptly ordered a recess
till D. m.
IN the afternoon the crush was some
lnlng frightful. Edison again took the
STAND. he soon got down to the gist
OF his testimony. He claimed that when
dlscussing the forthcoming visit of Mrs.
Ott TO Kansas, Miss OFT had said: You
must come up and help me keep house.
GU and 1 will be the papa and mama
Of this establishment"
He and Miss OFT had talked over
Where thew would live. He remon
strated about McCabe, and she had
promised not to have anything more
TO do with him. He had often urged
her to have a civil ceremony of mar
r1age performed.
She did not care anything about it
herself, except for her folks sake" he
said. In a letter written to him, ad-
dressed to Needles, Col, she had re-
ferred to the ceremony again.
On the evening of Oct. 3 he had ac-
costed Miss OFT near the American
bakery She did not speak to him I'M
I'll she came out. Then she said: Go
on out TO the end of the car line, WILL
He went out and waited. He was
surprised to see McCabe with her.
When they approached he said: How
about that interview" She put her
face close to his, and said:
I positively refuse to have anything
to do with you"
THEN HE SHOT HER.
Then I pulled out my gun and shot
her.
She fell. and witness fired at her
three times. He fred once when she
~ DIS 1dtllIfS, he luOuSuls I16 QiQ lOl
l1now what he had done until he heard
her speak to him, saying:
will. 1 love you"
He said: You are not shot, are
your"
She answered that she was shot
the heart.
lie said: Il did not do it, did II"
She said yes
Witness had said: Il did not mean
to do it. You made me-
Witness had assisted in making her
had removed her hat at
her request. He stopped the car to get |
her on and take her to a doctor.
He denied threatening to kill anyone |
else. He thought he had fired only |
three shots and slipped three cartridges
into the chambers. He was surprised |
later TO find that five shots had been
fired.
He had never intended to do Lille |
OFT any harm He carried the gun to |
protect himself from hold-ups. He told !
how he had been ordered from the OFT
place by Mr.. OFT and warned never to
eene in again. Mr.. OFT had threatened
him with q gun.
Witness related again the alleged
proposal of Miss OFT that they get mar
lied without a license as well as the
conversation which he had
sefore nartly asserted and partly in
sinuated From that time, he said,
hey had lived as man and wife until in
July
Mss OFT DENOUNCES HER IRA
Queer.
Mr.. Weber took the witness il hand.
Ks he began the cross-eXamination
Iiss OFT. svho had been sitting with
Ter father and mother, swooned for an
Instant and on recovery was seized
With a sort of hysteria- She @=Jrang to
Ter feet and called him a cur and a
haracter assassin. He is not salts
led with nearly killing me. He is
rving to take all I have left
Attorney Weber's face was white
18th nassion and his voice..rung with
arcasm. Edison said his mind was a
lank when he did the shooting.
Did you put the gun close to her !
reast when she was kneeling on the
round and fire at herr"
no. sir. 7 did not" I,
How do you know if your mind was
blank?" ,
No answer. c
Miss OFT was sick last August; did
GU tell your friend Browning that
Iiss OFT was sick and that the sick
ess was the result of a criminal op l
ration which you had made neces-
ary2'' '
Witness admitted that he had slurred 7
-r character but not his own-he had ?
,nnected McCabe as the other party. I
Mr. Weber-And you loved her all j
lis time? 4
Yes u
wanted 20 marry herr" !.
Yes I
Mr.. Weber gave a gesture of disgust
I'D dropped the cross-questioning, af- b
r bringing out that the witness had
-oke jail and had gone to Texas, liv-
e there under an assumed name. c
Mrs. Edison testified that her son was n
cheerful disposition until the trouble 5
stween him and Miss OFT occurred. d
IN REBUTTAL. n
]. w. OFT said he saw Edison near Il
s house on July 16. 1t was between t.
and o'clock in the morning and Il
dson was proving along near the =
FLOWS. Witness was unarmed He
Id ordered Edison from the place and e
ison had gone. He did not threaten y.
1son's life but had told him to be q,
ne, as he did not want him prowling II
,out. Il
DR.. J. S. Gordon. one of the physici- ST
IS who waited on Miss OFT at the time h
the shooting, said that owing to the ~
Lture Of one of the wounds il was :"
cessary to make an examination the n
suit of which was strongly contra
Glory 10 the assault on Miss Otis
aracter by Edison. The examination
d not been made for this purpose, u
t he firmly believed that from the ps
licences found statements such as m
at made by Edison could not be true Il,