The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-19
MINNIE GoSS.

tlrst South street, near Main street
She was going east. It vas then about
O'Clock in the afternoon.
MINNIE GoSS.
Miss Minnie Goss lived in the build
ing directly east OF the Seldom resi-
dence. Witness heard several shots on
the night Hamilton was killed, and
heard a mans voice crying out as if
in agony. Witness didn't know how
many shots were fired; there We're quite
a number. however. There was a pause
between the cry and the last shot.
MISS WHITBECK.
Miss Annie Whitbeck lived in the
house west Of the Seldom house. Heard
five or six shots fired between and 10
O'Clock on the night Hamilton was
killed
"Hom did the shots sound?" asked
Mr.. Van Colt.
The first two sounded muffled and
the others more distinct"
Did you hear any ery?"
eyes"
What kind of q cry?"
1T Was q very pitiful cry
Cross examined by Judge Powers.
WAS the cry that Of a man or q
woman?"
I couldn't say
Did you look out after the shoot
ing?"
What did you see?''
| lawn a.ld somebody holding lighted
/ match over it"
! C ]. Erickson, clerk at Cunnington
/ & Cos, said he remembered the day
| Hamilton was killed. On that day a
| lady came to Cunnington's store after
, .. N. Witness best recollection was
I that the lady was Mrs. Hamilton, but
| he could not positively swear to it.
{ She asked Cor pistol shells. Witness
+, told her they didn't keep them and re-
! commended her to BroWnings.
DEFENDANTS TESTIMONY BE
FORE THE CORONER.
i Will C. Young, stenographer, testi-
! fed that he had taken the testimony OF
Mrs. Hamilton in the inquiry before the
! coroner as to the death OF Hamilton.
Shown transcript made by him from
| his short hand notes. witness said it Was
q true and correct transcript and MIR.
! Van Colt offered it in evidence
I Judge Powers. for the defense, OBJ
jected to its admission principally or
the ground that no one was OBLIGED tC
! incriminate himself, or herself. and
that before giving her evidence she
was not warned that anything she said
would be used against her.
1t was agreed that the arguments or
the admissibility of the testimony be
made later on, and the taking of testl-
mony was proceeded with.
Thomas ?. Seldom, recalled. said il
answer to Mr.. Van Cott that when he
sot the gun from Mrs. Fridays to give
to Lou It Was unloaded.
Miss Mary Hamilton, in reply to Mr.
Van Colt, said her brother. the de-
ceased. was right handed.
Seldom was further cross examined
by Judge Powers and denied that NJ
had had d conversation with q Mrs
/ Wright IL which he asked her to give
I some evidence which would help tC
clear him Cthe witne5sl from the sus
picion which had been cast upon him
! He also denied that Mrs. Wright hat
said that she knew nothing which
( would do him any good, but knew {
good deal that would help his sister
in-law, Lou Hamilton
A PLAINTIYE CRY.
II. L. Fowler said that on April i
last he was cook at Fiuch's restaurant
witness was on West First Soutl
street opposite the Seldom residence
when the shots were fired. Just prio
4 to the shooting ne heard the voices o
people talking in the Seldom lot. bu
could not tell anything that was said
He was on the north side of the stree
talking with a friend. and after tn
shots were fred he crossed the stree
to the Seldom house and saw woman
en- the steps and also saw her go int
the house The body of Hamilton wa
lying in the lot near the fence Afte
the third shot was fred witness heart
a short plaintive cry. Would not know
the woman he saw on the steps again
Witness thought he was the first one Il
see Ramnton's body after the shooting
Cross-eXam5ned by Judge Powers
witness said lie did not hear anything
whatever of what was said by IN
people who we're conVersing at tn
seldom house just before the shot
we're fired. Did not hear anyone say
If that's all the love you have for me
shoot away" There was q light il
the hall Of the Seldom house Whe1
witness came across the street.
JOHN H. RAMSEY.
John H. Ramsey. aged IS. testife
that he remembered the circumstanc
of Hamilton being killed. He passe
the Seldom residence about 9 o'eloc
on that evening. Heard a man and
woman talking as he passed Th
woman's voice was loud and SoneWha
anSTY, w lt0eSS cONl1 uVL Aeli Nl
words spoken. After he had gone jus
little way he heard five or six shot
fred, and turned back to see wha
was the matter. Witness saw wo
} man run up the steps into the Sed6o
house and a man lying on the lawn
Cross-examined. witness denied tina
he had said when examined before tn
coroner that he heard only four shots
and also denied that ne had said h
saw the flashes of tne pistol. CTh
record showed, however. that he lla
50 testihed}.
DEPUTY SHERIFF BURT.
Deputy Sheriff Burt, replying to Nj
Putnam, testified that he WAS presen
at a conversation in the county ia
between Seldom and Mrs. Hamilton
Seldom asked her If she wouldn't te
the truth about the killing. and 81
said. What for?' He said there weT
lots of people Who believed that h
| had a hand IN it and he asked her t
clear him by making a statement. Sh
said that he was in bed at the tim
and couldn't have had anything to d
with it. and that he was released the
anyway. Seldom reioined that tha
Was all right, but the people didn
know it Mrs Hamilton then sal
! that she would make q statement
( her attorneys advised it, and wisnes