Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-21
when got there Mr.. Seldom was at

without sleeping"
What was the state of your feel
ings?"
u can't tell"
when John fell who pulled the trig-
ger, you or her"
u can't tell"
Had you any thought of killing John
that day or at any timer
mo, / had not"
can you tell the jury what position
you and he were in when the ball
struck hlm?"
NO"
who had the gun, you or he, when
the fatal shot was hred?"
81 cannot tell
Did yo ugo back and stoop over the
body after he fell2"
u did not"
when you took the gun out of the
drawer was 1t with any thought or in
tention OF killing him?'
No, none whatever"
"Onlcers have testified you We're
very cool at the station that night.
Can You remember how you felt?"
NO, / cannot"
"Ilad you any feeling of satisfaction
at his death?"
mo. none"
did you love him?"
"burIne the afternoon did you say
to any one that you would kill himY'
mo"
did you tell John to come down that
night, and did you tell Mrs. Seldom
you wanted to tell John something that
would not take ten minutes to say?'
No"
Your sisters testimony in that re-
gard was false?"
Yes, 1t was"
Witness then specially denied saying
that John would never live to get a
divorce and that Tom had better talk to
him first for he wouldn't get n chance
to say anything to him after she got
through with him. She also denied
having made any of the threats tes-
tilted to by Mr.. and Mrs. Seldom. John
never made use of the expression,
"Oh, Lou, II that is all the love you
have for me shoot away" Witness
never said to her sister that she had
settled him (Johm now. Never said
to Seldom after reading The Herald
article that that man. meaning Ham
ilton must be put out of the way.
After the inquest did Mrs. Seldom
call on you at the county jail?"
Yes, about April 26 she came and
said Tom had sent her down to see II
she could not get me to make con-
fession to clear John; that people
thought he had something to do with
it and that Tom was released only be-
cause he told lot of things about
me-
Has your sister ever spoken to you
since
~ -. 49, -. 49,,
~ Sou ctsI INV any Mp ,io ioi
"Vr tha' Sou u'uii want u see hei
Witness said she remembered hav-
ing a conversation with Seldom and
Deputy sheriff Burt in which seldom
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anG a., h ,Ird van Co'' began cross
Mrs Hamilton said she was very well
,c,,,a,,t"d U,jtb ber b,shond Iafnra
tho ,narriare He was always truthful.
sranoro,,s ana stroigbtfarv1rd ANA in
every respect an exemplary Young
NM
my" you were married on rhanksglv-
ing dav 1sg4?''
"year'
after marriage how did YOU find
Tohn truthful generous or other
wige ?"
"Ue was truthful. good and ~aner-
Gus. and there was nothing base or
lgnoble about him. In November, 1896,
We had a little quarrel, hut 1t was soon
over and our great trouble began ON
March 8, 1897, then he changed great
w."
when did you first tell him of your
intimacy with Pavey?"
ION March g."
"That was the time he threw you
to the moor and pulled you by the hair
of the head?'
Eyes"
up to that time even on March 3.
4 and did he treat you with consul
eration?"
Yes" 49,. ....,
the time he was killed."
Yes"
"And had no hard feelings toward
him?"
None whatever"
Did he kiss you on March 81
yes"
and on March 81"
Eyes"
"Did he speak unkindly to you on
Il cannot remember"
The various times that the witness
and her husband had conversations up
to April IS were referred to and the
witness sGid he had not been unkind
in aII,,on ,,o,, s+orto, 70 write to John