The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-19
fcation is simply similarity of clothes

fication is simply similarity of clothes
and figure.
Mrs. Legg, when seen last evening at
Twenty-first and Valencia streets,
where the family has moved from the
house of the horror, said that her iden-
tification was corroborated by the man
himself.
Why" she said, "he admits every
thing but the murder, and gives as an
excuse for not answering me when [
called to him from the stairs and
when he went out the side way that he
did not hear me-
Mrs. Legg said:
The statement which [ made to the
detectives the night of the murder in
cludes what happened from the morn
ing of the murder. for between II and
u o'clock on the morning of the muir
der l admitted the man whom I now
know to be Hoff When l answered
the bell he asked for Mrs. Clute, and
said, II came to hang some pictures for
her" / directed him to go up stairs.
knew that she was not there. 1 heard
him walk around, and in few mo-
mentS he came down stairs, said that
he would walk toward Haight street,
and asked me to tell Mrs. Clute, if she
came, that he would be back in q
short time. When he came in he had
his satchel. and remarked as he went
out that he had left his things up
stairs
Not long afterwards Mrs. Clute came
in and went directly UP stairs. She
came down stairs in few fG9me. Is
and asked me if any one had called for
her. ! told her of the man who had
left his sack of tools I'D stairs She
thanked me, and asked me TO i'll nHn
when he returned to come Thursday
between l and 1870. She said she had
to go to the bank. She returned just
before the carpet man came. between
$3.50 and 3:45 o'clock. AS she passed
through the hall she asked if [ had
been home all afternoon, to which / re-
piled in the affirmative, and added
that no one had called. She thanked
me- went up stairs, and that was the
last | saw of her. When the door bell
rang later I knew thai the caller WAS
not for me as my few friends il this
city always ring twice, but l thought
Mrs. Clute was tired, and I would save
her coming down stairs. AS 1 reached
the dining room door she was at the
front door, and I saw her admit the
same man. He is the one now in Gus
toby / saw the man who brought the
mating drive away, but as I was busy
getting dinner I did not see or hear
the man who was doing the lacking go
away.
When father rushed into the kitchen
and said, Il thought you were scream
ing. but now I am sure that it is UP
stairs, and it is frightful," [ ran back
with him and snatched my husbands
pistol and started to go up stairs, but
father begged me not to take it and
not to go UP there He was afraid
would get hurt ! hesitated for an in
slant, and just then we heard the
heavy fall and with that the screaming
stopped and all was silent. BY that
time father and / got ont into the hall,
and l asked him if he had seen the
men who were lacking the CARPET go
out. He replied that he thought that
they had gone.
[ started up stairs, and as I neared
the top | saw q man, short. rather
stout, and wearing a dark box coat, go
from the hall through the door leading
to the front room from the hall. The
door Which led into the room where
Mrs. Cute was found was shut
called to him and asked il the lady
was hurt, but he went in and did not
reply. l called to him again, and get
tins no answer, ran down TO father and
told him that there was a man there
and something dreadful had happened.
We opened the front door, intending to
get assistance. / distinctly heard some
one go from the front room of the
other floor through the hall, unlock
two doors and go down the back stairs.
heard the footsteps down the alley
way, and heard him unlock and un-
bolt the alley door. We went out on
the front steps and father called to him
three times, but he did not even turn
his head He did not run, he walked
quickly through the alley way and up
Guerrero street to Liberty, down which
street he turned. He had his bag of
tools over his shoulder. While / did
not see his face, caught a glimpse of
his whiskers from the side as he went