The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-21

Pursuing the testimony the witness
said she was just getting into bed
when she heard the shot. Il exclaim-
ed, oh my God. who's shooting out
side?'' The witness then went into
the hall and
THERE WAS LOU.
She was standing by the dresser
have in the hall. l spoke 70 her and
she could not answer me. 1 went on;
and came back She came in and sat
down. / spoke to her again; asked her
what was the matter and she made no
reply. l spoke to her again and still
she made no reply. Then 1 dressed and
went out and when / came back
again spoke to her and she made no
\ answer
The remarkable part of the testi-
mony of Seldom and his wife is that
while one never spoke to Mrs. Hamil-
ton at all, the other asked her repeated
questions and received no reply.
MRS. HAMILToN's MOVEMENTS.
Witness continued that after dressing
she went out and when she came back
she found her sister sitting in a chair
still. She was evidently thinking" so
she said. She asked her again what
was the matter: what had happened
and received no reply.
AT this point counsel attempted to
/ get some information from the woman
! concerning the position of the body.
Mrs. Seldom got stubborn and declined
/ to answer, saying she didn't know
which was north. east or west, and de-
cIiRed to give any reply to question
as to how long she had lived in the
city, although she has lived here since
infancy.
She maintained that her sister didn't
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her husband was shot, didn't look paler
than usual didn't ask any questions,
didn't answer any. she was just
thinking"
Witness made another trip out and
looked at the body, and When she came
back her sister was still sitting in the
chair She didn't say anything at all
and witness didn' ask any questions.
Questioned concerning the matter or
the divorce and the causes which led
up to it, Mrs. Seldom said her sister
had never mentioned il to her at all.
Hamilton said there was going TO be
trouble which would lead up to di-
vorce. but never told her the cause
Witness declared she never asked her
sister the causes of the estrangement,
which by the way seems strange too.
Perhaps she can be stoical at times.
Most sisters usually interest them
selves in domestic difficulties.
THEN CAME THE PISTOL.
Mrs. Seldom couldn't identify the pis-
tol and wouldn't, although she said II
lay on the table in the house whole
6ay 1t was brought there five or six
days ago and was given Hamilton the
day after it was brought there. She adj
mitted she had looked at it long enough |
to see ii had a black handle, but other
wise did not examine it. She gave the
pistol to her sister. She gave 1t to
Hamilton.
"How do you know she did2''
We'll / am sure she did.
did you see her give ii to him2" |,
NO but ii was not on the table.
s-Ctldn't she put it somewhere else %
mo. there was no place 70 put it,
Then Mrs. Seldom qualified this state-y
ment by saying there was. no place shes1
could have put il without her, the witt
ness. knowing of it,
HER SISTERS LIP WAS BLEEDING
The witness said her. sisters lip was
bleeding when she came in the house.
Didn't you ask her how it hap
pened?' said Attorney Richards.
Didn't ask her.
Didn't you ask her how it happened.
and didn't she tell you that John hadsi
struck her?'
4 don't remember as to that"
Again did McGurrin the elder arise to
his feet with request for permission
to ask a question.
You may ask it, quoth Sommers,
''but the witness will refrain from an
swering until I have ruled on it,"
did you notice." said McGurrin.
that there was a whole lot of con-
fusion around the house about the time
Of the shooting?"
The witness returned an affirmative
answer.
Mr.. Richards then asked if witness
ever held any conversations at all with
her sister upon the subject of the
trouble and the causes which led up to
it, and received a negative answer. He
the same kind of reply when
he asked if she had ever heard her sis
ter make any threats against her hus-
band.