The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-14
To Try Mrs. Hamilton For Murder
ing Her Husband.
TESTIMONY OPENS TODAY
VAN co1r STATES THE PROSE
oJTToN's CASE.
Two opinisls Rendered By the State
Supreme Court-Mrs. LAWYER En-
tiers Sui Fer Divorce-Action to
Recover Damages For an Assault
-MiscelAneous Court Cuttings.

The jury I try Mrs. Lou Hamilton
for the muTer of her husband was
completed att:15 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon- Cohfy Attorney Van Colt
made the opping statement for the
prosecution ad court adjourned until
10 O'Clock thisrnorning. when the TAX
ing of testimby viii commence We
forenoon Of yiterday and most of the
afternoon VA consumed in obtaining
the four juror to make up the Y.
The followin is a resume of the pro-
ceedings;
Jurors Excl@d For Cause-Richard
Fairbairn, JaAs K. Boyd. Eugene
Lambourne. Grge Dryburg. John H
Walker. jr.. Resrt w. Campbell, Will
lam Scott, Willm r. Jones, jr., Thorn
as :. AshWortl James Godfrey.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT by the State
None.
Peremptorily excused by the De-
fense-George bailey and Daniel r.
Bateman.
Accepted andWorn Inc. A Carl
quist, Joseph Newman, W. 3. Ennis
and W. r. Fos,, who, with the eight
previously obtled. make the full
panel OF u. as lows:
PERSONA OF THE JURY.
z. A. King, hIIiam Evans, I. NJ.
Fisher. w C. Amoot, Thomas John
son, Lewis HoaRnd, O. n. Despair,
Robert Fisher, "a Carlquist, Joseph
P. Newman, W., Ennis and William
r. Foster.
The prosecute exercised ten per
emptory challeIg and the defense
their full quotal Is.
The above ale7nen took their
places in the il box and Deputy
Clerk OF the Coz Little read the in
dietment charg Mrs. Hamilton
with murder in first degree for
killing her husbai John H Hamilton,
under circumStss already fully
stated in The He1.
Judge Powers h entered an Oh
lection to the iCs on the ground
that they had not n summoned in the
manner eontempla by the state con-
stitution and thate act of the legls-
lature relating totors had not been
properly enacted d was therefore
void.
PROSECUTION SEEMING STATE
MI.
County Attorne waldemar Van
Colt made the oTag statement for
the prosecution. red the manner of
the killing of the dRsed and the cir
cumstances leading TO the tragedy.
He recounted the Of the deceased
discovering things hich convinced
him that his wife aW. c. PaVy had
had criminal relatB his determine
ton TO institute Srce proceedings
and Mrs HamiltonErong objections
to being made def,nt in a divorce
suit in which ad1y was charged
and her efforts to suade her hus-
band TO abandon CONTEMPLATED
proceedings. Counsid he expected
to prove that Mrs milton had con-
templated killing hesband for days
before the shooting had threatened
to do SO, and proVi herself with a
weapon and amnion for that
purpose; that on Tight of April IS.
1887, the husband aSife met at the
house of Thomas Sci on West First
South street and tlEhen the nus
band was leaving al $3.50 pm, and
walking from the down the walk
10 the street, six ShFere fired, one
of which went tRh Hamilton s
heart, killing him ihtly and that
a woman was seen iediately after
the shots were firedning into the
house. Ia expected rove that Mrs.
Hamilton followed Deceased out OF
the house and that it she who fired
the fatal shot and ae shots,
Court then adjournntil 10 o'clock
this morning, when Examination OF
witnesses for the secution will
begin.