Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-24
hrs, Hamilton Pleads Not Guilty 10
Her HuSblld'S Murder.
SHOWS SIGNS OF REaoRsE.
Change Of w nuc GRANTED From Jus.
tics somnsr'- TO Justice wengsr's
Cour,-PrsIimiuary Hearing ON
monday-Grest Interest over sed-
uop's statement aud How lie VIII
Toll Is In Court-nrs. Hamilton
Much Concerned.

Thomas p. Seldom no longer Ian
cuisines In jail suspected OF having
been an accomplish In the murder OF
John IL. Hamilton, his brother.i n-Iaw,
whose mortal remains will be con.
signed 10 an early aud untimeiy grave
tomorrow.
AS stated In last evenings
NEWS, he made D clean breast OF all
he knew concerning the lamen,able
tragedy, to the oflioera, and in oon.
fessing or admitting what he did know
he completely exonerated himself and
secured HE own personal liberty. sThis
was done yesterday afternoon, not
withstsnding absurd denials OF the iaot
In o morning contemporary.
Wlen Assistant County Attorney
Van Cots made the motion
to discharge him he looked very
much encouraged and when
Justice Som mer granted the motion
he heaved sigh of relief that plainly
showed great burden hal bseL
lifted from his troubled mind, while
friends grasped his hand aad shook II
warmly at the assurance OF his inno-
cence.
Mrs. Hamilton sat at his side but
neither raised her yelled eyes nor
twiiohed muscle. Her demeanor
plainly indicated that she had been
appraised o, what was going to happen.
Seldom Is strongly censursd by some
Tor delaying his statement to the OIL
GERS. 1t proves, they say, that ne
committed perjury on the witness
stand anu that he 10 liable to punish
ment on that account. That IL prot
ably true. But sympathetic friends
cay he he did In the goodnts,
anu mercy Of his hears Tor
Mrs. Hamilton, his sister-in-law; that
II he had been given more time In
which to consider the matter his
testimony would have been otherw 81.
OF cOurte, there is much speculation
as TO what tue detailed narration OF his
statement will disclose. That cRnnos
be told with fine exactness at this
time. But the essential facts are, he
has cleared himself and has told OF the
between his &C.
cused and imprisoned sister-in-Iaw and
her dead husband; OF the relationship
she bore TO Mr.. Psvey according to
her own admissions az the family
ftesidt; Of the anger, remorse and sor-
row OF the ueau man at the confession
OF her infidelity; Of HsmiIton's viai!s
TO his wife on 1.-THE Gay and night OF
his tragic death, particularly OF the
last meeting what actually passed
between Hamilton and his wife In his
pIesel ce; when he heard the frat
shot and what he saw when rusked
into the darkness OF tho night; who
the person was whv crouched beneath
the fence and ran away; the talk he
aud his wife had with Mrs. Hamiltoa
whom he saw coming out OF this front
yard into the house; her well feigned
unconcsrn alter the shooting, ami
above all something about threats that
were male by Mis-. Homilton against
her husbands lie. 1t is raid he knows
nothing OF the purchase OF the cart
ridges but does know that Hsmilton's
gun Wac in his house befc the killing
and that 1t was uuioaded len he saw
1t last.
This, the NEWS is assured, will be
the su bstance OF Sedoon's statement
upon the stand Oh Monday, made
either orally or In writing.