The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-16

VerSdtion was pleasant ana that You
heard them laughing2"
Il said I heard Hamilton laugh
Did you say anything about that be
fore Justice Wenger?"
wen, let US turn to the evidence
and see.''
q think did"
~0h. you think you did now"
The transcript Of the testimony
was said about witness hearing them
You have added that about them
laughing to your testimony"
IF I didn't state it before I have
added n.'
WASN'T HELPING THE PROSECU-
TION.
The witness denied that he made an
attempt to get Mrs. Willlie to testify
against Mrs. Hamilton, and denied that
he told Mrs. WiIIsie that if she wouldn'
testify he would have her subpoenaed
and then she would have to testify.
Did you go over to Second South
street 10 look UP q witness for the
state?"
I was around there talking to a
witness once"
did you go down to the county jail
after your release 10 see Mrs. Hamil
TOM"
Yes"
Have you seen her stnce?"
No"
al that time did you ask your sister
in-law to make a statement that
would eNonerate you?"
No
Didn't YOU tell her that although
the case you had been dismissed. you
were not disposed to let it rest there,
and that she knew better than anyone
else that you had no hand in the kill
ing?"
mo, I did not"
Witness, when closely questioned by
Judge Powers, said that after the
shots We're fred he came to the door
in his night dress. and saw Mrs. Ham
ilton on the walk coming towards the
door, and then that he closed the door,
turned and went into the house to put
on his clothes. while on Thursday in
his direct examination he said he
stood at the door and that Mrs. Ham
! nton turned, went back to the place
where the body lay and placed some
thing on the ground beside it.
Court here took a recess until 5
o'clock one hour longer than usual,
! for the reason that Juror William
| Evans whose brother, John E. Evans,
/ died on Wednesday, was very anxious
TO attend the funeral of his relative,
and both sides conserving, he was al
| lowed to so in charge of a bailif while
| the other II jurors were kept in charge
! of another bailiff.
{ AFTERNOON SESSION.
! On re-assembling at the hour named
| the cross examination Of witness Sed-
| don was resumed. He said he did not
recollect that the weather was cloudy
i y
| on which the shooting occurred. Wit
ness did not remember whether or Got
! he had testified before the coroner and
] the justice about Mrs. Hamilton ask
ing witness to go TO her mothers and
| set the revolver 50 that she might give
| ii 10 her husband.
Seddon's testimony before the coro-
ner was that he heard four or five
! shots fred, and that the first shot
/ aWoke him. He now said that he tes-
titled falsely then and that he only
heard enc shot.
Many other discrepancies in Seldom s
! former testimony and that given by
| him at the trial were shown to exist
! He said that the testimony given by
him now was true and correct and the
other was false.
Have you received any promise o.
immunity from punishment for perjury
for testfyilg as you have done?" asked
Judge Powers.
mo, I have not"
you testified before Justice Wengel
that most of what you testified before
the coroner was true Was that true
or false?''
u suppose it was false"
WAS SYMPATHETIC.
! Judge Powers asked the witness if he
desired to make any explanation OF
why he testified falsely before the
coroner and Seldom said he did anc
stated that the reason he did not truth.
fully tell what he knew before the
coroner was because of the sympathy
he had for his sister-in-IaW, Mrs. Ham
ilton.
you didn't change that testimony
until after you had been arrested?"
NO, old not"
"You did not change it until the Off
GERS talked to you that afternoon in the
JAM"
mo, I didn't change it until then"
On redirect examination the witness
said that when he came to the door Of
his house just after the shooting h
saw Mrs. Hamilton on the walk coming
towards the house and that While hi
stood at the door she turned and walk
ed back TO where the body of John
Hamilton lay and stopped over it
| ne WihHtSS was lhSh excused VIII
the understanding that the prosecution
might recall him later
TESTIFIES AGAINST HER SISTER
Mrs. Emily Seldom, wife af the pre-
Yious witness, examined by Mr. VaI
Colt, said her maiden name Was PR
day, her age was 81. She was q siSte
| to Lou. the defendant. Mrs. Hamilton
was about u years of age. Mrs. Ham
ilton had been staying at witness
, house some time before April 10, tn
date of the killing.
: Witness remembered her sister Lol
! asking the witness husband to get tn
gun from her mothers. He did so AM
gave it to Lou. Lou put it in the to-
drawer OF a dresser which she used 10
keeping her things in.
Remembered April -. the day Of tn
shooting. Two or three days before tn
tragedy Lou told witness that she fel
terribly bad about the way John ha
! been talking about her and scandaii2
! ing her. Lou asked witness to get he
The Herald OF April Il, so that sh
could see the article referring to her
+ self, John and Pavey and witness d
/ So Lou asked witness TO ask Mr.. Sed
don to get her some cartridges and wit
ness then advised her not to do any
thing that would bring disgrace on tn
: family. Lou said if Seldom would no
get the cartridges she would get theI
herself and she put on her things m
went out for that purpose When sh
: came back witness asked her if sl
I had got the cartridges and she said sh
, had not. that they would not sell theT
! TO q woman without there WIS q gen