The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-07
Proceedings In the Wright-Hyde Sc
ductiOn Case at Nephi.
DEFENDANTS TESTIMONY
DECLARED THERE WAS NO
PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
Lewis, the springville Robber, Given
Five Years In the Pen-Increased
Sugar Beet Acreage About Spring
ville-Curfew Ordinance at Park
City-Logan Notes.
CFrom the Herald's correspondents

II.
duction case was resumed before Judge
Higgins this morning The plaintiff in
this case is a remarkably handsome
young woman, and the answers to
questions were given with becoming
modesty. It certainly seems to an on
locker as if the young lady is not one
OF those sirens who would seduce a
young man like Hyde, as his answer
states. He admitted the act of inter-
course, but claims that he was not La
BILE to the same, ne being not of age at
the time of the commission of the act.
The public sympathy appears TO be
with the young lady, and it is certainly
true that the cross-examination has not
as yet shaken her testimony. The strain
on her system is plainly noticeable, and
it seems to be a remarkable exertion
of will power that keeps her up under
the scathing ordeal of cross-examina-
ton which is fired at her by Arthur
Brown.
Precisely at 10 o'clock the case was
resumed behind closed doors, according
to the request of the defendants attor-
neys All the afternoon yesterday was
taken up with the admission of letters
which had been written between the
INDUCED in by the attorneys, Senator
Brown raising repeated objections to
the same on the grounds that they
were irrelevant, inmaterial and not
tending to prove the case or to sub
stantiate the grounds for damages for
which this case had been brought"
The objections were promptly overruled
and the examination continued as to
her companionship with young Hyde.
CROSS XAMINATIoN.
More letters were introduced this
morning, which received the same OBJ
jections, and which We're also over
ruled by the judge, after which Senator
Brown opened the cross-eXamination
The plaintiff was subjected to a series
of questions on the matter of her re-
lations with young Hyde, and all her
answers were given in an intelligent
and modest manner. She was asked by
counsel for the defense the names of
different young men she had walked
out with; was asked whether she had
ever went out with Oscar Lunt, to
which she answered no. was also
asked if she had gone out or made
practice of going out with Ed Sparkes,
julius Pratt, Bert Conrad, and an ac-
tor by the name of SeYerns to which
she answered in the negative. She was
asked also il she remembered a time
at her home when a number Of young
men were present, and that certain
young man, Will Sparkes, had not
given her or made her a present of
pair of carriers, and which he had put
5on in the presence of the others. She
answered no; that the carriers were !
arm carriers, and she said they We're |
not put on her limbs, as stated. She !
was also questioned as to the interview
at the Cullen hotel, whether she had |
not herself worked up that interview !
which was answered also in the mega |
tive, and plaintiff further stated that |
her aunt, Mrs. w. O. Adams had /
brought about that interview on her |
own volition. Those present were Mr. |
]. a. Hyde, ST., young Mr.. Hyde, her |
mother and Mrs. W. O. Adams.
She stated in answer to the q { ton |
that she had asked him in his pl >ence |
if it was not sweet babe, to which |
he answered, yes.
DO you disown it, she said, and he !
answered, no, do not" Considerable !
questioning was INDUCED in as to her
Course in Logan; whether it was not !
true that she had had young men to
visit her in her apartments there. To
all of which she gave an apparently
straightforward denial. This ended the
examination of Miss Wright.
HER TESTIMONY CORROBORATED
Mrs. Whitaker, the mother of the
plaintiff, and L. Whitaker, her step
father. Werr the only witnesses put !
upon the stand in behalf of the plain
tiff after her own testimony was con-
eluded They each corrOborated the
plaintiff closely and substantially in
regard to the defendants frequent Wis
its to the house and his attention TO
plaintiff as sutton They corroborated
her as to what had taken place at the
interview had at the Cullen hotel be-
tween plaintiff and defendant and Mrs.
w. o. Adams and the father of the de-
PENDANT. Mr. Whitaker; also related
the circumstances of his going to LO-
gan with the plaintiff with a view of
seeing defendant and fixing the matter
lp for d marriage between his step
daughter and the defendant and both
Of these witnesses corroborated the
plaintiffs testimony on various other
DEFENSE OPENS.
The plaintiff rested at this point and
the defense called the father of the
defendant, Mr.. j. A Hyde, ST. He tes-
tilted to his acquaintance with the IA
of the plaintiff and defendant
and as to his repeated effort to break
I'D the alliance that had sprung up
between them; that on one occasion he
started his son up to Logan to attend :
the agricultural college at that place {
for the purpose of getting him away {
from the girl; that his son had pro-
ceeded on his way as far as Salt Lake. I
when he became apprised of Miss I
Wright's following him as far as the i
on her way to the same in (
stitution. and that he at once tele- l
Dhoned TO his son to return home, \
where he remained while plaintiff spent | /
me term at the college and returned 10 |
Nephi herself. There was no material 8
Inference between his ties. inony and
hat of the plaintiff in regard to the J
meeting at the Cullen hotel. f
DEFENDANT TESTIFIES.
]. A. Hyde, jr. was then called in his
own behalf and said that he had h
Known the plaintiff nearly all his life; t
lad associated with her as children a
do until 1895, when he began \
,alling on her with more intimacy and 1
attended the district school with her
md was in the same classes. Jan. s. d
$3.50, he started for Logan, but re- I
nained over in Salt Lake. He had pre- f
'iously tried to get the plaintiff to go \
o the Logan school and entreated her Y
mother to let her go, as she could learn t
more there than at the local schools L
When he started, however, he did not /,
lnow whether Mesa, as he called the
plaintiff, would so or not but tele-