The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-03

ly accurate work yesterday and scored
several pOlnue

ly accurate work yesterday and scored
several points.
The defense was not idle when it
came their turn, either. Counsel for
the accused We're materially assisted
by the witnesses they placed on the
stand. Mrs. Siegel, Miss Swenson, Mrs.
Martin and Captain La Nielle, who tes-
titled during the afternoon, were all
more than ordinarily intelligent in
their evidence and manner of putting
il before the jury, and although coun-
sci for the state was exceedingly dill
gent in his efforts TO obtain something
which would Offset the weight of what
they had to say, he scored as signal a
failure as his opponents could have
wished.
Mr. Van Colt begen by examining
the defendant as to her actions con-
corning a certain feather boa, which
she is alleged TO have taken from a
LADY named Samuels. He questioned
her concerning a statement to the eff
feet that she had tried to sell the same
10 Miss Mathis for Sc, claiming it was
worth S14. The witness replied she had
Anot attempted to sell the boa, although
6lMiss Mathis had offered 10 buy it Fur
4 rher than this there was no truth to
the statement. Miss Mathis shook her
stauement, and held a whispered con-
VersatiOn with her mother. as if TO
say, What a wicked story"
Mrs. Hutchinson, continuing on the
boa story, said she had worn it but
once
Then counsel for the state asked her
concerning some silver spoons taken
from Mrs. Samuels. Witness replied
that she did not remember what be-
came Of them.
You never had an impulse to return
them, did you?" queried Mr. Van Colt.
Mrs. Hutchinson was unable to say
whether she had or not.
Following I'D the line of questioning,
counsel for the state ELECTED the state
ment that the defendant had taken
waist belonging to Mrs. Louise BOyden
and had used il once or twice.
Returning TO the subject of impulses,
the public prosecutor learned that the
impulse to indulge in falsehood was
sometimes as strong as the one which
led her to steal
Then followed a long examination,
covering the points already brought
out, to the effect that she took the
clothing. the silverEare and other small
articles with the intention of making
the Mathis people more careful.
Questioned as to whether she did not
believe it was wrong to take other peo-
pies property, witness answered: Il
leave that to you. You are looking at
it with a clear brain. I am not. It
seems to me to have been more foolish
tnan wrong. I call ii senseless.''
are you ever seized with an impulse
Hyben you go into a dry goods store?''
sAssed Mr.. Van Colt.
~ never go into dry goods stores; 1
hate shopping" was the response.
At this point in the testimony the
witness was seized with a fit of weep
ing and between her Sobs declared she
had a boy in England she was sup
porting and other declarations.
That's ALL announced Mr.. Van Colt,
SsSS defendant was excused.
Chief Pratt was recalled by the de-
tense and asked some questions. and
then MS. Rachel Siegel was called.
The testimony of this lady developed
the Fact that she has sympathy for the
accused. besides being strongly i'm
pressed with the idea that she is not
mentally sound. She said she had
known her since August. 1896. She be-
came impressed that she was not of
sound mind because of her appearance
and actions. although she believed her
honest She was evidently a woman
with fixed idea, as the Germans call
it. In addition to this testimony, she
averred that Chief Pratt had told her
defendant was a woman either not in
her right mind, or one who used NOR
phine.
'What do YOU mean when you say
she was a woman with fixed idea, as
the Germans call it2" asked MIR. Van
Colt on the cross-examination-
81 can best answer your question by
relating an experience" replied the
witness. Il have a friend who is ap-
parently mentally sound on every sub
feet except ribbons. Whenever she
sees a pretty bit of ribbon she has to
have It and viii do anything to get it.
Otherwise she is a most charming
friend and acquaintance"
We'll, if she was woman with a
fixed idea and yoU knew il, would you
Nlave placed her in charge of the dis
Nnct work engaged in by yourself and
hriends2"
4 might have done so after had ez-
planned the trouble to my friends"
Mrs. Siegel then related that the wo-
man was wretchedly i'll during the time
she had known her and that she pitied
her from the bottom of her heart. The
condition OF the defendant was one to
be pitied.
did she ever take anything from
you2"
Not that know of. suspected her
at one time of taking bottle Of per-
fuInery, because had missed one, for