The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-12
THIS SEEMS CONCLUSIVE.
Records of the Rapid Transit Street
Car Line.

According to the records of the Rapid
Transit street car line, the Murray car
on which Stout was a passenger, ar
| rived at the corner of State and Second
South at 6:10, whicn would bring it at
the corner, one block from the home
OF the wounded man, at 6:07. Allow
him five minutes to walk the block and
he would have been home three min
uteS before Sutherland, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones, passed the corner, unless he
waited there. If the shooting was done
by Jones at 6:20, as laid down by young
Stout, then George Sutherland and
Mrs. Jones are accessories, for it is be-
yond the limit of physical possibility
for man TO walk TO his home at COS
South Main and back to the scene of
the. tragedy in the space allotted by
the statements of the wounded man. If
the shooting was done by Jones at the
time Stout says it was done between
$50 and 6:40, then Stout waited be-
tween the car line and his home either
seventeen minutes at the least or
twenty seven minutes at the outside
Mr.. Stoutt's son says his father was
shot at $40 and the father declares he
was shot at $3.50 or GAO.
If Jones shot Stout, he saw him
when he went home with Sutherland
and Mrs. Jones, and then hurried back
and found Stout waiting like a lamb
for the slaughter. If Mr.. Stout was
afraid Of Jones killing MIN, as is re-
lated it seems odd he should wait for
his enemy to come and shoot him.
From the stories told, it would seem
that Jones finished his supper at a few
minutes after Z o'clock. The ordinary
man consumes half an hour of time
eating a meal, especially one who has
worked all day, taken a hurried lunch
perhaps, and is enjoying the only
leisure meal of the day. If Stout was
shot at $3.50 Jones is entitled to the
sprinting championship for getting
home, doing the act, and getting back
to his meal If Stout was shot at $40
Jones is entitled to two championships.
But the real theory is based on the
time Jones passed with Sutherland and
Mrs. Jones. That hour is nearest the
time the shooting occurred and had
Jones done the work, then Sutherland
and Mrs. Jones would have seen it. No
one believes this, it would be the
height of absurdity to assert it.
, But the vital deductions that are
made from the time records as estab-
lished so far are as follows:
Mr.. Stout left the Murray car, one
block east of his home and less than a
block from the scene Of the shooting
at not a second later than 6:07. This is
shown by the records. Mr.. Stout says
he walked directly towards home,
block away, but was shot on reaching
the bill board, east of the corner.
Allowing five minutes in which to walk
the block, he must have been shot at
6:12
Mr.. Sutherland left Walkers bank
corner not earlier than Cos. At the
Walker House he Joined Mr.. and Mrs
Jones and they went on together. The
first block from Walkers bank was
probably covered in three minutes. The
second block, to st. Paul's church.
which would allow for crossing the
street. twice. about four minutes, and
the third block, to the corner opposite
the Stout residence, say three minutes
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones went on with Mr..
Sutherland to the latters home, half
a block south, and after saying good
night, continued their walk Even pre-
suming that Mrs. Jones was a party to
the affair. Mr.. Jones would, of neces-
sity, have to wait, or go on until Mr..
Sutherland was safely in his home be-
fore starting back. This half block
down and the return to the point
where the shooting occurred, must have
taken four minutes, so that Mr.. Jones
could not have reached the place be-
fore Gil, or several minutes before the
shooting took place, provided that Mr.
Stout walked directly west after leav-
/ ing the car, as he says he did.
Assuming that the statements of Mr..
Sutherland as to the time and of Mr..
Stout as to being shit directly after
he left the car and ArSaiked west are
correct, then Jones. Sutherland and
Mrs. Jones presumably passed the cor
ner of Fifth South after it occurred.
The fact that their attention was not