The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-29

Nephi, July 2S.-Another sad chapter
in the horrible tragedy that occurred at
Levan during the pioneer celebration
on Monday last, was enacted yesterday
afternoon when the funeral of the MUIR
dered man took place in that village
There was an immense gathering pres
ent of prominent people, consisting of
relatives and friends of deceased from
this and adjoining counties, many of
whom were comrades of the Black
Hawk Veteran association, Mr.. Tun-
bridge having participated in several
bloody engagements during the Indian
wars in this part of Utah. A company
of young men, armed and equipped,
acted as a guard of honor, and about
$50 Sunday school children dressed in
white and each carrying a bouquet of
flowers followed the hearse that con-
tanned the remains of their loved SUI
perintendent Nearly a hundred We
hicles were in line as the procession
moved from the Y. NJ. 1. association
hall. where impressive services were
conducted and addresses made by
Apostle TeaSdale, President Sperry and
Elders Grace and Bailey from this city
and Bishop Rasmussen of Levan. The
funeral cortege, with its armed and
uniformed escort and array of chill
sight as it wendell slowly through the
streets of the shade-embowered little
town. and made a sad scene that will
long hold place in memory.
CORONER'S VERDICT.
The eoroner's jury, consisting of N.
P. Rasmussen, James E. Taylor and
William Brown, who were summoned
by the Justice of this precinct to hold
nd iaio ha
facts of the murder, after examining
number of witnesses returned their
verdict, in substance, as follows:
That William Tunbridge. on the
25th day of July. at Levan, Juab
county, come to his death from gun
shot wound at the hands of Andrew P.
Hendrickson, and with felonious in
tent"
The county attorney thereupon fled
a complaint against the accused in due
form, and this morning he was brought
from the Jail to plead to the charge.
He appeared in court cool and collected,
and when the complaint was read ac-
cusing him of murder in the first de-
gree he replied in a firm voice. Not
guilty." The preliminary hearing was
set for Monday next, Aug. l, at p.
m, and he was conducted back to his
cell.
ADMITS HIS GUILT.
In an interview, which he was in
formed was for publication in The
Herald, he admitted that he commit
ted the murder but said it had to be
done. His only apparent justification
was that, Tunbridge, who was one of
the speakers at his (Hendrickson's
fathers funeral, which occurred only a
few weeks ago. made the remark that
the place made vacant by deceased
would have to be filed" meant that
the speaker proposed to fill the va
cancy himself. He also says Tun-
bridge was wearing his fathers sword
in the parade, which he had no Susi-
ness to do, and that "he didn't know
how to command the boys, anyhow"
While talking upon the subject he be-
came very excited, and incoherent, and
gave every evidence of being mentally
And no. doubt the ques-
ton of his sanity will be interposed at
the earliest admissible stage of the
proceedings against him. The evidence
before the coroner shows, however, a
careful preparation for the deed, as
well as a full realization of what he
had done-both in his effort at escape |
and demand for protection after cap |
ture.