The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05


street he heard shot and looked
around, but saw nobody. Did not see
anyone running away then, but when
he got further down he saw a good
sized boy or a man running.
DO you think it was Jones?" asked
counsel.
mo, I don't think it was"
Witness said he heard only one shot
and heard no little girls scream.
Cross-examiRed by Mr.. Van Colt,
witness said he worked at bottling
works. He left there at 6:10 and ar
rived at his home. GIL Main street. a
block below Stoutt's, at 6:25. The
clock at witness house registered $3.50,
but it was thirty minutes fast. Wit
ness walked down the east side of Main
street from Druehl & Franken's store
to his own house. When at Fifth
South he heard a pistol shot in the
neighborhood of the billboard. Wit
ness, just at the time he heard the shot,
was walking backwards.
why were you walking backwards ?'
For nothing; I was just doing it.
You were walking backwards with
out any particular reason?"
Wei, l had been taking dancing les
sons. and stopped a few seconds to
practice one of the steps. l was going
to a college dance that evening"
HEARD ONE SHOT.
Walter Showaker resided at 500 South
Main street; was employed in the au-
ditor's department Of the Rio Grande
Western Railway company; passed by
Fifth South on Main soon after 6
o'clock on the evening of Dec.'9; heard
one shot as he passed.
Cross examined, witness said he was
at the north corner of Fifth South and
Main when he heard the shot.
Cleveland K. Sims, aged IA, was at
his home, % East Fifth South, ON the
night Of the shooting. Went out to
look after their COW, which was in the
vacant lot; heard shot as he came
out; saw three little girls as he went
south. He was in a hurry and ran
until he reached the alley near Mr..
Sutherland's house leading to the va
cant lot, and turned into the lot there;
saw the boy George Powell and after
wards ran across Main street after the
cow.
Cross7exannined by Mr.. Putnam, wit
ness said he heard the shot as he came
out of the back door of his house. Ran
down the sidewalk, not very fast, till
he got to the alleyway south of Mr..
Sutherland's. There was only one cow
there. Witness did not know whether
he wore an overcoat or not that even
ing.
William Gayler, replying to Mr..
Brown, said on the night that Stout
was shot he was on Fifth South, near
Main, and heard a shot; il was muf-
fled sound. Saw Stout at the corner
of Main and First South. He was stag
Sering and Went west across Main
street in the direction of his home.
George Sims testified that he resided
at % East Fifth South, the third house
E,,r Il ,.1 T.. ~ 1.,.e-
mess. Kept his horses and wagons in
the rear of his house Heard the re-
port of a pistol on the night Stout was
shot. He was laying on a lounge in
his house. Heard only one shot, but
owing to the high wind could not tell
from which direction it came.
FORBES SAYS HE SAW KRAUT.
John Forbes resides at 354 East Fifth
South street. At o'clock ON the night
of the shooting was in the Harmon
block. Saw Mr.. Kraut with another
man coming out of Brockmeyer's sa-
loon on Second South, between Main
and State streets, shortly after O'Clock
about four or five minutes after.
Cross-examined, witness said he was
at DR.. Prouse's Office in the Harmon
block at O'Clock on that night. rhe
doctor was about to start business prac-
ticing medicine, and witness was assist
ing him in buying what instruments
and appliances he needed. Witness
paid for electric batteries and other
things which he bought, and was to
have share in the business. Witness
saw Kraut frequently. Kraut was
around with the doctor nearly every
day for six weeks The witness said he
talked with Kraut about the shooting
the day after it happened, but nothing
was said about witness having seen
Kraut the night before Kraut did not
say that he knew anything about the
shooting. BoGnan Cannon asked wit
ness about seeing Kraut on that night.
Saw Kraut later that night, probably
about o'clock.
w. S. Fugate said that little after
O'clock on the night of the shooting he
was at Fifth South and State streets.
Went down State and went west en-
the north side of Fifth South. When
opposite Mr.. Alffs house he heard a
shot on the opposite SIDE of the street.
Saw some parties standing near the
adobe house on Fifth South, but did not
know who they were. He went on to
Main and turned down Main. Saw no
little girls as he passed, in fact, saw
nobody between Fifth and Sixth South
streets.
George Sutherland, recalled, said he
made some measurements around the
place where Joseph A. Stout testified
he saw Jones in the back yard of the
Stout residence on the night of the
shooting. 1t was fifteen feet sax inches
from the back door of Stoutt's house.
where young Stout stood, to the wash
house, where young Stout said he saw
Jones standing.
In cross examination, Mr.. Sutherland
said he made the measurement at the
request of Judge Henderson, and not
because of any special interest he had
in the case
BANK EXAMINER WIGHTMAN.
Bank Examiner Wightman said he
resided in San Francisco, was bank
examiner for California, Nevada and
Utah. Came to Salt Lake on Dec. Z
last and went TO the Utah National
bank the same day. On the next day
was engaged in his duties making an
examination of the affairs of the bank
On the night of Dec. he was sent
for to go to the old city hall Saw
Jones there in a back room and after
wards in a room with Chief Pratt,
United States Marshal Miller, Mr.. Chip
man, Detectives Sheets and Gillespie
and DR. Pinkerton.
WAS there any talk about Mr..
Hedges?"
81 told Jones that I thought Hedges
shot Stout and that he ought to tell
the chief so, and that if he didn't I
would. Jones said he didn't think
Hedges did it and that he woSlld not
accuse him of it. 1 found out that
morning that Stout had forged
Hedges name to note. 1 saw Hedges
leave the bank with a very wicked