The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-06

| got to Main street he heard some girls
scream, and saw a man running south
on Main street. He ran as far south as
Sixth South and turned west He was
running as fast, it seemed to witness.
as he could.
What sort of a looking man was
hep"
''Short and stout. He wore a. dark
overcoat, reaching down to about his
knees
Cross-examined by Senator Brown,
witness said he had been in Salt Lake
twenty-five years; is bricklayer. The
course of the direct examination was
gone over minutely, but the witness
testimony was mistaken
Moroni Gillespie, in reply 70 Mr..
Gunter, said he was and is a police
officer. He gave a description of the
place where the shooting occurred and
the surroundings. He said the bill
board was at the corner of Main and
Fifth South, and fifty to sixty feet east
and west and like distance north and
south. He saw fresh scratches on the
rails Of one of the fences, as if made
by the shoes of a person in climbing
over il.
CHIEF PRATT.
Chief of Police Pratt said his atten-
ton was first called to the shooting of
Stout about o'clock on the evening
on which it occurred. He went down
TO Stoutt's residence and found Stout
in bed suffering a good deal. DR.. Pin
kerton was there. Witness examined
the wound. 1t had the appearance of a
bullet hole below and to the left of
the left nipple. The clothes were powder
burnt and perforated by "a bullet.
Stout told witness that a man came
from behind the bill board and shot
him. Witness questioned him, but he
was reticent about answering. He did
say that he knew who shot him, but
he had reasons for not telling who it
was. Witness insisted, and Stout then
said it was A. b. Jones, the cashier
of the bank. Stout asked witness not
to take any action in the matter be-
cause it might cause a run on the
bank, in which Stout was still inter-
ested. Witness told him it was his
duty to move in the. matter, and he
would have to do it. Witness then eX-
amined Stoutt's pistol and left and
went down to Jones' house. He was
told there that Mr.. Jones was at the
thought was Mrs. Jones, stand
ing at the window upstairs,
with her face close to the glass. Wit
ness went back to the house again,
but Jones hadn't returned.
Witness saw Jones on a street car
and he and officer Gillespie got on the
car. Witness told Jones that he wanted
to talk with him, and Jones got off the
car and wanted to go to his house to
leave some parcels he had. but witness
insisted on his going with him to the
police station. Witness searched him.
but found no firearms or weapons. He
wanted to go to see his lawyer. but
witness took him to the police station
and talked with him. He told him that
he had better be careful to answer ac-
curately, and then asked him to ac-
count for himself that evening. Jones
said he left the bank at 5:45. called for
his wife at the Walker House. went
home, ate supper and walked uD town
again to the bank, getting there about
I o'clock, and stayed there till about s
o'clock, when Glen Miller came in and
told him about Stout being shot. He
was on his way home when he met
Pratt. Witness then told Jones that
from what Stout had told him. and
from what Jones himself had said about
his movements, he would have to hold
him. Jones asked him if Stout said
he (Jones) had shot him. and finally,
when told that he had. Jones said
Stout was a q" liar. Mr.. Wightman,
the bank examiner came in then. and
said to the witness that it was all a lie
about Jones shooting Stout. and that
he would not believe Stout under oath.
Wightman and Jones then had talk
between themselves. Wightman said
that he knew who shot Stout. and he
said Jones knew also. In the presence
of witnesses, Wightman urged Jones to
tell who did the shooting, but Jones
said nothing, and then Wightman said
it was Hedges who had shot Stout:
that Stout had wronged him, and that
Hedges was just the man to avenge d
wrong. Witness asked where Hedges
could be found. but none of them knew.
Cross-eXamined. the witness said he
would not allow Jones to leave his par
GELS at home. because he didn't want
him TO get home until the witness had
made an examination of the house and
talked to those there. Witness at that
time also refused to let him see his at
torney. Witness believed that Jones
had shot Stout, and he wanted to talk
with him first.
Witness said he accused Jones OF
shooting Stout, and he denied it. Wit
ness then said to him: If we have a
man who saw you shoot him. what
Witness said he went back to see Stout
again about midnight on the same
evening. He was suffering a great
deal, and asked for morphine. DIR. Pin
kerton urged him TO tell witness all
about it before he took any narcotics,
because he could not tell now ne WOULD
come out, and he might never have an
opportunity TO make statement again.
Stout then told the witness again that
it was A. 3. Jones who shot him. Wit
ness asked Stout if he hadn't had an
assident and shoot himself. He said:
Nothing of the kind" that it was 10 es
beyond any doubt, and Stout asked
the witness if he had got him. and wit
ness told him that he had. Stout also
spoke of nl-feeling existing between
himself and Jones.
Witness then stated. in reply to coun-
sci, that his intention was to keep Jones
in custody and examine the members
of his family.
In reply to Mr.. Gunter. the witness
said Jones wore a dark overcoat that
night. which reached to little below
his knees.
Mr. Stout, recalled, said, in reply to
MI Gunter. that four pistols all alike
were bought for the bank when it was
started, and were generally kept there.
One of them was missed from Stoutt's
desk, and it has never been found.
Court adjourned until 10 O'Clock this
morning. when DR.. Pinkerton will take
the stand.
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