The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31

with intent 10 kill, was concluded yes
terday forenoon without anything Of
special moment being elected. Mrs.
Eliza Miller, a neighbor of Mr.. Stout,
testified that one evening about a week
before the shooting she saw a man,
whom she could not identify lurking
about the Stout residence and attempt
ing TO look in at the windows. Miss
Fanny Stout said she saw Jones pass
ing her fathers house one evening ten
days before the shooting and Mr.. Stout,
recalled, said that about il O'Clock on
the same evening he saw Jones stand
ing on the sidewalk near his house.
Joseph A. Stout, son of the banker,
swore that on the evening of Nov. 8, a
few minutes before the father was shot.
he saw Jones in the back yard of the
Stout mansion. Joseph c. RingWood,
George Powell, Nellie McFall, Rosa
Moench and Florence Donohue testified
that they saw q. man, whom they could
not identify, running at a rapid rate
away from the scene Of the shooting,
staggering on the sidewalk on Fifth
South street
Chief of Police Pratt and Detective
Sheets and Gillespie and others will be
examined today and prosecution will
probably rest this afternoon.
OBJECTION SUSTAINED.
When court convened yesterday
morning Judge Norrell sustained the
states objection to Mr. Browns ques-
ton propounded on Wednesday after
noon and which after argument was
then taken under Amusement by the
court The question related TO Mr.
Stoutt's financial relations with the
bank. II was as follows:
is it not true that you owed the
bank at that time more than $4,000,
that as a matter of fact you owed it
e9,000?''
Stoutts indebtedness to the bank.
the court held to be Irrelevant in tSis
case. Mr.. Stout then took the st-nd
for further discrimination by Sena-
tor Brown.
Did you testify at the preliminary
hearing that they (the bank) had $685.
600 against you?" asked MIR. Brown.
Yes, ! may have done So
You testified that you had the first
open rupture with Jones in July?'
Yes, that is true
How many other quarrels had you
about that time with Jones2"
Two others, three altogether. two in
July and one in September
1.-THE first one was about your SOM"
You wanted to put him on the
books?''
Yes"
Would that be promoting him, over
the heads of some of the other old en-
ployees?"
mo. Keeping the. books is no higher
a position than paying teller
What salary was your boy getting?"
Twenty dollars a. month. He was
mere boy, only about 20 years of age.
1 intended to give him $50 month
when he went on the books"
Would the position Won intended
giving him be not promotion over
Openshaw. Chapman and some others?"
No; ] do not so consider it."
You had two quarrels with Jones
IN July?"
Yes
What was the second one about?"
About him overdrawing his ac-
count"
Did you not have another quarrel
with him about the Hedges note in
July?''
No; that was not in July. Anyway,
it was not a quarrel. I asked him to
get me the Hedges note. and he was
stubborn and would not do it, although
] asked him many times"
You said in the court below that
Jones had purloined the note-had talk
en- it out of the pocketboolS, and was
keeping it. Was that true?"
Yes. 1 thought he had taken it,
ana L lllnh 50 now. asked Jones
over forty times for it. 1t was wanted
when Hedges came to pay it,
rs IL not true that you paid the
Hedges note yourself?''
Objected to and objection sustained.
Didn't you charge Jones with hav-
ing betrayed you in the matter of the
note?"
No: I have no recollection of any
thing of the sort. / wanted the note
to give It back to Hedges, because he
paid it and was entitled to it."
"Who did he pay it to?"
ITO me, and passed it to the paying
teller"
How much?"
Two thousand two hundred dollars"
What was the amount of the note?"
Two thousand two hundred and fifty
dollars"
What design did you have reference
to when you told Jones that he had
accomplished his hellish design'?''
Il understood that Jones was plot
ting against me. Jones might have
been instrumental in getting my resig-
nation called for
Didn't you think the 'hellish design
was IN the matter of the Hedges
note?"
No; have no fear about the Hedges
note. ! want you to understand that"
Witness said he had a contract with
Ee4EeS 70 DlN NIGs ser -A4dIlDh INNING
stock to the amount of the note. Mr.
Brown asked him if he had the con-
tract now, and, If so, TO produce it.
Mr. Stout replied that he had the con-
tract in his pocket, but 1t was an inn
portant document 10 him and he did
not want to trust it with anybody but
the court. Mr.. Putnam objected TO the
introduction Of the contract, and the
objection was sustained.
WHY did VQli infeTiert that state
ment about the contract, if you are
afraid TO produce it?"
Il am not afraid 10 produce it. I am
afraid, however, to trust you with it.
That contract is my protection from
the charge they have made against
me"
Mr.. Brown here made another effort
to have the contract produced, and de-
clared that it, as well as the note, was
a forgery.
ION April p, 1898, did you hand in to
the bank a slip TO charge $500 to a
bank in Ohio and credit the same to
you, and on May q following did you
direct the bank clerks to charge the
same to you. and was not the whole
transaction fictitiouS?"
Objected to and objection sustained.
What was the direction of the wind
on the night you We're shot?'
MY idea is that ii was from the
northwest"
Did you tell ]. r. Slater at the Alta
club about your troubles with Jones?'
Il had a. conversation with him and
may have mentioned Jones; in fact,
think did"
Did you make any statement 10 him
TO the effect that you would get even
with jones'"
mo; / did not"
That closed the crosS.e2amination of