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

Jones shooting case rested and the de-
Tense opened. The forenoon was occu-
pied mostly in the examination of Drs.
Pinkerton and Worthington. Their tes-
timony was confined to description of
Stoutts wounds and bruises. the court
ruling that the statements made by
Stout to DR.. Pinkerton regarding who
did the shooting was incompetent tes-
timony.
For the defense Mr.. George Suther-
land was examined and testified that he
left Henry Peery's office at o'clock or
one or two minutes after. He overlook
Jones and his wife at the Cliff house,
and they all walked down together I'M
til Mr.. Sutherland's home was reached,
at about 6:15 o'clock. Mr.. Sutherland
went into his house and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones went on down the street.
Mrs. Jones, mother of the defendant,
testified that her son and his wife came
home that evening about 6:15 O'Clock.
She met them in the hall. She went in
to the dining room and while she sat
there, She heard her son ana his wife
go upstairs and heard their footsteps
as they walked in the room above where
she sat. Fifteen minutes after they en-
tered the house they came into the din
ing room, and witness had dinner with
them Jones did not leave the house,
witness said, until after dinner.
The prosecution places the time Stout
was shot at about 6;25.
Mrs Jones gave testimony to dis
prove the statement made by Mr..
Stout that the defendant was of lille
Ultimate birth and, in support Of it, in
troduced her marriage certificate and
the family record of births, as entered
on the family Bible.
After the cross examination of Mrs.
Jones, court adjourned until 10 o'clock
tel
sumed.
TELL ABOUT HE WOUND.
DR.. Pinkerton. examined by Mr.. Put
nam. said he lived within half a block
of Mr.. Stout; was called TO attend the
latter on the night of Dec. 9. Mr.. Stout
was in the hall of his own house when
witness arrived. Witness assisted him
upstairs and to bed. While he was
being undressed he told witness
Mr.. Brown, interrupting objected to
the witness stating what Mr. Stout
had said, and the objection was sus-
tanned, the court holding that it was
not part OF the res gestae.
DR.. Pinkerton then said that he found
Mr. Stout suffering from a gunshot
wound on the left side. The position
of the wound showed that the ball had
entered at an acute angle. Witness at
tended Mr.. Stout for several weeks.
Mr.. Stout, in addition to the gunshot
wound. had a black and blue spot about
the size of the palm of the hand on the
right side of the chest and he had pain
in the chest. That wound might have
been produced by a blow with some
hard substance.
Cross-examined by MIR. Brown, the
witness said he was not an expert re-
garding the angle at which the bullet
may have been fired. The position Of
the powder marks near the wound in
dicated that the ball had entered at an
acute angle from left to right. Witness
did not extract the ball and did not
probe for it; thought the ball lodged in
the wall of the abdomen. 1t was two or
three days after witness was first call
ed that he saw the confusion on the
right side of the chest. Mr.. Stout,
however. complained of pain in the
chest from the first. 1t would take
two or three days after blow was re-
ceived for the confusion to appear.
Might the discoloration have been
produced by blow with a mans fist"
asked counsel
Yes: or from violent contact with
any hard substance"
1T would take a pretty hard fist?
Il could produce a similar wound on
any part of your body with my fist.
You are pretty handy with your
fists?"
NO llOl pa NANNicAA9 nv 90 @AsAANS
as YOU are, probably"
Il don't want to advertise you as an
expert in that line"
THANK you,' said the doctor.
How long was it after You received
the telephone message until You got
Mr. Stout to bed?"
i have no idea"
How long did it take you TO go across
the street from your house to his, take
him upstairs and undreSS him?'
Il don't know.
could you do it in five minutes?"
NO l think not
Ibid it take you ten minutes?"
i don't know. l can't form an opin-
ion
Or. Union Worthington said he at
tended Mr. Stout with DIR. Pinkerton-
Was called three or four days after
Stout was shot. The doctor described
the wound substantially the same as
DR.. Pinkerton had done. He thought
the bullet entered at an angle from the
left, ranged slightly upward and across
the body. Witness saw the confusion
on the other side, which, he said, was
undoubtedly produced by a blow.
MR.. STOUT RECALLED.
J. NJ Stout, recalled, sale. in answer
to Mr.. Putnam, that he was facing
west when shot.
can you state how close Jones was
to the billboard when he shot you?"
asked Mr.. Putnam.
when 1 saw Jones he was right in
front of me- and ] thought / was close
10 the inside of the sidewalk"
BY Mr.. Brown: In the fore part of
August. 1898. did you call on Mr..
Hedges at Lambert courtT'
Yes
IN conversation with Hedges did you
say, Damn that fellow Jones. He has
got one Of those old notes which you
paid, and is trying 10 make trouble for
me with it2
NO. l did not
Did you say that Jones was trying
to get you out of the presidency of the
bank, and TO get in HIMSELF"
~Did you tell Hedges to take the
money for the note and so and pay it
yourself and make Jones give the note
to you2"
NO"
Did you tell Hedges that Jones was
playing you dirt and trying to injure
your
4 may have said something of that
kind; 1 think 1 did"
Are you now under Indictment by
the grand jury of the United States
court2"
There has been bill found against
me-"
Were you arrested?"
There were charges filed against me
before the Indictment was found, and
1 gave bond. 1 have put in no defense
yet
William Kraut. recalled, was asked
by MIR. Brown if he had said 10 30
man Cannon that he could almost
swear that the man he saw running
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