The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-02
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE
OF M'DONNELL'S Guilt
Prosecution FOrgeS Chain of Facts That Holds
the DynamiteT.
Confessed His Guilt to the Boy Peck-Some Dramatic
Scenes at the Hearing.

James ]. Mcdonnell will answer to
the higher court for attempting to as
sassinate Q. w. Powers and @. n. Dow
His boosted alibi-his only chance for
an early acquittal-failed miserably,
and the state has forged a. chain of evil
dence that il will be difficult for him
TO break. The evidence against him is
direct, and leaves slight doubt of his
guilt.
These are the facts established by
the prosecution:
Mcdonnell asked for and was known
to navd procured the articles OF VIII
the Internal machines We're con-
structed, even TO the thread that
stitched the linen cover to the deadly
parcel.
He confessed his crime, according to
John Peck. of whom he tried to make
ala ally.
He solicited john H. Haslam to write
the address for the Powers box, and
accomplished his purpose. The writ
ing was recognized and identified by
Haslam.
He was seen carrying a package to
the Eureka express office on Friday,
Aug. 25 Mrs. Isabella Burt saw and
talked with him ct the time.
These unquestioned facts and hun
dred circumstances TO prove McDon-
nell's guilt were recited before Judge
Timmony and a crowd of spectators
from ell walks of life yesterday, and
through it all the defendant sat with
an eye OF hatred for those who testi
fed against him ard a countenance of
complacepcy for the mute evidences OF
his alleged 6astardly crime.
Became Excited.
ONLY once did Mcdonnell lose him.
self entirely. 1t WIS when John Peck
said tie accused bad confessed TO him.
He said he did it, were the words
that CALLED the prisoner. He sprang
t.om his chair. to either side Of which
his guards Were seated, anu. fiinsing
his arms, cried out:
Il object TO the Witness saying / did
il. ] never said it," And mere he
would have said but for his restrain
ers
Again was Mcdonnell erraged when
JuGge Powers recouuted the threats
that had been made against him.
II would like you to produce some
thing to substantiate a harefaced- lie"
said the prisoner, referring 10 what
the Judge had said. Il never threat
cned YOU or any mans life" he cried
working himself up to an intensely
dramatic pitch, that is something l
have never done.
A
none He failed to prove by those
whom he relied upon that he was at
Diamond when the boxes were depos-
tied at Eureka. but on the contrary
evidence showed that be was seen at
the ] tier place. Joseph Biddlecome
said he saw Mcdonnell Friday at $3.50
at Diamond. but that availed the pris-
oner nothing. He could not prove
where he was three hours earlier than
that.
Conducted His Own Case.
If any doubt remained as to the pris-
oner's sanity. it was dispelled when he
began his case. He had no lawyer, but
showed remarkable aptitude in Selling
upon points favorable to himself He
cross-eXamined nearly every witness,
and called one for himself. This was
Z. J. Duggan, the express man, who
could not identify Mcdonnell as the
man who gave him the boxes.
Another Man In the Case.
Duggan's testimony, however, opened
a new and interesting point upon which
the police are working. That there is
a second man in the case is now the
conclusion. Duggan stated that he be-
lieved the man who gave him the boxes
wore a dark moustache. If So it was
not Mcdonnell. Substantiating this,
Mrs. Burt stated that the accused was
accompanied to the express office by a
second man who Wore a dark NOUS
tache. Duggan's and Mrs Burt's de-
scriptions agree, and every effort will
be made to find McDonnell's supposed
confederate. He is believed to be the
man who was al the penitentiary with