The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-30
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Evidence In Connors Murder Trial Is
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Especial Correspondence
Provo, Sept. 2s.-Court opened at $50
O'Clock, and the examination of witnesses
1 Tor the prosecution was resumed.
detective Ketehum, on redirect exam
NATION in explanation OF his answer TO
| q question by the defence asking if he
i We're an lnterloper in this case, said: i
| am United States deputy marshall. Con-
nors told me that after being hidden in a.
straWstack all day on June "a. he came
i our 70 . carrot peddlar, where he met
! Mr.. Cook. He acknowledged to mo that
ne threw the bundle containing the gun
into the ditch at the place where he was
/ arrested. 1 mad two conversations with
i Sonnors respecting the firing of his gun
on the way down from Scofield He tlrst5
SAID ne did not fire the gun, and that
1t was not fired ali the way down. In the.
second conversation he said he fired the
/ gun at a rat. Connors told two different
stories about the depot grounds.
Inc defendant wore d black SLOUGH hat
a black SLOUGH hat was here shown to
me witness and ne said: y think thatis
/ Proceeding he. said: Ill examined the
grip belonging TO Connors and found one
corner OF 1t broken, and on examining 1t
small spot of blood under d magnifying
j eiass IT. proved to be blood. This discov-$
cry was made on July IT,
Inc Jury was shown the grip in queS-
/ tlon, and during investigation of it Com
nors face was seen to3 hush .perceptibIy3
and e smile overspread his countenance.
- DelectlVe# hetchum4 further stated that
II Dr. Robinson had removed the blood with
| . knife, and II was now III his possession
detective Brown was called for redirect
| examination. and testified that he had
| heard defendant state that he had traced
| MS DIE gun to- a$ sleepherder;s and after
wards that he lost the gun, upon which
| motifs returned to8 him the sS-calibre
revolver. He also herd Connors$ tell two
/ di1erent stories about the firing of the
/ gun on the way down from Scof1eld. He
mad examined Connorsi grip in company
/ with }ketchum and others and found that
the corner Of said grip. was broken and
discovered a clot Of blood on it about the
size OF q Decent piece.
Sheriff StOrrs,E recalled. testified to- the
conversations with Connors as described
by ketehum and Brown. life further
said that Connors had told him that on
the night IF the killing he put the black
TOOK out a white one and put ii on. Con-
linuings sheriff Slorrs SAID. SOnhors
took me-, after his arrest to the place
Where ne claimed he hid his grip but 1T
was not there. II was afterward found
IN q haystack on the Old Fitzgerald place
IN the west part Of town.
asked Gonnors why he had lied to
me ABOUT where the grip was hidden ana
ne said he thought he might get q few
dollars out of it. and besides he did not
want the black hat found. The black hat
things when found.
a white hat was here presented in court |
and admitted by defendant to be the one
he Wore when he was arrested.
Witness also said he saw a bIoodsfafn |
on the corner Of Gonnorsf grip.
Or. Robinson OF Utah county was next |
called to; inc witness chair. and testified |
that he had examined the dead body of /
William Strong and found a bullet wound /
a. little below the left nipple. also q \
wound on the neck. The bullet passed !
through the left lung and left ventrIcle Of /
the heart. The neck wound had been
made by a. blow from behind and above
and did not denote the use of any metal /
instrument I'd could not have been made Il
with the grip. DR.. Robinson. further tes-
titled tna5a he mad extracted the bullet |
which weighed f37 grains. He had ex- \
aInfned Connorsf grip and scraped from Il
and heavyin the center which gave evil H
dence Of being a cIot Of blood. a chem
icalI analysis proved it to be such.
Cross-examined, he said the particles Il
found In the scrapings from the grip 4
could not have BEEN particles of the grip. /
Court then adjourned till afternoon.
wound found in William Strong was fatal, /
Thought the body was in a reclining posi- 4
ton when III received the fatal shot. On Il
crass-e KAN animation ne said; y weighed
from Strongss bodys 3S-caibre bullets of Il
The same make varied some weighing rs
grains; some 14oS grains. The bali from |
Detective Aetchum said: The bail
taken from Strong : body was a 3S-calibre i
by measurement. At the time / question
ed ConnorsS pertaining to the trip here. i L
questioned other prisoners one of them
was Norris sConnorss partner. Morris told /
me that when he came into Provo on the +
night of the killing he got off the train H.
On the south side and went over south 10 /
a bunch Of willows to hide his valise.
While there the officer came upon him,
arrested him and started with him TO-
in ont that he broke and run away from
the officer and went down to the east end
Of the train and on through the fields To-
Springville, where he was arrested about
an hour and a half after he got away |
from the officer at Provo.
Roger Farrer identified the clothing
shown In court as the clothing worn by
Officer Strong on the night Of the killing.
The articles were given to the jury who
looked them over very carefully.
7. The relatives or the murdered man who
were present left the court room while
the clothing was being exhibited. The H
black bundle which Connors carried on
the night of the tragedy, and which takes
such part in the making up of the evil Il.
dence, was here offered IN evidence. III
contained some Of the property stolen
from Hendricksonss store at Scof1eld. and l.
Sherif1 Storrs testified that Norris, Con-
norsF partner. broke Jail and that he had
not been seen since that time.
Jailer Williams gave unimportant tes-
timony, and the. prosecution announced
that ID had no more witnesses to call.
!. The defense Immediately took up its
side of the case. Frank Connors was the
first witness to take the stand County t.
Attorney Jacob Evans conducted the ex-
animation. Gonnofsf testimony was that
DIR. Robinson had stated at the preliHin-
ary examination that he weighed the bull
let taken from Strong body and found its f.
weight was 13T grains. also that he
weighed another 3-calibre bullet which
tipped the scales at 14T grains.
! Taller Williams was called and said he
knew james Cannon who he said did not
visit the jail to see defendant while the
keys to the Jail were in his possession.
Sheriff StorrS testified that James Can
non did not seef Connors at the county
jail
stated that he did not pretend to claim
that Cannon were he present would tes-
tify that Connors was the man Officerl
Strong arrested. f.
A William Gage was sworn and gave testi- H.
mony as follows II live in Provo on
street. two blocks from Johnson'sr home L.
on the corner OF Third and / streets.
went home from the saloon along i street
about 1855 O'Clock on the night Strong
was killed.. j heard a. gun-snot in the
direction of Dr. Pixies residence. and HI
was within 200 feet OIL street at the time.
T. stopped a. few minutes and then went III
On south to my home. IL,
! I'll looked east along. Third street and
heard sounds like someone wfistIing,
seeming to come from a rlortheasterly di-
rection did not see any body on my way
come. 1t was about 1925 when the Shot
was fired. I hardly think it possible for
anyone to have gone down Third street
lim. yet it may have been done. 8
T 1t was here agreed by counsel for both III
;ides that if Mrs. Mathews Miss Pike and
Mrs. Graham were IN court as witnesses