The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-13
Suffering Billy,s Testimony.

tablished.
Suffering Billy's Testimony.
The defense this morning placed in evil
dence the deposition of William Costello
of Petaluma, Cal, subscribed and sworn
to before Notary Public William s. Howe,
of Sacramento, on April "a, 1900. Costello
is the Suffering Billy that several wit
nesses have testified to seeing with Ha-
worth on the day of the murder.
On March q he was with HaWorth in
the Royal Exchange saloon until about
10 .. m; then went with HaWorth to the
latter's house, and later went with Mr..
and Mrs. HaWoreh to a, neighbor's house;
remained there until 1880; went back TO
the saloon and returned to Haworth's
house at about 1 . clock; stayed there all
night, and had breakfast with HawOrth's
family the next morning. In closing his
direct deposition Costello says: I Will
state that Nick HaWOrth was with me
constantly from 10 a. m. or a little after
that on March Is, 1893, until l O'Clock a.
N. of March %. 1899, and then ne was
away from me with his wife in bed until
or thereabOutS of March q. 1Syy, ana
from then on until the following Saturday
night I was in his company all of the
time"
Haworth's Wife.
The defendants wife, Mary H. Haworth,
who resides at 711z Union avenue, Port
land Ore, went before Notary Public Ed
ward n. Deadly of Portland on May lS,
that happened while she and her nus
band resided at 2165 Grant avenue, Ogden.
The material statements reclted IN the
deposition are that on March -, 1893, de-
PENDANT was not out of Ogdens that ne
had supper at home that evening with
deponent and the family; that later IN
the evening Billy Costello and defendant
came home from up town, and with de-
pOnent went and visited a few hours with
Mrs West, next door; that they stayed
quite late; that defendant retired at
o'clock that night; that Mr.. Costello came
in little later and spent the nlSnt- there5
To a line of questions as TO what llHle
her husband came home on dates IN
March and April, 1883, deponent answered
that she could not remember fsenenl-
bpTpd March Is. 1893. specially because OF
the visit to Mrs Vests that evening;
could not ordinarily remember dates Tor
a wear or two: her husband was not away
from home all night during March or
George Barr of Ogden, who. in 1899, was
proprietor of the Royal Exchange saloon
on TWenty-fifth street, at when place
witnesses testify that HdWOrJn ana MS
COMPANIONS were drinking at the very
hour of the murder in Layton, teS-
titled that on March Is, 1879, ne saw ma
worth and d companion whom ne qua no.
know BY name in his place that nl2ht
a about ii 30 Witness had his mind re-
fresbed as TO who was with HaWorth at
that time and then said II was an irish
man named Costello. witness SaI1 ne
plaved with James IverSon ana Bllly LOS
tellO that evening, thus contraolcuAS us
lanes iverson of Ogden said he was in
the Royal Exchange saloon on Ihe nlsuC
of March % 1899, and saw ttaWofLL JneIe
with some companions at ll:5U. he Hd0
Thought over the matter a good deal ana
was quite sure that the date he liked was
right. RI,
AT the afternoon session Thomas Huh
was recalled He was positive that on
h
STAYED some of the time in Traders
aIlev.'' where he saw HawOrthi saw de-
PENDANT also in the Royal Exchange sa,
loon in the evening as late as 1l;5O or L
TO Mr. Allison witness said he could
not remember who he met at the Llttle
Queen or any other saloon he visited IhaI
night except at the Royal Exchange,
a-6ere he was sure he met HawOTth; was
drinking freely during the evening ana
was under the influence Of liquor.
Visited the Vests.
The defense called Miss Nora West. a
12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Julia West,
at whose house witnesses teSUfled tnat
HaWOrth and his vile and Costello were
spending the evening of March =, 1879
The witness said she now resides IN SalL
Lake; that when living in Ogden she
knew Nick HawOrth, who lived next door
to her mother; that on March p, that
year witness attended a lecture by b. r.
Friday evening; when witness came nome
at about 10 o'clock that night, Mr. Ha-
worth and his wife and Mr.. Costello were
visiting with her mother.
To SIR Allison witness said she had not
thought of this until she was reminded of
It: had talked ii over with her mother
and Mr. Hamilton, and when they re-
minded her of 1t she could remember
clearly about that night; she admitted
that her memory was such that she would
not have remembered all about the facts
without talking it over with her mother
and others. The witness later eXonerated
Mr. Hamilton from any suspicion OF nav
ing told her how TO testify.
Miss Lucretia West, who in March, 1873,
Officiated as secretary of the Young La
dies association of the Third ward Oh
Ogden, was called by the defense to tes-
tifv as to the date on which q F. Grant
Iectured in that ward. as referred to by
the former witness. She said II was on
March Is 1889, and so far as she knew
that was the only time he lectured there.
Mrs Julia A. Larson Of 24l South First
West street, Salt Lake City, who was
living in ogden in March. 1883, as a neigh
Dor of the HawOrths, and at whose house
Mr. and Mrs. Haworth and Billy Costello
are alleged to have spent the evening OF
March Is was called by the defense and
testified that on that evening Mrs. Ha-
worth came in, as was her custom, 10
spend the evening; that about $3.50 Ha-
worth came in the first time ne had ever
been there; that half an hour later Cos
tello came; all three remained until about
II 80; that between 1 and : q. N. Costello
came back knocked at witness door and
asked if Haworth was there; witness
directed him to Haworth's and Costello
went over there and went IN. This tes-
timony corroborates in almost every de-
tail the dispositions of William Costello
and the defendants wife.
Saw Two Men.
J. William Burton and Lorenzo Barton.
two boys who live at Kaysville ana Lay
ton. respectively, were called and said
that the night before the murder of Mr..
Sandal they were crossing over the Ore
gon Short Line track a mile south of
Layton, that they saw two men, one of
whom was carrying a gun down by has
side. It was between 8 and clcek AZ
night. Young Barton said he saw the
men a second time as he came back over
the track a short time afterward. and the
men were then going toward the Farmers
Union store; one OF them al that time
was carrying the gun over his shoulder.
and witness could see L clearly though &
was after dark.
To Mr.. Allison. witness said the men