The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-17

/ nonors hardly noticing the interruption.
aud Judge Powers and Attorney Straup
began TO read The Herald. while the
! questions and answers continued.
1t IS more than likely that Mrs.
Mills, the wife Of the defendant, viii
90 on the stand during the morning
( session today.
Mills Letter Offered.
Before beginning tbs cross exanina-
ton, Mr.. Putnam introduced in evil
cence the letter written by Captain
Mills to Mr.. O'helveney from Chey-
enne in relation to the position in the
Short Line Office
! Or. PinkeTtCn gave him a prescrip-
ton for headache before he left fer
Cheyenne. and he continued taking
+ that medicine there. He didn't think
/ 1t benefited him much; he was troubled
more with headaches there than he had
been before. That was the first work
+ he had done since his illness.
He suffered some as a result of work
/ ing He laid of more time on account
OF illness during the latter part Of his
stay there. One Of the reasons he came
10 salt Lake 50 soon to do the work
here was as a result Of q conference
between Mr.. Mead and himself; it was
thought he would be better able to go
on and collect information here than
to continue the work there. He was
earning in Cheyenne $50 month and
his expenses.
The ARRANGEMENT was made for six
months, with a promise Of a civil serv-
Ice examination during that time. with
the idea that it was to be permanent.
Mr.. Mead spoke about the matter Of
taking the p1ofessOrship Of engineering
at the Nevada university. He had
some correspondence with DR. Stubs
on the subject and recommended Mills
to Stubs.
On being asked whether Mead ex-
pressed any dissatisfaction with the
manner in which he did his work, wit
ness replied that they had had a con-
versatton on the subject: he bTOached
! the subject himself as to his not being
able to do az good wOrk as he had
thought himself capable of doing. Mr.
Mead was an old, close friend of his
and expressed the opinion that he de-
sired him to continue, and thought he
would soon be able 10 do the work,
and didn't express any dissatisfaction
Heard From His Wife.
He heard from his wife about every
day while he was in Cheyenne and
wrote to her nearly as frequently
When he first met his wife on the
street on returning to Salt Lake ha
called her attention to her appearance.
and she made some remark about hav-
ing been lonesome. The next morn
inis, after his return, he and his wife
went down and got the children and
went out into the country She was
inclined to put off her trip to PocateHo.
He had expected to make the trip and
be back by the time he came back
from Cheyenne. He had thought he
would be back about the LIST of October,
and had written her to that effect
on Monday, after he had taken her
TO the train he worked at the county
building the remainder of the day. 1t
was that evening, while writing. let
ters at his room that he found the
scrap Of paper in the waste basket. He
found several scraps of paper in the
box. What he got together of them
was somewhat disconnected. but she
said something about the disposition
Of her body, and there were some mes
sages to the children.
Nothing was said in the letter about
the reason for writing it except that
she spoke about having done wrong.
The letter Immediately suggested to his
mind the idea. Of her infdelity. The
letter was written on lady's note pa
per and was in ink. His talk with Mr..
Wallace in regard to this subject did
not relieve his anxiety; he thought
there was something wrong, and made
up his mind to go to POcatello and
find his wife. He picked up all the
scraps Of the paper that he could find
and put them in his pocket. He was
not pOsfiti- that he showed them to
her He told her about them. at the
same time expressing his opinion as
TO her infidelity She seemed very
much gTieved- She at first said sha
would not lie to him. He questioned
her about the matter and about the
circumstances. She refused TO tell him
anything more than the simple fact
He didn't suggest any names to her;
he wasn't suspicious Of anybody at
that time
Agreement to Separate.
The agreement of separation, he
thought, was written the Thursday or
Friday after their return from Po-
catellO. On Thursday he went to Par
ley Williams about drawing his viii.
His object in drawing a viii at that
time was a desire partly to leave more
of his property to his children than
would be done under the law. In his
viii he left his property to his two
boys. excluding his wife entirely.
The witness was shown the letter
from his wife which he had found on
the table on Thursday, and asked if it
was torn when he found il. He didn't
think it was, and didn't know how it
was torn 1t was possible that he had
torn it in anger. He was asked wheth-
or it wasn't probable that he had torn
the letter in anger, and answered, 1t
isn't quite fair to ask me to draw de-
auctions of that kind"
He didn't think he slept any that
rr-aolr- v-ac THINKING a h011f this fvo11nln
with his wife; specializing about it and
worrying about it. He was still de
Sirous Of trying to find out who the
man was. He didn't know of any de
finite purpose for trying to find out.
Had any thought Of revenge entered
your head? Any thought of punish
ing the MANI" asked the county attOr-
ney.
I would not say that it had not"
You think it had?"
1T is possible"
He hardly knew why he decided to go
to Provo at that time. He received the
telegram, making the appointment with
DR.. Stubs he thought Friday evening.
Saturday evening he made a call on a
lady friend here in the city-a school
teacher. He boarded at the same place
with her sister at Cheyenne and called
on her at her sisters request. He met
DR.. Stubs at the tram SUNDAY morn
ing and Stubs then offered him the
position in the university. subject TO
the approval Of the regents.
Went to Church
After Stubbs left he attended the
Congrega tional church Miss Clark, the
lady on whom he had called the even
ing before, had invited him to go, told
him they had a new minister and ex-
pressed a desire that he should hear
him After church he stayed to Sun
day school, and then went home with
Miss Clark to dinner. That afternoon
he called en- l. f. Hall and that night
took the train for Provo. he was busy