The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-16

now OF SOmSAnlHS OF that kind He
asked him lMills) if his wife had tod
him she had borrowed the money, and
asked him what was the matter tbas
he was looking badly. The v-itness
asked him if he had ever heard or if
/ he knew anything against his wife
i O'Melveney didn't answer al FIRST
He looked STABBED and surprised Then
+ he said, You don't want me To felI
you" Afterwards he said Something
about its being woman gossip and that
4 Mary had said something. ,rbe wiz
ness then said: L win go I'D and see
I your wife" and he and O'Melvenev left
/ the Office together and went uD to
OMelveneys house. They walked as
far as the Eagle gate and took the car
there.
o'Melveney is Suspected.
What was the subject Of converse
ton as you left the office on your way
to Eagle Cater"
I'VE talked about my wife"
Go ahead and state the conversation
as fully as you can"
Il told him that my wife and I had
agreed to separate. He says. Ny God.
Fred, don't do that. He asked me if
suspected my wife's fidelity. I told
him that l did. and he attempted TO
dlssuade me from separating from her
and told me that he knew she had great
affection for me and said my IDEAS of
marriage were too Puritanical for this
country. 1 think I told him that I
wouldn't require any different standard
Of conduct from my wife than I al
lowed TO cover my own life He said
that I shouldn't do anything unless I
had absolute proof, and I said to him
what if she haG admitted it herself?'
and ne started and looked at me. and 1
think that was the first time that 1
ever suspected him.
Did you say anything to him about
that?"
4 think I did"
What did you say?"
Il said John, if ! found out that YOU
were intimate with my wife, I believe
should kill you.
What did he say?"
He denied it and protested that he
was my friend.
When they arrived at the house Mrs.
O. Melveney came into the front room.
O'Melveney OpeHed the conversatfo BY
saying Fred wants to ask you some
questions" Witness then asked her if
she had ever heard or said anything
about his wife's character. She said
size had heard something while she was
up in the country. but suggested that
AAG El4Uulu tGlkG lA.NU account the source
from which it came and not pay very
much attention to it.
She said that some woman had said
TO her that She didn't want to BE- con-
sidered as a friend Of Mrs. Mills. The
witness asked if that was all she had
heard or knew. % Melveney at that
time said to her "you had better teu
him everything" or words to that ef
feet. One or the other Of them then
said to him (Mills) that his wife had
been too familiar with a physician of
this city.
They said that she had been to enter
tainments and suppers with this phy-
slclan aud that she had led him to be-
lfeve that she was not a married wo-
man.
The witness then left the house. He
Del-eved at that time that the physician
they had mentioned was the author of
this trouble. He started in the dirac-
ton of the city alone He had gone a
short distance when O'AIelveney called
him and overlook him and asked him
to go back with him. which he. Mills. I
refused TO do. O'Melveney stayed with
him for several blocks.
He kept talking about this physician
ana telling me that even IL Il was 50
mat women were not 80 good as I (
thought they were and that 1 shouldn't /
AXE it to heart They walked together 1
or several blocks and then parted, I
) Melveney going back toward the I
house. and Mills continuing on in the i
direction Of the city.
He didn't think he had any particular /
destination in view at that time. Was
very much distressed. After that he \
vent out to ST. Marks hospital. He 4
lad no suspicion Of O'1Ielveney at that /
lme. bis mind was filled with what I
Eey had told him about his physician. !
y men he reached the hospital he asked 4
or his wife and went into a private
com to wait for her. Thought Mrs.
Wallace came into the room with his
vie and remained there for a time.
Interview at St. Marks.
What was the first talk YOU had?"
L told my wife that l had received
Ter letter and would attend to thosa
ills and told her that I was sorry to
ear that some remarks had become
.uDiie IN Fremont county in regard to
What else did you say to her then p,
I told her that it had come to nv
that I had received fnfOr-
nation, that she had been too familiar
'lth physician of this city"
one oenled the matter very indig-
antly. She said she was not v-sT,-
1uch acquainted with that physician
he had met him only a few times and
nat she had never seen him alone i'm
er life, or out Of the company of some
ne Of the nurses.
: what did you say to her, if you can
emelmber?''
I asked her if she was going 4o tell
le the name &C the man who mad ruin
q her and she said no I urged her
90 SO, and Mrs. Wallace also urged
er, and told her as I remember II
nat she should Gee the condition that
was IN, and that as long as 1 knew so /
lucn, the only thing to do was to tell
Re ire whole truth and to throw her
Ell uDOn my mercy and affection for
er. My wife said: J wish I knew what
, do or something like that. and fin
lily told me the name Of the man"
was Mrs Wallace in the room
hemp
Mrs. Wallace went ont while we
ere talking; just at what time I can't
AZ. I think she went out soon after
le urged my wife to confess to me-"
Who did she name as being her Sc
ucer?v
This was objected to by counsel for
le prosecution, on the ground that il
as incompetent, irrelevant and inma-
rial. and a,s hearsay.
Objection and the statute on the sub
ct quoted, argued at some length By
JurSei on both sides and OverruIed BY
70 court, the court saying: The OBJ !
ctiOn is az to whether the name Of !
he party who had committed the de- {
cement was given to the witness. The I
'n1tructiOn Of the court is on this that
2 must Know it to that extent that he
actually satisfied that it has been &C
lmplislhed. He cannot know it except
7 some kind of information.
If he were present he could know
but there are other ways Of com 4.
to parties and 70 their IN :
.rsnanding the accompl.ehine of factl :