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

10 come up with him in his private
car, but he didn't do so because Young
I was not going straight through. on
/ his return from Provo he fond a let
1 ter from his wife in which she smoke,
among other things. of the money she
owed O'Melveney. She said the reason
she had 10 borrow the money was be-
cause she had been extravagant,
He went to see O'Melveney that
morning in regard TO thai loan. He
/ thought he might possibly have rad
another motive in going to see him. He
might have thought Of talking with him
about his trouble. as O'AIelveney was
I his oldest friend and acquaintance.
/ When he asked the question about his
wife O'Melveney hesitated quite awhile
I before answering and he looked sur
! prised at the question.
The witness stated that he had car
ried his revolver all this time in his
trousers pocket and that the revolver
was loaded. He wasn't sure whether
he loaded it himself or had it loaded at
the store. He was asked why he carried
the revolver and answered that ne
hardly knew, that he had been accus-
toned to carry a revolver a good deal
! The only reason ne could imagine for
carrying it at that time was the same
that caused him to purchase il in the
first place. Thought it was possible
that the same reason continued to have
a fascination for him.
Idea of Self-destruction.
did you carry it with any thought
of Furnishing the person who had in
jured you?"
Il am afraid that the idea of self
destruction was the principal motive in
my keeping it with me-"
1.-THE other motive that I have -4Tcr
gested wasn't present in your mind?'
NO, 1 can't say that I recollect that
it was"
When he said to O'Melveney in their
conversation at Eagle Gate that if he
had been intimate with his wife he be-
lieved he should kill him, witness said
he thought he expressed it then as a
matter of belief. He had an idea that
he expressed a fear that he might not
be able to prevent himself
Did you have any feeling that you
ought to restrain yourself because ne
was your friend or had been your
friend?"
That's the impression that was left
on my mind. 1 don't know that that
was the reason. Possibly it would have
been the same if it had been any other
man."
He said that the result Of that con-
versatiOn at O'Melveney's house was TO
turn his suspicious in one direction,
and the thought of O'Melveney in chat
connection had gone entirely out of his
mind. If he had any fixed intent in
going to the hospital that night it was
TO ask his wife in regard to her rela-
tons with this physician whose name
had been mentioned to him.
He believed her when she denied that
the physician was the man; he had al
ways believed her. He said she was
not as capable Of carrying out a lie as
some women. When she told him
O'Melveney's name he believed her.
When he left the hospital after she had
told him this he couldn't remember
where he went; his mind was full of his
trouble; he thought he remembered be-
ing at The Halls. where he had TOOmed,
but didn't remember seeing anybody
there. He thought he remembered af-
forwards being in front Of the entrance
of the Short Line building
He didn't succeed in getting the
thought of O'Melveney out of his mind
He tried to throw it off, but couldn't
When he was at the corner he thought
for a second that he would go down
Second South street. This impression
was in connection with his thought
about the children. It might be posi-
bic that ne brought up the image Of
the children in order TO throw the other
off. At the entrance to the Short Line
building his mind was still full of the
same image of Conference.-The same
thought 1t seemed to him sometimes
that he had a thought like this: "That
knowing what he did. life had lost its
attraction. or that the world wasn't big
enough for both of them"
Still Thought of Suicide.
did you have any thought Of sui
eide; do you remember that in your
mind that afternoon?"
Yes, I believe I do"
DO you remember this thought that
the world wasn't big enough for both
Of you when you were in the Short
Line buiIding?"
well, ] am not sure about that.
That is kind of an impression in my
mind that had some such thought"
When you were there in front of
the Short Line building do you remem-
Der any purpose
mo, sir. L remember the image of
O'Melveney in my mind"
What is your next memOry?'
Being in his office"
His inner Officer"
eyes, sir"
DO you remember his being there
Of seeing him?"
yes, sir; I remember speaking to
him."
What did you say to him?"
I think he spoke to me first Ny
impression is that as he turned and
looked at me he said something about
my taking it too hard"
What did you say to him?''
81 don't know the words I used.
accused him or told him that I knew
that he was the one that ruined my
wife"
what did he do them"
I have an impression Of his making
some sighting remark in regard to
her: that he said something about her
not being worthy, or something about
her telling or that he didn't think she
would tell"
DO you remember pulling the gun?'
mo, sir; I don't"
DO you remember shooting?"
L can't say Of my own recollection;
I know that 1 shot; 1 admit that I
shot"
What is your impression as to
O'Melveney's attitude when he made
this sighting remark about your
wife?"
I have kind of an impression that
he tried to get up from the chair"
DO you remember seeing him writ
ing at the desk there?"
mo, I don't"
What is the first thing that you
recOllect after the si,ooting2"
Mills First Recollection.
81 think the first recollection 1 had
was talking to Charlie Jenkinson. I
have an impression as to the effect or
the idea that l desired to convey to
him that l had killed O'Melveney. I
have the impression of telling him and
that he didn't believe it, or that he paid
very little attention to me, and that I
walked on TO find someone who would
listen to me"