Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-14
Defense Now Directs an Attack at
the Confession,
NICK's BROTHERS TESTIFY.
Said the Prisoner wanted 10 Plead
Guilty Claimed He was
Innocent.
IsPEcIAL To mn oNEWa"l

In the Haworth trial this morning,
the two brothers Of the defendant were
called 20 the stand, their testimony go
ing 10 strengthen the theory OF in
sanity and 20 break the force OF the
defendants confessions.
c. l.. Haworth testified that Nick
early became addicted 10 the use Of
liquor and drank 10 excess from tho
time he was fifteen until he left home
eighteen years ago He told at some
length the results Of various converse
tions with Nick since the latter's ar
rest. In January when he visited his
brother in Jail. he asked him II he was
guilty. Nick insisted that he was en-.
trely innocent. not only OF the crime
but OF an knowledge Of #, and insisted
that on the night Of the murder he was
IN ogden. on January a. when witt
ness was leaving the Jail. Nick handed
him a note IN which he warned witness
that j w. Att. JOS. Llppnau and some
others were fixing up a snare for wit
ness. He urged the witness to leave
Utah at once and save his life, and at
least TO go TO ogden and keep under
guard III you should go home now"
wrote Nick, they would try me on the
26th. II they did not KIN me before that
time"
In a second note TO witness, the dec
PENDANT expressed the same ideas. He
wanted new attorney in place Of JOS
Lippman. and expressed his desire 90
plead guilty In order TO save expense.
Ben Carr OF ogden, and Sam Dalton
Of Hooper, testified that during thc
time Nick lived IN Ogden he was
drinking heavily all the time and dur
ing the winter preceding the murder
he was generally drunk.
u. f. HawOrth. another brother OF the
defendant, gave testimony along the
same lines as that given by c. l.. Ha-
worth.
The witness said that defendant had
frequently expressed to him the wish
20 plead guilty, and finally told witness
that this was only a mock trial any
way, the witnesses being permitted 10
testify without being sworn. The wit,
ness told defendant that II he persisted
IN his desire TO plead guilty II would
cost him his lie. but Nick said that
Mr.. Abbott has assured him that moth
Ing of the kind would happen
on Cross-eXamnation the witness
stated that these remarks by the de-
PENDANT were generally brought out b"
questions.
The experts on insanity viii next be
called.
John W. Att the well known Salt
Lake horse trader. who has been work.
Ing for the defense ever since Ha-
worth was arrested, was on the stand
yesterday afternoon and testified mat
Haworth was much addicted 10 drink
While he was in California with the de.
PENDANT, the latter once tried TO COM
nit suicide on account OF domestic
troubles, but was prevented by witness
REAVIs TESTIFIED.
/. w. Reayls was on the stand this
afternoon and said that he was In
ogden on the night OF the murder and
saw Haworth there. his testimony corr
roborated that OF Mrs. Haw0rth and
others. and ne proved 10 be a splendid
witness, disclosing the fact that he has
a fine memory. The sensational part
was when ne stated that while IN jail
in Sacramento, after his arrest by
Sheriff Abbott, he was put into the
sweatbOX several times In order 10 force
a confession. and also that on the train
coming here. Sheriff Abbott endeavored
20 pump him. and az one time told
him that II he would turn States evil
dence q would be all right with him.
Reavis was on the stand nearly all
the afternoon.