The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-09

fatal character. DR.. Anderson had
testified that he had examined him az
ter his death and he found him TO be in
perfect health. He said that God had
given TO this young man every advan-
tage such as most men have not. and
that he in his youth was extremely
fascinating 10 women.
After the conflict there was a table
damned up against the wall a chair
on the floor under the table, three hats
on the floor, and the pink necktie which
had been torn OF and the bullet hole in
the wall, fired from below upwards.
These were mute witnesses Of a strug-
gle.
This fact that the bullet was fred
from the floor upwacds is important"
concluded Judge Powers. This is also
the testimony of Chase, the officer.
These things cannot lie. Morris was
found lying on the floor. with his head
towards The couch. bruises on his face
and head. and bullet hole in his breast.
BenbrOOh, with his lips covered with
blood, bruises on his face and powder
marks on his wrist, powder marks on
his throat They dispute this: they in
troduce testimony to show Chat Burton
c Morris had long finger nails, and if
he had chOked BenbrOok he would have
left the imprints Of his nails.
a man when he Is going 10 choke
does not grasp the throat by the finger
nails, but close up to the throat. In
addition, there was a necktie torn from
his throat, his collar was torn off: long
or short finger nails, some one had him
by the throat. Can they dispute that
this was the scene of a terrible strug-
gle? Can they dispute that this had
been battle TO the death. and that il
was all caused by woman2
IN nine times out of ten when re-
vOlver sounds the knell of death, just
around the corner you will find a WO-
man."
The speech was so lengthy that not
One-tenth Of il can be published. To-
wards the latter end ne described in a
dramatic manner the struggle between
Norris and BenbrOOk from the point Of
view Of the defense. He declared that
The three shots were fired in excitement
and so BenbrOOk would have been lying
had he attempted 10 speak of them in
detail. He maintains that the first
bullet lodged in the hall wall, the sec
ond went through BenbrOOk's hat and
/ lodged in the wall near the sofa, while
the third was fired into Morris when
| the two men were down and Morris
was on top clutching Benbrook's
/ throat.
He gave what he called twenty-six
vital and important points upon which
the defendant was cOrrobOrated by wit
ness and the condition Of the room.
Then he read 100 reasons why Ben
brook was justified in killing Morris.
Senator Brown Begins.
Attorney Brown, commencing during
the last half hour Of The afternoon, said
in part:
The state does not desire the con-
victiOn Of an innocent man. OF course,
you must presume him innocent until
his guilt is shown. We know that as a
fundamental principle. but il has been
repeated 70 you some hundreds Of times
today.
They have much to say about the
messenger boy, Hume. But he adhered
to his story, and he told the truth 1
don't mean TO say that every word
Hume uttered is true. The lad is try
ing to tell the truth; he means well.
The boy DOOlan has excited the ven
ON of my friend, and he had no words
too hard to describe him. Why did
counsel say he was reading dime nov
els? There is no evidence of it. No one
saw Hume or DoOlan in that room
Hume didn't see DOlan, and DOOlan
didn't see Hume, but that doesn't prove
they were not there They are two good
lads; they mean we'll
Now, az to Albert Morris. He Rad
been slipping beer all that afternoon,
and had he not slipped so much he
would have seen more. There was an
other trouble He was hunting for big
words TO use in his estimOny-wOTds
the exact meaning Of which he didn't
understand