The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-11
Tragedy Enacted in a
Fashionable Minneap-
oils Hotel, in Which a
Beautiful Society Wo-
man Figured as Cause.

her feet, wine glass in hand, and said:
Let's eat drink and be merry, for
tomorrow we may die
You are wrong. Grace, spoke up
Miss Gocding: you should have said
Let's drink and be merry, for tomOr-
row we die
You are both wrong, girls then
spoke Day, as he filed his glass and
smiled at the young women. This is
the toast and he arose and touched
glasses with the women: Let's eat
drink and be merry, for tomorrow We
do die"
In a short time the young women were
placed In carriage and sent horne, while
Day and his friend went directly to the
West hotel, where followed the quarrel
and the tragedy. When they learned on
the following day that the young million
aire had been stabbed to death in less
than one hour after bidding them good
night both Miss Townsend and Miss
Gooding We're almost Frustrated and re-
called with awe the prophetic words OF
Day.
Mrs. Day. mother of the young man
whose killing resulted in the revocation
of the liquor license of the West hotel
tor a short time, has resided with her son
at the West ever since the death of her
husband several years ago by an accident.
She was not told that her son was dead
on the morning of the tlagedy as she is
an invalid, and it was feared the shock
would kill her or unSettl5 her reason.
The news was broken to her by degrees,
ana. as was eNpect6u. she was completely
Frustrated and for Il time her lie was
Then She rallied, and for a time. until
taken in hand by relatives and friends,
endeavOreu to have the prosecution OF
Hamilton stopped, fearing, 1t Is said,
that if the affair once got into the courts
a scandal of large size and tar-Teachlng
effect would come TO light
Witnesses Reticent.
All this time the police had been work
ing on the case, trying to solve the mys-
terry of the ownership of the knife which
caused the death of Day and which was
not owned by either the dead man or
Hamilton. Stories TO the ERECT that the
4atal blow was struck by a. third man
whose name has not been mentioned in
connection with the case were also run
down and the whole matter was speedily
put in shape Tor the grand jury.
When the grand jury began Its investi-
cation it encountered an unexpected OBJ
stacle in the reticence of several OF the
witnesses TO tell ali they knew OF the
tragedy and the quarrel That led up to It
That the names OF women were being
shielded was admitted IN aodltlon 70
this many persons wanted as witnesses
among the number several society WO-
men and three OrsfOuT business men-had
left the city on business or for visits, AZ
was announced, and It seemed Tor a time
as if the whole story OF the kllllhS
would never be brought to the surface
Once in possession OF all the mateIldt
facts, the members of the grand jury
wasted no time, and "a rev hours laCeL
the indictment OF Hamilton on q TnaIS1S
OF murder in the first degree followed.
IL is now limited that when the defense
gets it's guns in action II Will snow init
0av was armed at the time of the en-
counter and had further announced MS
intention of taking the ire OF t1aIill i
Owing to the tact that there are thou
sands of dollars behind the prisoner, as
well as hundreds OF thousands IN Ihe
hands of the friends of the dead man.
all of which will be spent IL necessary ny
il is believed the trial VIII De one OF NJ
most sensational in the history OF Lne e
/ state and that many persons ibeS
names have never before been besmlrcheo
( will be held up to the gaze OF the pQDlc
as members of an organization WIloSe
sole aim in life appeared to be the pur-
suit of pleasure best not uhderSIoou ~
the reader.
Both Led East Lives.
Hamilton came original y from the state
OF New York, where ms peeps peeps VII the
Astors, the BelmOnts and otner noteu
families One of his uncies Ddnlel -;
Davis of New u DIRK, Is worth III IlJ
neiehborhood of S1OCyO,OJG it is said, and
ne has sent an attorney on from New H
York to see that the interests OF MS
/ nephew are properly cared for
Inc salary hamllLon received from IIle
! Times Was a mere drop compared 20 MS
! spend from $50 to SltJ for an evening
pleasure was not an uncommon titILlS5
and the money he spent on qiesS W.
! something remarkable. Since ms iIlcaf-
i rersriOD in the Hennepin county JAN MS
( cell has been transformed from q cheeI-
( less place of detention into almost a Pal55
/ ace Handsome rugs grace tiie IlOol &ii,I
/ from the walls hang costly pictures, WINE
/ on po9ished tables repOSe all of the latest
/ magazines and books: ~
J Leonard Day was the only son OF Leon
ard Day, millionaire lumberman: VINO
/ made a vast fortune in the early DAYS OF
Minnesota, and was a talthIuI Io' Tow 81 81
( in the footsteps of his father, VINO always
/ had an eve for a pretty face. me young
/ man was idolized by his mother ana every
I wish that he ever expressed was nm
mediately gratifed if money could crafty
IL he had thousands upon thousands OF
/ dollars in his own right, and II TINS were
: not enough the fat purse or MS HlOILSI
/ was ALWAYS Open to him. he ana MS
mother spent a large time travelling IN
Europe and other foreign countries.
There was a romance IN the Ire OF M >
+ Dav that is particularly apropoS at TINS
I time Twenty-Five years ago mrs LAY,
then Miss 9Obinson, was a glrl Just OUT
+ of school when she tel under the iloLce
/ of ''Old Len Day, VINO had made MS
I pile in lumber and was beginning 70
look around for pleasure Mr. Day WE WE
had died some months before and TO TINS
/ school girl the graX-halred lumDeI Iia !!
began paying court. In a Few weeks IL
J was announced that the two were en-
gagged to be married The children or
Mr.. Dav by his first wife entered an en-
phatic protest, but it did no good. Tor
the man of 81 married the girl OF IL A
wear later the boy Leonard was born.
Witness From Europe.
One of the witnesses at the coming trial
Will be the proprietor Of a restaurant in
Paris. France. who will come here at the
request of the attorneys for the defense.
( It is expected to show by this witness
that Days actions in Paris with the wife
of one Of the men who was present in the
/ billiard room of the West hotel when the
tragedy took place were such as to lead
the husband of the woman to seek the
life of the young society man if the OPP
portunity offered, and il may be argued
that il was this man who thrust the knife
into the neck of Day.
/ WI PLEASED WITH EDICT
It Orders Governors, Ministers and