Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-29
Trial Now Well Under Way 10
the Criminal Court,
TESTIMONY IS INTERESTING
particulars Of the Trouble That Leu
90 The killing Jury Fhat u
hearing the Case

4
this morning with the examination Oh
Dapsty Sheriff Cummings and John
McAhster, who testified as to the loca-
ION OF the oxford saloon ana the ar
rangement Of It's interior
The first witness Of Importance was
William j. Hopkins Hopkins told oil
IKE scunling at the oxford saloon ana
admitted that Garland, who was tend
ius bar frequently asked him and VII
liams ana Wells to keep quiet lie au-
nntteG that he went over towards the
bai aagrlly and asked Garland wheth-
d, OF not he had called him s. of
b.. Ho said that he invited him To
como outin front of the bar ana light
IL ne mad done 30, and that Garland
struck him on the cheek. Il pulled of
~ coat and hat and rushed over to-
warus the bar"
Wilnams was trying to keep you
quit Nasn't her
Yes
you broke away from him ana MIKE
Bitggogaid?'
HAes
You thought you were a better man
than oarland?'
"les ! did. "
eDid you say anything when you
were trying TO break away from your
friends. call them SIS of b--s?"
81 don't recolect doing So
Asked whether he struck Garland
witntss said that he tried TO hit him,
bit was quite sure that he did not sue
coed
AR straup tried 10 get witness to ad-
nit that he had caliea Garland s. of
b.. lie asked him why he had tes-
tiled OF the preliminary examination
that that was the worst name he called
him. The witness said that II he had
done so il must have been true, but
Mould NOT say directly that he did call
Garhnd that name Asked later what
he meant by admitting al the prellmi-
naiy examination that he had used
the vile eplthet he said that he did not
mean anything.
lyon had taken lessons In boxing
from a prize tighter?'
yes"
cAnd YOU gave sparing exhibitions
with nimY
Z "NO slr'
ibid 9o1 ever engage in bouts in
| pubuc2'
yes cir"
did you say to Garland on the night
| Of the shoot ng that you were from New
York and he would have 20 show you"
y don't remember saying that"
Hopkins said that he had not left
| New YORK. for any special reason.
NJ laa I'M z rsF
! examination that you would rather not
say anything about your New York
life?"
Il don't believe | did so testify. |
( have nothing to conceal about my life
| in New York"
"You are In the habit of fighting?
You aere in fight recently IN house
| Of Ill fame In Bingham
Eyes, sir"
Hopkins testified that he had worked
| as a telegraph operator last summer,
and worked about three months at the
/ Highland Boy shelter He said he was
' professional ball player
The next witness called was Robert
| Wells Of Bingham. He said that he
| was a miner and had worked at the
| Highland Boy and other mines, In
answer to Prosecutor Eichnor he told
! his version OF the row and shooting In
the bingham saloon. His story was
| practically the same as Hopkins He
said That he. Williams and Hopkins
lad LAD four or FIVE drinks in the sa-
loon that night He said they had been
| in house Of III fame ant drank sew
eral glasses Of beer before going 70 the
oxford. They were also in Muller's
saloon. He admitted that all were
drunk In the oxford when the fight
took place. His ross-eXamination had
only commenced when recess was
taken til o'clock this afternoon.
The witnesses examined yesterday
woe Or. n A. Anderson, who des-
cribed the wound In Norton Williams
forehead. He admitted that the wound
| ed man might not have died had he
received proper treatment.
Charles Olson, who was playing cards
In the saloon az the time, said that
| the three men concerned In the trouble
seemed 10 him 90 be drunk They used
bad language before Garland did, and
that the latter had not used a gun till
| Hopkins rushed at him.
The jury as sworn 10 try the case IS
composed Of the following; William d.
| Woolley, John Switzerland, william
Hurd, Jones Anderson. Jacob NJ.
Weller Carl soderlund, Robert W.
| Ianphail ana Rarfoa Coarr