The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-05
nIT by bit, new evidence is being
Il picked up each day. by the officers.

III Dy Dlts new eNlueuCG Is Deiub
Is picked up each day. by the officers.
which shows that the story told
by Mrs Aurora Hodge of the murder
of William Y. Ryan, in which she
claims TO have committed the deed
alone. is untrue and that she is telling
it to shield another who is guilty. The
officers. the attorneys and the brother
are positive that Mrs. Hodge never
killed the peddler. They are equally
positive that man, who through some
means or other has a power over her.
did commit the deed. and that she has
confessed to save him.
Il is their belief that she refuses to
dlvulge his identity or make a clear
and positive statement that she did not
strike the fatal blow because she is
giving the accOmplice time TO get where
he cannot be caught before she does so.
The officers are positive that as soon as
this man has had time 70 get far
enough away. Mrs. Hodge win make
a clean breast of everything
Pleadings of No Avail.
So far All efforts to get her TO tell a
true story of the whole affair have tailed
! to accOn0 lish more than to get her TO en-
large and amplifV to a limited extent the
story she told TO The Herald the night she
arrived in Salt Lake The persuaslons or
news have failed 10 accomplish more
{ Sheriff Emery is working quietly on the
/ case gathering evidence Wnlcn. Wnen plL
] together will probably clear up the Wnuic
matter and bring 10 Justice the accom-
/ Mice in the case much sooner than IS eN-
{ Uected-
one IMPORTANT niece of evidence was
/ discovered yesterday which proves that
T Mrs Hodge Is not telling all OF her story
] that she could should she want 70 90 so.
3 She claims that she went to Ryan camp
A. rrr,4 ~frrrr on q II
I e and that was the first time she hac
4 ever seen RYAN A witness nda e.tliH
forward who positively loenliiles MI
Hodge the woman ne saw IN lle PEE
( dIer's camp on the night OF July 3 Ihls
: witness is a Mr.. Carthey who IS one OF
the watchers AT Beck's Hot Springs
Saw Her July 3.
According to the story told by him be
fore Mrs. Hodge was arrested. a woman
I answering the description or the con-
! fessed uurderess walked down the road
I from towards Ogden on the evening CT
/ July and stopped at Ryan camp Lhtil
rec upeared at the camp the night or
YESTERDAY afternoon Carthey called at
the county iail TO see Mrs. Hodge. Wnen
/ No walked into the iaiI ne picked out Mrs.
] Hodge and turning TO the Jaller. sald.
There the woman who was at Ryan 3
camo the night of July 8
He was uositive that he could not oe
mistaken and was absolutely sure thal
/ She was the woman whom he saw in the
/ camu that night and on the night or
the 9Th Mrs Hodge appeared not 10
notice what ne said. and gave him only "A
l passing glance. When introduced TO him
she simply spoke and then turned hes
gaze through the window.
! I'M her story of what she did prior 10
the time that she left the springs with
RYAN Mrs Hodge declares that she never
/ saw RYAN before. the night of July 6. she
l admits that she was away from Ogden
for "a few davs before the 5th of July,
{ when as she claims. she started TO walk
% salt Lake investigation has proven
that she left OGDEN first about June 30
ana reaDDeared there July and disap-
peared again the same day.