The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-08
STATE NEWS
HELD WITHOUT BAIL
Harry YsrneII Must Answer to
the Killing Of Mexican
at VsrnsI.

Vernal, Dec. THE preliminary hear
ing Of Harry Yarnel who is charged
with the murder OF Peter SandOVal the
Mexican who recently died as the result
Of being shot in the face and neck at
the Little Chicago saloon. came up n
Justice j. r. Wilson's court Tuesday and
mas peeh nr9gS'ng along uhtl iast even
lng- when the taking Of evidence was
concluded and his honor took the matter
under Amusement until today at 10
9 clock. a dozen witnesses were exam
med and the case WIS gone into almost
as thoroughly as IL III was up before
trial court The defense has attempted
ana introduced several witnesses VINO
testified that the Mexican fired the first
shot The. evidence brought out the TACT
tndt the mexican and several others
were gambling in a rear room of the sa-
loon. and that the shooting was done
there. The fact also developed that var
nell and the Mexican had some words
several hours before the shooting and the
Mexican appeared ugly. When the shoot
ing occurred the Mexican was in the card
room and HarneN had Just stepped 70
the door from the outside. and when the
Mexican saw him he asked him 20 loan
him s.. which he refused TO do. where
upon he AYERS that the Mexican reached
for his gun and fired XaUuell then
era bbed a shotgun which he had preVl-
ously set down just outside the door and
Ilred IN return hitting the Mexican IN
the face. He further stated that after
the shooting he walked to Sheriff
Freezes house and gave himself up. The
fact that several witnesses testified that
after the first row. Yarne0. instead of
reporting the matter to the officers, went
INTO the saloon and remained alone there
for an hour and a half or two hours. and
then came back to the card room with a
double-harreled shotgun There was
some conflict in the testimony regarding
who shot first SandOVal. the Mexican,
IN an ante-mOrtem statement made just
before his death. stated that he was
playing cards in the card room and they
cheated him. and he threw his cards al
the other players and reached FOR his
money, and that was the last he knew.
He repeatedly stated to his attendant
while on his deathbed that he did not
know who shot him. Witnesses for both
shooting. which the defense claims was
in self-defense. At 10 O'Clock today his
honor announced IN court that he would
hold the defendant to answer to the dis
trict court. without bail. The commit
ment was at once issued, and Narneli
was locked up in the county jail to re-
main until the March term Of the court.
1arneI attorneys, POPE q Nelson,
state tonight that they viii appeal to
Judge Booth to fix bail, that their client
may escape imprisonment between now
and the setting Of court. Failing iu this,
they viii go before the supreme court or
the state.
Public sentiment is considera bly,
worked up over the matter. as Yarnell
has a record as a shooter and has been
IN frequent rows, his name appearing In
the court records more times than any
man in the county
Thomas karrens. who has been desper-
ateiy III for several days. died at
O'Clock this morning. His death came as
a surprise 10 the community. as there
was a general impression that he was on
the road to recovery. after a severe at
tack several days ago. Death was due to
a malignant tumor of the intestines The
deceased was an Old and prominent resi-
dent of this section having resided here
for the past twenty-five years He was
one OF the most successful farmers in the
county and owned a fine farm one mile
east Of town He leaves wife and sew
eral grown children. Before death came
he had every detail Of his business ar
ranged and left his family well provided
for. The deceased was prominent in re-
lgiOus, political and social circles and
will be missed by many besides the i'm
mediate members OF his family