Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-28
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ManSLaughte1
Counsel for Miles Romney, Charged WIN Marder in The
Second Degsee, WW snake Eoesy Possible Effort 10
Reduce Ae Charge This Much Clearly Indicated in
Judge Kings c4rgamen This Moaning

his mind and the charge Of murder In
the second degree must fau.'
COUNSEL CHARITABLE.
Judge King stated that he would not
speak harsh word against any of the
witnesses for the reason that the jurors
saw them and could tell whether or not
they spoke the truth. lie then referred
teelingly TO Romneys family life. lie
said that defendant Is the father OF
eight children and that he had never
seen many bad men who loved children
and had a large family. Defendahs In
his associations with his fellow man,
argued Judge King was "a good man.
Strong, he argued, had the elements Of
hatred IN his heart and was committing
a felony when threatening TO take Rom
neys He ana hence the latter was JUS
tifiable In shooting him At this point
the court took 4 recess until O'Clock.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
In District Attorney Eichnor's ar
gument before the jury yesterday after
noon he spent much time on the con-
llicting testimony introduced at the
trial, and stated that there was more
perjury committed than on any trial
he had ever known OF during his eN-
peiience as a lawyer He declared that
the witnesses had been fixed and
cited particularly the testimony of Off
Ger Emil Johnson who fatty contra
dicted his testimony given at the pre-
liminary hearing. He said that John
son was a periurer and a traitor, and
did not possess the falthfulness Of "A
mongrel cur,
Mr. Eichnor stated that Romney's ac-
ton In the saloon on the morning Of
the shooting did not indicate that he
was afraid of Strong or that he feared
for his life He ridicued the idea that
Romuey fired the first shot accidentally.
In regard 10 the cuspidore incident, he
said that If Strong had picked up a
cuspidore to throw at to ney. he
would have thrown It and not dropped
it and ran Mr. Elchnor paid his re-
speots to each witness for the defense
and pointed out wherein their testi-
mony was unreasonable, and, In clos
ing, he entreated the jury TO weigh the
evidence carefully and find out where
the truth lay and TO keep 10 mind the
motive which prompted Romney to Kill
Strong.
Atty Hamilton then commenced the
opening argument for the defense, lie
gave an outline of the testimony for
the defense and Strengthened out the
apprrCnt conflicts In the testimony. lie
then undertook to hold up the witnesses
for the state In the most unfayOrable
light possible and showed them nc
mercy In his arraignmeut. He laid
great stress on the many threats which
Strong had made against defendants
lfe and argued that the latter was
justified in shooting as he was merely
a stripping compared TO the giant Srong
and was in fear Of his life or great
bodily harm when he fired the fatal
shots
Mir. Hamilton detailed very complete
ly the encounter which occurred from
the firing OF the first shot TO that OF
the third and illustrated by his own
actions the successive features Of the
encounter, and endeavored to show the
Inconsistency OF the states position IN
regahd to the same AT times he grew
quite eloquent IN his utterances and
showed great sincerity In the presenta
ton Of his arguments which undoubt-
eddy impressed his hearers His argu-
ments were not concluded when the
court adjourned until 10 o'clock this
morning