The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-03

there be went to Indian Territory. in
The Cherokee strip. where he worked on
a railroad. From there he went to
I Montgomery City.
Rose said he never belonged 20 %
church. although his mother is a
southern Methodist and he has no par
tieular religious views. He believes in
q hereafter. When about Z or s years
Of age he was hurt on the head By a
colt He Jumped on II aad IL bucked
throwing him OF. He said he-was un-
conscious two or three DAYS. Rose
said il has never hurt him since
so you claim 20 he perfectly sane
now?" ne was asked.
yes. sir Was the reply
Regarding his family affairs. Rose
said he had beer married twice. While
in St Louis he met his first wife. in
October. and married her the following
June 4. He had one child BY her With
this wife he lived thirteen months and
thirteen DAYS. Part OF the time they
lived alone and for some time he and
his wife lived with her parents. One
DAY he had some words with his
tather-in-law and moved. He rented
house that afternoon. About 9 o'clock
that night he went back TO get his
wife Just as he stepped to the door
TO knock. the father-in-law and two
sons jumped upon him with hoe han
die, ice pick and Ratchet.
They Knocked him down. He would
not give a policeman any satisfaction
and was sent to a hospital. 1t took
twelve weeks for the wound made by
the pick TO heal. 1t was not perfectly
healed for two years. The only bad
effect he felt was a numbness in his
head for some time.
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Shortly after that. Rose says. his wife
got Q divorce from him. About "A year
after that he met the woman he muir
dered. she was 20 years old. he said.
and he was about o. After they got
their marriage license she told Rose
she was only Is years of age. They
lived in st. Louis sixteen months.
Their married life was not happy be-
cause she was jealous Of his first wife
They were married in September. and
in March they agreed to die together.
The quarrel arose over his staying out
late one night.
Rose said his wife got bottle Of
morphine. She divided It into two
parts and, putting it into two glasses
OF water, they drank the poisoned Wa
ter together. The witness said it made
them both sick and they We're unable
to eat for a week.
Rose said he sent his wife home aft
or they got well. They moved out into
the country. but quiet life did not suit
her, and they moved back into St.
Louis. He said they began to quarrel
again. his wife becoming jealous of his
divorced wife and her sister. Feb. %.
1902, he said, he was forced 10 leave
his wife. st that time the baby was
8 months old.
Wife Asks to Come Back.
About six weeks afterwards. Rose
said, his wife wrote asking to be taken
back The day he got the letter he
went to California, Roses sister writ
ing to his wife that he had left the
city in quest OF work. From California
he went to Nevada. where he wrote to
her to come to him. The letter was
written in April. but the wife didn't
get IL until May q. She wrote that if
he would send har some money she
would go TO him. He sent her $50 first
and S25 afterwards. She reached Reno
sept. % In the meantime she had as
sured Rose that she had been true to
him
They lived happily for a couple Of
months, when she became Jealous. saw
ing that she did not think he cared for
anybody excepting his first wife Final
~ she told Rose she had gotten even
with him. il was some time after
ward she told Rose how. A few DAYS
atterward she told him that she had
been untrue to him in St. Louis
Plans Murder as a Duty
Rose told her he could not live with
her; that she would have to go away.
He asked her TO go away. but she re-
fused, saying he could kill her If he
wanted TO. The more he thought about
what she told him the more Rose be-
came convinced that il was his duty
TO Kill his wife. She told him she had
lived with one man for about six
mouths.
y few days after that Rose and his
wife went 10 Ogden. and from there
they came 10 Salt Lake City. The first
night they spent in the city they
stopped at hotel on Second South
street The next day they went out
TO ind some furnished rooms.
Rose then told how his wife had
written TO the man she had lived with
IN st. Louis. asking him for money
She did il TO prove to her husband
that she had been untrue TO him. and
that them would send her money 10
come 10 him. The answer was received
in Salt Lake. There was no money in
IT, While he was in Jail a second let
ter came, in which the man sent Mrs.
IeVSF CIV ne lttJtI was q very az
fcctionate one.
The second day after they arrived
in the city, Rose rented a room at As
West Third South street That night
they took a walk and went 20 the Zoo
saloon. where they had a glass Of beer
The next night they. visited the saloon.
when Everett invited them upstairs 10
meet his lady" Until he met her
Rose thought the woman Everett was
talking about was his Wife. but the
minute he saw her he was convinced
she was not
Finds His Wife Missing.
When they went home Rose went To
bed. When he woke up the next morn
ing his wife was not there and the
door was locked. About o'clock his
wife came home. her face badly flushed.
When he asked her what she had been
doing, Rose said his wife begged him
not TO say anything to her. that she
was tired and wanted to go to sleep.
Rose said he went out in quest of
work The first man he called on was
Everett at the Zoo saloon. 1t was
then and there that he wrote his name
on a card, asking Everett 10 send for
him AZ that address IL he found any
thing for him TO do. He said that was
his explanation Of the card which F,v-
erett produced in court the day be-
fore. i
Rose then recounted one or two in