Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-01
WITNESSES SWORN.

WITNESSES SWORN
District Atty. EIchnor then had all
OF the witnesses Tor the state called and
sworn. Sergeant Roberts was the first
witness called TO the stand. lie ;old OF
Rose coming into the police station on
sunday morning after the crime and
telling of the affair He said that Rose
came In and looked around and then
started out. The witness asked him II
he wanted anything and he then told
about killing his wife. Sergeant Rob
erts and other officers then went 20 the
address given by Rose and found Mrs.
Roses body on the bed, with bullet
hole in her head, They also found the
child there and took charge Of II and
had the Womau's body removed 10 the
morgue. After they went back 20 the
station, the witness said that Rose told
them all the details OF the crime the
conversation with his wife both before
and after the shooting and he said that
he killed her because she would not
give up her life Of shame. ON cross
examination he said that when Rose
came TO the station he appeared as
though he had been drinking heavily.
Rose told him that ne talked with his
wife AN hour and half or two hours
after the shooting before she died.
After she died he told witness that he
turned her over on her right side
CHIEF LYNCH TESTIFIES,
The testimony Of Chief OF Police
Lynch, Capt. BurbIdge and Officer VII
lams was about the same as that OF
Sergeant Roberts Rose told them
about the same story In regard to the
murder, Chief Lynch produced the re-
vover with which Rose committed the
deed which was introduced In EVIL
dence. ON Cross-eXaminatlon he said
that Rose told him that his wife had
been going In wine rooms and sporting
with men and he could not stand II
any longer and had decided TO
Kill her one of the men at the sta
ton asked Rose why he didn't fire a
second shot and XIII himself, He replied
that there were men who were paid TO
do that so he thought he would leave
that far them Rose went with the chief
and others TO the morgue 10 see his
WIFE He had heard the doctor say
that her hands were lacerated and he
wanted TO see them. When Rose en-
tered the morgle aud his wife was un-
covered he picked up her right hand
and forced II open and looked at the
wound. lie did the same thing with
the left hand and then remarked that
he could not imagine how her hands
were hurt. The chief said that the
wounds looked as though they had been
caused by a blunt instrument being
forced through her hands
MRS. CONDIE CALLED.
Capt Burbidge stated that he heard
that Mrs. Rose had attempted TO put
poison I'm her husbands coffee to XIII
him. but he did not remember whether
Rose told him that or not, II, o.
Twomey the stenographer who took
the testimony at the inquest, was called
and produced the testimony OF Rose at
the inquest. Mrs. Roy Condie was then
called to theiwltness stand ana test'-
fled to meeting Rose ~ the street
/ Christmas might about 1880 o'clock AZ,
ter he had killed his wife. She asked
him where his wife YaS and ne sno
that she hadsg6ie to- n Louis. on
cross examination she stated positively
that Mrs. Rose was not a prostitute
and did not frequent wine rooms Az
| the conclusion OF her testimony, couf'
took a recess until o'clock this at'ei
| noon