Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-05
EXPECTED COMES;
HAWORTH PARDON.
t,,,dom is Asked for the Man Who
Murdered Waterman Sandal
A LONG STATEMENT MADE,
,,,oeence and responsibility Claim
Sentenced to Die He Escapes
ExecutlOners Bullets,

,Nlck Haworth, who has twice been
..,,snoed to death for the murder Of
rtomas Sandal at Layton on the night
=, March 2S, 1899, but whose sentence
s.s boen commuted to life lmprson.
n,5t has made an application for par
1on 10 the state board Of pardons, Ac-
rompanyIng the application, which was
esd by Haworths attorney A.,
Weber, Is long statement
under oath by Haworth IN which
bo tells Of his whereabouts on the night
If the murder and also tells the cir
cDmstances connected with his alleged
confession and his attempt to escape
from the Davis county court house dur
ipg his trial The statement follows.
II am the convicted defendant IN
state VS. Haworth, and am now sery-
pg life imprisonment / never killed
sandal. and had nothing to do with his
murder. 1 do not know who commit
ted the murder At the tine OF the
murder. March, IS, 1898, | was living
Win my family at ogden, on Grant
ayenue ON Marcn p, 1883 James Ste
yens was arrested for stealing a bale
Of hay. ! was with BILLY Costello Oct
Ter known as Suffering Blll') Both
Of us were drinking, and while do not
say We were together every minute, We
we're not separated very long at any
one time, ] can give no particular ac-
count OF my movements that day, save
that we We're at various saloons, that
was at the police station. that we Wis
lied Mrs. Vests that evening, and that
after visiting at Mrs. Vests, Costello
and went up town again. and that We
we're al George Bars saloon at about
midnight After leaving Barrs we
went 10 the Little Queen saloon on
Washington avenue. between Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth streets. took
drink and then went to my house, a
block and a half distant Costello staid
all night at our house | never thought
Of the Little queen saloon until re-
Gently, and never told that 10 any one
ON ! told Mr.. Weber In June, 1904, IN
the presence Of Warden Pratt. | do
not know how many horses ! had In
March 1899, but I probably had five or
ski usually had at least that num-
her,
If remained IN Ogden TIL May u,
1899, aud then with my family left by
wagon We went through Cache val
Icy, stopping &C Logan three days and
At Smithheld one day We were at
pocatellO one day and at Baker City
two or three weeks. We stopped sew
eral days az WeIser. Ida. where / saw
a grading outfit from Utah. and knew
two or three Of the men. We arrived
IN Portland IN the fall. There ! rented
a barn FOR my horses and rented sew
eral rooms from Mrs Davis on Union
avenue on my way from ogden TO
Portland, / went under my own name
and was known as Nick Haworth at
Portland. / never In my life, at any
time or place, went under or gave an
assumed name.
Il first came 10 Utah In 1896, and that
year went to California. In the WIN
tet Of 1896 or 1897 | was at stockton
and Oakland From there / went 10
Santa Cruz IN April then TO San Luis
0bspo and Sacramento and thence.
travelling all the time by team, TO Utah.
reaching ogden IN November, 1898.
left Iowa in 1885. going to California.
travelling by wagon and trading horses.
] teamed IN San francisco one year.
From there l went to Texas, and IN
1896 at Dennison Tex, Joined the A.
p A. lodge, From 1895 TO the time OF
my arrest | drank more or less, often
TO excess. At Portland | drank heay-
ily The first time ! knew | was sus-
1ected OF the Sandal murder was
shortly after my arrest at Portland IN
December, 1899. When the officers ar
rested me and put shackes upon mo, |
asked them why they arrested me and
ihty said, Come along. One of the
alloS the next day told me why | was
arrested When I was brought 10
Pennington and put in jail, ! was
greatly frightened and thought I would
be Killed | don't know why / tried 10
commit suicide When I jumped out Of
me court house window after cutting
my wrist, my idea was TO get away or
kIl myself After / had been I'm fail
awhile ] thought my food was poisoned
ana refused 10 eat. The reason 7
thought my food was poisoned was that
Il tasted wrong. I thought men had
heen murdered and buried under the
steps Of the jail. I don't know why
nag that idea. do know that | firmly
believed such 10 be the case.
Sheriff Abbott often came in 10 sec
u.s. but he never made any threats and