Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-12

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You took your daughter east and
buried hero
YES.
"Was any payment made 70 Or.
Ihyne for the operation
yes, / paid him $50
POWERS PRoPoUNDs QUERIES,
on cross examination, Judge Powers
asked when did YOU trst learn Of
the girls trouble?'
About three weeks before she died
You Of course kept watch Of your
daughter
Yes. No mother kept closer watch
of her daughters than I did
you suspected something
yes
what did You do when YOU learned ~
- talked two or three times with
the young man stephenson, and we
agreed what TO do
Did you give her anything
mo, sir
did you do anything during that
seven days?'
NO, sir"
$50 you and the young man were
planning for an oDeration?'
we were planning for some way out
Of IT,"
you did not plan for her marriage
mo, because she did not like the
Young man, and Il would not have been
right 10 compel her To marry him
Your talks with the young man
were friendly
Wen, | did not want him to think |
was angry with him.
STEPHENSON AGREED TO PAY.
was It on his advice you took the
girl 10 Or. Payne
no, not to Or Payne but he ad-
yised me to take her to some doctor
And he agreed TO pay all costs
Yes
Did you tell Or Payne your Nance"
NO STR
Mrs Ferguson, answering Judge Pow
ers. denied that she told Or. Payne she
had given her daughter certain medl-
cine
you know. DO you not. that upon
your second visit TO the doctors office,
you exhibited a bottle Of certain medi-
cine, DID you not?'
Of did not"
on any occasion, did your
mo, sir"
Did You ever see a bottle Of that
kndW
yes. sir"
Did you ever see a bottle OF that
kind IN your daughters hand?'
No sir"
I'm your own hands?'
mo, sir"
where did you see ~"
In San Francisco.
Did you see 1t In salt Lake,
Yes, sir"
HAD you ever been to the doctor
before?'
mo- sir
while you knew the operation was
extremely dangerous. you asked the
doctor to perform it,
Yes, sir
ne did not solicit from you?"
NO sir
"What did you do during the opera
tiou?"
Nothing I sat in chair
so then. II any crime was commit
ed you had a part IN itf'
NO sir; | do not consider did any
more than any mother Would'
9But You took the girl there?"
He toid you the trouble was OF
certain duration
Yes"
You knew that. did YOU not?'
Yes, sir
DIR REED CALLED.
Mrs. Ferguson was then excused,
and Dr. f. y. Reed was called He
stated that On Aug. 10 he saw Mrs,
Ferguson and her daughter. The lat
ter appeared to be very nervous, and
I'm great pain DR.. Reed said they
went south from Or Payne's Office
Mr. Christensen asked 'SubseQuen.
TO that time. about the lith, ala you
60 to the Ferguson residence at my
request
yes. 1 did"
Dr. Reed Identified the clothes the
girl had on the first day.
How do YOU Tx the day as being
the 10th OF August?' asked Judge
Powers.
"I was waiting for a patient on that
day"
HACK DRIVER TEsTIFIEs
+, S. Fowler a hack driver was the
next witness, He testified that ne
hauled Mrs. Ferguson and her ddugh-
ter from the Central block TO their
home lie said he took them TO 223
west second South. He sud the girl
looked Ike she was sunstvuck There
was no cross examination,
CHIEF LYNCH CALLED.
chief Of Police w. j. Lynch was the
next TO take the stand on behalf of the
prosecution.
chief Lynch identified Or. Payne's
grip and the Instruments therein and
ssi1 he got them from the defendants
Office upon Information given by Mrs.
Ferguson.
Did you take photographs of Dr.
Payne's ofiice?'
u did"
The chief Identified the pictures. and
at this point Judge Powers asked.
Chief don. you think you spoiled
a good Photographer when YOU took
up the profession"
~ didn't think anything about IT,
By Nj, Christeuseu--"ln your CONVEX.
saticn with tho defendant what did he
say?"
"ie said he did not know Mrs. Fer.
gufon that he would not talk 30 the
officers because he did not get a square
deal before
on cross examination chief Lynch
g. "a he did not know that County At.
torney Christensen talked with the
prisoner
DIR OsTERMA&N
Assistant County Physician James
Ostermann testified that he performed
AN autopsy on Mss Ferpuson's body
ard found indications tina, criminal
operation had been performed
STATE RESTS CASE.
At the conclusion OF Or, Ostcrmsnn's
testimony. Mr.. Christensen announced
that the state rested.