Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-11
FLEW INTO A TERRIBLE PASSION
10 Awful Rage He BrandIshcd knItc
over Her Body aud Threatened TO
lut Her Head Oh.
YET WIFE WOULD NOT BELIEVE,
All This Was Some Days Before the
Awful Crlmc--Faets That Came
At the Inquest Today

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A motive Tor the murder Of Mrs I'd,
". Mitchell IN bed NJ her homo }oalDr
day morning, and the wiDldc of h"r
husband IN the barn bchlud the rcaI'
doncc nt ?,O south seventh West sll'oI
shortly afterwards wlb found today
Yesterday al 10 o'clock Mr. and Mrs
Mitchell had date with AtlN Fred
~ McGurnn 10 ecltlc upon the division
~ their property preparatory 10 MIS-
NUthcllN hlng u suit for d divorce.
Wcdnesday evening last Mrs Nit
rncll told Mr. Mitchell Of her intention
20 yet divorce, and ho received the
novs not calmly but flew into % ugr
Ito seized Mrs Mitchell around the
waist, throw her io the floor of the
room, planted hig knee I'm her chest TO
hold her lhcrc, ana then reached into
table drawer near aD hand and took
tho carving knife, IT, told her then ho
was COINS 10 cut her throat hut ollor
VI minutes Of plouliug h. rclruud hor
while Ne held her pinned lo the floor
waving above her the hruudshcl
Knife, Ne bcpt hls pipe n his mouth
ana tho hot Goals FILLING from lms
burned through the skin of her uhooh7
and neck
Thursday afternoon she told the
story 70 Mrs Geo, Moore, Am old irIrud
NJ the family, ana MlH Moore asked
Mitchell what he meant by such 1000.
tons 70 her surprise Mitchell de-.
clarcd ~ was I'm dead earnest and
meant hurIuose, ana what he did was
0O right
gIorGllT nv WAS ULrFFlNG
Mrs. Moore pleaded with Mls Mil.
chdl to leave her husband and the
home nj once, bul Mrs Mitchell d".
,arod hrr husband was only bW0ug
and would not huu ben 'fhuwdlN ul'
tIuoOu NrS Moore ana Mrs Mitchell
went up town tu meet Mitchell ut the
conner Of Second South ana Main
streets leaving them there To roiWu
go Nor homo ON sixth street Tho
with Attorney McGuum iu regard 10
pculrg M the property division Mrs
Mitchell promised Mrs Moore 60 nll
Yesterday and tell her how the proper
~ matter came out
There was u SURPRISING story ~ Wife.
ly devotion brought out In the inquest
this morning, All of the relatives N
Mrs Mitchell were examined, Int mono
~ thom would say That she hld oyer
complained Of her husband, or told
tilos Of his cruelty II was not untl
The last fcW weeks that she ever made
complaint, and then n WAS IN u fearful
letter. telling her sister Of The pun'
fur divorce. Even then Fho dll not
give reasons. Al Witnesses who mad
hoou ut the Mitchell homo testified a7
80 how wen u was kept ana I'm what
neat order Most Of them told of fccl-
ing sorry that 20 poor q husband AS
Mitchell had 20 good wiz"
SANE UNTIL July g.
~ TIE character Of MITCHELL AN Wit
Nosscs agreed that ho had never shown
single sign Of insanity prior lO July
Of this year Ills lilk th,y said, WAS
nlWaya rational and Nix manner not
that of nm mMnc man. lie Mad noycr
boon talked uf ns "a subject for the In
sane asylum until July T. However ho
had ono popularity which mas always
distinguished HIM This Wos nm ocon'
slonal appearance NJ % M of moodIuuse
ana sullon behavior often terminating
IN an nulburHt ~ anger
INSTRUCTED ms WIFE,
lie had a notion, too, Of Mrs, Mitchell
that led him TO mlslrnM her lie had
nutsod II for years, and had spoken NJ
n many years ago 90 friends n cuug'
cd much Of his strange conduct towards
her and especially his Watchful suspI'
c0n, II was that Mrs. Mitchell Wnt
hordIng up the family Income kooplnl
him IN the dark regarding IT. cSpcnhi'
turo, ana that this was for the purpose
Of some day leaving him suddenly tC
return TO her former homo IN the old
country lie was convinced II MAS thl
Intention Of Mrs Mitchell 10 run away
from him some time, and leave him
alone once nt Eureka she wrote let
ter ana mailed n without reading II (,
him Ilo ai once few into rage and
attacked her despite tho explanation
that the train was Just going ana Il
WAS only "A note 20 her sister Nhl
sent II 10 the depot by her brolhcr'ln'
law Isaac Hubbard
NOT CAUSE or INSANITY,
Tho theory put forth by a mornni
paper tint tho moninl dorangemont ro
suited from an accident In Eureka n
which d rlg he was driving Tripod over
was pressed By the prosecuting uitor
ney, but witnesses declared mat Mi
moodInoss ana tendencies to anger wer
~ pronounced before That az thoy eve
have been since, Thoy date back clea
10 tho marriage, over 20 years ago U
Eureka, Mitchell was neurological, am
could not rad, ana was rather stool
fhouldered, but his mnlody never led Il
irrational actions or taxi,
STARTED on FOURTH July
Tho present lroublc, which oulmllQl
I'd In the murder ana suicide Mon ll
morning, began ON the Fourth Of JUS
Prior tO that date Mrs Mitchell wen
to Eureka TO s,il the property bolongln
Ia the family ON arriving she ven
the following anfcctionato letter TO ne
husband,
Dear husband Just n few mes
lct you know I arrived here quite 'hI
ana found them all we'll Thoy .Wol
W nj tho dciol, children ana Wh