The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-26
FREE FROM
MURDER CHARGE
Mrs. Quinn Exonerated in Connec-
ton With Death of Nutting.
HUSBAND TAKES HER BACK
JURY BRINGS IN VERDICT OF Ac-
clDENTAL SHOOTING.

Z XONERATED yesterday afternoon by
the jury's verdict of accidental
shooting as the cause Of Frederick
". Nutting's death. Mrs. Matte Quinn
fingered in her cell until under cover OF
the night before leaving the city jail
Her husband accompanied her in a car
riage 10 their home at 6lS West FIRST
North street
When Assistant County Attorney VIII
lard Hanson entered her cell yesterday
afternoon she knew that he had come
to inform her Of the jury's verdict There
was an agitated expression in her eyes,
her breath came fast and heavy, but
she stepped from her cell and a deli
cate smile passed over her face. With
nervous hand she gathered the stray
locks of black hair sprinkled with gray
and pinned them behind her ears She
sat down her bed again with her
hands clasped together and waited for
Guinness and not muscle moved.
. The Jury has at last reached YER
dict of accidental shooting which exon
crates you Mr.. Hanson said.
Breaks Down For First Time.
She stared for a moment as if she
face in her hands. sank onto the bed
and wept. She lay there for several
Suddenly she raised her head. the tears
streaming down her face and. extending
her hand to Mr. Hanson, simply said:
Thank YOU
She stood in thoughtful silence for a
moment and then asked that a message
be sent TO her husband
He said this morning when he left the
JAN that II / was released TO let him
know and he would come after me" she
said quietly. Il am at a loss, however,
10 know what ne intends TO do with me
! asked him this morning, but he only
smiled and SAID nothing He has been
a good husband TO me since the trouble !;
better perhaps than l deserved, but j
fear he is going TO send me away A let
ter came from my mother today, but she
knows nothing of The trouble that ] have
passed through Well. if Dan sends me
away from him. I'll go back TO mother
and live with her the rest of my life.
Ignorant of His Marriage
Mrs. Quinn was asked if she knew that
NUtting was a married man but at first
she knew nothing about il until she read
il in the daily papers.
Il knew little about Nutting affairs
she said. The first time I called at his
room ! saw a kodak picture and asked
MINE MIN VINO S rep TS 5ic Jnly 8n s16tbe or
picture on his dresser, and he told me
that it was an Older sister of his I knew
and told him 50 a the time He tried TO
explain to me. but 1 would not listen He
carried a picture in his watch charm,
also, but l know now that all three were
pictures of his wife"
Isn't that what you quarreled about
asked.
NO. sir" she exclaimed. Il never sus-
pected that Fred was married. and not
even so much as asked him"
She talked at some length about the
affair. and told of meeting Nutting when
she carried lunch to her husband at
night She spoke of three different Oc-
casions when Nutting> left his engine and
walked hO<ne with her
"One night" she said. Fred left his
work for five hours and walked about
the yards with me until after midnight
My husband went home about I O'Clock
and was unable to get in the house He
asked me where I was, but / refused TO
answer him Fred told me the next day
that my husband spoke about him leaving
his engine. and said he could have put
his finger on him at any moment while
he was away. From this ! could see my
husband was next although he said
nothing about it 10 me-"
She told part Of her same story over
again. but added nothing of any impOr-
lance TO it. After Mr. Hanson left, she
ordered supper from "a downtown reStau-
rant and seemed in a cheerful mood.
One Witness Is Heard.
The jury convened at 4 O. clock yesterday
afternoon at the city hall and examined
Rowland the landlady at 157 South Second
West street. where Nutung rOOmed- Moth
ing new was introduced In her testimony.
She said that she had seen Mrs Quinn
but once before last Thursday al Nut
When Mrs Quinn came Thursday" the
witness said. ''Nutting told me his wife
had come from the east and that he
wanted two or three rooms. I told him
he could not have them except for q day
or two, and he said that would be all
The Jury was out several minutes be
fore it returned with the verdict that Fred
w. Nutting had come to his death from
a pistol wound. and that the said shot
had been fired accidentally.