The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-17
Awful Details of Domestic Trag-
edy in Missives of Mrs.
Arilla Scheck.
SUGGESTED THE MANNER
OF SLAYING HUSBAND
Scheck, All Unsuspecting,
Wrote Friendly Messages to
His Wife's Lover.

Los ANGELES, Aug. 16.-Ninety
letters written by Mrs. Arilla Schech
| to Ernst Stackpole and found in a safe
were introduced in evidence in the
Stsckpole murder trial today. Tine pros
ecuting attorney in offering the letters
stated that they contained evidence or
the alleged plot on the part Of Stack
pole nnd Mrs. Scheck for the murder
Of the latter IS husband. They will be
read to the jury L. M. Myer, as the
clerk in the safety deposit department
al bank, testified that Stackpole had
rented the box from him on May 81, and
that he had assisted Stackpole in put
ting the letters in the box at the time
On June 19, five days after the murder,
and following Stackpole 8 arrest, the
box was broken open under direction of
the chief of detectives and the letters
found. Chief Deputy District Attorney
McComas took charge of the prosecu-
tion when court opened today and will
conduct the cross examination of the
witnesses for the defense.
The defense objected to the introduc-
tion Of the letters on the ground that
the seizure Of the private property of
a defendant for use against him as evil
dence to convict him of crime is not
permissible; that it is violation of
the Federal constitution and compels
the defendant thus to testify against
Supreme court were cited along this
line.
Cannot Keep Out Letters.
Judge James, however, overruled the
objection and the prosecution began
ha of Sc 1zkS
which, out Of total number of ninety,
were submitted as evidence. Deputy
District Attorney Fleming was put upon
the stand and denied that he had told
Mrs. Scheck that cit would be easier
for her if she would testify against
Stackpole and tell the truth,
In Mrs. Scheck's letters were min
gled terms of endearment toward Stack
pole with expressions of her ideas Of
the manner in which he should kill her
husband and even went SO far as to pro-
fess the affection of sympathy for her
unsuspecting husband in one instance,
writing.
,"Joel is sick now and feel sorry for
him. l wouldn' e want you to do any-
thing to him now.''
Alongside the great bundle of mis-
sives that teemed with protestations
of Illicit love, betrayal Of husband
anu eFen plOttlnR n16 death and the
marriage with the murderer that was
to follow, were two letters of another
kind that formed q pathetic exhibit in
the case. They were letters from the
husband, Joel Scheck, to Ernest Stack
pole, lover of the wife, and they were
the all.confding, honest, sincere, un-
suspecting messages of one man to an
other whom he supposed to be his true
friend. Just commonplace letters, SO
far as the subject matter was concerned,
dealing with the uneventful life of
hard working man, telling now and
then of something or other that had
happened to their mutual friends and
expressing pleasure both of himself and
wife of having heard from him. Far
from even dreaming that he was has
tening his own doom, he wrote as post
scripts to his letters:
we are both lonesome without you.
We want you to come back soon, soon.
soon.'