The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-19
Skull Of ~. Tyler II;!.-
' PIT N EVIDENCE
Alleged Threats Made a'. by Steve
ada" Adams and SImpklnS
'l Against Murdered Man.
KILLING OF A FRENcHMAN
FEATURES OF THE TRIAL At
WALLACE.
vurtuG OF A FRENCHMAN

-. wash. Feb. 1S.-A Wallace,
saecial 10 the Spokcsman-Review
says: E. A. Co..
- trial was the evidence Of Archie
nsui,s He testified that Tyler had
"a him NJ threats made by Adams and
- simnkins. but was not allowed to
',a,s the nature Of these threats, OBJ
s,cfion being lodged by the defense or
H. sround Thai he did not know them
If his own knowledge. The objection
yas upheld By the court, and Phillips
vsnt on To state how on one occasion
ss saw Adams and Simpkins coming
nm the trail toward Tyler's cabin
Ten Shots Fired.
Adams armed with a winchester.
stopped hundred yards from the cab
in and Simpkins, who carried no wea-
ION In his hands. went about 100 yards
nast the house. Tyler and Phillips sat
en a log in front Of the cabin and soon
bullets began to whistle past their ears.
unpleasantly close. They got up and
went in the abin. Ten shots were
fired. four from up the creek where
Simpkins had gone and from a revoiv-
or. and six, from where he saw Adams
last from a rife He could distinguish
the difference between the weapons by
the sound Of the explosion.
Last Man Who Saw Tyler Alive.
Phillips was the last man TO see Tyler
alive. and testified that the night be-
fore he disappeared he had eaten sup
per at his cabin.
His wife had given him a bottle of
horseradish and identified the one pro-
duced in court as similar to the one
given by his wife. He had also seen
him with the gunny sack discovered
on the remains. and identified the to-
hacco box found therein as one in
which Tyler carried fishing bait. After
Tyler's disappearance he had made
several unsuccessful attempts to locate
him. and heard five or six shots fired
the morning after his disappearance,
about or 6 o'clock. The morning the
shots We're fired over the heads of the
men before the cabin occurred q week
before the disappearance Of Tyler.
Murder Of HouIe.
IN company with a Frenehman named
B0Hie. he tried 10 find Tyler. and BouIe
went to Santa 10 tell of the disappear
ance. Bouie returned from Santa Aug.
- and il was decided to make a big
search in the morning. Early next day
Phillips heard the shots that killed
Boule, and wouded his companion, Lin
day. in the arm. BOule's body was dis.
covered with five shot-holes through it
Phillips returned with his wife and
family TO Santa, told the sheriff anC
ha.f1w
thirty feet OF Simpkins' cabin by the
sheriff
Deputy Sheriff Williams. Jacob Yea.
ger and c. F. Hughes identified the
remains as those Of Boule.
Skull In Evidence.
The skull Of Fred Tyler was in evil
dence in TIE trial of Steve Adams to-
day. Held up before the jury by the
hahd Of Deputy Sheriff c. b. Williams
Il bore its own testimony of a coward
" crime. A big bullet hole back of the
left ear and another hole on the right
side, where It is supposed the ball came
out showed how he met his death. shot
by an assassin who stood behind him.
Inc state, L is believed. has won the
ilrst round in the battle of witnesses by
producing mass of evidence which
seems to leave no doubt that the body
found IN the woods in the St. Joe coun-
ny was that Of Fred Tyler.
Remains Identified.
This morning Jacob Yeager. brother
m-iaW Of the dead man. added his tes-
limony. His description of TYLER con-
termed to that given by other witnesses
lor The state. He declared he had
Known Tyler for nine years and had
leehuhed the body by the shape of the
SAUL, the color OF the hair. the cal
ioaSed feet and the crooked finger. He
declared he had made the shoes found
rear me body, and had given them to
merchant in Santa to sell for him.
Was Net Positive.
= H. Williams the deputy sheriff
sas The next witness He cautiously
uee'ared he could not identify some OF
W 4tneies produced in court as those
.vSno with the body in the woods, but
~ positively identify the skull. A,
~, .squest OF the prosecution. he held
me battered skull and described
nc wounds indicated He said the body
Ss iound about half mile from the
'aeln Of Jack Simpson.
",lit the identification of the body
nat OF Tyler is considered very
s' II Is expected still more Wit
.ssses VII be brought forward by the
point. i'Ie''es ga ms