The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-12

bourow as TO whether she had ever had
any revelations She said she had not
but had thought that she had seen DIR.
Austin, who attended her son, come
into the house after his death and
speak TO her, This occurred twice.
Her husband was not a member of
any church but sometimes attended the
Methodist church. She had once be
longed 10 the Mormon church and
HooIey had forbidden her to take the
children there. He always seemed To
think that she wanted to send him to
the Mormon church Mrs. Hoolev
broke down when telling about the
deaths OF her oldest and youngest chill
dren.
She said that she had been married
before she had met Hooley to her
cousin, named Lundell, but had never
lived with him. He had obtained a
divorce. She had one child before mar
rying Hooley but that child had been
adopted by some people and had not
been in her charge for years.
She believed Hooley was the cause
of her son S death and had told him
so. He had kept the boy at Bingham
and had sent him to the saloon on n
cold night to get whiskey for him.
She thought exposure had caused his
death
Continuing, she said; "There never
was any good feeling between Hooley
and myself. | often told him / did not
want TO live with him. Finally we
went TO lawyers and had papers drawn.
I went to Judge Powers but he was
away and Mr.. Marioueaux drew the
papers. Hooley's LAWYER was Allen r.
Sanford. After leaving the lawyer s
Office Hooley tore his papers up but |
refused and kept mine
Afraid of Hooley.
~ would NOT let Hoolev send the
children to school at Bingham because
the school was near where he worked
and ] would not trust him alone with
them | knew what | was doing when
] shot him and ] knew I would kill
him That was why I shot him.
knew that l would be punished for kill
ing him but I would rather have the
children left alone than my husband
alive. ] knew what the punishment
was. for, murder and expected to be
punished -
Mrs. Hooey admitted that she had
told her niece. Nina Anderson, who
works in Franklin s. that she was not
going to be bothered going to LAWYERS @
! any more and if Hooley troubled her
again she would kill him. She wanted
him to do the right thing
Asked what she meant by the rioht
thing she said that she did not want 10
go TO Bingham or live with him. She
told the District Attorney that she
knew she was III court to be examined
as TO her sanity. She admitted that
she had fears at one time that her hus.
band might send her to Provo and she
had tried hard to keep from getting
excited, especially when he taunted heTI
with her unbalanced mind and the time
she WAS in the sanitarium She said
| Hooley had got drunk and was arrested
and she had taken him out but she
never threw it up to him and she told
him it was not fair to throw things mo
TO her
She said she was not naturally ner.
yous except the night before, when she
had been much troubled by the state
OF her room at the Jail. There were
SO many coachroachcs that they made
her nervous and she could not sleep.
AT the request of the District Attor-
ncy, adjournment wns had until today
at 1880 O'Clock when the niece, Nina
Anderson. and others will be examined