The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-12
SLAYER OF SPOUSE
AOJUDGED INSANE
Mrs. EdIa EIfrida HooIey viii
Be Sent to Provo Hos
pitaI.
KNOWS SHE DID WRONG
NIECE TESTIFIEs SHE MADE
THREAT DAY BEFORE MURDER.

Mrs. Edla Eiirida HoOley, who sOt AMI
killed her husband at their home in Wa
toriOO Tuesday morning. was declared in
sane yesterday afternoon by the COM
mission appointed by the district court
and was committed to the state mental
hospital at Provo. The members Of the
commission were DR.. W. r. CaldeTWood
and DR.. +. n. Raley.
Mrs. HooIey received the verdict with
out any show of feeling. maintaining the
same calm. impressive manner which has
characterized her ever since the action.
Strange and fautastical in its vagaries.
Al times assuming a deep religious note,
and again inCOhercnt and contradictory
was the story told by this woman yester-
day. II was 4 continuation of the story
of the day before. but In it she gave ut
teFance to her philosophy of life and To
the fact that she knew right from wrong
But her philosophy was Of a vague. evas-
i've nature and was conferred about the
love she bears her children and the duty
she owed them TO protect them from some
tancied wrong which she believed her
husband was about to inflict on them.
In Gods Hands.
q consider myself in Gods hands" she
said in her simple way, and / pray to
God TO protect me. You know" she
slld, turning to the district attorney,
that a woman who is all alone i'm the
world and has been thinking for fifteen
years, has only one person to turn 10,
and that is God. the father. L have
thought that my children might be harm
ed and that something might turn up any
time, and 1 have asked God TO guide me-
For a moment she broke down. but re-
gained her compOsure and never flinched
again.
Did God ever appear to your she was
asked.
Did Christ or any of His Disciples"
No"
Did you ever have any communics-
tons from GOd2'
Yes, revelations"
Love for Her Children.
Then she contradicted herself and said:
Il don't know whether they were reveia-
tons or not, but once [ told him that
felt that ] was fully justified in wanting
TO leave him. He said that if I wanted
TO do this that he wanted TO keep the
children, and ! would not let aim do this
Poor little de1rs, they are mine. every
enc OF them But L dent exactly know
what YOU mean by revelations. Do YOU
mean Mormon revelaticns?~
Throughout the hearing she cnDba sized
the love she bears for her children and
in her warped judgment il was for them
she slew their father and her husband.
She admitted that she knew that it was
wrong and that she might be hanged OF
sent to the penitentiary for life but she
would willingly sacrifice anything for
them.
L knew when 1 fired that shot thar
didn't care. 1t was of my children I
was thinking. You see he might have
harmed them and l think they are better
off now that he is dead. L don't care
what becomes of me Ii is my children
I am thinking Of and thought OF when 1
nTed. "
Miss Nina Anderson. a niece of Mrs
HGOley. testified that she was at the
HOOley home the day before the murder
Mrs HoOley's eyes were red as if she had
been crying and she mad told her that
she did not want to go to Bingham on &C
count Of the children
Suddenly she seemed TO grow very
angry" said Miss Anderson. "and with
some show of emotion said to me- I viii
blow his brains out before / will let him
make me angry again. and then. calming
down. she said. of course. / don't NEAR
that and 1 will do anything ne wants ne
TO do -
Before the commission arrived at its
verdict Mrs. HOOley was taken into Judge
Armstrong chambers and subjected to a
physical examination by the physicians
The two HOOley children viii be cared
for by her brother, Victor S. Anderson.