The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-22
EX-C0NV|CT Says
HE IS A BR|TON
Accused of Threatening to Kill,
He Demands Right to
Consult Consul.
HE TELLS LURID TALE
OF HIS MANY WRONGS
Fails to Give Bond of $1,000 anG
Is Locked Up to Prevent
Any Trouble.

Apparently as crazy as any lunatic
In or out of the asylum, W. j. Wilson,
the ex-convict accused OF threatening
the lives Of j. II. McChrystaI and John
q Packard. prominent Utah mining
men, was arraigned before City Judge
plead. claiming that nc is a British
subject, and dcman ling the right 80
consult with British consul before
entering his plea.
This is conspiracy against me-"
declared Wilson = was arrested III
held five years for rausnm. ask that
II warrant be issue'l charging MyChry-
stal with being accessory before the
fact of murder
wilson went on - declare that whaG
lie, left Salt Lake he had property here
Colorado, he declared, this had been
! taken away from him and he demanded
all investigation of that Judge Dichl
! 6Nc.l his bond Mt $1,000, and in defauJ
Of bong able to furnish it he was re-
n,anded to the county lail The near
! est British consul is at San Francisco.
but. in view of Wilson S contention that
he is a British subject, be Will prob
ably be given an opportunity to com
municase with that official before his
examination. A complaint will prob
ably be sled however, charging him
! with insanity,
/ Wilson was tried once for murder
in this State, but escaped by being ad-
! Judged insant Then ne went To Colo
RADIO, after remaining short time IN
the insane asylum. and was sent to the
pcnitentiary for term OF years there
for killing man. While IN the peni'
! tcutidry and after he got out he wrote
| letters here threatening the lives of
! Messys. Inckard and McChrystal. with
/ the result that he was arrested here on
his &rr'Nal from Colorado. The county
! otflcraIs think there is no doubt OF nis
| insanity. He claims to be veteran
Of the Civil war.
RcFert Davidson. whn Las all t5e
! earmarks of q hobo. was arraigned be-
fore Judge Diehl Friday afternoon on
charge of burglary in the second do
gree. He is charged with having bros
en- ioto room in the rear ofthe Hurry
Back saloon at Fourth West and First
! South streets early Friday morning. He
awokc a man who was sleeping in the
room and made his escape. Officers
| Beckstead and Pitts picked him up
/ near the new gas works, where he was
/ apparently sleeping. The man in the
rear of the saloon identified him posi-
lively Davidson pleaded not guilty.
however, and his preliminary exam
/ ination was set for July 10. In default
of $40O bail he was committed TO the
county Jail
Frank Train. bold bad man from
Denver who dourished a gun in First
South street saloon on June II, and
| followed this by stripping his coat and
! Offering to fight everybody in the sa-
loon, was tried in Judge Dlehl's court
! Friday for hitting Thomas Clenneli, an
Irlshman, on the head with the revolver
| in question. Train, who is rather IN
teligent man when sober, conducted hls
| own case and subjected all the wat
nesses TO searching cross-eXamlna-
tion. From the stand he declared that
Policeman Staines, Assistant City At
! torney P. j DAILY and newspaper re-
porter at whom he pointed an accusing
finger, were trying to hand me
package Judge Diehl reserved his
decision until today.
Grace TAYLOR was found guilty of
creating n disturbance on Murray car
BIZ Judge Diehl Friday, aud sentence
was reserved until this morning. The
testimony. which was taken Thursday,
| showed that the woman had used eX-
| ceedingly vile language TO the conduc-
tor Pearl Evans, Margaret Xavier
and Louise Smith. togetner VIII ,I rwS
men, who were arrested along win
the woman, were discharged, the evi-
leuce against them being held by the
court to be insufficient. The Taylor
woman admitted that she has a chllo
year old. which fact may save her
from iail sentence. George Weber,
another man arrested in connection
with the case, forfeited bond of $50
rather than stand trial. The trouble
on the street car occurred on the night
of June s outside the city limits.
Frank Murray, accused Of being i'm
plicated in the hold.up Of G A. Foulds
on South State street some weeks ago,
was discharged by Judge Diehl Friday
on motion OF Assistant County At,or-
nev Job P. Lyon. H. NJ. Williams. ac-
cused Jointly with Murray. was dis
charged by Judge Diehl Thursday for
insufliciencv Of evidence. and the evi
dence against Murray was even weaker
than against Williams
George Smith and Genroe Walters.
accused of fighting on Market row
Thursday evening, both forfeited SO
cash bail. No complaint was fled
against j. Hepworth, who was also ar
rested in the mix-up. nor against Eli
Webb, who was arrested for iuterfer-.
ing with Officer Stslnes when he ar
rested the alleged fighters
Jennie Steele, who spends most Of
her time in the city iail, was given ten
dsvs for her last Jag Jennie is per
feet lady when she is sober. but holy
terror when she. is. drunk.
ANDY Conatv, accused Of begging,
convinced the court that he was
hartJ-working man and drunk when he
committed the offensc, He left the
city iai with 500 Thursday morning,
and was arrested again drunk, broke
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