The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-10
County Attorney Hanson Per-
mits Charge Against Will
son to Be Dismissed.
THREATENS TO MURDER
TWO UTAH MINING MEN
j. H. McChryStal Swears TO In
sanity Complaint to Keep
Him i'm Jail.

Owing to a peculiar performance of
the County Attorneys office, w. J.
Wilson, four-ply murderer, may be
turned loose from the county jail to-
day to carry out his avowed intention
of killing j. H. McChrystal and John
Q. Packard, two prominent Utah min
ing men. Mr.. Packard is the man who
donated to Salt Lake the city's mag
niicent public library.
The charge Of threatening to kill WAS
dismissed against Wilson by order OF
the County Attorney Tuesday, and
Sheriff Emery was directed to release
however, the sheriff kept him in Jail
and notified Mr.. McChrystal of what
had been done, with the result that Mr..
McChrystal, for his own protection,
promptly swore to complaint in the
District court charging Wilson with in
sanity. He probably will be given his
examination today.
May Escape Altogether.
If the examining doctors find that
Wilson is not insane, nothing will re-
main except for the District court to
give him his liberty, although Sheriff
Emery is firmly convinced that, if
turned loose, Wilson VIII try to Kill
both McChrystal and Packard.
The excuse given by the County At
torney for dismissing the charge against
Wilson was that there was no evidence
TO convict him. The evidence against
Wilson consisted Of letters written by
the accused man while in Colorado a
few weeks ago-which letters are in
existence-declaring his intention to
murder the two men in question. He
also has made similar threats since he
has been confined in the county jail.
Everybody connected with the case
is at an utter loss to understand why
County Attorney Hanson permitted the
criminal charge against Wilson to be
dismissed, except on the theory that he
is too busy Matching Mormon political
plots against the city administration
TO pay any attention TO the duties of
his office. Those interested in the case
say that the proper thing to have done
would have been to have let the Grim
inal charge stand until the insanity
case was disposed of; then, if Wilson
should have been adjudged sane, to
have had him bound over to keep the
peace. Evidence, it is claimed, is plen-
tiful to have accomplished such a pur-
pose.
Emery Says He Is a Bad One.
wilson Is not violently crazy,
said Sheriff Emery Tuesday, Fbut he
is crazy enough to carry out his threats
to kill Packard and McChrystal l
haven t the slightest doubt that, if he
were released, he would make an at.
tempt on the life of one or both of
them at the first opportunity, Judge
Diehl 'phoned me today to know why |
had not released him when the charge
against him was dismissed. ] explained
the circumstances, and the court said
l did right in the premises.
Wilson, it is said, killed two men in
Utah and two in Colorado. He was re-
leased from the Colorado penitentiary
only a few weeks ago, and before that
he was confined in the Utah asylum at
Provo in consequence Of one Of his
killings. While ne was in the Colo
RADIO prison and after his release he
wrote letters here threatening TO kill
Packard and McChrystal, and came to
Salt Lake as soon as he had saved up
money enough to buy a pistol and
railroad ticket
The man cherishes delusion that
the two men whom he has listed for
slaughter have In some way defrauded
him.