The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-20
SULLIVAN GIVES
HIS VERSION OF
MURDER STORY
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yielded himself to every evil and rebel
lious impulse. There We're many times
yesterday when fire flashed I'm Sulli-
vans eyes and volcanic outbursts
seemed imminent. Those who expect
ed the man to yell forth frenzied words
were repeatedly very near TO their ex-
pectations, but at the crucial moment
one of Sullivans lawyers would inter
fere, so as to give the accused man
chance TO collect his wits and draw
himself away from the trap that had
been laid for him. Sullivan must have
been warned against yielding to wrath,
for after each interruption he was
calm again, although the pallor of his
cheeks would tell of the tempest that
had swept over him.
Story Is unshaken.
In the main he was calm, and told
his story with ease and elaboration.
District Attorney LoOfbourOw, in
long and painstaking cross-examina-
tion, failed to shake the accused man
on any important point.
1t was noticeable all through Suln-
vans testimony that he made no eff
fort TO fasten the Albany saloon hold
up or the murder of Policeman Ford
upon John Owen. the convict informer,
years IN the penitentiary, having
pleaded guilty 20 robbery, and who is
suspected by some of having fired the
shot that killed the policeman. Sulli-
van did not dispute Owens tale of the
events of the night of Dec. Is and the
morning of Dec. ID up 10 the point at
which Owen told of walking to the
Albany saloon. Sullivan declared that
he left Owen and Garcia in front of the
Wellington hotel, opposite the Oregon
Short Line depot Where they went.
he made no effort to tell. But he said
that he walked out of Salt Lake to
Woods Cross. where he caught a
freight train for Ogden.
His only witnesses were three con-
victs from the state penitentiary. In
the world of free men. he had no
friends. There was not one man, ex-
ccpt the three in prison garb. who
would come forward to say a word in
his behalf.
Deming Is Exposed.
The three convict witnesses were all
notorious robbers. They were Richard
Deming, John Feury and John Mon
roe. Bad as Feury and Monroe were,
there was no doubling their loyalty to
their former prison mate and the earn
estness of their desire to save him
from the executioner. But Deming
was exposed while on the stand as a
traitor who had betrayed Sullivan by
exposing to the sheriff the desperados
plan TO saw his way out of Jail. To
win the admiration of his fellow con-
victs, he had come to the court to help
in the work of saving Sullivan, appar-
emily not believing that the mask
would be torn from his face.
He was the first of the convicts to
take the stand. and when his treachery
was exposed by County Attorney Han
son the look of horror and poignant
apprehension which convuised Sulli-
vans face moved many TO pity. When
the next convict was led in, there was
hope and doubt in Sullivans eyes He
had forced from his face the expression
Of fear, but seemed, after the terrible
revelation of Daming's perfidy. pre-
pared for anything. Under the warmth
of the unmistakable friendship of the
other two wretched Outcasts who had
come from the prison in his behalf, the
stony look of desperation disappeared.
Try to Discredit Owen.
Feury and Munroe declared that
owen had confessed to them that his
story Of the hOld-up and murder was
told for the purpose of shielding him
self.
Deming's purpose in coming to court
was to say that it was he, and not
Sullivan, who had tried to saw the bars
of the county jail. In the spasm of
shame at being exposed as a prison
Judas. he said that while it was true
that he went to Sheriff Emerys office
before il was discovered that there
were saws and a slungshot in SulIi-
vans cell. he did not betray the des-
perado He asserted that Sheriff EN-
cry asked him TO enter into a plot TO
encourage Sullivan to try TO break jail
so that the jail guards could shoot and
kill the desperate as he was i'm the act
of escaping. This Deming called
pumping Sullivan of" He said that
he had refused 30 enter into the con-
spiracy There was handclapping by
many persons in the crowd at this dec
laration. But, for all this applause in
the court room, Deming passed out
with dOwncast eyes and a miserable.
foreboding expression upon his face. It
was clear that he was not sure that
the convicts back at the penitentiary
would believe him
Owing to District Attorney LOOfbOu-
rows long cross-eXamination OF Sullivan,
the evidence for the defense was not all
introduced yesterday, as expected. There
viii be a few more witnesses this morn
ing. then the prosecution Will call some
witnesses Ia rebuttaL It is believed that