The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-24

sault, that be would not allow her to
use that kind of language before the
children.
On redirect examination the state
attempted 10 show that Vance had
threatened before to kill Mrs. Vance,
but the defense objected and the oh"
lection was sustained. On re-cross-
examination the child admitted that her
aunt had scolded her severely for visit
ing her father at the county jail, where
he has been confined awaiting trial.
Mrs. Wunderhch' S Story.
Next to the little girl, Mrs, Wunder-
Itch, the next.door neighbor, whom
the wounded woman sent her daughter
for. was the most important witness,
The Vance home was at sol South
Seventh West street, Mrs. Wunderlich
testified, and she lived next door on
the north. About 1920 clock of the
day Of the trouble she heard children
screaming in the Vance home, and di"
rectly saw Mrs. Vance run out onto the
back porch with her hair down and in
wild disorder, her side hair combs in
her hands, and screaming;
Telephone the policcl Telephone
the policel He's killing me-"
When Mrs. Wunderlich asked her
whom she meant, Mrs. Vance, sho tes-
tilted, replied:
"Thomas Vance, the brute 1 call my
husband.'
Mrs. Wunderlich further testified
that her attention was first attracted
to the Vance home by sound as if
someone was falling. About 10
clock the day after the alleged as
sault she was called TO the Vance home
by the little girl, she said, and Mrs.
Vance exhibited bruises about the alb
by her husband the day before. She
returned home, but was recalled by
Lena later in the day. She found
Mrs. Vance screaming in pain and
vomiting Mrs. Vance asked for a
drink, and was given one from the
glass at the head Of her bed, in which
Vance is alleged to have slipped BIZ
chloride of mercury when he came
home to dinner.
Says Water Was Fresh.
Mrs Wunderlich says that the water
in the glass looked like it had bubbles
on it, and she emptied the water and
allowed Mrs. Vance to drink. Mrs.
Vance also was administered a dose Of
bromo seltzer, Toward night DR.. Kerr
came, and Mrs. Wunderlich went home.
She saw Mrs. Vance the next day, and
her gums were swollen and black, she
testified.
On cross-examination a discrepancy
in Mrs. Wunderllch s testimony at tho
preliminary hearing and her testimony
Monday was discovered. Mrs. Wunder-
Itch failed to testify at the preliminary
that Mrs. Vance had cried out that
'He's killing me-" but could not ex-
plain Monday how she came to leave
this out, She denied that she desires
to see Vance punished for his alleged
crime, or that she bears any particular
interest IN the case.
Following Mrs. Wunderlish, Helen
Abraham, an Assyrian peddler, was
as she happened TO be passing the
Vance house November 26 a woman,
whom she afterward identified as Mrs,
Vance, ran out, screaming for the po-
lice. Then the screaming woman went
back into the house and she looked
through the door, she testified, and saw
a man, whom she afterward identified as
Vance, kick Mrs. Vance, as she lay on
the floor, In the stomach. Then there
were moro screams and cries for the
police. On cross-examination her tes.
timony was not materially changed,
Mrs. Ward Testifes.
dren, succeeded the little girl, Lena,
on the stand, and told virtually the
same story as Mrs. Wunderlich, as far
AS she went. Mrs. Ward said that on
November 20 she was living at 1877
South Eighth West street. When she
returned to the Vance homo the second
day after the alleged assault she found
her sister screaming in pain and vomit-
ing, There were pieces of tho lining of
.L NJ 1,.l
declared. Mrs. Vance declared that if
she had listened to what her sister, the
witness, had told her she wouldn t have
had to die. The dying statement which
Mrs. Ward had written out for Mrs.
Vance at ST. Marks hospital and
signed for the dying woman, in the
presence of Mrs. Wunderlich, was intro
duccd at this point and marked as ex-
hlbit A in the evidence.
The statement lays the blame for the
woman's death upon Vance. In it Mrs.
Vance said that she believed Vance had
slipped poison into the glass of water
from which she drank November 27, tho
day after the alleged assault. When
! he came home for dinner and peered in
Mt the door Mrs, Vance turned her face,
but his actions caused her to watch him
surreptitiously, and this is claimed TO be
the moment that he placed poison in
Mrs. Vance drank from this glass, it
is alleged, and became deathly i'll. The
next day. November 2S. she was re-
moved to st. Mark s hospital. where she
| died December s. Although no poison
was actually found in the stomach in
the analysis by State Chemist Herman
Harms, the condition of tho stomach
is said to have indicated. the presence
of poison earlier, and the states effort
will be 10 show that poison was admin
! istered, but that il lay in the stomach
| so long before death that it was alb
sorbed into the system.
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