The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-28

tion was pronounced by Mr.. Hanson,
in which certain conditions were de-
scribcd, but not exactly those described
by Judge Maginnis or hv the evidence.
and IN reply DR.. Monahan stated that
would come the nearest Of any to cauS-
ing tho conditions rs described by the
prosecution.
ON redirect examination DR.. Mona
han said thai any irritaut poison would
cause the general symptoms named;
tbcrc would be some variation. but his
reply hold good for all general Svmp-
toms He was Of the opinion that Mrs.
Vance suffered no shock from the al
legged kicks. on account of the trip she
made Immediately following.
George Vance Tcstifes.
George Vance, contractor and builder,
q nephew Of the alleged murderer and
former husband of Mrs. Ward. was
next called. He recalled convcrsa-
tion between Mrs. Mary Vance. his
wife. now Mrs. Ward and himself at
his house the latter part of last sum
mer. during which Mrs. Vance stated
that she intended TO commit suicide,
He was asked TO repeat this converse
tiou. but the prosecution objected and
the objection was sustained for the
time being. He said that Mrs. Vance
had been in poor health for over
year before her death
Vance told of Mrs. Vance coming
TO his house in September, 1907, and
telling him she and Tom had been hav
ing trouble. Later she denied they
band and talk with him. She threat
ened to kill herself Mt that time md
did again n month later when he was
at her house. He told her never to
make n threat of that kind for the
sake of her children. She denied to
him that Vance ever beat her.
The deposition taken during the
afternoon from Mrs. Francis c. Tomp-
kjns was next read. The statement
. contradicted Mrs. Amanda Ward,
previous witness and the instigator of
Vance's arrest. According 10 the de-
position. Mrs Ward told Mrs. Tomp-
kins that she had found, when search
ing her sisters trunk, bottle or box
of tablets and q note (which she be.
lieved would clear Tom of the charge
of numbering his wife,
Mrs Ward declared when recalled
Friday afternoon that she found the
medicine and turned il over TO DR..
Kerr, but did not find note. She mod
flied her previous testimony by saying
she ''wanted Tom cleared if he was
not guilty. Mrs. Tompkins is re-
lated to Vance, her step-father being
his brother.
Tells of Threat Made.
The deposition of Mrs. i. L. Faulk-
ner, sister of Vance, was rcread. She
had talked with Mrs Vance in July
had stated: "Before I will have an
other child 7 will kill myself or get
rid OF it, Mrs Faulkner had re-
monstrated with her for such threat.
She had never known Vance and his
wife to have any trouble.
A. g.. Vance, a police officer Of Og-
den, was next called. He is brother
of the prisoner. He visited Mrs. Vance
at st. Marks hospital on December ,,
shook hands with her and asked her
if Tom had beaten her until she was
placed in her condition at that time.
She replied that Vance had not beaten
her and that was not the trouble with
her. He never knew of Vance mis-
treating his wife, he said,
Mrs. A. B. Vance SAID the dead wom-
an had talked to her about taking her
life, having made the statement that
she didn't feel that she ought to have
children in her condition and would
take something if it cost her her life.
Mrs. Vance snid she begged the woman
not to do such n thing and told her
that it would be sin in the eyes of
the Catholic church. but that she per-
sisted she would. She viewed the body
at Undertaken Taylor's and examined
it TO ascertain il the stories about the
beating she was alleged to have re-
ceived were true. In most emphatic
manner she declared that there was no
sign of n bruise on any part of the
woman IS body. neither on her head,
abdomen or the inner part of her
thigh.
Joseph E. Taylor said he had not
examined the woman S abdomen, but
that there. was not a bruisc on any
part of the body. His wife, who pre-
pared the body, told of accompanying
Mrs. A. b. Vance in the examination.
She SAID that there was not n brGisc
or discoloration Of any kind and that
her face was not swollen nor her gums
blue. This evidence was in direct con-
tradiction to that given by Drs. Cald-
erwood and Kerr and some Of the other
state witnesses.