Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-20
Final Evidence Submitted to the
Court at 1915 This
Afternoon
SOME DAMAGING TESTIMONY
Prosecution Places Conductor
And Brakeman on Stand Who
Break Sequence.
Claim They Saw Sullivan Get ON the
Train ut Ogden AT 1880 on Morning
Crime was Committed.

when the noon adjournment was
reached, at 1915 today, all TIM
witnesses in the Sullivan murder tria
had been examined, and both sides
rested Upon agreement. arguments
will commence at o'clock this after
81 noon, with the proba bility that the
n case will go to the jury this evening.
The most damaging evidence of any
81 yet introduced against the defendant
n sullivan came this morning in the testi-
mony of Harry w. Logan ferighl
Il conductor on the Oregon Short Line
railroad. His testimony corroborated
by that of his brakeman, goes to break
the sequence of the story told by Sulli-
van, showing that defendant boarded
4 this train for Ogden at the switch
about mile outside OF Salt Lake
yards after the hour of 5:25 a. m, when
the train left salt Lake station. Con-
ductor Logan testified that he left the
Short Line yards on the morning of
Dee II, in charge of a special freight
Il train at about the hour given, arriving
in Ogden at about 1880 the same morn
ing; that his train did not stop, after
leaving the Salt Lake yards, except
once about a mile out of the yards,
4 10 line up the switches after the train
had passed, until Harrington was
reached. Is miles from the city; that
when passing Woods Cross, the place
sullivan claims he boarded the train
on which he rode to Ogden, his train
was going at rate of between % ana
30 miles an hour, and that when the
Train arrived at the switch where the
train usually stops in approaching the
ogden yards, witness saw Sullivan get
off his train by the Weber bridge, be-
fore reaching the city. He saw Sui
Ivan again a few minutes afterward
as his train went up one side of the
", passing near enough to lay his
hand on him.
IDENTIFY SULLIVAN.
He afterward saw Sullivan at the
county Jail, where he went of his own
vOlition to see il the man accused of
the Ford murder was the same man he
saw get off his train in the Ogden
yards. The testimony of Logan and
his brakeman, William II. Harrison,
who also went to the county Jail to
Identify Sullivan. was that he was the
same man whom they saw get off the
train at Ogden at about 1880 o'clock In
the morning.
1t was brought out in the testimony
Of these two men that their train vas
searched before leaving the Short Line
yards, by police officers who We're look
ing for the person who had committed
tn" murder of officer Ford, which took
place about ] o'clock en the morning of
Dec Ia. and that when searched nobody
was found on the train. Both men tes-
tilted positively that Sullivan left the
train at Ogden, identifying the man
who got off the train with the man who
was the defendant at bar.
The defense confined the CrOss-eXa1n-
nation of the conductor and brakeman
10 questions as to their usual scrutiny
of men who board their trains seeking
ifee rides, and to their positive state
ments Identifying Sullivan. They failed
to draw from the trainmen admissions
that they had been asked to go to the
salt Lake county Jail to Identify Sulli-
van by detectives, claiming they went
OF their own volition and not by re-
quest,
BOTH SIDES REST
One of the witnesses for the prosaeu-
ton was out of town, but sent a tele-
gram saying he would be here at 2
o'clock tomorrow; but the attorneys for
the state did not insist on the testimony
OF this Witness saying they were salts
lied 70 rest. A request that the jury be
escorted to the scene of the crime was
made but afterward Withdrawn. and it
was decided that the opening argument
ior the state should begin at . o'clock.
DEFENsEs' WITNESS ABSENT.
When court convened ut 10 o'clock
ms morning the defense called as its
hrst witness Mike Glenn, who II Is
thought, was 10 testify to seeing Sulll-
van at the Short Line depot on the
night Of the murder, after defendant
had left owen aud Garca at the APP
IN he Ct nff
respond TO his name, In fact could not
be found and the defense next called
George Homer Jepson.
The examination Of the latter witness
had not gone far before objection was
raised by the prosecution TO his testl-
mony being admitted at all. on the
ground that sufficient cause for inn
parchment had not been created. The
objection after some debate. was sus-
tanned and the witness excused.
WOULD SHOW PROMISES"
The trend Of the questioning was to-
ward the impeachment OF Tip" Bel
SneG who testified that he had been Of
leled IMMUNITY on the numerous
tnaigea LOGGED against him should he
testlly against Sullivan.
attorney Bailey for the defense be-
gan Questioning witness as TO his ac-
lu"lnutnce With Belcher, laying
ioundatlon fer the Impeachment of the
!Nller' When Attorney Loofbourow In
iterposed objection on the ground that
le foundation for Impeachment of the
leslimony of Eelchor should have been
,ntlo at the time OF his examination.
ne objection vas sustained by Judge
Stand.
Alser some CONSULTATION between the
I,nrleSs' II wa, decided 10 ask that a
p5nth warrant be issued for Mike
hehn, ana the cart announced an iil-
pllNu recess padding the search for
'h~ missing witnlss.
Nourl ieepnNenal after about 20 min
nWs when Tip Belcher was recalled
lhe defense. IL told of The convey
tNtiol he had win Jepson In which he
tpld NE latter that he had been prom.
ised by the otiicers that he sho,ild be
lft of light II lie woul testify
ag met sullivan.
me Prosecution Nopred the sdmIs.
,lvn irnm Belrher ,lpt II Mas TO be Tor
mnlormaiion as 10 tie whereabouts OF
mlola mat the CONDENSATION had oc-
'u''ed between witness and officers.
WHAT JEPsDN sAYsA
Jepson was RECALLED. ana no tesif-