Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-04
FOUR MURDER
CASES This Term
Thomas Vance. Charged With
Killing His Wife, 10 be
Tried Oct. is.
HE BEAT AND POISONED HER
Gertrude Reeve VIII Answer Charge
or Stranglins Her Incant--lIacc
Cochran Shot Man Taking Coal.

The criminal calendar for the Sep
TENDER term, to be tried before the
division OF the Third district court
presided over by Judge George G. Arm
strong, contains four murder cases. two
OF which are for murder in the first
degree. and one for the same crime in
The second degree. The first degree
charges are those against Thomas
Vance. who is charged with beating
his wife, Mary Vance, so badly that she
died from the effects of the wounds
received at his hands. The beating
occurred on Nov. 20. last, and it is fur
ther charged that on Nov. 81, the day
following, Thomas Vance administered
dose OF deadly poison to his Wife in
a glass of drinking water, which con-
tributed to her death on December
$. following. Nance's case is set for
trial on Oct. 10.
FOR STRANGLING INFANT.
The second charge Of first degree
murder is that filed against Gertrude
Reeves. who is accused in the informa-
ton with having, on the 23rd day Of
February, 1903 premeditatedly taken
the life Of a male child recently born
to her by strangling the infant The
Reeves woman Is coloreu. and she WAS
given preliminary hearing before
Police Judge c. B. Diehl. who found
sufficient evidence against the woman
TO hold her to the district court on
the charge. The case will be tried Oct
SHOT COAL THIEF.
Mace Cochran is the defendant
named in the second degree murder
charge, and his case is on the calendar
for trial on Oct. u. Cochran is charg
ed with having taken the life of M>st
Zoran by shooting him With revolver
While the latter was stealing coal from
the railroad yards at Bingham juno
ton, on the night of February rs, 1908.
Cochran was the nightwatchman en-
ployed at the yards and seeing man
running with coal on the night in ques-
ton, fired two shots al the retreating
figure with fatal results.
The fourth case is that Of Steve
Narovich, who was arraigned yester-
day for killing Mike Popovich at Bing-
ham, July l.
TILE CALENDAR.
The calendar for the term beginning
Sept. a. is as follows:
Sept l4-Ben Jarrett, burglary sec
on degree.
Sept. 15-Alix Matthews, burglary sec
ond degree.
Sept. l6-Frank Petrozelli. statutory
offense.
sept. 10 dHleS -Nlti PiiS' pui + 'ti >
third degree.
Sept. 1S-W. r. Shropshire, obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Sept. 21--North Point Irrigation COM
pany, draining of canal without giving
notice,
Sept 2l-Nick Pesce, assault with
deadly weapon.
Sept 22--George Castellano, assault
with a deadly weapon.
Sept. 23-Richard Deming, destroying
jail property.
Sept. PAL X. Richards Hall. in
jurins railroad.
Sept. 25-Benjamin Hall, injurine
railroad.
Sept. 2s--Bessie Ross grand larceny.
Sept. 2S-Mamie Spencer, burglary
third degree.
4 Sept 29--Minnie Benkly, grand lar
Sept. 2s-F. *. Brown, embezzlement.
Sept. 30-Milton Bayless, statutory
offense.
Oct. 1-R. D. Cannon. embezzle-
1nent.
oct. 2-George Wilson, burglary sec
ond degree.
Oct S-Gertrude Reeves, murder first
degree.
Oct, 12-Mace Cochran, murder sec
ond degree.
Oct. 15-Thomas Vance, murder first
degree.
Oct. 19-.steve Marovich, murder first
degree