Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-28
HEARD BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS
Courtroom Cleared for Taking OF
Testimony in the Spen-
Ger Case.
IVY WALLACE TELLS STORY.
She Admits She Told Different Mar
rative on the Occasion of the
Preliminary Hearing.

The case OF the state of Utah against
Samuel G.. Spencer. charged with i'm
proper relations with Hannah Ivy Wal
lace, Is years of age. came on for trial
before q jury IN Judge Armstrong;
division OF the Third district court
this morning. Most Of the day yester-
day had been consumed in securing
jury TO try the case, the following eight
men being finally accepted by both
sides; Joseph Maynard. william a.
Fuller, Walter Steadman, William
Graupe, William Fred Cumer, Solomon
Angel j. A. jacobson and Worthing-
ton Clark. The prosecution is being
conducted by Dist Atty. r. c. Loot
borrow and Atty. II. A. Smith, while
the defense is represented by Judge S.
r. Thurman and Atty. Duncan.
Hannah Ivy Wallace, the complain
ing witness, was placed on the stand
In court this morning at 10 o'clock.
Tho courtroom was cleared of every
body except the judge, jury, attorneys,
clerk and newspaperrnen. The story
Of MISS Wallace was told in response
10 questions propounded by Atty. III,
a. Smith She began by saying she
was 16 years old now, aud that her
father died in 1905. Became acquainted
with defendant, Samuel G.. Spencer,
Jan. z, 1907, the day she went to work
for the Ensign Knitting works, OF
which Mr.. Spencer was the manager.
She continued to work for the knitting
factory until the 26th of August. 1907
the day when defendant was arrested
on the charge for which he is now he
ing tried.
UNPRINTABLE EVIDENCE.
Witness repeated the evidence given
at previous hearings which was of
nature that is unprintable.
Attorney Duncan conducted the cross
examination of the witness, and during
the same Miss Wallace admitted that
she had told different story at the
preliminary hearing in some respects
than the one she was telling at the
trial. She said she resented Spencer's
action In answer to Attorney Smiths
interrogations, but admitted to Mr.,
Duncan that she did not resent them at
the time. Witness admitted that she
said at the preliminary hearing that
she said she only slept with defendant
twice. and that she said positively that
there was no one else I'm the room at
either time. She said that she forgot
about the other girls-Spencer's daugh-
ters-being present. In her former tes-
timony Miss Wallace said she did not
know the day of the week when she
alleged Spencer came into her bed the
last time, but at the trial today she
liked the day as being Wednesday.
MORE ADMISSIONS.
Witness admitted that she had been
friendly with the defendant after his
alleged misconduct with her, and had
not protested to heg mother, or to her
companions or Anyone else until the
day of the defendants arrest, on Aug
&c. She said she was afraid of Spencer,
and did not dare tell the things that
had happened
Clerk Clutch of the police court was
placed on the stand TO Identify clothing
that was introduced into the prelimin-
airy hearing In the police court as being
worn by witness, and the garment was
given to the court In evidence.
Ivy Wallace was again placed on the
stand and admitted that she tore the
clothing herself. She was caught in
several lapses of memory in regard to
her testimony at the police court hear
ing, and just before the hearing was
adjourned for noon she broke down
crying.
The case WAS resumed at o'clock.
with Ivy Wallace on the stand.