The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-02
Original Transcript of Evidence
in Vance Case Cannot
Be Found.
PRISONER IDENTIFIED BY
SYRIAN WOMAN PEDDLER
Witness Says She Saw Vance
Beside Prone Form Of
His Wife.

HhotheT etaIe eAnlDlU IN tne noIHdo
Vance murder case is missing This
time it is the original transcript of the
testimony of Cora +. Rehpenning at
| Vance's preliminary hearing held late
III 1907 In its stead is found an un-
attested carbon copy of Mrs. Rehpen'
nings testimony, This discovery was
made Tuesday and, closely following the
disappearance of three of the state s
other exhibits, is viewed with gravity
| by the state s attorneys.
| Mrs. Rebpenning left the state, go"
ing to Oregon shortly after the pre-
liminary hearing, and it was necessary
in the first trial of Vance to use
| transcript of her testimony at the pre-"
| liminary hearing. This transcript
properly certified and attested. with
| its proper file number and recording
date. was placed with the rest OF tne
papers and other records IN the case
at the conclusion of the first trial. !,
To lead up to the re-introduction OF
Mrs. Rehpenning's testimony. Assist"
ant District ATTORNEY E. o. Leather
wood. Tuesday, called Mrs. Clara L.
Richards to the stand to show that Mrs
Rehpenning now is In Oregon: MI
Lcatherwood then turned to the files IN
the case to get the original transcript
of Mrs. Rchponning testimony, but
was startled to find III its stead an in-
attested uncertifed carbon copy, bear"
ing no recording date or tlle number,
or other identifying mark.
vigorous effort will he made to
learn who is responsible for the substi'
tuition, The other missing exhibits
which disappeared from locker in
vault adjoining the office of William
II. Folland, stenograpber who took the
testimony nt the hrst trial, were part
of bottle of tansy, a part of bottle
Of oil OF savine and a part of bottle
of pennyroyal. These are unlmportant
to the states case, however. The
stenographer taking Mrs. Rehpenning'
testimony at the preliminary was Irwin
+. Pratt.
Mrs Rehpenning's testimony mostly
corroborates Mrs. Wunderich's,
Identified By Syrian Woman.
"That is the mani
This. with extended finger pointing
at Vance, was the dramatic answer of
Helen Abraham, a Syrian peddIer. TO
Assistant District Attorney Leather
wood S inquiry Of the Syrian woman as
TO whether she could pick out the man
in District Judge Lewis's court room
Tuesday who she, through doorway,
upon the floor of a house on Seventh
West street, between Eighth and Ninth
South streets, November %, 1907,
The prone woman was Mary Vance,
who died at St Marks hospital twelve
days later from blows and kicks and
poison alleged to have been dealt and
administered by Thomas, Vance.
The Syrian woman s identification Of
Vance was the only sensation of the
second day of the trial proper of the
alleged wife murderer, and the state
expressed much satisfaction at adjourn
ment over the results of the days
work, It's attorneys believe that the
state has wonderfully strengthened it's
case in the testimony of the Syrian
woman
The woman can not speak or under,
stand the English language, and he:
answers were made through an inter
prefer. For this reason the examiua
tion of the Syrian vas tedious, The
itinerant was witness for the state
at the first trial and there was little
variation in her testimony Tuesday
from that at the original hearing.
At the Vance Home.
Mrs. Abraham who is go wears old,
said that she was vending needles, pins
Vance home November 90. 1907, and
that while she was standing at the rear
of the home of Mrs. Clara Wunderlich
she heard the cry.
"Police! Policel''
Mrs Abraham said that she went to
the rear door of the Vance home and
through the open door saw a woman
ing beside her, The woman, the gray
haired Syrian testified, turned her head
toward her and exclaimed;
"Police Poice!'
When Assistant District Attorney
Leatherwood asked the woman to point
out the man in the courtroom whom
she saw kick the ,prostrate woman,
A. B. Vance of Ogden, with his face
partly shielded by his hands. Mr..
teatherwood asked Vance to remove
his hands from his face, and when he |
did so the Syrian woman left her seat
and, walking close to Vance, said with |
her finger pointing at the prisoner:
"That is the mani
Testimony as to Poison.
Mrs. Amanda Vance Ward, a sister
of the dead woman, was the first wit |
ness called Tuesday morning She went |
to the Vance home November 81, the |
day upon which Vance is alleged to !
have administered bichloride of mer-
curry poison and found her sister yomit
ing, she said The i'll woman's lips
were swollen and her gums were black,
Mrs: Ward testified. Vance turned
deaf ear TO requests that the sick wom-
an be sent to a hospital. Mrs. Ward
said, Mrs. Ward also testified that
she found bichloride Of mercury tablets
in Vance's s trunks
Mrs. Ward. on cross examination, de-
MED coaching the prisoner children to
testify. against him under penalty of
being lodged in Jail or that she had
scolded Lena Vance. the eldest daugh-
ter, for asserting that ber mother had
threatened 10 kill herself
Mrs. Ward also denied that in Jan
uary or February of 1905 she had told
Mrs. Francis Thompkins that while she
was cleaning out her dead sisters
trunk she found box of medicine and
n note that she thought would have
cleared Vance of the poisoning charge,
Mrs. Ward also vigorously denied that
after the jury returned Il verdict of
guilty against Vance she told Clara L. II
Richardson that "they had the wrong
person in prison; it was Mary Vance
(Mrs. a. B. Vance Of Ogden) who gave