The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
CRAZED BY VISION
Of FA|THLESS WIFE
This Is Plea of Henry South
worth as He Tells of Kill
ing Hanks.
SAYS MEMORY FAILED
Claims to Know Nothing of
Actions Following DiScov-
cry of His Spouse.
SAYS MEMORY FAILED
Special TO The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
OGDEN. Dec l6-''The last ! saw
and remember was that this man Hanks
had his arm around my wife and she
was smiling in his face. Ny heart
stopped beating. / don't know what !
did. ] could not stand it. | was lost
TO everything in the world
In voice trembling with suppressed
emotion. Henry Southworth. charged
with murder, bridged the gap of a
lapse of memory during which he fired
five shots into the body of j.. L.. Hanks
al Glenwood park on the evening OF
last August 10, with this brief recital
of the tragedy. The defendant declared
that he had no remembrance Of what
took place He did not even know
where the tableauy which lie described
was staged He did not remember gong
to Gleuwood park, nor did he remember
being arrested His memory came back
TO him, ho said, when II. s. Daynes, his
chief adviser, called to see him at tho
city Jail the next day, whon Southworth
asked why he was in Jail and what had
happened.
Is Told of Tragedy
For the first time he learned that he
had killed Hanks. the German manager
of an Italian band. The defendant had
no recollection of having pawned his
watch; being accosted by Mrs. Lund-
his motbcr-in,law. at Glenwood park,
nor of having said after the shooting
that he had shot Dago and hoped
he had killed him. The witness asserts
that he lost all reason and recollection
from the worry brought about through
the alleged infidelity of his wife The
chair pin stories repeated to him by
his sister, Mrs, Ida Griffith, and others
seemed to weigh on his mind: At the
time his sister told him that hair pins.
combs and other things found In
| Hanks's bed at Pennington were be-
| lieyed to belong to his wife, Southworth
saws he became frenzled with grief and
did not know what to do. He returned
to his home with the children. and then
| left them, saving that he was going
ont to find their mamma. After buying
! ticket TO Ogden at the Pennington
depot, the defendant says his memory
! completely deserted him The next
thing he claims to have seen WAS his
and Hanks somewhere, he did not re-
member where.
Frenzied by Emotion.
Then in his frcnzied mind the picture
Of his wife with Hanks s arm around
her arose TO his mind, although other
witnesses have testified that Hanks was
| in he act of getting cup Of water
| from fountain for Mrs. Soutbworth
when he WAS shot in the back. After
this it was all darkness. and the recol-
/ lection Of the prisoner completely van
| ishcd, ne said. until his talk with Mr..
| Daynrs at the Jail next day when lie
! L y
Southworth saws that he was happier
than he had ever been before the morn
! ing of the tragedy. Early that morn
ing he got up and went TO his wife IS
| bedside whore he kissed her several
times, begging her to withdraw the
divorce proceedings, he declared. Mrs.
| Southworth would moi promise TO do so,
said the witness. and he went ont to
| work. Later Southworth SAYS he re-
| turned for rcakfast, when his wife
| told him she had decided 10 Withdraw
the divorce case and would go 10 Salt
Lake that day with her mother to sec
! her LAWYER This. the witness said
caused him to he happier than he had
been for long time.
Note Caused Killing.
Then he said he got his mail and
| found note from HNed' Hanks 10 his
wife telling her to meet him at a hotel
in Ogden. giving the number of his
room. The witness said that his wife
still being absent, he went over TO the
home of his sister. Mrs. Griffith, for
supper. There he learned of the hair
pins and other things alleged to have
been found in Hapks's bed, and he
made inquiries at the depot and found
that his wife and her mother had gone
TO Ogden instead of Salt Lake City.
Southworth was on the witness stand
all day. District Attorney e. r. Hu.
lanisbi began the cross eNaminati tion this
afternoon. The defendant was still on
The witness stand at { O'Clock. wher
court was adjourned until Monday
morning. The district attorney under
took 10 get from The witness admission:
that he was as much TO blame for tho
strained feelings which existed between
himself and his wife prior TO the kill
ing. Judge Harris announced that hc
would rule on the admissibility Of sucf
evidence when court opened Monday
The case will. IN all probability. go tc
the jury Tuesday evening or Wedncs