The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-14
Woman Who Shot Bruce Ting.
ley Trembles When She
Hears Accusation.
TAKES UNTIL THURSDAY
TO ENTER FORMAL PLEA
Bonds on Charge of Assault
With Intent to Kill Fixed
at $1,000.

Pale. trembling, and apparently oui
the verge Of complete collapse, Mrs.
Lille Rogers stood before Justice OF.
the Peace Harry Harper Friday after
noon and listened TO the reading Of a.
complaint charging her with ASSAULT
with intent TO kill, made upon Bruce
o. TingIey on the 18th day OF Jan
uary.
Justice Harper fixed Thursday,'
January ~, at 10 o o'clock, as the time'
for the woman TO enter her plea, and
held her under bonds of $1,000 The
defendant expressed the belief that
within few days she would be able,
through friends and relatives, to fur-'
nish a satisfactory bond for this
amount.
When Mrs. Rogers, who has been I'M
the city Jail since her arrest following
the shooting of Tingley by her Thurs
day afternoon, appeared before .Iustics|
Harper III custody of Police Sergeant|
John Roberts, she was not represented
by counsel, nor were either of her
divorced husbands present. She sat
by the officers side, nervously rub
slightly swaying from side TO side.
While the court was awaiting the
coming of Assistant County Attorney
Moses Davis. Mrs Rogers in low
almost iuaudiblc voice, asked for O.
drink of water When Sergeant Rob-
erts handed her the glass, the woman s'
hands shook so violently that the con-|
tents were partly spilled and she was
scarcely able 10 drink.
Desires Time to Plead.
At the request of the court, Mrs.
Rogers stood and listened carefully,
but seemingly uncomprehensively, To
the formal language of the statute.'
embodies two counts, the charges OF
assault with intent to kill and assault|
with a deadly weapon, made upon
'fBruce Kingsley IN the city and
county of Salt Lake On the 18th day
of January. 1911.
The clerical error in the name, max
ing it read g Kingsley instead Of
"Tingley,' is one which ATTORNEY
any time before the woman enters her
plea.
Mrs Rogers replied IN the negative
when asked if she was represented by
counsel. and In response 10 the ques7
ton, do YOU desire time TO enter your'
plea?' said; "Tes, if l can have it. y
Justice Harper and Attorney Davis
then questioned MIS- hORcTS as 10 tn0
probable time she would require 10
make arrangements for her defense<
She stated that she had relatives in
Idaho with whom she was trying g
communicate, and believed she would
hear from them within four or five
days She made no mention of ex-
pecting either of her former husbands-
Plescia or Rogers, TO do anything in
her behalf
Remanded to Jail.
Mrs Rogers was remanded to The
custody of the sheriff, and will reu1ain|
in the county jail until the bond ia
furnished and approved.
Tingley, who is at st. Mark g hos
pital. whittier he was taken after BED
ing first treated at the city emergencv/
hospital, was reported Friday night as.
being conscious and resting well, Hi4'
condition is said to he serious but not
condition. The operation for the re-
moval Of the bullet fired by Mrs. Rog1
ers, which entered Tingley's back and
lodged in the fleshy part of the neck
has been postponed indefinitely. III