The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-16

.,r,,, ,oti bv w. G Chapman in
ne I-nitcd States and Great Brltain.)
locked black enough. He had been
arrested upon the charge of hay
ing murdered his wife, and the
evidence against him was as fol-
lows
Ills wife. vaudeville actress, had left
him the preceding spring and had re-
h,sed 10 return 10 him. The principal
cause for this separation appeared 10
have been his inability TO support ner
in comfort, so that she preferred lhdy
Dcndrnce with the certainty of n mod
erate income through her own efforts, 20
The tiresomc routine OF household duties
I'm the home Of man earning a clerk S
salary During the unreasonable months
of julv and August she had earned Il
livelihood by posing for moving picture
plays. Sanford had repeatedly visited
her at her apartment TO peseecu hcr 10
return TO him. He had been heard 10
,,ttor threats In case she remained obdu-
rate On the occasion of MS last visit
(. prcvious 10 the tragedy his WIG had
bean heard TO order him out OF the house.
snd she had forbidden him to molest
her further.
One week later. at . o'clock In the
mornine. the maid VINO came IN daily to
clean the apartment, found Mrs. Sanford
living dead in chair with deep STAB
wound Immediately beneath the right
arm. Death had evidently been almost
instantaneous for there was no sign OF
n struggle. and the wcman's face was as
Tranquil as though she had flung herself
down upon the cushions for brief rest
after the labors o. The day
The chtcf witness against Sanford was
thc woman who rented the apartment
adjacent 10 Mrs. Sanford's. She testi-
fled that she had met Sanford upon the
stairs o.. tho e~"diuS evening, had seen
him enter his wife's apartment, and sub
seauentlv heard the SOUNDS oI q violent
altercation. after which Sanford leit the
house IN a condition of intense excite.
ment Two hours or so later she heard
him return and ring Mrs. Sanfords s bell
She heard voices raised in alteration in
the apartment, and heard Sanford again
leave, but in Il Stealthy and sccrctlvc
manner. wholly unlike his usual method
of departure. She heard him creep down
the stairs and listened at the wall. but
could make out no further sound next
door Doubtless the murder had already
been accomplished
The weapon with which the murder
had been committed was found In con-
Malay kriss. knife with an incredibly
keen edge. which Mrs. Sanford had
owned, and the murder had been com
mittcd with an upward thrust. Upon
/ The blade vas held edge upward. were
the blood prints OF four elcvcd fingers.
When called in for the defense ! urged
Sanford 10 plead guilty to manslaughter
j told him there was every reason TO
hope that he would escape with sem
fence OF fifteen or twenty years. In the
first place, the fact that he had worn
gloves. in the second the fact that the
weapon had been taken from Mrs. San
fords wall. where II had hung. clearly
Indicated absence OF generalization while
the jury would show every consideration
to a man whose wife had deserted him
But Sanford obstina;ely insisted that ne
was innocent. He admitted that he had
called on Mrs. Sanford the evening be-
fore the tragedy TO induce her 10 re-
turn 10 him, She had refused. he said,
nnd tauntcd him with the story OF "a
rival for whose sake she intended TO
obtain a divorce,
] was only half convinced. in spite of
the vchemencc OF Sanfords denial. |
have heard criminals assert their lnno-