The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-29
Strange Tales of a Doctor

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grant a reprieve but he must be ap-
pealed 10 again.
What! on the plea that you have
dreamed a dream. and that your
daughter has done the same?' / eX.
claimed.
90 You speak like the others she
said slowly. "My lawyer refuses to
iuterferc. Will YOU DO this thing for
mcl have heard of your goodness
of heart, doctor; surely you will moi,
condemn me To despair?h
Il would most readily help YOU to
appeal if there was the slightest
chance of success, Mrs Tankerville. -
responded. ''But iL would be wrong
TO deceive you-there il none. Dreams
arc not tangible evidence. Have YOU
nothing further to 90 upon! What
other relations had The murdered
woman besides your daughter
Some nephews and nieces in Cali
| foTnla; no one else
Now, Mrs Tankcrville. ] wish YOU
would give me an outline of the evi.
dence for and against your daughter -
There were witnesses to prove
that Susanna dislikcd Miss Stuart
from the start, she answered. 1.-The
old servant Peggy by name, gave
graphic accounts of her mistress s ter.
rlble temper, and the many WAYS in
which she tried to curb and annoy
susanna, who was a high-spirited
girl, Her final taunt was that Susanna
had come to visit her in the hope Of
luheritlng portion of her money, On
one occasion. a few days before the
murder, old Peggy happened to be
passing through the room and she
heard Miss Stuart say to Susanna that
100000 in her will, but that she
meant to alter it and had written to
her lawyer for that purpose. Susan
ma s reply to this was mocking
laugh, and she ran out of the room,
samming the door behind her. Miss
Stuart turned to the old servan, and
said
50 That girl thinks ] am not in ear.
nest, but / will prove my words She
shall never have a cent of my money
AT the same time Miss Stuart spoke
TO OLD Peggy of her relations in Cali
fornla and said they would not be for
gotten in her will. But the part of the
evidence which most strongly pointed to
my child s guilt was the following:
Peggy had a daughter i'm distant
part of the state, who was i'll, although
not dangerously so. She wanted to 90
TO see. her, and Susanna begged that
she might be allowed to remain away
tor the night. Miss Stuart refused, but
feggy s duties IN her absence Finally |
Hiss Stuart yielded. 1t was on the |
morning previous to the murder that |
the old woman went away. Thus SUI |
sanna and Miss Stuart were alone The |
man, James Hitchin by name, who !
lived half mile away. came to the |
cottage night and morning to chop
wood, carry coal, and do other domes.
ne matters He affirmed that on the
10 Il
MISS Stuart S window. between l2 and [
clock, She was known always to
retire at 9, and never TO keep light
burning Hltchin said he watched fhe
light IN some astonishment, WONDERING
II the old lady were ill., As it was ex
tlngulshed, however. in about five min.
utcs, he went on home, and thought
no more about it. In the morning he
eahie early To the cottage and was at
Iehaihg TO certain duties in the yard,
when susanna rushed up to him and
brought him into Miss Stuart's room.
Inc Old lady lay IN bed, stabbed TO
the heart Susanna seemed almost in
sane with terror, Hitchn went to fetch
doctor and the police. The house was
eSamlned, and the garden knife which
susanna had been known to purchase
week back was found in the girls
loom on chair, stained with blood.
SapDedTeu. l1er flight /,
made suspicion doubly strong and her
lrreSt followed. You can see what a
-atal web of circumstantiaI evidence
vas thus woven around my girl. The
MOTIVE was supposed TO be discovered |,
n my daughter IS desire to get the old ~,
woman out of the world before she al.
cred her will, and the fact that Su- 8
anna had large fortune of her own
made no difference III the feelings of
udge and jury against her. All I ask
or is postponement of the execution,
loctor If / can secure that. some {,
hlng tells me that my child Will ulti- y
nately be saved. She must not he
xecuted on the 5th of December !
I'M obeylng an impulse stronger even q
han maternal love A voice is com.
handing me. and ] must obey it ,,
What is the name of the family IN =
iaIlfornla, the relations Of the mnr.
Iered woman?' I asked.
they bear the same name-S4uari
nd live in Los Angeles, on the :
range Flower ranch. -
le?' 'hese Peo- p
Scarcely anything. After the death i
ne old iady's papers were read and n
mere were several from a man named /
'obert. Each letter contained an ear. h
est appeal for money. The Inst Iet.
er which Miss Stuort ,nrc+ - 1,