The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-27
Her Friendship for James A.
Dubois Led to His Death,
Says Attorney for
Brown.
SLAYER ENRAGED AT
INSULT TO DAUGHTER
Quarrel Intensified at Dance,
Where Dubois Ignored
Wife and Danced With
Her Rival.

Special TO The Tribune.
THRICE, June 26.-Cherchez la
- femme say the French TO indi.
cate that there is a woman at
the bottom of all troubles Tho
inevitable woman appeared in
noon when Attorney D. d. Houtz for
the defense made his opening statement
TO the jury and brought in the name
| of Mrs. Poose Empey, talented young
Moab matron. and spoke of her friend
ship for James A. Dubois.
Attorney Houtz placed upon her the
responsibility for the death of Dubois
and his wife. The friendship of Du
| bois and Mrs. Empey began in Grand
Junction, Colo, the attorney declared,
and was made known to Brown by
friends OF his and OF Dubois
Mr.. Houtz declared that Dubois in.
troduced Mrs. Empey To Edward Shrop.
shire, Edward Gordon. Tafc Young aud
others in Grand Junction AS his wife;
that these men later warned Dubois
that he bad better be careful or Brown
would learn of what Dubois was doing
and there would be trouble, that Du-
bois answered, "This is my affair and
Brown had better keep his nose out
Of it: I've been looking for a long time
for a chance TO kill thai old - -
and that this threat was communicated
TO Brown.
Friends Warn Dubois.
Attorney Houtz said that the defense
would prove that n Mrs. Smith, who
runs rooming house lust north of the
Lacourte hotel in Grand Junction, sud
denly entered Il room occupied by Mrs
Empcy and there found her and Du
bois. He said that due to these things,
Brown, the relations between Brown
and Dubois became estranged and they
had nothing further to do with each
other in Grand Junction; that on his
return from Grand Junction Brown ar
rived at Thompson g on an early morn
prise, he found Dubois coming out OF
room which a few minutes later, he
learned, was occupied by Mrs. Empey;
that Brown took Dubois into his buggy
and drove with him across the desert
to Moab alone; that for hours and
hours as they crossed the desert he
begged and pleaded with Dubois 10
break with Mrs. Empey, but that Du-
bois defied him and told him TO do his
worst, that it was none of his business,
and that he should keep his nose out
Mr.. HoutZ further stated that Brown
talked Of these matters with Mrs.
Brown and Mrs Dubois, his dauhtcr,
and that il was decided TO have no ap-
pearance of any family trouble and to
bide their time until Mrs. Dubois could
be legally released from her husband.
Quarrel After Dance.
At the dance which the Browns and
Duboises attended, according 10 MT
Houtz. Dubois danced with his wife but
once and with Mrs. Empey time after
time. Mr.. HoutZ claimed that when
Dubois started to walk down the street
after the dance, Brown Immediately
drew the conclusion that he intended to
meet Mrs. Empey. IL was these things,
says Houtz. and not Dubois's refusal
to ride with Brown which caused the
latter 10 dy into a rage and try TO
fo,ce Dnbois to return home with Mrs.
Dubois. HI,
ba WAS still in this rage that Brown
rushed 10 his home almost crazed and
brought back two guns with the half
coherent idea OF fighting il out with