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Show SHEETS FAMILY ISJOTJALLED Wife of Murdered Man Unable to Give Testimony Before Be-fore .Inn. THIRTEEN WITNESSES TESTIFY IWRINfi DAY Mrs. Sheets Is Named as Sole Beneficiary in Insurance Polieies. Contrary to expectations, members of the Sheets family did not offer testimony befori the coroner's) jury Monday ifter-noon, ifter-noon, the reason Klven by County Attor-iii Attor-iii y Chrlstensen being that Mrs. Nephl M. BheeU WOl tOO 111 to be In attendance i nd ll dldn t think It would do any jjoud t.i dr.iK other mi nibi is rd the family Into court. Thirteen Witnesses. In all, thirteen witnesses offered testi-rdony testi-rdony during; the afternoon as Ion, an adjournment being taken at the conclusion conclu-sion until Friday afternoon next Tin-first Tin-first witness called was K. L,. Snuw, sec- retarj of the Independent Telephone company. com-pany. Mr. Snow said that the murdered man had been working; for them about a year. For a while he drew a regular salary, sal-ary, but later solicited business on commission. com-mission. HN earnings yurled from a few d iiiars to vt a week. Sheets Not Satisfied. Henry Simon also an employee of the atime telephone company, told of a conversation con-versation he had hud With the decased a short lime befon be was killed At that time Sh.ets was rather discouraged and p marked that If b only hud a position at a rtgular salary no would be better .-.it I :i . I Mrs. Elizabeth Sheets Called. Mrs Kllzubeth Sheets, a steter-ln-law of Nephl M. Sheets, told of hearing the telephone iiiil; IIh nlht uf tin muni, r after she and her husband had retired. She did not get up to unswer It because the 'phone was out of order and rang many times when some one else was wonted, Thi next day she ascertained that a friend who had heard of the murder had tr:ed to call them to Inform th-m of tho murder. FTed Sheets. h-r huauand. took the stand und corroborated her statements. state-ments. George Hancock's Testimony. George Hancock was called by the eour.ty attminy to tell of an Incident In-hail In-hail witnessed In which a man had shot himself in the temple with a revolver, the weapon being thrown eighteen feet from wlen he fell It Is likely this evidence- was offered to show that the suicide sui-cide theory could easily be the correct one Tin- man reforred to hy Mi Hancock, Han-cock, however, lived several mlnutea, and In the .ase of Mr Sheets It Is thought death was Instantaneous, Had Expected Hold-Ups. Thomas Laughran, the next witness called, told of a conversation which he h Id w ith Mr. Sheets a short time before his di uth In which he said that In case he wan held-up he would protect himself. Mr Laughran advanced the idea at the time that It would be well not to carry a watch or other valuables at night, and to this suggestion Mr. Sheets agreed, say-Ins say-Ins that hereafter he would leave his watch and money at home. Seemed to Be Worried. George H Morris said In- had also tulk'd with Mr. Sheets upon the subject of hold-ups i lie from hla observations he thought that the latter had seemed worried over the large number of holdups hold-ups being reported at that time. Allen Avery Testifies. Allen Avery of Hustle court was Of the opinion that Mr Sheets was far from being the cheerful man that he was Credited With being. Mr Sheets gefieral-I, gefieral-I, worked alone," said Mr. Avery 'and i w.iuiii ?;n thai he b is not of a cheerful disposition He told me that he liked the work he was doing, but that he could see little ahead and was far from satis iH-d with the wag.-s . am .1 " Saw Suspicious Characters After tolling of hl 1"HK acquaintance with Nephl M. she. is. John Dew i related re-lated an experience he had tho nlgbt of the murder, which had u been made known to the police at the time, might have resulted In the capture of the guilty parties II was to the i ffi L-t that two Biisplt lous looking characters entered the Courl saloon State and Fourth S.'inh streets, about thirty rnlnutett or longer after the murder, and remained In the place for several minutes Mr Dewej was in the place when thej entered ami followed tin in wh.-n they went out Men Disappear. Instead of going up the street the men walked nr.. mi. I the corner of the building and disappeared behind it. evidently tak- Incr to an alley and going toward town W hile they were in life saloon word was received of the murder, and Mr Dewey expressed the opinion thai s dozen or so Of the hold-ups ought to be hung up to th-- nearest telephone pole and left hanging hang-ing th. r. for a day or so With thtti remark re-mark the men mad. some remark about an experience which they had bad with a hoid-up in Ogden and left the building, eyeing Mr Dewev closely In the meanwhile mean-while as they went out The witness was able to give a fairly pood description of tin- men nml in , w the) were the guilt) parties the police would probably have found them had thl; Information been given the nighl of the I ii. lotlng Says Sheets Acted Queer. San. I inwse ariothi-i witness who testified testi-fied In the case, told of golic; to the police court one day with Mr Sheets and listin-ln listin-ln to the proceedings while a doy.en or more hold-up eaisprcts were being riijes- tloned After the) lefl the building Mr. Sheets remarked thai thev would be get ting him next, and then laughed loud and long as thOUgh It was a Joke. Mr. Dowse nod d the man's strange actions at tie-time tie-time and hardly km w what to make of them In his opinion Mr Sheets did not appear to b.- perfectly rational, or at least nol rational while talking on tin-subject tin-subject of hold-ups. m. mbors of the family fam-ily had told Mr UOWSC that Mr Sheets had li.en despondent for ten dins pilot to his death. Had Heard of Quarrel. Willi no a Ni.iiois told of s quarrel Which Ro; Sin. ts and his lather had had or rather of an alleged quarrel the., had had. H- was unable to say how he came by the Information and neither could he tell who told nlm or when he heard tie- story. He was positive though that some one had told him ibout the iiuariel Claims It Was Light. Detective Chase tho last witness, said that Oil the night ni question any one could have seen the murderer running away from tin- seem- of the shooting had tho boon st Hiding on either corner near th. re The recent fall of snow had made it possible to mi- c,uite a distance and th.-lights th.-lights wore as iTint a usual when the Shooting oi curred Mrs. Sheets the Beneficiary. During the afternoon word was r that Mrs Sheets was the sole beneficiary named In the Insurance policies hi Id uy-her uy-her husband The total amount to be' paid to In r will be M'jOU, two policies for tjiHii each and one in a health nnd accident acci-dent company for $2500 having been found whlih wero fully paid up. Until this in- formation ahu Imparted no cne seemed to know who the benelkiary wfts, although al-though the natural supposition whs that It would he Mrs. Sheets. Unless the policies were transferred ft short tlmo dc-fore dc-fore his .bath Mix Sheets will receive the amount stated In due time. Hut even with ail (,f this testimony, the case Is apparently as myst. rlo is as ever It hardly icroms possible that tangible evidence Is at hand ;u? has been stated, .is practically none of the witnesses have been able to throw any llRht on the affair and the number of witnesses to be called Friday could be counted on the fltiRers oi one hand, Clues are still being sought, but BO far ever one of them have come t.. naught. In short, tho case la still a mystery. V4 |