Show A AT LAST FRED HOPT SHOT AFTER SEVEN MS V EA R s OF 0 iii WAITING HUT paya THI OF LAW giltory of tho Ju justice slice has hasloff long been delayed in in F red welcome or hoats case it is is over seven years ears since the awful crime for which sevene be ehas has now paid the penal ty 1 we was committed the fiendish mur Y derer through bis several attorneys has during these years used desperate efforts to defeat t the ends of justice but on the other band hand there have hare been those who though ready and willing to give the scheming criminal every advantage the law allowed or danity to demonstrator demon strato his prot prided innocence have faithfully a and rd falteringly guarded the interests of jn I 1 i in connection on it with this notable rasp case few cr criminals 1 have had bad such much leniency extended to thero them iB to las has this merciless assassin either from courts or those who lave have been moro deeply and immediately wronged years have elapsed since since he stained lis bis hands bands with the blood of johnny turner during which time he be has had bad trial after trial and been allowed appeal after appeal notwithstanding the plain and able facts and circumstances establishing his hia guilt and the horrifying and almost unprecedented heinous ness of the deed all that it has bas been possible possible for the law to do dd without do de ea 11 g its object has been done for this man every technicality possible ot of further delaying the execution of the law has been made available and worked for all there was in 10 it after seven years the supreme court of the united states put an end however to hoats hopes offar of fur ther dallying and delaying the course of justice it was decided some weeks ag ago 0 that he be must di die la and 1 in a ca ance of this decision from w which bic ea t theio h 01 0 was nonhuman no human means of escaping hopple last day on earth was set THE CONNECTED WITH THE and the reports of the several trials of fred Hop already been pub dished in in the it will not be out of place however at this time to again review review the circum circum stances connected with this case the circumstance that firak alarmed sher iff john W turner burber and started him off on the trail of the murderer of his eon bon was the receipt by him on the morning of july 1880 of a tole tele gram which stated that thai a man named frei fred welcome had appeared at piedmont and sold a team which he be sender believed had bad bil belonged longed to the sheriff this dispatch created in the mind of sheriff turner the gravest apprehensions for about three weeks prior bior to that time his son eon john 1 k intner had bad left provo en i route to park oily city with a tour conr horse team and wagon fur the ti r pose of obtaining employ employment men t tt the e sheriff at once telegraphed to piedmont ngut a station on the U P 11 railroad for further par tic ticul ulars are end and received a second dis patch stating slating that welcome had bad sold two teams one very chea cheap y the 0 fa ther remembered tat at once eal having n g two weeks week B p previously deviou ly received a letter from job johnny ny who was then at park city stating tat guthat that he ha had bad met with welcome who represented himself as ad having a good boband job and induced john ny to go along with him immedi imme di abely after receiving this second dis patch the sheriff accompanied by his deputy thos fowler started out byway by way of provo canyon for park city the morning after their departure there appeared in in a salt lake paper a 4 communication from echo in in sam nit county announcing cing the discovery of the body of an unknown man at a point seven miles from that place and tit in echo canyon the body was in in such a state of decomposition as to be unrecognizable A coroners jury were summoned and nu an inquisition held the verdict being that the deceased who was unknown to them come to his death by wounds inflicted epou FOB his head bead by some person or per for sons bona to the jury unknown ibo body was wall found wrapped in in a tent and five re large rocks were lying on it i the description given given in in the alie lettered letter lette rex ex betly accorded with the person of johnny turner A park oily city paper also alao the game also time reported tie discovery covery stating ill thai at when round found he be was waa nearly ande a and one sock hock constituting his entire spearel sp aP parel parol that a apiece piece of 0 tout tent some hay and a number of 0 large rocks cov rod oil him and that it was supposed r N WD IUD deet DEEN MADE TO HUHN HIM on arriving arrivi Lg at park pane city tattler turner and fo w lor learned of 0 1 the be finding of tile the body and from the tha description riven given he be was wai convinced that hat it was the b ody body of his hia son ile he abou au proceeded to Coal villo and ob tallied the co operation of the sheriff of t summit and lher county together toge they traveled to piedmont saw nd Wen identified tilled the tha wagon that had bad been taken from provo by his son bon john mr turner then telegraphed to an officer at green biver giving him welcomes Welcome 8 description A dia patch in return was received from the officer announcing that welcome hail bad sold a team there mr air turner proceeded to green river eiver and iden pitied the property but bat found that welcome had left and got seven days start of him turner went on to rowlins where he be learned that the murderer had bad been drinking and gambling and spending money freely but was unable to learn the route he had bad taken from that place though the presumption was that he had bad rone gone east turner telegraphed to obey chey city and denver deaver and started for cheyenne where he arrived on july he ha and sheriff allison immediately went into the telegraph office and thera them met jeff carr the detective to whom he be had telegraphed mr turner enquired if he had received his bis dispatch and if so whether he had any trace of his bis man the detective replied that he ha had received the dispatch dispatch dis satch and had a man mad spotted he drew row mr turner to the door and asked him if he could recognize welcome turner looked oil oat t and there on the be saw the murderer of his hia son he pointed the mau out to the tha detective who with a policeman approached wel come and disarmed him hica of a short heavy revolver anti and arrested him sheriff fahe riff turner momentarily usable to restrain his bia feelings sprang upon welcome and caught him by the throat exclaiming YOU rou ARE ABE THE MURDERER OF MY SUN boll I 1 immediately after the arrest mr air turner stopped stepped into the telegraph raph ot of flee nee and sent the following message to the which was duly received receive dand and road on the tha fol following lowin g morning in in the boberi bowery in in this city during daring the pioneer Pione erce obra ion 0 axer i er aises Welco methe murderer of my son arrested Jeff carr I 1 of the rocky booky mountain detective agency on learning of the facts connected wibb the arrest and the meeting of turner with the cowardly and brutal murderer of his bis son the tha public were amazed at his self possession it had bad been almost universally believed that should turner capture the mis miscreant croan I 1 there would be no necessity to fear the laws delay indeed everybody seemed to be prepared to hear heardt of wel comes comee death in in connection with the arrest but the afier lifts cr conduct induct throughout only showed what mar velona self control and high regard for the law be was possessed of he ha never for a moment forgot that although he and his family had been grievously vouly wronged by this man wel come hoaas he was an officer and should be the first to see that there was no unauthorized interference with the course of justice it was not without an extraordinary it not super human effort however that he be succeeded in subduing his bis natural impulse e we have been told that when th the e party returning boutah to atah with their c captive etive wore were passing they the place lace where boung young turners body had been found the sheriff fearing that ho he would be unable any longer to restrain himself handed banded his bis gun to a companion officer throughout that whole tri until afier welcome was securely jail ed in ID walt kalt lake city sheriff turner never slept a wink wick le he stood guard over welcome constantly from the moment of the hitters lut teis arrest and until he was placed in in the penitentiary it was on the night of sunday july that welcome was imprisoned 1 in I the pen next morning monday ho was taken before judge sprague Spra pup U ili 8 a preliminary hearing bearing tile the prisoner pleaded not gi guilty 1 ty waived examination and was sent back to the per pen where he has r since ince over years remal remained ned it was after his bis arrest that be admit tod ted his bis name was not welcome but hopt arid and that his bis parents lived in in wisconsin i wisconsin iscon sin tuesday morning the reme remains ins of join john P turner wore were brought to pr provo by the grief stricken parent the entire community had bad been aroused to the deepest s sympathy path for Nm tho the bereaved family an and it was not surprising u rising t to 0 witness wi aness the scene which to took 02 place on that morning on which the body was ft as brought to provo over two thousand persons assembled at the depot and awaited the arrival As t the he train came into info the depot and sheriff turner appeared the sorrow of the vast multitude was plainly 13 I 1 v vis Is i ible scarcely a tearless eye c could oil J bo be soon seen and its as the box containing all that remained of young turner was lifted from the express car on ta to the platform the grief of those who tied bad gathered around and had bad been b bm friends and companions while he be lix IN ed was uncontrollable it was indeed a mournful procession eliou that followed the remains remains to tho the homo where awaited coming T tim he GRIEF austeri AND BROTHERS flags on many ot of the were hoisted at halt half mast ancin and in every direction on the line of march the most solemn respect and condolence condoll L were shown bown the funeral was wag en held 6 in in the provo meeting house on wednesday the just days daya after the young man bad beed bean foully murdered the date data of the be killing being L taly july 3rd ard there the remain maidl were wera interred in in the provo city cemetery where a monument stands to tho th you young ag mans memory the circumstances of this foul murder were as narrated by as in our issue ot of july will 1880 F JIE JOHN F TURNER about to ob weeks before the date of 0 the murder young turner went to park city with two horse teams in in search ol of employment while there lie mot met fred welcome who had bad at some time previous been an inmate of the utah county jail charged with horse stealing and who bad been given unusual liberty though a prisoner because it was believed by sher iff turner that he had bad been used as a scapegoat goat in in connection with the crime crime for which he be had bad been placed in in the sheriffs custody on the night of 0 july 3rd ard young turner and welcome camped near tho the mchenry ale mill halt a mita mile away from park ark city ty young turner had taken off his coat and boots boota and was sitting on his bed when the assassin crept up behind him and struck him on the lead head with an axe breaking in in the skull and as he lay struck him again another fearful blow breaking the jaw the young man neither spoke nor moved after bg fell welcome then rolled the ibe body up in in a tent and put it into the it remained romain cd until the afternoon of the ath when the murderer started off with wih the teams and wagon containing the corpse for echo cad canyon on on the rowl road a young man n named amz beesley ol of this thia city met and recognized wel come who was on the outside and driving beesley enquired of him as aa to and welcome replied that be was in in the i wag on asleep when beesley passed on on arriving at the spot in L echo v ho canyon before before described and where the remains were discovered first by a little boy boi welcome lifted the body out ont of the it down upon the ha ground and covered it with the tent and a lot of rubbish over which he ha placed several large rocks the murderer then leaped into tho the wal wagon goll arrived at piedmont where he sold the first team and wagon as related above it was the sale of this property perty of which he was informed by telegraph that first caused sheriff turner to apprehend that some foul play had been committed tile the object b of welcome in in thus murdering the young man was evidently to poss ess himself ot of the property and by selling it raise raise enough means with which to got get ont of the coss country try it was evidently his ideen intention tion to get bick back into one of the eastern states his capture would bo be much less probable soon attar after welcomes incarceration in the pet pen le be confessed and in his bis ad so callei called confession associated another party one ona jack E emerson morson with the crime in feet he placed the actual killing at emersons Emers Emor sons door he said on the night of the ard 3rd we had gone gona to the camp and young tamer had taken off of his coat and boots and was sitting beside beaida his bed I 1 was at the near end of the wagon about 15 or 20 feet distant putting in the nose sacks lien emerson came ame c i up behind or beside turner and struck wint him on the head bead with a heavy board or a club and then than came to where I 1 was and said tva ive fixed filed the son of a b when he said this a cold sweat swea broke out all over me and I 1 sank down be side the wagon we and d I 1 ca cannot u not tell tel what I 1 said fo I 1 h heard e abal th the bl blow w struck k I 1 it was A DEAD BEAD DULL SORT OP OF A young john never a word nor uttered a groan nor trader mado a move I 1 believe lie he struck him twice but bat I 1 could not tell where as I 1 never look ed sit at the body emerson got a bottle of liquor and kept mo me full he rolled tho the body up in a 4 tent and I 1 helped helweil him lift it in the wagon we had intended to start out on the morning 0 the gab after the fourth turner to accompany us i but we did not do so until the evening and ami we traveled right along to the place in echo canyon were we va camped I 1 went to sleep anti and emerson stayed a daod up ard and pot got something to eat I 1 suppose ha be lifted the tho body out I 1 dian did not t aea so him 10 lo do it and I 1 never saw where he bg laid aid 1 it Welco omeca it will be seen accused emerson of the actual sher iff turner had bad no confidence ianth 0 1 confess confession on lough he ha bid d go good reason 1 to a golie believe that WelcO welcome tre had bad an accomplice not only from what welcome stated buttrom but from the statements made to him by parties in paricity park city immediately after his re turn to this city with the body of hia bit murdered son the sheriff had print I 1 I 1 ed hy by the E a number of 0 bi bills I 1 which fi were ere sent broadcast throughout the territories and states between this place and chicago clucas o the bills offered a reward of for the capture and detention of jack emer son BOD and gave a completo complete description of that person A day ay or two afterwards sheriff turner received a telegram from constable moore of park city stating that he be know knew where emerson was and requesting the sheriff to come out to park city immediately the sheriff started off and went as far its as bryan on the U 1 ia railroad at which place he be meton the train coming in from the east constable moore who had bad jack emerson is in custody having found him bina at carbon the fact was that emerson |