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Show i If' I v is ' . . l' l' , 1 Vo' . .'. . - - - - ' - . w L . ,, w JL . w . i:rc:.d2nt in liuricr Trial - Cfcrgcs , Inlimacj Dc- 'tween VIclta Z2& Ilrs. j u Ellis and. Says Wat-f Wat-f s:n Ccifcsscd It.: ; N.tnyds Ellison who Is on trial for the xnu.rder'of A. S. Watson, tesUfied In his own. behalf this morning. . The courtroom was crowded as usual, ; and after one witness had testified Mr. Truman turned his head to speak to the - "defendant and the latter rose from his chair and walked toward the witness chairi He stopped in front of the Jury box. and raised his hand as the clerk of ; the court stood up to swear him. The .defendant Is apparently in a poor state of health and rested on the lesk with his left arm while he took the oath. His back was toward the audience au-dience and he bowed his head until his chin rested upon his chest He then took his seat on the stand and looked as Sf he were about to faint or go off in a . swoon. He has a peculiar habit of rubbing rub-bing his hands together nearly all the - time. There Us a distant look In his '. eyes and his mind seems to work slow- .;. V '. -. . ' . ZHIisofl, "Weeps on Etand. ' .... Only once, did h'e break down during the mornlngvand then only for. a few moments. -The tears afforded a vent for his nervousness and he appeared to be mora' collected when he raised his head from his handkerchief. The wit-nees wit-nees tpoke very slowly and in a sub-duci sub-duci voice. jirs. Ellison,' the wife of the defendant, defend-ant, kept her eyes on Ellison all the time. She sat directly before him and - with her hand to her chin gazed steadily stead-ily at her husband. - . ... The court had to instruct the witness more than once to raise his voice In or-wdrthat or-wdrthat the. jurors might, catch -his JT words. , ' . . H "rt'hen '. Mrs. ; Payne, Ellison's . mother, entered the courtroom she. was accom-panled accom-panled by two sisters, who occupied ' -' 'r. j.r Cj 'C.r:r.2-nt tid Lis ' '. . - ', .-' .'';' - ' s E. Eprlngs Zjiaode; , - ' - 'Minnie L. Proctor .was the 'first wit-. wit-. nesa called to the stand by the defense Uils morning. Mrs. Proctor said-that i he lived at Union, but was a patient y ut the Hot-Springs during the months f Jast October and November, where ; Ehe was taking treatment for rheuma-: rheuma-: tl8m- A few days after election she says, she' saw. a man 'and a woman ' drive up to the springs In a buggy. They ' trot out of the carriage- and stood on the' porch for awhile. .The name of the man, she said, was Watson and the lady with him, she said she saw in the courtroom yesterday, meaning Mrs. Ellison. El-lison. -I On cross-examination she testified that she saw Mrs.. Ellison when she en-! en-! tered the courtroom yesterday after-noon. after-noon. Her -husband had previously asked her if she would know Mrs. Elll-son Elll-son if she saw her. Hlght Have Been Mistaken. "Are you positive the woman at the springs was Mrs. Ellison, or is there a chance for a mistake V asked Mr. Elch-cor. Elch-cor. - "I don't think I could be mistaken." "Is there no possibility of a mis-taker mis-taker . "I wouldn't stake my. life on It; I might be mistaken." Ordered Stricken Out. Judge Powers then asked . that the -jciestimony In regard to Mr. Watson be . stricken out as the witness could only . J know that the man at the springs was -A Watson from having heard , the boy jnention his name. ' The court ordered that the reporter transcribe all the testimony of the witness and then that part to be stricken strick-en out would be designated - by the court . Ellison Takes' tlie Stand. " The defendant was then called and, as he took the oath, there was,& hush in the courtroom. Ellison said he was 23 years old and that he was a married man. He said he had known Watson ' for about two years and a half. ' As the result of a conversation with Watson, he said, he and his wife went to live In Watson's house: Caw. "Watson In Hallway. - He said he came home one night and couldn't get In; he rang the bell and then looked through the glass- window In the door and . saw Watson running down the hall and saw him go Into his room. After knocking on the Window, he said Mrs. Ellison came to the door and let him In. The witness then de- scribed ' the Interior of the Watson ' house. ' - - - "."When you saJf Mr. Watson Tunning down the hall, how was he attlredT" asked Mr. Truman. Attired In Night Gown. ' ". ' .. "He was In his night gown," . The witness, was then asked if he could' tell of another Incident which happened . In the dining-room a short time thereafter. He said: "I went Into the, dining-room, and Mrs. Ellison was standing near 'the sideboard. Watson was near her and i I heard him say: . 'Dear, how do you feel tonlghtr ' . ' . , . , Breaks Down and Weeps. At this point the witness broke down and wept with his face in his handkerchief. handker-chief. "State what that occurrence was when Mr. Watson came to your room," said Attorney Truman. - - "It was in the morning; I don't know what time It was. The blinds were ail (Continued on page 8.) i i ':-:-. - - ' ' :;; .,V. ; ) T r' -n't r, ' ' ' f ' ' "C))-jr.... r h. ; st . "reys p'.are after that'.'" ( "Tea, I remember be!.-.,? there." ; "Do you remember your wiJa fce'.r f-ere?" "Yes. sir." "Do you rerrerr.ter a cenverfatioa yea hai -wit your wife?" YTlJa Asked rorglTeness. "Yes; she said: 'If you'll f arrive me for the great wrong I have done. I wl'.l promise never to do it aeain. If you ' leave me over this I wl.l go to the i bad.'" . The witness did not recollect putting her out of the house, but he said he remembered re-membered seeing her going down the stairs, and that he told her to go home to her parents. He did not remember seeing his wife at the block again. He was sick and remembered that there waa a man stayed with him. "Now, coming down to the day of the hooting: What do you remember t about thatr asked Mr. Truman. Hl Etorjr of the Shooting:. "I met Mr. Yeoman on the street and " he told me that my mother had said Watson wanted to see me. I said all right, I would see him." "What occurred when you , went there?" ' a "I went In and we walked back iVto 1 the chapel. There waa no one wa j there. He said he wanted to ta' 1 to me. 'You have beeo'clreulatir? reports, re-ports, he said, 'and one of us r ( got to leave. Tou are footloose and you will have to go. My wife will be coming back and she will be hearing about this.' "Wife would Not Go.' "I told him I wouldn't go without Maud, and he said Maud would not go with me. I asked him how he knew, and he said that he had met her on the corner of MeCornick's bank. I said: 'Tou didn't stop there and talk with her. did your And he said: 'No: I came along In my buggy and I invited your wife to take a drive with me. We went out to North Salt Lake.' Cursed bj His Victim. '"Wen, I thought I told you not to speak to my wife any more,' I said, and he said: 'Damn, you, you are bent on mining me. Yon want this all to get into the papers, but go ahead and do your worst. Remember one thing, Ellison, Elli-son, you are a poor man and I'll fight you to a fare-you-well. Ellison, you can ro to hell.' " The prisoner was then turned over to Judge Powers for cross-examination. "Why did you shoot Watson V- asked Judge Powers. Didn't Know He Shot "I didn't know that I had shot him." "Were you insane when you ahot him?" "I must have been of unsound mind. I didn't remember of having shot him." He was then asked if he remembered what happened after that. He said he did not remember much until after he got to the Jail. That he did not sleep very much while there. . "Did you fall off Into a deep Jsf r afteryou got out of the city Jail?" That I couldn't aay." ' j Powers Probes Prisoner. "Did you sleep at the county Jalir "Yes. I think I have." "You have been sleeping pretty good down there, haven't you?" 1 "Yes. but I don't think I slept the H first night." V , "Do you know Mr. Yeoman T' - "Yes, I believe I do." f1 Doesn't Becall Yeoman. "Do you remember having seen Mr. , Yeoman during the week of the shooting?" shoot-ing?" ' . . "No, t am not positive that I do." "Then your memory la defective as 4 your dear friends during that week?" "It la, in regard to Mr. Yeoman. " ; "You saw him the day of the shoot ; Ing, didn't you?" , ', i "Yes. sir, I saw him. but I thought you meant If I saw him on the street." "Is your memory not very distinct as to those things reflecting on the character char-acter of your wife and the conduct of Mr. Watson, and very defective in oth- . er matters?" Doing the Best He Can. "I am doing the best I can." ' ' "Is that the only answer you can give to that question?" "Well, that trouble was' so strongly impressed upon my mind." . ' J "Do you remember Yeoman's having searched you?" "Well, he put his hands on me. but didn't exactly search me." The witness was asked If the man -Yeoman was In the courtroom, and he answered he didn't see him. The cross-examination was then continued con-tinued until this afternoon at the noon adjournment. 1 . Had Violent Headache. ' Douglas Ferguson, Harry Han .' a and A. B. Edler testified at yesterday afternoon's after-noon's session as to evidences of inseni- . ty shown by defendant. L. M. Hanson and A. J. Skidmore swore that they had i known Ellison ever since he was a boy, . and knew his character to be - good.' They were also cognizant of the fact that he waa subject to violent head- . aches and In weak health. Sam W. King said that he had roomed in the Galena block at the time Ellison was there, and had been disturbed dis-turbed by the crying and moaning of the defendant. Ellison, he said, would run up and down the hall talking Incoherently In-coherently and waving his arms. What Mr. Xing Admitted. On the cross-examination Mr. King admitted that be had been in a shooting scrape .over a woman in Mexico. He said a man shot at him and he took the gun away. Mr. King denied that he had said he knew who was guilty of the Lockhart murder in Grand county, but would not telL He volunteered the assertion that the man . who had done the shooting deserved a . medaL Judge Powers brought out the fact that King had called at Mr. Sampson's house and insisted on seeing Mrs. Ellison. Elli-son. The witness denied that he had" Insisted that Mrs. Ellison should accompany ac-company him to the Jail to see her husband. Ellison cn the Stand. ( Continued From Page 1 ) pulled down. I was lying there awake. I saw Watson enter the door. He was dressed in his night gown. He walked Into the room and put his knee Into the bed as if to get in. He then slipped out of the room and knocked on the door. I raised up and he said. 'I came to wake you up.' I don't know what I said." Ellison said he then got up and he told his wife that he would have to leave the house. Charges Intimacy. "I told her that what I Had seen convinced con-vinced me that she and Watson were intimate." continued Ellison. "As I was about to leave Mrs. Ellison came to the door and asked me to send for an express wagon. I told her I didn't know, and she asked me to please do so. I then left the house to go to work. I saw Mr. Watson come to the window and pull down the blind. I don't know if he saw me or not." He said he went down to the car barn and the office and then went to his mother's. Paced Watson With Charges. "I then went away. I went to Mr. Watson's and told him that he knew what I had heard and seen, and that I wanted him to come and see my mother. moth-er. "He said, 'Keep quiet Clyde, and let's talk this over quietly!' He mentioned that he had received a telephone message mes-sage from my mother. "I took him down to my mother. I marched him down the center of the street." "Then what took place what did you say?" "I accused him of being intimate with my wife; I accused him of calling her pet names." The prisoner's voice for the first time was loud and distinct. "In whose presence did you say this?" "It was in the presence of my mother." moth-er." The next day. he said, he saw Watson again. He had telephoned Watson before' be-fore' and saw htm at the house on the following day. Says Watson Did Not Deny. "I was coming along. When I saw Watson go up to the door, ring the bell, and then go down the steps and run down the street. I called him and he came back. My mother and Mr. Payne were in the house, and I then accused him again, and he said: 'I don't deny it." "I then told him I wanted to take him to Mr. and Mrs. Sampson. At first he said he would go, but afterward he said he would not. I then told him that |