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Show TflFcOROHER'S INQDEST On tie "Body of frank Hall Yesterday. Yes-terday. OTIII0 .SUBSTAVTHLLT yLW, And Him Was Published irslcr-ilJiy irslcr-ilJiy Is Coanrmcd. liuantta otaon Lrlirr. Following Is U10 leUcr which Amacaa Olson had on her pern at tlwtlms .La slew Frank 1U1L If anjUiing had been wanUngto show premeditation, and 'such pro-medltattonascoaiei pro-medltattonascoaiei or a foul and deadly wrong which, nothing could cnUrcly obhterale, this ktter supplies sup-plies It: r C.. r . n i.M.h I.ITV. S?pt.2 1-91. th?-e?11i,,nt, Am,IHl Oln.writo Hon.wliich I know 1 win UkuIImI iLri ,,,.m,crsV?1 ,llat Hun ruu. 7 "' my "yer, for this reauu. Two J ers ago lasi Jun 1 wa, introduceu to Wm V Ma Il.rt iV!iishtarwUo,n X h" kno4ri slnea 1 oj u a mcro ehit.l. Atr ,uc MJm3 with hr. iad the .aid Mr. JUH w, too driver 1 did not kno "hii they had plotleJ any hmrm again,', m" 1 truj-u.1 nor as a friend aod nim as a gentleman, and tqaniinot rr that I riiricd nun or ne ira anycauw to rcrea-h thoughts lo me, nor du x urea of anything but fnendJiin, ,u. bevenhelcst be beams jealous and lold an not tj co-no over on moro. Jorsue wasafwid I ha: Mr. UUu w uud fall in iovo with me, and from that day to ibi I have ns er Ittn n. jr ber door. Uut that Wa.M llo diuVrcnce. He met me roming from my work, begging nw to let him ha e a conversation convers-ation with me, but I rtfased him time and timo again, bat he gave mo no peace. Iatfccdlboadvioaof my parents par-ents and they said there was no harm inapcakinto him. And it was the old story. I rcfusoj lilin; ha then asked my parents if Lo could visit at our house and they thought he wasan honet man and said hecoaldcome and seo me a feof times and aced the gentleman ia every wav. lint ho noon carried out c il pnrpoe to me and blighted my life- With his smooth tongue ho gained my promise to keep quiet and would marry me.but ho was afraid that I would nor, and he left the city and been away for tea months. Saturday I neeked an explanationf rom him, but he was so bard end ratal to mo and only laughed wfien I apoko to him, and though It ras a public place w e wro tons er&ed heo en then iisretl try to assault and m that I had to push him over the chair to get away from him, and he told me then he neser had any intention to mirrr me. Then I sis ore vemreinoe. That Is all. AnjLxov Ot-o'v. As announced In jesterday'a Js ew s, the inqueit before Coroner Harris lgan at 2 p. in. The first witness callcj was Dr. Y. A. Mca-chain, Mca-chain, who said he viewed the body and foJii I piwder marks on the left ekle of the bead and faec. Found gun-Jiot wounds Jujt behind and above tho left car. Itcaiovirtistull-cap Itcaiovirtistull-cap jut oa top of crown of the head a little to tho right of meridian line found exit of bullet. Fragments Frag-ments of the skull were forced outward. out-ward. There was no opening In the scalp. After removing the cap I found the bullet had rasl through the left half of the brain, just grazing the right half. The wound should have proved fatal in time, but, In my opinion, as there was great hemorrhage that tras the cause cf tli-sthk The Miot jiassed upward si an angle of about -forty-five degree. The weapun tnO'-t have been discharged at fchcrt ringe to make the powder marks foun I on lcceaod'a lacs?. Mr. Ann liart wes then called. It-twecu 0 15 and b:3) lat Monday afternoon I left home with deceased, going south on C street, an J walking walk-ing slowly until wo reached Calder's corner on First Htraet. Jut before reaching tlic corner I taw Miss I Olson standing Uiere, two feet from 1 tree She male some remark which I could not unJerstaud. Neither of us answered her, but Hall looked back. We walked aSout two eleps after she spoke before be-fore the shot was fired, she wa not more than eight or ten feet away when she spoke. After 'iootlng she pointed the pMol ?t nib and said: "Ves, nJ I will srve you the rame way." jjh.i then started to run across the street towards to-wards Mr. Culmer's. Others were coming up the street and I called for them to stop ber. homebody asked why, and I said "Became she has sliot this man." When ho was shot Hall moaned auJ talJ, '0h deal!" ,1 felt his pulse, but he was dead. We both ncog nlied Miss Oton. I do not kno w w hat (die said. She had something some-thing in her hand, w hlch I did utt then know to be a pistol. Firjt knew it to be a weapon when she dis'Iisrged It. She then went down C Street toward Ungliam. Iid not ec her fire the rfiot, but saw the pistol in her band immediately afterward, af-terward, and raw tho snuiko. Hall was going to the Mint saloon to work. I a going with hi n a far a Ilrigham -treet. I was eight or ten feet from Miss Olson when I fir! saw her. I was struck h the terrible look she gave u. Noticed her hands later. Something In them looked likea handkerchief. Neither of us answered her. When tile shot was fired Hall was going south. He and 1 were talking. brn tlieshot was fired Hall was looking straight ahead. When I saw ber nfter the shot she was standing Just off the sidewalk. When she flr.nl the was in a northeaster!) direction from Hall, and thrrc or four feet from the tree. He fell Immediately, Im-mediately, and then I turned nud saw her w ith the p'j-tal In her han J. The tree Is on the corner of Firt and C Streets. Wo were on the w-t side of C Street. I was on the et or riRht-haud side of Mr. Hull. Mha Olson's J00W was devlli:h. I saw Miss Olfou leave her home n. 11 a.m. on Monday an J saw her al home, through her wiudow.between 3 and A. She was writing. Did not see her face then. Did notmeet her yesterday. Marshal John M. 1 oung called Was In my office at the City Hall, Monday evening about C 55, when a. voung womau came in aud handua a pistol to one of the officers, saylujp 'Here. I have shot my betraxer." TheofUccrtookltand handed It to me. Sho handed ine a letter. I asked her to step Into my oftlcr, whldt she- did. She said the shooting occurre-J on the corner or First and C Streets. Sent Captain Iange auJ itrol wagon there and telephoned Dr. Meacham. About twenty minutes later a messenger Informed cis Uie man was dead. I telephoned Uie coroner for authority to remove the Uody. As I could not find him I then sent for Mr. Evans, the undertaker, under-taker, and dispatcneJ a messenger to Captain ioauge to bring the body here. Dr. Mcachara gave direction,, for tho disposition of the body. The girl mentioned said her name was AMr.nVoun'oeu the letter and pistol. The latter was a 32aliber Soublerction affair with one einrty John F. Olson, the girl's father, IcItlfHsl as fallows-While going home from work on Monday eveu-iug eveu-iug mw a crowd of people on first and C streets; be was told that a man was sho-and Mrs. Uari said oVmanJa had done- It; I then said: "That man lying there seduced se-duced my girl," that was all I said, aud they toot me home Iu a hiigfflTj I asked if he -Has dead and they told me he wa- Amanda Olson is my daughter. Shtrsald last Sunday sho would like to kill Halkbut I bald her not to do so. She said he had seduced her aud ruined her for me. I did not know she liaa I"ht ; When she said she would like to kill Hall she Uy In bed WnUng. William X. McCurdy testified . last Monday evening young lady, a-companied by several men, entered Uie police staUon. saying she wauled tu give 'icrsrli lift she "had kllleJ Frank." Jlaudcd him a pistol and a letter. Sho was mmmmmumaammmmmumuUMMm much excited, exclaiming, amongst other things "I couldn't stand it any longer." Captain Langc eilJ he went to tho scene of the tragedy with the patrol wagon and fjUdd Hall lying thtrc, apparently still alive. Chief W. A. Stanton called Was near Finland C strrtts about T.iS p. m. and saw the crowd. I'cople called upon him to hurry up, which he di J. Saw Uie mau who was shot, and found by feeling his pulso ho was not dead. I drove after Dr. Hamilton iminediattly an 1 sent for the patrol wagon. I found tho tioctjr at home, and was not gone more than about eight tnlnuUs. This closed the evidence, aud the Jury then upon returned the following follow-ing verdict: TutnrroLT op Urnr, 1 County of Salt Lake. J An Inquisition holdtn at 33 West Tempi street. In tho aceond precinct of halt Lako City, on tho 33th das of September, ISM, before Thomas E. Harris, coroner of aaal county, upon tho body of Frank C. Hall, there lying dead, by tho Jurors whose names aro uncumu KUU3UJUCU. The said Jurors oa their oaths, say, from the esidenco presented, that the deceased, l'rant C Hall, cams to his death from a gunshot wound Inflicted at tho hands of Amanda Olson, at al out &M o'clock on tho afternoon of U10 2SSh day of September, IKU. In testimony srbereof the said Jurors have hereunto set their binds the day and year first aboso written, (signed S. Mastkiio. L. I J.KMSOS, J. C Hoss, Jurors. |