Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-07-26 | Page 1 | Mrs. Mattie Quinn Held Not to Blame for Death

MRS. MATTIE QUINN HELD NOT TO BLAME FOR DEATH Mrs. Mattie Qulnn Is a free woman. According to the verdict of the Coroner's Coro-ner's Jury that took the testimony in the Investigation of the circumstances surrounding the death of Frederick W. Nutting, the man was accidentally shot. This verdict was reached yesterday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, after Mrs. Maggie Mag-gie Rowland, the landlady of the house where Nutting was killed, had given her testimony. Nothing new was brought out. The verdict of the Jury took away the right of the Police department to , hold the woman, and she was free to leave the station. But Mrs. Qulnn did not leave, as It WnUJ? "Pected. at once. She waited ail night in vain for her husband to go to the Jail and' take her away under cover of darkness. When the message was. taken to her that she was freee, Mrs. Qulnn broke-down broke-down and wept like a child. Then she thanked Assistant Prosecutor Willard Hansen for the message. ; Mrs. Qulnn then asked that a message be delivered ..,ILhu8band- whom she had wronged When he left me this morning." she said, slowly and quietly, "he said that if I was released he would come for me I do not know what he intends to do with me. I asked him this morning what he would do with me, but he only smiled and said nothing. He has been a good husband to me since this trou-ble trou-ble occurred, perhaps better than I deserved, de-served, but I am afraid he will send' me away from him. I received a letter ,m, my n,other today- She knows nothing of my trouble. I do net want her to know. I want to spare her If Dan sends me away. I will so to' my mother .and remain with her for the rest of my life." 8 Mrs. Qulnn declared to Assistant Prosecutor Hansen yesterday that she had never known that Nutting was a married man. She declared that she had seen pictures of a woman on Nut-ting Nut-ting s dresser, but that Nutting had insisted in-sisted that the pictures were those of two of his sisters. She said that she had never asked him if he was married. mar-ried. Qulnn did not appear at the Jail for his wife, as he had promised, and Mrs Qulnn, a voluntary prisoner, spent the ! night in her cell, weeping. ! Quinn called for his wife this morning and they left the police station together Quinn was unable to leave his engine lagt night to take his wife from prison