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Show that Alexandra was with him, but he would do the bett he could for us until Itu all right, said they returned. Im sorry Eds feelin no the senator. bether than he is. Im sorry th king aint here, nor the queen aither. But th Jackll do. Sind him up. If theres anny o th ten spots around let thim come too. Im not proud. ft . So here we are waiting. The king has sent us a message every day since A LEGAL TANGLE. BY O. M. JACKSON. At the time this story opens, one John Hampton, of Clarion county, Pennsylvania, was in jail, under sentence of death, and the date of execution was fixed for next day. Before a jury of twelve good men and true, he had been tried at the court of quarter sessions on the charge of murder and duly convicted. His attorneys had taken the case to the supreme court, but that body found no error in the record and affirmed the judgment and We learn that he will drop in on us Sunday. The senator has told the lord high chamberlain to get a good dinner and hang the expense. If Ed. dont pay for it, I will, he Bays. Fix us some veggy table soup an some sentence. So here was Hamption, rare roast beef, an some turnips an Im gettin hun- with the rope waiting for him at sunice cream, he says. gry. By th way, sind up somethin to rise next morning. ate now. Now Hampton was not a man who ft ft feared death particularly, but he was wishes senator The your correspon- not fond of dying, just for dying's sake. dent to state that he will leave here for home soon. , Epgage a band to meet us For, to tell the truth, he was innocent. Circumstances against him were at the depot; ft ft strong; appearances, of a convincing Has any one heard from Doc Jones? character were brought in evidence, He hasnt cabled us since he left Wash- - and despite the fact that counsel tried hard to cast a doubt on the minds of .The senator has just tried on the the jury, the verdict was as related. crown. It fits him like it was made for There is no use going into detail conhim. cerning the crime; sufficient to say ft ft that a man had been. killed and HampThe senator says if George Sutherland ton was to suffer for it. starts off on another tour of San Pete The day of the execution came and county, to send a man with him from each of his three papers. Hampton walked to the scaffold with a firm step. He spoke, standing on ft ft The senator has just learned of the the trap, in a voice without a tremor, one of his billet doux. He and protested his innocence. Then Sublication of future he will write fewer the drop fell. After hanging about letters and more checks. ten or fifteen minutes the physicians in ft ft charge pronounced him dead and he The senator sends his congratulations was cut down and the body turned over to Judge McCarty on his chances for the supreme judgeship nomination, and to relatives. The sheriff made due return on the says tell him he was for him all the his was and it death untiring warrant that in accordance with time, through efforts Judge Miner was taken ill ana the order of the court he had hanged withdrew. him, the said John Hampton, by the ft ft. The senator has retired to the royal neck, between the hours of six o'clock bedchamber and is now dropping as- in the morning and four oclock in the leep. afternoon, until he was dead, and the ft ft warrant and return were duly reThe senator is muttering unaisy corded. lies th head what wears a crown. It was noticed at the time of the exeft ft cution that the county physician, who The senator is asleep. by the way had been the condemneds friend since boyhood, left the jail yard SALT LAKE ICE COMPANY immediately after the execution. He got into his buggy and hurried after Distilled Water the wagon containing the remains, which was in charge of a brother of the executed, anddriving alongside reIf ever you drove fast in marked: 43. Telephone your life, drive now. Get him home. He is'nt dead and may yet be brought back to life. The neighbors wondered what the hurry was when they saw Silas Hamptons dun mares going at such a rate with the doctora back jn that country they never interfere with the affairs of the dead as they do here. So a lot of verbiage may be cut out and the statement made that the doctor succeeding in recusitating John, after four hours of the tallest kind of scientific effort. A mock and hurried funeral was held, the excuse for not exhibiting the remains being given as dissolution of mortal tissue, sedy coffin was planted in the back and the lot, where in course of time a headstone, with an appropriate inscription, was erected. Of courso John Hampton did not hang around the vicinity long. As soon as he was recovered from the effects of the strangling he had received, he was supplied with a goodly we came. ICE.. clos-esecondbu- t sum of money by his brother and went he reaway to parts unknown where anof this mained until the latter part ecdote occurred. Twelve years after John Hampton was hanged, Sim Lane, a tough old by pickcharacter, who made a living out ratand trying ing huckleberries death his on tlesnake oil, confessed, bed, that he committed the crime. He made a statement and swore to it in the presence of witnesses, whereupon two members of the John Hampton jury grieved themselves to death. Of course Silas Hampton lost no time in informing John, who was in 6ome South American country, of what had happened, and John was only too glad to come back home. But right away after Silas wrote him, he, Silas sickened and died. In his will he left his property to John. When he arrived home he was of course, saddened by the news of his brothers demise. But his grief was not so intense that he forgot the terms of the will. After receiving the conthe gratulations of his neighbors onbusientire of the termination happy ness, and relieving the mental distress of the other ten jurors, who were showto ing signs of a decline, he proceededlast brothers nis to take steps probate will and testament. Here he bucked up against an obstacle. A graceless son of Silas, who had been cut off because of his habits and general character, contested the will and raised among other points this; that John Hampton was dead; that he had been tried and executed. In support of this, proof was brought in tne shape of the record of the trial and conviction; the appeal; and last.but not of least importance, the death warrant, duly returned to the effect that John Hampton was executed and was dead. The court sustained the point. Now dont say a court would do anything so foolish. A court will make any order on a proper showing. Besides if the court haant so ruled I could not write this story. The result was that John lost the . - property. A whole lot of people will be interested in knowing how the case was finally decided. So would I, had it ever been decided but it wasnt Old John fell off the big beam in a barn right down on the threshing floor and as the hands had just cleaned up the buckwheat and run it through the fanning mill, there wasnt any thin to break his fall, so it broke his neck. And there you are. SECOND EXCURSION NORTH, Wednesday! July 23, via the Oregon Short Line. The following low rates will made to principal northern points: DATS Brigham. ...I 2.85 Colunston... 8.15 8.80 Logan 15 15 15 15 15 15 Franklin.... 4.25 4.25 Preston 4.75 Oxford 80 SodaSp'gs.. 7.80 Montpelier.. 9.00 80 PocateUo .. . 6.90 15 Blackfoot... 7.00 80 Idaho Falla. 8.90 80 St. Anthony 10.40 10.00 SO be DATS so Market Lake 9.60 Salmon City 25.00 Minidoka... Shoshone... Halley Ketchum... Nampa...... Boise City.. Caldwell,... Ontario Payette Welser Huntington. 0.25 Si 11.25 80 14.15 so 14.75 ao I6.70 80 17.50 80 I7.C5 8C 18.40 811 18.55 80 19.10 8G 20.00 30 80 Bexburg.... Corresponding low rates from Ogden and other stations. For further particulars see Oregon Short Line Agents. City Ticket Office 201 Main St. The friends of S. B. Westerfield greatly regret that he is in a very precarious condition resulting from the runnaway accident in which he was severely hurt about a week ago. The daily papers made rather light of his injuries which were really very serious. His physicians are quite alarmed at his condition. In the accident his jaw was broken, all his upper front teeth knocked out, one of his eyes terribly injured, the back of his head so cut that it required nine stitches to close up the gash, two ribs were broken, besides numerous scars and bruises all over his body. . Well, he grieved over it. He worried so much about it that it preyed on his mind to an extent that he became, Powers, Straop & Lippman, what would be called in Utah, insane, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAalthough in Pennsylvania, they call it devilishness. But he could not sleep nights. To add to his anguish because of the loss of the property, the nephew Eagle Block : : used to ride by and taunt him, and call him names, and ask him how it felt to be dead and all that sort of WALKER BROTHERS thing, until one day John could stand it no longer, so he loaded his shot gun Bankers. with horse nails and committed murder Established 1851 in earnest, by shooting his relative Sail Lake City. Utih A General Banking Business Transacted. right through the chest at ten yards .... distance. Safety Deposit Boxes For RenL Of course he was arrested. The grand jury indicted him under the name of John Hampton, of the county of Clarion, Commonwealth of Pennsyl6R0SHEITS TICKET OFFICE, vania and all the et ceteras. The same attorneys who defended 221 MAIN STREET. him when he was Innocent pleaded for him on this case. What did they do? I buy and sell Railroad Tickets. Can They demurred to the indiciment; save your S 5 to S10 on each asked that it be dismissed because ticket John Hampton was dead, and in support of the contention, produced the ESTABLISHED 1888. record, of his conviction for murder, the death warrant and return and the Member American Ticket Brokers' Association judgment of the court in the matter F. H. GR.OSHELL, Manager. of his brothers will. The man is dead they argued. No dead man can commit a crime. He was executed PiiiAimAuiiniminiiUiiiimmil8DutAU? and pronounced dead. The courts have held that he cannot inherit property Utah Light & Power Go. because he is dead. It is impossible to indict a dead man. INSTALLATION. Now wasnt that a funny fix for a LBOTRIOAUl court to be in? Of course it was. This P. H. Salt Lake court said he would take time to pass 1500 H. P. Steam Salt Lake on the motion to quash the indictment. H. P. .Water-60Ogden He did. He waited from one term to H. P. Water-20- 00 Leased Plant another and yet another. The sheriff would not let John go to because AS. he didnt want a dead manjail MCu. Ft. Dally. Salt the ; 60 M Cu. Ft. Dallyother prisoners. The courtamong Ogden wanted to fix bail, but hesitated because if the 7 8. MAIN STREET. man was dead, he could not be admit-te- d SALT LAIC CITY. to bail. So they finally let him go without bail. swnnnwwmmnwwmTfHMFwmmflirod Water-MOO- 00 - |