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Show WESTERN WHISPERS. A most hellish crime was perpetrated a few days ago, in Evanston. A daughter of Mr. Josiah Bardly, counselor to the Bishop at that place, only 15 years old, was employed at the "Mountain Trent House" and one evening a man connected with that establishment induced her to drink a glass of wine. After drinking it she was unconscious till next morning when she awoke to realize the wrong the villain had done to her person. Her father made an unsuccessful attempt to kill the wretch but failed and was arrested. The outcome remains to be developed. They had a grand time in Salt Lake over the reception of Pres. (President) Hayes and party on Sunday last. The Sunday Schools turned out in great numbers to receive the party as they reached the depot at Salt Lake. Pres. (President) Taylor and a party of prominent citizens were at Ogden to receive the party with a special car. On Monday a.m. Pres. (President) Hayes and party drove about the city sightseeing and left in the afternoon. On the whole a pleasant time seems to have been had, judging of the account of the affair given by the News, and favorable impressions seem to have been made upon the minds of the party. The Herald of yesterday says: A dispatch from Toquerville on Monday states that Deputy Marshall had arrived there, having in charge George Jennings, arrested on a warrant issued by United States Commissioner Wilkins, on a charge of participation in the Parker murder committed last April. Jennings was previously arrested on this charge, but was discharged for want of evidence. His having been rearrested on the same account would lead to the supposition that other facts had come to light. Jared Dalton, who had confessed to aiding the killing of the lady, has stated positively all through that Jennings was his accessory not only in the murder, but in the outrage on her person, before the murder. The Enquirer says: "Last Thursday, a case of poisoning, which proved fatal, occurred at Benjamin, in the family of Mr. L. J. Stewart. The family was moving from one house to another and some few of the things only had been removed. The father had gone to the fields, stating that he would return about 11 o'clock for breakfast; in the meantime, the mother had given her little daughters, aged about 6 and 4, some milk, and then went to the other house to prepare some breakfast. At her departure, the elder of the girls seeing the clock, and wondering what the inside was like, dragged a heavy box (it is said to be a wonder however the child could do it, it being so heavy) to the place where the clock stood, but the box being too high for the child to climb on to, it got a chair to assist it in getting on the box. Reaching the clock and opening it, a roll was seen inside, secured by two pins. The little girl got this, opened it, and saw the vial which contained the fatal drug. Thinking it to be sugar, the two little ones put some into their milk and drank it. When the mother returned she discovered the elder child's paleness and asking the cause was answered: "I don't know, I feel sick." The mother saw the vial empty, lying on the floor and the cloth in which it was wrapped. She also noticed that all the milk had been drunk and the real cause of the child's illness she knew in a moment. The other one also became ill and a doctor was sent for immediately, but before assistance could be rendered the elder child had expired, and almost instantly began swelling and black spots were seen on its little body. The other child, at last accounts had just issued from its sixth spasm and was thought to be in such a condition as to recover." |