Show ANOTHER OLD CASE ezra hale of hooperville Hoop erville arrested for murder on wednesday morning ezra hale of hooperville Hoop erville was arrested by deputy marshals on a charge of murder air hale is said to have admitted that he fired one of the shot his father is dead the shooting occurred on september 1871 and james Hendry who was shot died the next day the ogden function gave the following particulars of the tragedy at the time of its occurrence Last Friday night the peace of hooper city a quiet settlement ten milt milts s west of Ogden waa disturbed by the report of a young man named james hendry was found weltering in blood a little distance from his mothers residence he was terribly wounded alie contents of a double barell ed shotgun and a revolver having been discharged into his back james halo and his sou ezra were arrested on suspicion of having doue the shooting it appears that one of biales daughters a married woman whose husband resides at springville Spring ville had quarreled with her spouse and returned to her fathers house hendry paid her great attention and this comina to the ears of the father he informed hendry that his daughter was a married woman and for bado his visits and attentions the young man however persisted and managed to get the konug woman engaged as help to a relative of bis under a promise of marriage he accomplished her seduction hendry then refused to fulfill fulfil his promise and openly bragged of the favors he had received calling the young woman by the foulest epithet he could uge hendry died on saturday night having previously confessed that he had promised marriage to hales daughter the two hales were brought to ogden for examination but were returned to their own pr as the proper place for such examination and on their way back to hooper both the prisoners effected their escape the universal feeling among the community is that hendry richly deserved his fate |