Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-11-03 | Page 7 | Women Wanted to Alter Statement in Sorensen Case

II WOMAN ROMAN WANTED TO I ALTER STATEMENT IN SORENSEN CASE Tells of Attempt to Make Change if in iii Account Given Shortly After Shooting MRS T TT T SARAH an important lv witness for tor the defense In the trial of Alfred Altred Sorensen cJu charged with ith the murder of ot Thomas occupied the stand the greater part of or yesterday lester yester da day afternoon The prosecution devoted devote practically the whole of ot Its examination cross-examination to on tho the point of whether r Mrs had heard plead for his his life lite Mrs Irs declared emphatically on the stand that she had not heard cry Dont shoot and was confronted with the statement she had signed the night following tho the shooting which contained an assertion that she had hall heard the cry from Mc ic- ic Gulls Mrs Tauter Tauer said she sho was ns excited when she signed the statement and nd that she shedid shedid did lid not realize until afterward that sho she had made a mistake The Time day a following follow follow- lug ing she said sho went to the office of ot the time county attorney voluntarily to change her statement A man with a a. gray ra mustache she said told her ho he was not anxious to take a correction of or her statement and she left the office The question arose as to who the man with the gray mustache ho might be and a strong strong- suspicion caused the district attorney to send Bend for Count County Attorney I. I E. E who has of or late lato affected the clean shaven stylo style of ot upper lip The county count attorney was not to tobe tobe tobe be found however so Mrs tIrs was excused until Monday morning when Mr r. Willey will be on hand for tor purposes of l identification Mrs Irs direct testimony was almost Identical with that of or Eloise McCaw an employee at Sorensens Sorensen's store torf who vho was on the st stand n afternoon t o nd and yesterday st rd morning I g Mrs 1 however claimed to have havo seen McGillis s point his hand at Sorensen after atter he had fallen and sa say to Deputy Deput Sheriff Steele Sorensen shot me Melvin Nelson r an eyewitness to the tra tragedy ed was' was called during the latter part hart of or the afternoon Nelson Neson said that he wa wa-s watching the demon demonstration tra- tra tion of cuff and amid collar coHar buttons in the tho window of the thc hat store adjoining Sorensen's Sorensens Sorensens Sorensen's SorensenS Sor- Sor s ensen store when he lie heard an altercation altercation altercation alter alter- cation In the jewelry store and reached the tIme door In time to witness tho the shoot- shoot In Ing PT Joseph S. S Smith a rancher of or Fillmore testified that he hc heard quarreling In iii tho the store but continued on his wa way and had gone about ten steps when hen he heard the shots In rapid sue suc cession The testimony of or both Nelson and Smith waS wa-s Important In that both stated It was after the shoo shooting tin that tho the deputy sheriffs entered the store Little testimony of Importance was given at the session yesterday morning Miss McCaw took tho the stand an and underwent underwent under under- went cross examination cross examInation during which she faltered several se times and admitted that she had received ed coaching In her testimony At 6 o'clock court adjourned adjourned ad ad- until 10 o'clock tomorrow mo mornIng mornIng- mi a g. g