Show COMING SLOWLY IN CIJ The Pearson i Gase Soingf ont I on-t Prpvof 11 1 TEE EVIDENCE UP TO DATE i The atherand Mothertof the Defendant De-fendant Bothieiaced on theBtaad Pearson Injuries On Friday afternoon thePearson taae was continued by the calling of Jjhn Rollo He testified limit ne had lived at Nephi seven years Was born in Scotland am 22 years of age by professioR a school teacher 1 got acquainted ac-quainted with the defendant in the latter lat-ter part of January On the day of the shooting I was with the skating party in the meadows we started home between be-tween 3 and 4 oclock Mr Bigler and Mr Ord and a boywere with Mr Pearson Pear-son when we came up we thought hew he-w s drunk and n e looked to see him fall off his horse every moment as he would lean on one side of the horse it would turn the other way and as he would lean on the other side the horse would again turn in the opposite direction he did not seem to know anything the wagon tongue struck the horse on the left side we I slackened speed he looked up his eyes were dull and heavy his face bloated and red he was play ing with his hat a good deal We next met Sheriffs Cazier and Hyde We asked wnat was up when tney told us o the shooting they asked if we cad seen their man I replied that we had and that they would have no trouble taking him as he was crazy druna I had never seenorheard of the man Pearson before We stopped our team there and witnessed the arrest ar-rest the defendant did not nave hold of the reins at all and was leaning on the horn of the saddle When he was searched the knife handed to 3 < iiiisu iuc JXLUIG was uauucu WJ me after this I went to town and saw the d a1 man in Chalmars yard I looked at it and tnen went away I saw the defendant de-fendant nextday he was in astore buying some canned goods about noon Cross examined saw him at the jail he aid not seem so drunk when going from the buggy to the jail but staggered a little SATURDAY MOBNING DON N BIGBYI live mNeplii was born there ama farmer i I am somewhat some-what acquainted with the defendant I have met him seen him around before i the shooting took place I saw him January 1U he was intoxicated I was about a hundred yards from where the shot was fired saw the smoke I was standing on the San Peter ailroad track i went to where the body lay there were four or five people there when I got to it he was alive when I got there I remained there about half an hour j it was about ten minutes after I first saw him till he died his head lay in a hole and I proposed to raise up his head but officer Borrowman wouJd not allow it to be touched urtil the Coroner came 1 said we ought to pull his boots off at least and not allow him to die with his boots on I proposed to put a coat under his head and do what I could so he could live if there was anyhow any-how for him Dr Don armed there soon after L did the body was not changed from its position Dr Don felt of his pulse I saw the defendant de-fendant againcoming up in a wagon I was just going home from Chalmers they had ahold of him in the front seat that is he was leaning against some one FRANK RUSHTON was the next expert witness Was a gunsmith produced a a pistol and wads of red flannel I lived in Provo two years came from Ogden here originally tjme from England served my t ade in Birmingham worked uc tile trade from the time I was nine years old till the present time worked at it England till 81 worked a while when I first came to America in New Haven then at St Louis then at Salt Lake two years then at Ogden from there to Provo QVhat kind of a pistol ia that producing the pistol Fortyfour Colts a frontier shooter QWhat pressure did it take to pull the trigger ALt took about two and a half pounds pressure to pull the trigger trig-ger I have had that pistol in my possession about a week I got it from you it takes a Winchester cartridge the experiment I made at your request was to see if it would burn all the powder and th distance it would shoot I doubled a gunnysack gunny-sack four times and tacked it at the nd of my shooting gallery to represent the resentment of the human body ine gunny3ack would yield about as much i as the pressure of the human body two pieces of flannel was produced pro-duced to represent the thickness of an overshirt I tacked the flannel over the gunnysack I measured off two feet and shot I found that the powder which had not burnt had penetrated the first and gone into the second fla ml the powder spread on the fist flannel about six inches I find these Colts pistols about uniform I again tacked up two other pieces of flannel and shot at the distance of four feet the powder scattered seven inches CrossexaminedIt takes three and onehalf pounds pressure to pull off are a-re ular new pistol MRS ELIZABETH PEARSON was sworn Have been married twentyeight years I am the mother of the defend at hes 21 years old he lived in Oalifornia till he was 17 years of age went to colleg there at San Francisco he then went to Arizona was there hre years and then reurned to San yriaciaco he went to Colorado while inen come to Utah we kept the Russ House at San Francisco our son had a slight injury there the window sash fe 1 upon his head and reduced him to a state of unconsciouS i ness for a few days and pro duced paralysis but he recovered in a few days He met with a more serious injury at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in 1872 He was brought to me immediately afterwards he was unconscious un-conscious the wound was over the left eyebrow he was conscious immediately alter but soon became unconscious and remained to or ten days the phy sicians ar both Uvi dead who attended aim I nUt e LhHu mysel all tne time I tnt doctors g ve him up he was de I miOAs and it I Iaie sx weeks he re quired constant care the wound did not close and an abscess set in and piecs of the bone wre removed by advice of the physkians ue was removed re-moved tb another place two abscesses set in one about the region of tbe eye another in the back of the headpieces head-pieces ot bone were taken out he came home a few day in all he remained away about three months lie was in the care of a very dear friend Mrs Grove it was five or six months before the bandages were removed Mr and Mrs Grjpve are both dead there Vas a tendency of delirium whenever there was overexertion which lasted b6ut a year the abcaess was over the eye about the size of a hens egg and was black and discolored all around the bones that came out were about the size of Ones finger nail applications of coLd water were resorted to during the fever his head was in great gain the naTure of my son was passive and quiet both before and after the accident acci-dent on two occasions since he has been sick with pains in his head j when he was overworked as night clerkat the time of the conclave he was sick three days he was melancholy times was never much excited I know Mrs Walton she was a servant at Mrs Groves while my son was there I knew this Forrest Green j he came with my son as his guest from Utah my fa mily consists of three sons and a I daughter the defendant is the eldest Mr Green remained at our house about I six weeks they were very intimate kind and agreable to each other 1 think Mr Green remained then in clan Francisco about three months he was engaged in the Cliffc House we sought employment for him he became dissatisfied dis-satisfied with the place and soon returned re-turned to his home in Utah Mrs Pearson left courtroom very much overcome supported by her husband hus-band and daughter The deposition of Mrs Georgianna Walton was read and substantiated the testimony of Mrs Pearson whie the defendant was ill he suffered intense pains was at times delirious and his mind in a SOl t of dazed stupor that whenever the wound was dressed it caused great pain blood and matter oozed out and it ook such care to dress it that at times it took about two hours He in variab y became delirious after dressing the wound The wound VI as still running run-ning when he left our house He was wi h us about eight weeks returned to San Francisco for a while then ret re-t and remained three weeks The wound did not seem to be much better after the accident I saw him frequently and he never seemed the same as before he accident he was usually excitable and a little peculiar H PEARSON SEN was called Was born in New Hampshire went to California Cali-fornia in 1851 am the father of defendant defen-dant He testified to Mr Green being at San Francisco Harry and he were very friendly I found employment for rlr Green at the Cliff House and when he wanted to come home advanced him mon y to go home with Mr Pearson also tesified tJ the fact of the accident and the condition of the boy as related by the preceding witnesses It was an hours ride to Vallejo and the doctor would go over every day It was six months before the wound began to heal much He was unable to take care of himself during this time I never heard of my son doing any other act of violence The pistol was shownMr Pearson who recognized it13 belonging to his son Charles Cour adjourned at 2 pm for the day as some of the attorneys wanted to come to Salt Lake on the afternoon train |