Show RICHARD GRANT HELD His Bail Fixed at Ten Thousand Thou-sand Dollars THE PRELIMINARY HEARING The Coroners Jurys VerdictThe I Statement of the DefendantThe Arguments of Counsel The examination of Richard Grant before the coroners jury at Park City for tho killing of Peter Anderson on the 3d inst has terminated resulting in the following verdict TERRITORY OF UTAH j ARK CITY PllSCIKCT > SUMMIT COU TAn T-An inquisition holden at Kcaii nnres undertaking est blismem in Park City precinct pre-cinct Summit County on the 4th day 01 November A D 18s7 before Guilds Man tor coroner of fcad cointy upon tnc body of Ptter Anderson there lyiig dead by the jurors whose names are hereunto buo scribid the said jurors on their oaths do say that etcr Anderson ou the 3d day of November A D lbS7 cam to his df tn by two pistol shots ficed by Richard Grant with felonious inent In testimony whereof the paid jurors have hereunto set their hand the day and year aforesaid B B BROWN WM Lit AitY > Jurors GaO BRAZIER Attest CHILU3 MANTO Coroner At the preliminary bearing much the same stuteu eat of facts was made as was given in THE HERALD the morning morn-ing after the tragedy only of course they were more m detail The testimony of the prosecutions witnesses was ot the same tenor as that given by Frank J Hunt an employee at Gorraty ivers livery stable who testified substantially sub-stantially as follows I was in Grant Clarks saloon in the club room at the time the deceased was killed Mr Dixon said to me Dick Gnint has drawn a gun on somebody I then turned around and looked through the door and saw Dick staading in front of Anderson An-derson and he fired between the first and second shots Anderson put his band up to his breast and the second shot smashed throughhis thumb and lodged in his breast also as I afterward learned Anderson then retreated step or two toward the door reeled and fell dead on the sidewalk then 1 asked Dick what he had done he said 1 shot that manhe drew a knife on me and that other man too meaninz John Stanley I went directly through the saloon to the sidewalk and took hold of deceased and asked him if he was much hurt just then ho drew his last breath he made no reply 1 then got a lantern from the livery stable and said to tho crowd that was gathering Gentlemen lets look for that knife Joe Cohen picked it up and closed it the knite was near the deceaseds left hand on the sidewalk Jon Cohen put the knife in his pocket The knife is an ordinary jack or pocket knife On a motion to admit the prisoner to bail made at the first days examination examina-tion W L Shyder said nothing in the ase went to show that the deed was murder in the first degree that he evidence ev-idence went to show that it wa only homicide growing out of a sudden quarrel that defendant had a right to act as he did in his own house any man would have done the same and he therefore moved that the prisoner be admitted to bail Mr Allison for the prosecution said he intended to prove that the knife was plac5 there by parties not in the quarrel quar-rel that he wculd prove Stanleys evidence evi-dence untrue that Grant could have avoided the trouble that the arms were unequal If he was any judge theev idence all tended to show thdt defendant defend-ant was not justifiable in the comuiio sion of the deed that theovidence 50 far utterly precluded his admission to bail There was no quarrel deceased was silent had not abused defendant de-fendant was very quiet although he had been forcibly ejected from the saloon That he would prove deceased was so intoxicated that he was an im bicile that Grant had the advantage of weapons that itwas not selfJC1 fens Why did Grant advance Why did lie not remain behind the bar There was no evidence to show that deceased was boisterous or was doing anything to injure in-jure the reputation of the housethat proprietors of such houses must expect such things That no overt actnad been proved to show that the crime was justifiable It was simply a diabolical deed The court ruled that until all the evidence evi-dence was in he would not be jusifi din d-in admitting the prisoner to bail On the further hearing after the prosecution had rested the defendant Mr Grant was then placed on the stand and testified as follows Have been in the saloon business four years Saw deceased on the 3d of the present month Saw deceased for the first time two y ars ago did not know his I name knew his face when he came in on the night of the 3d when in my place two years ago he was noisy and I put him out had no grudge against him I came on shift about 330 pm Anderson was in my place four times on the night of the shooting first time he made a noise swung his hat and hal loosd he was in there about two minutes min-utes when he made the noise I went after him to put him out met him near the ice chest he went out without any resistance the second time he came in I was behind the bar it was about twenty minutes after I had ordered him out he shut the door when he came in I told him again to go out and stay out he did pot move so I went from behind the bar took hold of him and put him out he made very little resistance after I put him out he called me a s of a b he stood on the sidewalk a few minutes and then went up street the third time he came in with a man from Gerraty Ivers stable his name was Evans Anderson Ander-son asked for drink told him he could get all he wanted outside and wouldnt give him any I again went from behind be-hind the bar took hold of him and put him out he resisted and I used force he placed his hands one on eachside of the door and braced himself 1 loosed his hold and he fell down he caught me by the legs I loosed his hold on my legs and catching him by the legs upended up-ended him out the door it wasnt much trouble no one helped me have put out lots better men When asked Ddnt Officer Weber ask you if you wanted the man locked up and didtyou tell him no that you had put him out three or four times and didnt think he would trouble you any more 1 Witness said no Prosecution said If that answer isnt true then mile of your testimony is is it Vitness o JJTP Agitated and ui t tardy know Low tc rwer He unaUr said It Is true I am on rry oath The fourth time he cams in was abour threequarters of anhour afterwards hecame in mad slammed the door qpentowards the bar thought he was mad he looked like it He had knife in his hand I again ordered him out and told him to stay out he didnt go I took pistol from nail went around the end ot the bar thinking the gun would scare him he said You s of a b Ill kill you anyhow and started for me I pulled on him but the gun snapped He kept coming and I pulled again the gun went off but Andersonjkept coming thought I had missed him so pulled again Had I known the first shot struck him would not have fired the second one did not see him raise his left hand was about six or seven feet from me he walked to the door and fell out on the sidewalk side-walk Smith was talking to me at the bar when he came in saw something shining in his hand couldnt see whether it was a knife or a pistol as ue kept his hand moving the stove is on a line with the end of the bar bar is sixteen feet long stove is about nine feet from bar kept gun on a nail about three feet from end of bar was satisfied that Anderson had a weapon of some kind In the arguments which followed the close of the taking of the testimony counsel for the prisoner asked for Grants discharge or his admittance to bail Mr Allison who prosecuted said the law and the evidence demanded that the prosiner be committed without bail to await the action of the erand jury The court took the case under advisement ad-visement until Friday morning at 10 oclock when he rendered the following decision Decided that the prisoner beheld be-held to await the action of the grand jury in the sum of 10000 the bonds to be subject to the approval of the Court Four of the principal witnesses must furnish bonds for their appearance at the trial |