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Show EXAMINATION IV THK MlRDKll (Ml A II (J K. The exaiuinaiioii into tlij Kobiu-on murder caie was continued at Wood-mansec's Wood-mansec's hall, before judge McKean yesterday. General Maxwell paid the prosecution decircd to wait a few minutes min-utes for the purpose of making another arrest. The coum-el fur the defense objected that a new defendant could not be brought in at 1 1 1 i - stsc of the the examination. The dl-triet ull-jruty a-kd for the discharge of the difcndaut Brazier, as no evidence had been elicited connecting connect-ing him with the murder. Ths judyo granted the diicharg j. Tuomas BrjTEiiwodu twrn. lias lived in the 14ih Ward, in this city, since IS'jG; don't recollect the exact ex-act date; came to live in t hi Territory in l.iij. On --d day of October 'Oij, in the evening was ps.-ing from Little Cottonwood to Salt Lake city; incoming incom-ing into the cit y lost his way and made, for tlie thcatio to lind out where he was got on '1 bird South tircct, going 1 west, and pasi d two m.'ti. Heard ouc of them taj "U it, l-x us go and get something to cat." The two men followed witneto Main .street on passing pas-sing along observed a man and woman-one woman-one of them s-id to a man standing on tho tide-walk, "C'jod night, brig. Hampton." Wiuic-;; i.;i.--cd along to tho centre (.!' the next blouk; heard some kind of a Hoi-:-:; tl.en heard the report of a pi t j!, and jumped ovr the fence, being liightcncii: in atliortliuie , ojii i m, lhu mt u i u.jt.ii- (lufti iii iii, going go-ing west, as fa -.t as they could on the side-walk. The.-c men wcro Alexander Burt and Liri:;liam Y. liamptcfh, a'rs. or eight lect horn witness there were some bushes in tho yard. Vas a little beyond the centre of tin,- bloc!;. The man and woman witness saw were standing very near tho corner, opposite oppo-site 1 udc por.de i. c-3 ha!!. J);d not sea the man's Iscc. m believed ever since that Burt and Hampton were tl c two men he hw running pat him. Before tho pistol sliol hcaid a man cry, "My Cod, don't murder me;" heard the pUtol repo:t from three to five uimutes later. Ootover the fence because ho was frightened, The two men were dressed with loDg overcoats and large brimmed hats; saw no weapons. weap-ons. Saw these men some time after the occurrence and have known them ever since. Bid not know them before; be-fore; saw other men looking round, but took no notice of them. Saw one man run Ironi Beatic's corner as if ho were going cast; could not recognize the man who said let ui go and get something to ear. Gen. Maxwell then asked, "Why havo you not testified to thi-j fact before?" be-fore?" Objected to, and argued on both sides, and objection overruled by the judge. 1 Tim witness proceeded' to answer. , He said : A strange man came to his house this morning. Objected to by defense. Tho court told the witness to proceed. The witness said : A man came lo his house this morning ' and asked, if witness wanted money, why be did not come (0 us. Witness answered I don't want any of your money, the price of blood. Witness said he had always felt that if ho disclosed dis-closed the facts in this case he should have been dead to day. Cross-examined by Mr. Fitch Have been engaged in all kinds of work in this Territory. Am a miner; have been at work in Silver Fork, Little Cottonwood, in the Prince of Wales mine; came to the city last Saturday, on a dispatch from Walker brothers; was in the cily yesterday, not in the court room, had no conference with the prosecuting attorney prior to 10 o'clock yesterday morning ; in tho f.ill of '6ii lived in the Mth ward; on- the night of tho 22nd of October was coming com-ing into town from Cottonwood; had been out there to seo a friend; think it was between 1 1 aud.12 o'elockwhcn he cot into the city; could not tell what street he came up on: when he saw Ihc man and woman on Wain street, near Beatle's corner, they were traveling travel-ing wc.-;t on south side of Third street; witness wii from thirty to lorty yards from Beatie's corner when ho heard llie man that was with (die-woman speak to the man, saying, " (.lood night Brig. Hampton. Hamp-ton. " From tho time of this conver.atiou to the report of tho pistol was ten to Glleeu minutes; in the meantime witness was walking along leisurely; went to nearly the centre of the next block; when witness heaid tbc pistol shot he jumped over a fence, believed a pitle fence; within the enclosure was a homo cast and west on cither side of him; he hid himself in the currant bushes about two yards from tbe side-walk, and knelt down behind the bushes, lace towards ! the street; stopped there from ten to Gflccn minutes; saw two men ruuniug oast on the same side -walk, ono a tall man, medium size, being ahead a short distance; both men had large brimed hats and largo overcoats; did not observe collars or mutHers round their necks; could not describo the board of the first man; the second man had a light beard; could see but a little of it; the side of his hat was down so he could not seo much of the beard; could not say whether ho saw the eyes of the second man; could not I seo his forehead nor his nose; saw very niiiu ul 111.1 eoiiMLeiuiuce, lucimiy him by bis tiguro and stature; this was Alexander Burl; never saw him bc-foro bc-foro that lime;' did not notice tho beard of Hampton; next saw Burt perhaps a month from the night of the murder on Main street; never saw him before that night to his knowledge; knowl-edge; could not tell who was with him 1 when he met him on Main street; iu-; iu-; formed several friends that Burt" was the man; lirst told John Clack, who is now out of the country; also informed Joseph Silver, don't know what time; did not know Lvurt's name when I saw him on Main' street; did not know 1 lampion's name at the lime of tho mui'der; on tho night of ! the murder saw a number of men and I women coming down on tho west side of Main street, traveling south; did I not take much notice of them; do not j know iho man who was with the I woman, and' do not recollect seeing j him since; they wcro passing Independence Inde-pendence hall when the man s:iid ! ''Good night, JJrig. llamplou;" they 1 had turned and were traveling went; they were across the street when I was i at Independence hall; was not I less than a rod nor more than live rods from lhcni;belnud Ihc enclosure I of Independence- hall is a small house; I by tho gate stood a man leaning on tho j post, facing the couth; did not see his face nor observe his dres, except lhat lie had 'oh a ec.at; it whs a bright moun-hVhtuight; moun-hVhtuight; hftiitd no other words; recognized rec-ognized tlie voice of tho man wilii tho woman by bavin 1: heard him converse I iu a low toue with the woman; never have seen the man or woman since; I havo slight reoolloctiou of his features; , in crossing Main smvt going west he ; saw two men on the opposite sido of 1UC M1CCL HUicilllal iiuuui. limy IR'IU west of Beattie's corner on Third sti'eel; from three to lour rods f:om the corn; r; did not lUiii lond to lo who.'o ihey went; niw only the 111:111 standing by the post; thj ma it and (ho woman and the two men near lieatt'e s 0 inter; knew tho day v;u the 22d of October by keeping tho date; did not know the mau who came to his house this morning; morn-ing; U 'ver saw him before; only witness' wit-ness' w ifii was llutv; lie knocked at: lhed;tor; wilii', s admitted him. said he wished to talk wi;h wiins piivate-ly; piivate-ly; witne.-s rcpitVcd his wile to retire; the person did not seem to know h'-w to .qet at what he warned to say; atd : he understood witness had been called , to testify in the Kobinson case; a:-ked ; witness if he ms not afraid of his life; : witness replied no, let them kill me I if they can; the stranger asked, "Have I you taken money 011 1 he other Fide" tic replied no, he would not take n;on from any quarter. Stranger said, "If you wanted money why didn't you come to us?" j.Vho witness here said emphatically he-wanted rvrv man to umiiT-tand he would nev--r t.ka in.mcy fir hi evidence; I this man Inda Ik-hi-ijdi complexion, no whi-ker?, was dressed in black cloth and a large overcoat; over-coat; he 5taid in the house about fifteen fif-teen minutes; did not ask hit wife whether she had ever scon him before; told his wife that the stranger wa.s trying the money game; but he (witness) (wit-ness) was not the man for that game; she asked witness what he meant; but ho did not reply; his wife said you had better watch that man. After witness emerged from the currant cur-rant bushes he went down Third South street a block and a half directly home; stayed outside a few minutes; then unlocked un-locked the door and went in; bis wife had retired, was awako when he saw her; did not mention to her anything that he had seen; cannot tell whether ho now lives in the same house that he then occupied; it is situated in the same block, but did not remember whether he had moved before the night of the murder or not. Mr. Hempstead said that tho occurrence oc-currence mentioned by the last witness at his house was a serious one, and if any such thing had occurred, the facig. should be known, as it would meet as strong reprehension from the defense a-s from the prosecu'.ion. The counsel asked that the wife of the witness be sent for, giving her no opportunity to confer with her husband. The court ordered a marshal lo produce pro-duce the witness and adjourned till 2 o'clock, in the afternoon, Hulteiwood was recalled by the defense. He said the ' men parsed by him too quickly on the 1 night of the murder for him to see ; much of their faces; he only recognized recog-nized (hem by their figures; could not1 say in what direction the man and ! woman went, whether north or.-outh. Mr. Uuttenvood was worn; had lived in the ll:h ward eleven or twelve . years, not in the same hou-e all the ' time; there was a man at the houun tins morning about tho time she got down stairs; did not know what be wanted; heard him .say he wanted to sec Mr. Buttcrwood, aud she left tbc 1 room when the man came in; asked I her husband no questions about (he I man, nor did he communicate any- thing to heron the suhjec!; she was j first asked to come to court about half j an hour ago by a stranger; told him she would do no good there; have not conversed with any person since. The I witness then retired. j The prosecution then recalled Baker, ! the first witness, and put the question , to him, why, having known the facts to which he had testified, for years, he had not before given information to the authorities. Witness replied : I was looking to ; my own safety at the time. Mr. Hempstead then cross-examined Baker upon some points of his former evidence, lie had never seen Toms and Blyihe to recognize them except on the day of tho murder; saw Toms at his gun shop, where he went lo have a pistol repaired, and Blytlic at his store opposite the Revere houc, where he saw him in conference with Morris twice on that day. Morris appeared ap-peared to be dressed iu a light coal in the store; when ho saw him at night he had on an overcoat, of some description; descrip-tion; had full whiskers and a mustache; mus-tache; have lived in Klko aud been in jail there one or two days and am not ashamed lo confess it. Tho counsel for the defense requested re-quested the court to take a recess till the morning, lo enable litem to determine deter-mine upon their course, and the court adjourned (ill 10 o'clock (his morning. |