Salt Lake Herald | 1904-11-22 | Page 5 | Says Not Guilty

I STATE NEWS SAYS Preliminary Hearing of Weed For Murder of Alma White I at Fish Springs Eureka Nov ry hear lag of Edward It Ward s with the of Alma at Springs on the of was at 1 of Peace T C Burns The has Judge Powers to hint and pleaded not guilty to the charge was conducted tY ty Attorney Pike and the Interests of the defendant were looked after by J JD D Pardee of Salt Lake The evidence wao taken down by W L Cook court for this district Peter j Reid the first witness called proved to be an original character Mr fIeld has spent the greater part of his life on the frontier and is the law iii Fish Springs He uses the of the westerner and in reply to a quos tion by the county attorney as to or h served In the of con constable stable slowly replied Ies sometimes as constable sometimes as or the peace and sometimes as prosecuting at attorney torney just as the play comes UP Mr Reid described the interior of the cabin the position of the body or when he first saw it and told of his trip to Eureka with the body of the dead man in a box In the and the theman man who killed him on the drivers seat He also testified to finding one of the imbedded in the wait of the cabin When asked on what date he found the piece of lead Mr Reid We dont keep dates out there we know when election cornea the Fourth of July and Christmas In reply to Judge as asto to how he knew Whites death was caused by gunshot wounds Mr said that he had been shot five times and these wounds looked just like mine Mr Reid was a good witness however left doubt According to the testimony of eyewitnesses the cabin occupied by the dead man and the nan who is accused of his been the of a drink lug bout on the day of the tragedy White hail been scuffling with John on the bed and according to and his partner Mr Mitchell was the former when Weed pulled White off White attempted to return and Weed objected White roiled us his sleeves after some words with Weed and the latter quickly the gun from under I a pillow and fired two shots in rapid sue It appeared from the testimony that Weed was the only man in the cabin who was not under the influence of 11 quor At the conclusion of the hearing the defendant was remanded for trial on ona a charge of murder in the