Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1906-03-09 | Page 2 | Frank Checketts is Free

FRANK CHECKETTS IS FREE Hearing on Charge of Killing His Hs Father Ends in His Release Releaser llor r the second time Frank Checketts th boy who shot and killed hf father about two weeks ago In de ferse of his mothers life was set free fre here yesterday l was oxon exon I orated crated by the coroners jury jur but later I County Attorney Ill E T filed charges against him for voluntary man manslaughter slaughter and shortly before last evening Judge J D Murphy ordered the bo boy released from custody The evidence submitted at the prelim nary trial yesterday esterdAY WItS was in substance I Ithe the same as was introduced at the In IniC n iC st About the ooh only new feature and andone andone one that was quite sensational was elicited from Mrs Checketts wife of th dead man And the boys mother On Mrs Checketts said that wat her husband bad so no severely beaten one of their children a number of years zigo go that it bled from the nose and two days later the child chUd died In explaining thIs Incident the woman stated that some years ears ago she gave birth to twins one of whom hom a girl is livIng While but a 8 toddling Infant one of 1 them lingered the father who cruelly beat It If about the face and back The day the child took ill and In two days das pas passed ed a away The Inference was left that the beating given th the lit little littie tie tle one by the parent was vas the cause of th the fatal faW illness after hearing all the testimony ny produced by the state Judge Murphy Murph ordered the prisoner released and the ft ii ball bail bond remitted