| Show CASE OF JOHN CHASE More About Attempted Eviction Evic-tion in Salt t ake MOTHER MAKES STATEMENT Causes Leading Up to the Unfortunate Un-fortunate Affair Different Sides of the Story as Told by Interested Parties Chase Out on Bail + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Salt Lake City Utah Oat 9 + + 1 rOarhl Is to certify that John 4 + 13 Chase did l on the Sin day of October 4 + Oc-tober 1003 assault me his mother + + Mary A Colburt dragging me from + + the house at MS East Fourth South + + street by the wrists bruising my + + wrists and slapping me In the face + + Signed + + MRS MARY A COLHURT + + + + + + + 4f4fj + + + + + + In the wreck of a house at 918 East Fourth South street yesterday afternoon sat a withered old woman woman well past 70 years old deaf and practically helpless as far as battling with the world Is concerned She was moaning and weep log in bitterness of heart not however on account of her own sad fate not because be-cause thai grandson sho said she had tenderly ten-derly cared for from his babyhood to young manhood had tried to drive her Into the street and falling In this hnd made good headway In tearing the roof from her head no it was not this which caused her arced heart to ache and the tears to How like rain down her furrowed cheeks twas because lit had been spoken by others of the grandson she had reared STANDS BYHER BOY The house In which the almost forsaken for-saken old woman nuti I yesterday Is Indeed a wreck but it had been her home for more than thirty years and for her there are tender memories yet clinging about the old dilapidated place Yesterday tho outer doors and the windows nil were gone and the apertures were covered with sadlooking quilt and blankets while the yard was strewn with weatherbeaten shingles which had been torn from thin root of the humble collage the day before by the youth who thus sought to make the I place uninhabitable for the old lady who now defends his every action HE WANTED POSSESSION They mustnt assail tho character of my boy cried the old woman In a perfect per-fect ecstacy of Indignation Why I nilsed him from a baby Mho added as though that must settle the question of his Integrity He was born In that room there 1 carried him out and dressed him and ho was with me always until a grown man He was always a good boy lie can work at any of them stores and ho stands well with till big men downtown down-town Its an awful thing to assail a boys character and limy must not say these terrible thin s about my boy Did he not try to drive you from the house Yes he wanted me to move out of time house but it wasnt his fault It was all on account of the man who holds the mortgage Ho has been urging John to have us movo out because hes afraid veil have some claim on the property John got J2000 out of the estate but that Is his business 1 paid the taxes on this properly ten years and was the boys guardian and I novel got a cent but that wasnt Johns faultIt Is the place of the administrator to settle It and I didnt want to leave the house until It was settled The boy wouldnt have done this if they hadnt been pressing1 I him to foreclose the mortgage JOHN PUSHED HER OUT Yesterday John came here and took out the doors and windows and got on the roof and tore off the shingles Then his mother my daughter who has boon In possession here she came and John pushed her out1 Did ho strike her I dont know whether he struck her or not lie took hold of her wrists and then I went out at the back door I didnt want to sec It THE MOTHERS STORY Mrs Mary A1 Colburt the mother of young Chase also defends his character In a General way He Is I an IndAotrlous faIthful honest boy she said yesterday He hI 1 good to everyone but his mother and grandmother grandmoth-er I am his mother and the legally adopted daughter of the man who willed him all tho property of which Ibis hOUND Is the remnant that has not been sold My mother and I were appointed his guardians under the will and yet the property has all been sold without any accounting to us and we have not received re-ceived one dollar from any of It Now I propose to protect my mothers Interests and my own I have been In possession of the house since John had mother legally le-gally ousted several weelts ago and I have kept mother here and looked after her TORE OFF THE ROOF Yesterday John came here when I was away for a Ume and with mother lying In that bed yonder he took out tho doors and windows and tore tho shingles from the roof When I returned he had gone and mother was sitting here rocking rock-ing and crying I asked her Who did this She said John Chase did It HOW TROUBLE STARTED I then went to a neighbors to telephone tele-phone to her lawyer hut couldnt get him and had started to take a cur to go down town when I saw John Chase and Mr Hancock come to the hoiiPO I then returned to the house and entered by l the back door When I reached the front room John was Just coming through tho front window and he approached mother in a threatening way and said Ill show you L went and got a stick and struck at John with it as lie was In tho act oC I striking at mother with his Hat He caught the lUck In his hand and jerked it away from me then grabbed inc by the wrlsto which he brulnid HH you sect thom here and dragged mo out in the front yard and slapped me In the face The man Hancock Han-cock who had stood watching it all then 1 oald to John Dont strike your mother any more lIe then let go and I wont and telephoned for an offIcer to come out and arrest him CHASE WAS ON HAND During the time yesterday that a Tribune Trib-une representative was visiting the promises prom-ises occupied by Mrs Morris the Brand mother and Mrs Colburl the mother of John Chase the young man accompanied by his fatherinlaw Mr Hancock was about the premises but did not attempt to onttr the house Chase Is I n qulct maniuired young man of good address < who has been in the employ of various wellknown business houses of the city for some yearn past but he scorns hardly Ito I-to appreciate tho enormity or the offense with which hn Is charged He declared however that the slaleinent lhat lie had struck any one was absolutely false and mule the following statement In hlu own behalf WHAT HE SAYS I cold that property ho said on I January 11th last The old lady had been I living there for ycaru and I went down to talk to her to gel her to move She J finally F Qti that If f I would rent her anoth er IJOUBC and pay It months rent and move her things Into It sho would got out T I rented a house and she looked at It and sent me a letter saying shu would move If I would tell her what day I would send u van up Later 1 called on her again to fluid < out when who would move and she told mo her attorney had advised her motto mot-to move and she would bo ilti If she would move until she was put out I called several times atler that to try to purnuhdo hor to move peaceably without taking the matter into the courts but she still refused I then brought suit In Justice Jus-tice court and secured n 1 judgment Her attorney then got a restraining order from the District court restraining me from having a writ of restitution served but when the case cama up for hearing In the District court the order of the lower court was sustained The writ waa turned over to the Sheriff to servo and he monkeyed along about three weeks when he claimed that ho had served the writ and put Mrs Morris out but that liar daughter was In possession 1 > TOOK POSSESSION OF HOUSE Yesterday I went down and found no one In possession but Mrs Morris wholet me In and I had possession nearly all day i went to lunch and upon rolurnlng was told by irs Morris that I l I had better get out before her daughter cam or thcro would be a hiS light At that time her daughter was coming In the gate She walked around the house picked up a club and tried t to strike me with I It I took the club away from her and threw It out of the house whereupon i hu trie to strike mo with her hands I took her by the wrists and quietly led her out of tho house She stayed around for some time afterward then went away and about li iift returned with nn officer who arrested nc I secured ball and was released |
