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Show SLAVER OF INDIA! MOSTJTAND TRfAL Simeon Powell, Who Killed Red Man, Bound Over to District Dis-trict Court. BUT LITTLE PROSPECT OF SECURING A CONVICTION ! Details of Tragedy Show That White Man Was 'Threatened. 'Threat-ened. Charged with murder in tho first do-grco, do-grco, Simeon Powell, a man over 60 years of age. is locked up in tho county jail at Hcber City, accused of having murdered an Indian named Alvis about eight miles from Slockmoro on November Novem-ber 20 last. Powell belongs in Spanish Fork and had beou in Stockmorc only a short time. When arraigned before a justice of the pence in Hcber City, Powell entered a plea of not guilty, but the evidence was so strong against him that he was held without bail for tho district court. According to the testimony introduced at tho hoaring. Powell was visiting a man named Gincs. who has a cabin eight miles from Stockmoro. lie had his team with him, and under tho scat i had deposited a jug of alcohol. Gincs ! is a homesteader. Alvis, who was known as Willio Jack, had a camp located half a milo from Giuos's cabin, nnd in tho morning paid a visit to the latter. Ho scented the jug of "lire water" aud j manager to secure from Powell a half- I pint bottle of the contonts. This ho drank, nnd then, Indian fashion, wautcd j more, which was refused. He tried to coax Powell and then began to bluff, ! telling Powell he was a deputy sheriff. and unless the jug and its contents were ; handed over to him, ho would report j Powell to Captain Hall, the Indian ' agent. Powell became greatl' oxcilod over the Indian's statements, but still refused lo give up tho alcohol. Both Men Make Start. In the meantime Gines had been talking to Alvis about racing their ponies, and after a time the Indian started away in the direction of his camp. At tho same time Powell left ; tho cabin and went in the opposite ! direction. After going about a quarter j of a mile. Powell turned and started i back for Gines 's cabin. As he arrived ; at. 'the cabin he noticed tho Indian, , mount ed upon tho pony ho proposed to race, leaving his camp and heading for Gines, tho animal moving at a rather i fast trot. 1 According to several eye-witnesses, when the Indian was within about 300 3-ards of the cabin, Powell cried. "Stop, or I'll shoot! " Tho words had hardly j left Powell's lips when a shot rang out. ! , The Indian was seen to turu his pony squarely about and head for bis camp. 1 He rode only a few 3'ards, however. when he was seen to fall from his ' pony. A number of those who witnessed the ! shooting hurried to tho side of the in- j jured red skin, and be was taken to ' Stockmore, where medical aid was ron- I dered. Ho failed to rocovor, however, ' and died the next day, November 21. Indian Not Armed. 1 It was proven conclusively that Alvis ! was not armed, and did not have even a ' pocket knife in his possession. On the I other hand. Powell was fully armed, having a bulldog revolver in h"is pocket at the time of his arrest. All cham- j bers in the weapon were fully loaded, i with the exception of the one which bad ! been discharged by him, according to i eye-witnesses. The wound which caused tho death of the Indian, less than twenty-four hours after he was shot, was a peculiar one. He was holding tho reins of tho pony in his right hand, and tho bullet struck him squaroly in the wrist of that hand, passed clear through, cutercd . his abdomen on the right side -just un- fler tho ribs, passed through the intes- i tines and kidney and came out about ' for.r inches from tho spinal column, ' after having completed a semi-circle. I The head of the bullet was dented, but the wound was as clean and clear-cut as the inside of a piece of lead pine. Powell Widely Known. Powell is widoly known in Hcber City, and when Sheriff William Bonner, jr.. sought him after the death of tho Indian, no trouble was experienced in placing him under arrest. Tho case was prosecuted by Chaso Hatch, county attorney at-torney for Wasatch county, and Assistant Assist-ant United States District Attorney William M. McCrea of thi3 city. The trial will be held at the next session ot tne district court for Wasatch county which will bo either in January or February, and as tho government reservation res-ervation there has been thrown open it will be prosecuted by the state and not by the government. There is considerable doubt in Heber City over the conviction of Powell according to Mr. McCrea. He says that from talk he hoard there, the general opinion seems to bo that tho actions and intimidations of tho Indian bo mghtcned Powell that the latter, believing be-lieving ho was in danger of bis life when he saw the Indian approaching him on horseback, shot through fear o? hv KCf.,MT mS bcIipfi -Is st"Cthoncd by the fact that a white man has not been convicted of murdering an Indian in Wasatch county since tho government opened the reservation to' tho public although there have been a number of liko occurrences. |