| Show SEDUCER A lottig lady j in salt lake does daring act amanda oisen monday night shot frank hall her betrayer in salt late city the plucky little arman stood on the street corner on first and C street and when hall came along she bent a leaden messenger mea of death into his brain the father of the lady made the following statement to a herald re porter about a year ago thia man hallwas hall was introduced into my household a by mrs hart we received him as gentleman but we really knew nothing abent him he continued to call occasionally for several months when he was taken sick and went to the hospital my wife took compassion on the lonely man and cooked food for him which she took to the hospital he was very grateful grat elul for this attention and called more frequently up to this time his attention to mv daughter amanda was not very marked but one day after he came from the hospital be met her on the and said he had some vary important matter to talk over with her and wanted her to go to some private place with him finally she asked me about it and I 1 told her he might talk to her they then had a private talk and he informed her that his wife was living but he intended to get a divorce from her and wanted then to marry my girl she refused to make any engagement but he managed to see her very frequently and once took lier out buggy riding after a while she came to look on his proposal to marry her with more favor and broached the subject to me I 1 had nothing against the man for lie had always acted as a perfect gentleman in my house but when it came to marriage marri aee that was a different thin and I 1 opposed it the idea bad taken a strong hold upon her however and she persisted and I 1 finally yielded hall talked the matter over with me and said he simply intended to meet amanda in a friendly way until he obtained a divorce he called several times after that but in november last he went away this seemed to break my daughters heart she was in low spirits all the time and had fre spells of fainting I 1 tried to get her to forget the worthless fellow telling her that he had proven himself unworthy of her love but it had no effect some days ago he returned from the east and then ehe made a confession to us she stated that one shortly before he left the city he paid her his usual visit we had gone to bed and after they had talked a few minutes about marria gehe threw a handkerchief over her mouth and after threatening her if she resisted or uttered a sound outraged her then he told her that bis only reason in doing what he had done was to make sure that she would bo true to him when she finished the confession she said 1 I swore vengence on this man and I 1 prayed to god for strength to do it dhe ahra al ways been a quiet affectionate girl miss olsen immediately gave herself up to the police after the shooting |
