Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-06 | Page 4 | Ellis Found Guilty of Murdering Wife

ELLIS FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING WIFE Jury Plxos Punishment at Imprisonment Imprison-ment in the State Penitontiary for Pifteon Yeaxs. CHICAGO, March 5. William Cheney Che-ney Ellis was today found guiltv of murdering his wife, Mrs. Eloauor Ilosea Ellis, last Octobor, in a Chicago hotel. Punishmout was fixed at imprisonment ' in the fitatc penitentiary for fifteen , vears. William Cheney Ellis killed his wife hero Octobor 1G, .1013, tho night after thoy had celebrated their ninth wedding wed-ding anniversary with n dinner and a thoator part j. Mrs. Ellis had come hero sovcral dnys ahead of hor husband and had mado tho trip against his wishes. At the trial EH13 defended himself by testifying that ho had reason to suspect sus-pect that his wifo came hero to meet Fred Caldwell of Brantford, Ontario. Canada, a i-oung dry goods merchant they had met whilo on a vacation in Canada. He said that the thought drove him to frenzy, and export witnesses wit-nesses set up tho plea of psychic epilepsy epi-lepsy or transitory insanity. Ellis wns a woll-known dealer in leather in Cincinnati and wns supposed to bo wealthy. IIq is 47 years old. Mrs. Ellis was a beautiful woman and the mother of two little daughters, Eleanor and Viola, 8 and 2 years old, respectively.