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Show HILLSTRGiVilS SCORED BY STATER AnDRNEY Defendant Shrinks When Dramatically Accused of Murder of Morrisons. GOES TO JURY TODAY Defense Will Make Final Plea This Morning; Accused Ac-cused Not on Stand. Joseph Hillstrom's fate tvill be placed ivith the jury some time ; today. The defense closed its case shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after-noon, resting without putting IlilJstrom on the stand. ' The address of the district at torney, E. O. Leather wood, began be-gan at 3:30 o'clock and was concluded ! at 5 o'clock. This morning the de- fense will plead its cause before the 1 jury and the case will be submitted fol- i lowing a brief argument by the state and the instructions of the court. ; It was with a veritable sledce hammer ham-mer of eloquence and logic that the district attorney welded together the links of the chain of circumstantial evidence evi-dence with which the state expects to convict the accused. He touched only I on the major details of the state's evi dence, but these he linked with much emphasis, challenging the jury to escape es-cape ,their import if possible. The address was rich in dramatic ( values. Pointing his finger at the de- I lendant. the district attorney di re.ctly and with great force accused him of ! murdering Morrison and his little son, i Arlin. The shock of bitter words came so suddenly to HUlstrom that he straightened as from a physical im-. im-. pact, jerking his head back as though from a blow. 1 Murder Decribed. He described the murder of the gro-I gro-I cer and his son as the most cruel, the , most dastardly, the most bloodthirsty ; in the historv of Utah, i He said that no man can plan a j crime such as the Morrison murder. be I he ever so keen, but that at some point i in the execution thereof the hand of i fate interferes and leaves some tell- tale sign to point him out as the slayer, i In the case of Hillstrom, he said, the ! hand of fate operated through the haim of little Arlin Morrison when he seized his father's gun and, though he paid for it a moment' later with his own life, shot the man who had murdered his parent. j "That man was Hillstrom," declared ; i' uist rii-t at to mo v. "and thc' bu I v ; fired by that boy just before he, too, fell under the tire of the cowardly ; brutes, penetrated the breast of the murderer and by that token the law ' has sought him out. Murder will out, and 1 tell you it speaks louder than a voice from the mountain top.'J Touching Tribute. The district attorney paid a touching tribute to the courage of Arlin Morrison, Morri-son, bravelv facing the highwaymen in the face of certain death, to aid his father. ' 1 That boy established a higher standard of citizenship in this community," com-munity," he said, and then continued: con-tinued: Ah, it was a cruel thing, the killing kill-ing of that child. And not content with rendering him helpless, one of the brutes delibeiately, as shown by the course cf the bullets, leaned over the counter and fired thrice into the boy's bod v to make sure no spark of his childish life should remain. If I should be asked to picture in my mind the fiend who could do . that deed I would not conjure up some monstrous Cyclops, but rather some cold thing, some bloodless thing, some thing in which the springs of hums nity had been ; stopped up, some thing through the veins of which runs the acid of hate. That is the kind of a thing that could kill that boy. It was the accusing angel of conscience con-science that caused Hillstrom to throw his gun away while K'ing driven to his home in Murray in a doctor's car after having his wound dressed, the district attorney said. If he had received . his ' wound in a quarrel over a woman there would h:ive been no can?e for throwing ; the gun away, he said, but it was be- cause that gun, figuratively, dripped ; with the blood of the Morrisons that ho hurled it from him, he declared. Hi closing, the district attorney denied de-nied ihe insinuations of the defense that the state had sought to make a 1 case against Hillstrom by putting words ; in the mouths of witnesses. He told the j'.ivv that the same cha rg-j had li-.cu thrown in his face and in the face of the officers of the law by every maker of widows and orphans that had ever come before the bar of justice since he became district attorney. Just after the noon recess the defense de-fense asked for a further recess in which to consult among themselves. Attorneys At-torneys Soren X. (.'hristonsi'n, F. PJ. Scott and E. D. McDougall of the defense de-fense were in conference with Hillstrom for forty minutes, after whirh thev announced an-nounced to the court that the defense would rest. The question of putting Hillstrom nn the stand was discussed at the conference, it was learned. Saw Man in Snow. Cum til at ive evidence tending to , strengthen the testimony of Peter Khengven, given the day before, concerning con-cerning the actions of a mysterious stranger whom he saw at Eighth West and Eighth South streets the night of : the murder, was presented by the de- ' fen so at the morning session. ! Khcngren had testified that he saw the man lying in the snow on the ground moaning as though in pain. He said the man got up and boarded a street car. J. K. Usher, a car conductor, testified testi-fied that he was in charge of the car on the night of the murder and that he noticed no-ticed the man who was seen by Rhen-gren. Rhen-gren. He said the man tried to board the car on the wrong side. ' ' I noticed his peculiar actions and supposed he was drunk, though I did not smell any liquor ou him," he said. Usher said that the man rode as far as Second South and Main streets, where he got of! and disappeared. He reported report-ed to thc police concerning the man's actions and was shown a picture of an ex-convict named W. X. Williams, alias "Wilson. The picture, ho test i lied, resembled re-sembled the man who got on the car. Aft.fr looking at Hillstrom the witness wit-ness said he was not the man in question. ques-tion. , 1 E. J. Miller, the gun expert, who was on the stand for the defense nearly all day Tuesday, was called again in an effort ef-fort by the defense to prove that Hillstrom Hill-strom was wounded by a steel jacketed bullet and not by a iead bullet of the kind fired by Arlin Morrison at one of the highwaymen. Miller said he had examined the wound scars on Hillstrom at the county jail Tuesday evening and he was of the opinion that the bullet "keyholed" in passing through Hillstrom's body, that is, it turned slightly, thus causing a larger exit hole than the entrance. Lead bullets cause larger exit holes than steel bullets, but a steel bullet may cause just as large an exit if it "keyholes," he testified. Miller said that a lead bullet, especially espe-cially a soft lead bullet, leaves a black lead' mark when it makes a wound, and that steel bullets do not. The defense sought to bring out that the wound in Hillstrom's body bore no lead mark, but the state objected and the court, ruled out the testimony on the ground that Miller had not seen the wound when it was fresh and was not competent to judge after five months had elapsed since the wound was made. The defense then called Inspector Carl A. Carlson of the police department, who was examined as to the arrest of Oran Anderson on the night of the Morrison murder. He was asked if Anderson An-derson had not been wounded in the arm and if he was not released from custody after telling a story of having been held up bv two highwaymen in the vicinity of Eighth West and Eighth South streets. Carlson said he remembered remem-bered the arrest of Anderson, but he did not remember that he was wounded or that he had tnld of being held up. He said Anderson was found wandering aiuilesslv in that vicinitv and was released re-leased after telling that lie was unable to sleep and was out walking to quiet his nerves. |
