Show DAVIS HOMICIDES D defendant e fe R dant f s as sons on the stand THE BLOOD STAINS it looks like a clear case king kin is not in the case now i ArTER afternoon NOON court renamed session cession at 2 the jury in the E boch boch divis davis homicide case was completed the panel is as follows W K ebert newel knight J F westfall thomas thoma sutherland R A hills jr lavi open shaw morgan warner newel A A brown joshua jones james jamea whitehead whitebead S bf davis davia and H F crook the attorneys attorney in the case are as 1014 1 lows for the prosecution mr zane f for ua th the e defense AV H king and warner kenward the indictment was read charging the defendant with murdering his wife louisa davis in uintah count county v en an the night of june ath 1892 1992 by striking her on the head bead with a revolver mr zane opened the case he pic tur aured a d out one of the most adf awfully ally sick ening and brutal murders ever recorded in the annals of utah on suns sunn day night june ath the davis fa family m ily retired as usual nanal mrs davis occupied the bed with a little girl mr davis and several boys all youthful ale slept t on an the floor when the little children awoke in the tb morning they noticed their mother was gone dayis explained her av sence by saying that in one ene of her md mad fits she had run away subsequently he had told one of the boys that she had taken poison daring the night and had requested that sh she a be buried like a lady and that he davis had complied with her dying request by burying her in a clump of willows at some distance from the tha honsa bons one of the boys boya felt fait auspicious about the matter and rode over to ashley and notified the he returned he told his father what he had done his hia father replied that were there was nothing in the business at alt all and ha be would go off and get their mother he took a horse and rude rode away the boy who had bad notified ibbe fabe sheriff went to aihley and azain acain saw the sheriff in informing forming hiu hira that everything was all right and that his father had gone after his mother but bat after he pot got home he got to thinking the matter over and he resolved to make inar t lations iga gat tiona ions in an old potato pit w which I 1 davis had cleaned out on Satur saturday dar and ami subsequently flooded with wat lafr r end partially refilled they commane com mene men I 1 diz ii sing ging they reached the bottoni bot toai without result one 0 the ays pays again again stuck his shovel into tilt mu inu i 1 it struck against something hard wilen the boy brought out his shovel at vere ere several lockson locks of biti hi a mothers hair buried in the mud with an ugly aud and bloody wound on en the head with nothing to cover her ber nakedness but a chemise lay the murdered wife end and mother the sheriff was again notified and near ft Duch duchesne esue davis davia was waa discovered and captured when tho house was searched blood stained blankets end and sheets were discovered and under the tha bureau was found a cloth still damp which had bad been used for the tha purpose of wining up the blood the revolver which had bad hung in the room was also found with blood stains on it the olea DIES of the defense will be insanity MONDAY edward edwardl earl convicted of sellin belling liquor to indians had his sentence bius suspended until monday next pending a motion for a new trial the enoch davis murder case was waa resumed wainer kenward only V appeared for he be defense mr OMI king L having declined to accept the appoint ment of the court J W collins collina a physician had resided at ashley in june last chehad he had seen mrs louisa davis on june ath of this year vear on june fth he had bad seen her dead body in a potato pit about fifteen feet from the house witness Wit nesa drew a diagram of the house and premises where the tr tragedy oc cured the doctor further testified to assisting in the uncovering of the body and to removing it into the house it was lying face downward down the limbs limba twisted to make it fit in there were two wounds on trie head bead one on the right eide of the head wats wan a wound three inches long and an inch and a half wide the skull had been crushed two blows had bad been struck in looking around he be paw faw on the bureau a heavy six shooter the cylinder of the revolver fitted almost exactly in each oi the wounds on the head there was a small email dry blood stain in one corner of the revolver the body wai nude with the exception of a chemise and some old rags in the bousek house near tb the 8 bed was a blanket with splotches ol of blood on it the fluor floor had been mopped A 4 most mo st mop rag was found under the bureau burez the th blanket did not quite cover the blood stains on the flor floar flo r atthe at the inquest a sack had been brought in containing contain ine several artiel 1 eg of wearing apparel p a r el and bd clothing stained with tp blood lo 10 0 d these were exhibited in th the court room mrs mra davis davia had bad been at br butlers office anthe on the saturday batur day at about 5 p m the day before the night of the tragedy ane seemed to be excited and ne nervous ivous theodore davis son of de defendant about eighteen years of age testified th athis father a and nd mother had had a quarrel on tha sunday morn morning inz trick h had ad had a quartel several days ous he had herd heard his father make I 1 threats against hia bis mother lie he bad said it she cama into tte the houe bouie he fie would mash her bead with r chair no ho had put her out of the house he dibut know whether it was waa before or after i this threat she afterwards came into the house witness had seven brothers and two sisters ei stera on oa the night of the tragedy witness and his brother buri bart den slept at the carall cc rall his hia brother william was at a neighbors wen witness went to the house in in the morning his mother was not there A aroune kounz er brother told him she bad gut got mad daring the night and had r etrue k out witness aaker no arrora que bious on monday morning mor ning his bid fattier raked the yard up he had bad afterwards seen cb chips ipa in the ho potato pit ha H was he file first to find his moth mothers er 3 body bod oa tuesday ai orDin he first n policed li ceLe tl e blanket v en he floor on alunday eveni uti hip hi I 1 brother barleen told him concerning hia mother on monday evening he went acroca to the ibe town to find his hia brother william A few minutes later his bis father and his brother burl came cama up he was e called to one side by y his bis fat father e r who told him his hia mother was dead he wanted witness and burl barl zt to write to him and imitate her bey hand band v writing as near as possible so that people would think she had bad gono gone on the outside if people fouad out that witness other mother was dead he be davis would swing awing between the heavens and the earth but if it was allowed to go it would blow over in a short time witness asked his hia father what canted her I 1 death and he had told him she took phaion and had requested that she ehe be buried in some unknown place his fattier father got drunk monday alter afternoon noon witness had consulted with hollinger and he had advised him to see sheriff p pe 1 he 1 e t told ld the sheriff about the te a affairs affair s a and n d a warrent warrant was made out for his hia fathers arrest he then went home and told his bis father what he be had done his hie father told him not to get his shirt on off that his mother was no more dead than he was and he would go and got get her his aathar then rode off in the direction of green river witness went to sheriff pope and told hini him everything was all right and his bis father had gone after his bis mother afterwards Js ls when witness got cot to thin thinking klug atie matter over he be concluded to dig die in the potato pit which had been filled up as be thought if his bis mother was dead ehe might have been buried there he found the body and again notified the sheriff ane witness recognized the articles of clothing and bedding which were stained with blood among them a vest belonging to his hia father defendant wears in court room a coat of the same material as the vesta vest on cross examination witness testified that the quarrel on sunday morning was over money she accused him of taking some bome money she had the threat he be made of smashing her head with a shair chair vas taa not made tober to her he made it in her absence absen ceto to the boys burldean davis offered testimony in the main corroborative of his bis brothers his father had told him that he be and witnesses mother had got u up about 12 at night and had gone a distance of four fonn miles niles to a pasture filere abera she had bad taken poison like a lady and he had bad buried her like a gentleman the boys did not seem to be unduly affected in relating the incidents of their mothers death barleen was waa at one time quite amused by what he apparently considered a ludicrous question I 1 asked by mr zane the defendant had bad a handkerchief in his hands bands with which he occasionally wiped wipe d the moisture from his bis eyes and face and the tot to bacco strains from his bis lips he con whispered to his attorneys court took tock a recess until 2 |