Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-04-23 | Page 10 | Turnbow Acquitted of Murder Charge

ilBi AGQUiTTED OF MURDER CHARGE ; Man Who Shot Clyde Bailey Is Freed by Jury at Moab. '".'iMl to The Tribune SIOAP, April 53. Marvin Turnbow, who klllc. ClytlH Unllty for the alleged Wtruyul ct 111", former's wife, was found not guilty of runnier by the jury which has ben hearhiff the ease for the past week The yerrliel wits returned :it 12:30 nVlo.-k this niornlnc, mid Turnhuw was released from the ,-uftu.ly of the sheriff Iminedhitely aftcrwiiru. The f-eeinp ot Turnbow tompletcs one r,r the most remarkable eases in the. eotirt annals of sonthern i:tah. On December "I Turnbow shot and killed i. lyric l.aller as the two stepped from a Rio Grande train at Thompsons. Turnbow declared thai itailev had stolen Hi.: affections ol his wife an 1 had ruined his home. Two months later Mrs. Turnbow shot to death her three children and then put K bullet throuirh her own head. Icavlnsr a Ftatcnent savlne that life had become unbearable and that her children had heller hel-ler be dead than live with a slain on then lives. Turnbow pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder in the first desrre. and the trial heatin last Monday inornlns. with Attorney . A. Kin;: of -alt Lake rer.'vtentina' the defendant. 1 he case went lo the Jury at 5:4.'i o clock ycslei-dav ycslei-dav cvonihK. During F'ridav and till 11 o'clock yester-dav yester-dav the, defense Introduced a sreat mass of evidence ten. ling to prove that Bailey had held Intimate relations with Turn-bow's Turn-bow's wife, because of which relationsnip Tunibow claims he killed Bailey. Twenty-two Twenty-two witnesses testltied for the defense, and all of them, with the exception of a few who told of the nctual homicide and of threats Bailey is alleged to have made asainst Turnbow, related instances of the improper relations existing: between Kirs Turnbow- and the man whom her husband killed. Turnbow was on the stand Friday evening and for two hours yesterday morning. County Attorney Knox Patterson opened the closing argument for the state and snoke for half an hour, lie was followed fol-lowed by Attorney C. A. Robertson for the defense, who also spoke for half an hour. Attorney Samuel A. Kins; of Salt Take made the longest arstunient. His address lasted two hours. He reviewed all the evidence that had been submitted, and closed with an eloquent plea for justice for the defendant. District Attorney .1. W. Cherry closed the argument with an address which lasted for an hour.