Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-22 | Page 4 | Woman Held over on Murder Charge

ta! HELD Oe 01 MURDER CHARGE Mrs. B. Van, Der Schuit Is Given Preliminary Hearing Hear-ing at Price. ' , Special to The Tribune. I PRICE, Feb. 21. "When mother is out of her head she calls for y,ou and that makes the Dutchman lr.ad." This sentence sen-tence in a letter to J. Blosser'of Oden from his daughter, living here with her mother. Mr?, R. Van Der Schuit. was read 1 by the 'ate Vim Der Schuit when he found I the girl downtown mailing the letter, and j that is part of what led to the quarrel i which ended in the shooting of Van Der ! Schuit on the morning ef February 12. i Tnis developed at the preliminary hear- 1 ing of the wife this afternoon. She was bound over on a charge of first ripgrc murder without bail by Justice J. W. Hammond. P. A. Kine of Salt T.rfke and F. E. TYoods of Trice are tief ending Mrs. Van der Schuit. L. .. McGce is assisting District Dis-trict Attorney Knox Patterson, ving to the illness of County Attorney L. O. Hoffman. The testimony of Katherine , Bloser. who wrote the letter to her fatrer, was eagerly listened to by the orowd in the i courtroom. She told of writing the let- ter and going to mail it. of meeting her , step-father and of his takine: the letter ' from her and reaning it, "now he took I her to iiis store and angrily made hr I copy the letter to see whether the writ- ing was; hers or her mother?. She was not asked as to the shootinz. j The letter also said : "Mother is feeling bad; if you never see her aeain she hopes I that you will realize that her last thought , was of you. He treats us like dogs. J Piease come and take us away." Van Der Schuit's last words were, according ac-cording to Dr. R. E. Ciowrd: "The wau'ps of sin is death; as lon as I did riirht the I j Lord blessed me; as soon as I commend I to do wrong I hean to go back." Dr. Cloward, Lars Fransden. deputy sheriff, and the little girl were the only wit- : nesses examined. The testimony did not develop much new relative to the actual shooting. The defendant sat with head bowed, sobbing during the proceedings, but was not put on the stand. Testimony was given to the effect that the decedent said the first shot was j fired si:ddenly after he had chided his i wife for letting" the children write such letters; that it. was done in the dining room, and that he begged her to let him go; that she could go back to Ogden and he would leave her alone: that he was trying to summon a doctor by phone when the fatal shot was fired into his neck. He fell in the bedroom and was reclining on the floor against a trunk with i his wife's arm around his neck when the doctor arrived. I-le lived paralyzed for j sixteen hour. ' i