Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-23 | Page 7 | Says that M'nair Boasted of Killing

SAYS III rain1 PSM KILLING Witness for State Gives Damaging.. Evidence in Murder Trial The testimony of one tviiness that TV. O. McXair boasted aficr killing Kdward T. U'i'Jiaics of having r'ufilied his threat to do so. was one of th.e features of tlie evidence introduced yeptciday by the etate in the trial of MoNair on a charge of murder in the fir?t degree. The cage is being tried in Judue ,J. Louis Brown's divi-ion of the Third ditrUt court. Williams was fatally sln'L hy M-Nair in a ruuininc: houe at lUJ West Xorth Temple .street. Feijt uarv 11. Uoc Kar-rens Kar-rens testified tliat MvXair, known to him as Osborne, knocked at the apartioent occupied by the witness and wife Fhnrt.lv after the shooting occurred find boasted Hint hfi had carried out his threat. Mrs. Jennie Culp testified that she saw the shooting and that Williams was not in an altitude of attacking McN'air. hut rather seemed about to go out of the door when shot. She said that she was leaning over Mrs. Williams examining tier ankle, recently sprained, and looked up just in time to sec the shots filed, nut knowing before that Williams was In the room. In the opening statement for the stnte. Isaac Bla ir Evans, assist a nt disi riot attorney, at-torney, said that the state would show that Williams had pone to the apartment occuriol by his divorced wife and Mc-Nafr Mc-Nafr for the purpose of bidding good -by to his little daughter, having understood that her mother intended to take the child to Tdaho. Will ia ttis "was not armed and that no weapon was found in the room at the time immediately subsequent to the killing, kill-ing, though a "knife was found there later. Dr. W. Scott Keyting testified as to, the nature of the gunshot wounds fiom which the man did. One wound was in the lower part of the head, under one ear, and the third in the trunk, under the arm. He testified also that he understood under-stood tha t Williams had made a dying .statement to a. nurse when told by the doctor after being taken to the hospital that he probably could not live-Other live-Other witnesses were Harry A. Reager, who identified a drawing of the room in which the slaving occurred: C. Coulson Smith and William A. Pea rce, policemen who made investigation and arrested Mc-Nair, Mc-Nair, and N. F. Curtis. The trial will be resumed this morning.