Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 3 | Tells Life Story in Defense of Slaying

TELLS LIFE STORY IN DEFENSE OF SLAYING Cleveland Defendant Frequently Interrupts Inter-rupts His Testimony by His Own Sobs; "Women in Court Cry. CLEVELAND, March 5. The story of the slaying of Charles L. Joyce was told late today In Judge Kennedy's crowded courtroom by the confessed slayer, Elmer Hupp, on trial for second-degree murder. Hupp pictured the scene in his home on the evening of January 10, when he discovered dis-covered Joyce there with Mrs. Hupp. He told how he found Joyce hiding in the attic and how he shot him four times, killing him instantly. "I didn't know what I was doing," Hupp sobbed. "From the time I saw Joyce and my wife enter her room and saw him pull down the shades, I was crazy." Hupp spent the afternoon on tho witness wit-ness stand revealing his life's history. He was interrupted often by his own sobs. Women spectators in the courtroom court-room wept openly during Hupps testimony. testi-mony. "I thought I could live no longer." testified Hupp, after telling of his discovery, dis-covery, even two years ago, of his wile s indiscretions, his subsequent attempt to end his lit'?, bis relenting upon the promise prom-ise of his wife that she would never aain be untrue, and the prayers of his daughter daugh-ter to spare his wife for her sake. He testified he walked the streets all one night after his discovery; how he broke down and cried niht after night for five months, and how he finally decided to "betiin all over apain." only to find two year.s later that his wife had not kept her promise. Hupp concluded his testimony late this afternoon. 1