Show h WAS IT Iu1thn l I Eejnolds a Stlf Confessed laWer lib Improbable Story On Saturday afternoon the hear lug of W S Reynolds charge with murdering Soren MuJtcn was begun before Justice Iney The testimony for the prosecution wM In substance that Mr aden had for about five years been in the em ploy of the Dtah Nursery Company as salesman and enjoyed the mull dec of his employers He had been nt Ogden recently and flopped nt the Central Hotel About two weeks ago the defendant came into he hotel office nnd asked fora rm Lut was informed that there were none vacant Madbeu who was lauding rear offered to share his room with the stranger The ofler was accepted and the two retired ct about 10 oclock ej nolds Continued t share Mad eons room for several nights and tliej appeared to be friendly until One night the defendant went out on the street two or three times The clerk noticed that he had tinted his had and he stated that ho had hitMatlfen The next day he went to the clerk and asked him if he thought Matiwn could be vorked for money and finally on Friday 1 T he went to the iroprictor of the hotel and told him a story reflecting on Madsens morality and the latter was r uctteU to leave the hou e which be did nnd went to the Chapman House Reynolds called on him there and on Saturday afternoon tuna aernon hey both started for Salt Lake Mr IadMn was quite ill and went to iehouse of a friend in dle8tt nn He FOOD became uncou lous and shortly afterward ex atoning tired from the effects of morphine The examination was continued again this morning when tho follow log found in Mr Madsens posses non and In his handwriting p introduced in evidence On the face of an envelops was written I am djinr ty = Btjnolds ibId that ftBBwer for the consequences Are tWJ lal1e bL Ooinp raj bean will toon cae On the reverse side of the envelope elope were the word Ifas Stag hAtpenfl to me I Am la din get telcgrapH la H Oiz s seats cut Salt jileanaU Hickelten lit Ki t lootll be teaSed r c a1 Salt Like 017 On n Central Hotel notehcad the deceased had written J U CfodlHU IHi Dr Dear MrsBe good and Jut to a T dear wife and DOT When 1 am gone forgive m1 fa tl u God will forlT M j eon te U ran Gad preserve yon and blet rol Your deputed friend EOREX MlIKEir A Mr lam Rtjnoldj u Ue cause lie edneon lie Is u math t bliss He SFecd me aD < win too m uSe a sea 1boodby God biii you and 1um I fan Wine I 1 I This was all the evidence for the prosecutIon and the accused was worn in hUotta behalf He cave i his name as Winfield Scott hey i old nnd testified I a the de endant was acquainted with leI adsen knew him for about 10 lays beloro his death fo came from i Denver seven weeks ago first met Madsen Y the Central Hotel Og den I went there to get a room and could not finally Mr Madsen told me that if I could not find a room t lodge in I could go with him I ccepted isle oCer this wax the t February or let of larch I continued t room with him alwuta veih on the 7th March I hid a ifficulty wiihMaden and ttruck him in tho eye I was sorry I did E nd got a piece of meat to put over his eve he asked me not ty any ling of Ute difficulty t told both the clerics and Maj ° en was ordered utofthe house he told mo his riends would not speak t him he ilo said he was kick and offered to pay my expenses if I would go down with him t Salt Lake and help him with some thing he had to carry we then went to a room In the hotel and played cards for a couple or hours this was on Saturdav night Madten did not play but some of his friends did on Sunday afternoon I went to Mnusens room he was in bed and said he felt awful Ilk I toll him he ought to cH up and he decided I to go to bait Iiake on the next train I he wa very ick J cki and staggered about the room I ulpid him to nrry his parcels to to the train ho staggered hue t drunken man and was verj ill We came down on the train and In Salt LsVo I took him to Mr Hansonf a he told me I was there about twenty minutes and adEn gave me 2 which heRd he-Rd would l my expenses I then lef Next day I went to Hanson and was told that Madden was dead I learned there wssto bo an Inquest and waited about l attend his jrothcr inUw kept asking me why I Madreu had committed the deed I diJ not like to tell him of the trouble we had in Ogden f eald I did not know I told him I bad asked Madten to go to a gambling hour and lie refuted the day of the Inquest I left MaJbend brother inlaw telling him I would b back in a few minutes but I did not return re-turn as I thought I was no affair of mine on M > n lay night I tx > K a freight train l Ogden and on TUCK iliy night I was nmcttd I asked M Bacon if ho thought Mal en was worth money I thought I could sustain nn action against him for the trouble between u < this was my reason for asking if he had he rdC ot owe me anything Y thought be had Injured my reputation reputa-tion I told of the trouble Madseu did not bat tried t keep it secret I sw him with a little money Outdid not know his financial standing To Mr Eichnor Before coming to Ogden I lived in Denver Chicago i Chi-cago Philadelphia I and Xorristown ne f Pa when I Iint met Madoen n was when be ofiered to share his room with me l I said I could not find a room in town Witness then detailed the aflair alleged t have taken place between them when Reynolds alleged that Rynolds ale tate Madsen attempted an improper I action This was the t referred to as jubilation immoral The statement I unfit Witness continuing Madden asked me if I had said anything about it and I said no slept with him the next night I did not sk Mr Bacon I Mad < on could be worked for mone Mr Bacon L mistaken in his statement Mad fen paid the expenses of the room lie always got up before me his habits were good < o far as I know never saw him tlnr heard him make a suggestion of immorality immoral-ity when I asked him to go to a gambling house he said he lAd no use for such things Before we came to Salt Lake he moved from the Central Hotel to hiho Chapman Houe andl called on him ther that was on Saturday when he this J S raid be was sick Yi went to his room at the Chapman House again on Sunday afternoon and he was nflfU still worse ni stayed with him till we got to Salt like on Sunday night be never told mete me-te cause of his sickness after his death I thought t had neither time nor money to hang around fur the inquest I thought that if they wanted me they could tend Ogden anti get me 1 did not tell Sheriff Burt that If I had known they were coming after me I would have taken the first train I paid no fare to get to Ogden To the Court After Madsen ef the Central on Saturday I slept = i n6dfJ time night in a chair Madsen did not play cards I never made any demand on him for money he never used morphine or opium that I am aware OfWfe cannot explain the statements In his letter only he raid that he was ruined for life because of the trouble we had had and b causuI told of 14 I told a number of persona about it ti I promised him that t would not tell but he found cut that I I bad related it to the clerk then I told him tOo clerk had hears1 our noise and asked what was the matter I gave this as an excuse for ltru the clerk did not bear us Madsen seemed greatly troubled about it for it became the talk In the hotel he never told anybody uf i that I know of I told several persons i During his examination Reynolds Reyn-olds admitted his own immorality and stated that he ras suffering from a loathsome disease He admitted ad-mitted telling a number of false 01 11 hoods Mr 1nn At the cloto of Reynold testimony testi-mony a recess was taken to secure I the attendance of other witnesses I |