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Show MBOLISE Tie Plot of tie Incendiaries Unfolded. Un-folded. E. X. HOLBnOOK'S CONFESSION. A roll IIMory of the Tlttt -1 Bonntlfol. IJcf-ro Commissioner Greenman, (his morning, Joseph II. Green, of OaTis County, was arraigned ou a cliargeof unlawcEy, maliciously and ej-ctously setting fire to a dwclling-houfe at Bountiful, Divh County, b-longlnj to the estate of Uolbrosk, dcceaul, on AiT-i gu'tSIst. TheaecenK 4lAed not guilty. In fTi o the Commissioner he Sdhehad not tbe means to employ an'attorney to defend him, but later iir.lrhrie appeared In his behalf. Green is about forty years of age, and his occupation is tlAt o!a-JM-bing carpenUr. n- did W appear greatly cocPKnttd as to 'the charge ajriint him. The case videutly cicjtcJ &ailerable Interest, thtre U'lmj a large number of persons from Bsuntiful present during the proceedings. Mr. It. V. VoJng da JjeJ. the proKicution. The firrt Jrilness wfts InDch A. Ho!lccok, of Bwntlful, who c!i he was now under sTfil tor being concerned ia tio burning of thu prcmlIn question. He teitiflod iJTicernlng conversations w hlch ho hadhaJ with Groan oa ai?.(Ui the 2trJ of July. HaUvo to Uie filing cf the hoaW, On the night of the 15J they met and witness as-vurri as-vurri Ureen who was ufull" of barnin,; Tutlle's premises, which he denied. Wltncn then told Green he would have hl arretted, to which Green replied, "Dont do that until you see mc again," and witness promisod that he would net. They met again on tho 2th, when Green admitted Laving fired Tuttle'a projierty. On th evealmr cf the sirt ilay Green remarked to witness: "You are Insured, are ra not?" Witness replied that ho was and Green then asked tor how much?' Wltnih-s-rered that he did nil know exactly whether it Am for S3090or or$35J7. Gr-a said that is very SoodinvTiuce." Witness remarked thatUlere were things in the lrou-that lrou-that he would not have burned Jt four times the amount. Often rejoined re-joined that that coute t managed all right, aid tided, -Well, 111 tell you. I'll set your place afire for 20 and you can save part of your thing." Witness answered, I'll think about it and tee you again." On a subsequent day hi Edd Green $7 on acconpt " and ter othir turns. 1v.j- ifierwards went into lis baril and arranged where -Mines i4iouH jJace the Liltis, which oc wanted to save, Vering them with hay. The burning burn-ing took place early In the morning of the .-1st of August. Witney, b arrangement. let Ureen into tin. houe through a window-. ' On crossrex&minalioa theitness denied positively that it was he himself him-self who fired TutUe place and also his own. His conscience hnrthlm-terribly hnrthlm-terribly all the lime the enquiries were going on about the fires In Bountiful. Witness did not know how it was thAt He was arrested, as he made ca confesilon until after he -s lodged in lail. When he had put what household goo Js he dt-ired to save ta a sack he "reported"' to Grtn. Witness lay don 11 and slept in the barn over the night of the burning, a-thojgh a-thojgh knovicg what wa going to happen. Ills brotiSer, aged 3 fl-pt with him, but knew nothing of the stowing away of thegoo is there The fire insurance policy vras taken oatontheSUt. lie ha J no spite agalnt the prl'on'T Green, tliough he had threatened to "do hltn up" if &3 Sought to throw all the blame of the -i!Uir upon him. Replying to 5Ir. Young, Holbrook said tnat iz of tbe money which hi first gave Gre-n, was in part payment pay-ment of a piece of carpet -which ho liail purchased front Grcen'j mother. Green had admlttei to him that be ett fire to Uie Wayte place, In order "pa remove suspicion over the Tut-tle Tut-tle fire." He likewise said that it was he who fired Dtvli "vker!i place, but that he kner nothing of the tithin-house blaze. He gave as his reason for setting fire to tnc Tuttle jilace that the lani on which the premises stood belonged to bim, and be i-xprcSaed his inten tlon of fencing It, Just at soon as he could get s?me uirted wire; ho wanted the land cleared. Green told witness that before he got through lie wanted to fire "Jim Uurkien'o place." Heber Holbrook, brother of the la't witness, stated that be slept in tle barn with his brother because of the number of tire wnich haQ taken place in Bountiful. On the night the house was fired he was awakened by a crackling noi.se, and a few moments later he saw the blazz. He knew nothing of the re movai of any household goods or of thtir storage In tbe barn. At the time ot the burning of the house his mother was away from home. InansnertoMr. Young witnest ild ou the 21st of June he me Green and remarked to lum, "Brother Tuttle Is erecting a nice bay shed, but may be he'll never complete, it" (referring to his slow-methods slow-methods in such matt-r) Green to this answered "And may he it will never do him any good if he does finish 1L" At this stage the court took a recessuntil two o'clock. Upon the court reismbllcg, tbe witness Holbrook, who is abo a prisoner, was recalled 1 y the prosecution. prose-cution. Mr. Young was about to interrogate tiie witness as to a fire wheh occurred en Mr. Tuttle'i, premises four or five years ago, wliea the defenFe oljected. Mr. Young said his intention w as to show that that was part xf the present system of firea in Bountiful. Tbe Commissioner ruled that the question was aimls-ible. Holbrook then staled that on the night of the 2jth of July, while they were standing talking together in Bountiful, Green adniitu-d to him that be set Tu tile's place on fire "once an1 again," meaning several years ago. This was the case fjr the prosecution, prosecu-tion, and Mr. Locbriu claimed that, in the absence of any corroborative evi Jence, the accused should be dis charged. He intimated that he hid several witnsssts whom he rojld call If it were deemed ueccsiry. Tho Commissioner saill that they might be examined. George As'ctt, of Bountiful, sa.d he had known Grecu for twenty years. He remembered Uie uight of the fire at Mr. Holbroak'; did not see Green at all on that day but hewas nresentdjrtng the time the 1re was" burning at Turtle's premises. prem-ises. Francis Tuttle testified to having seen tbe accused near tbe Holbrook residenc- uhlle Uie fire was in progress. pro-gress. He coild not say whether or not Green was in his mother's bouse when Uie fire broke out. Jane Ann Green, mother of the prisoner, said that hir son resided with her. On tho night of Uie 3W of August Uie prisoner camo home very early, went to bed, and did cot, she was positive, leave the house again until after the alarm of tbe fire at Holbrook's had been given. He could not have gone out without with-out her knowledge. The witness testified to the sale ot Uie carpet to Holbrook for $129, as mca-Uoned mca-Uoned In that prisoner's evidence. To Mr. Young My son might possibly have gone out while I was sleeping, without my hearing him, but I don't believe It. He Isn't such a hypocrite as that. Joseph H. Greea, the accussd, Id he was not in Bountiful on July23rd, but in Silt Lake. It was not therefore bue tba,thcbsdr)y conversation with (he prisoner Holbrook on that night, as ho had stated. He and others had "a.ftc3a Ume," going frqrasslciillo saloon. He hired tutt tt the housoofa person named Sprague, never the theatre, bat did not occupy It, He went back toBoucUral on Uie aTier-noon aTier-noon of tho following usr. Ho had no Ulk with Holbrook on hU return, as sworn to by hl-o. It Kit hot -OH trial Ueltwok Moused him of Mtlijr firo to the TutUe premhes, &;? did he make any admission to him concerning It. On Die night of the 2IUi he (Ureen) was "pretty full." The only romaik he nuie to Holbrox. about the fires was tliat "It beat h , Uie way they were going en," and Holbrook replied that it did. AH tho money Holbrook Hol-brook p"ald him was towards Uie cari-t. He received uo money whatever from him for tiring the house, )reft ho asxed Holbrook iiiQ Question about Uie Insurance on Uie premises the fire was burning. Witness here corrected his statement state-ment by siying that it was on the night of tbe 3rd, not the 23rd, that he was in bait laku. He was In. Bountiful on that uleht. The doubt ho expressed, tn llof- brook's broUictai Vi Tu.tie finishing finish-ing hl shed was meant in a general way, as Tuttle ftldom finished fin-ished what he undertook. He (Green) Went to bod at qullo an early hour on tho night or the Holbrook Hol-brook lire, and did riot gctupagaln until the alarm had been glveu. Vitoij had openly said that the man who was guilty cr ciiisfnrltfc anaoughttnbeliritiWl. He bad tuaire tBrtetaimtta saisl! portion of the land on n hch Tttlc t pl-ce stood, but, thcro wcaji't rsuca in it In ansf er ' Hr. lo-ingthe pm-ontt(aiewu pm-ontt(aiewu rather lutoxlcated en the night of the 21Uiof July, and Ifhe did speak to Holbrook he had no recollection of It. Ho was hot aware that bu tilkr-J any louder tbau anylvia t-; in ltounUful iboHt tbi) nre, but he had sail that "hinging was too good" for the in-cendiary. in-cendiary. BherlffD. O.Willey testified to tee-i tee-i rig Green so drunk lu the road on the night of the TutUe fire Uiat he could hardly stand. To Mr. Young, witness said ho watihtd Uie prisoner pretty c!oely, but saw nothing In his actions ac-tions to lead him to suspect that he had taken any part In these fire. Mr. Young said he had no iftsin to atklbeconrttt hotdihesttaseJ, butfeltrathcvlo leave the case to the eournUsionerr Ulserellon, for Ihe reason that really Uie ODli( tcstf-mony tcstf-mony against Green xrH thai of a se!f-confc-sed feTou. Th- ricused was di-charged. |
