Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-09-17 | Page 13 | Hurtado Tells of Wife's Acts

TELLS OF WIFE'S I ACTS TS i i border rd Defendant e d On n Witness Stand I dro AJ Alex x Hurtado 35 Mild ld Bingham miner took the IBS ess stand in his own behalf at atIt It degree murder trial WedI Wed- Wed Iw I 1 relating Incidents l leading ading o the shooting of Andy Galle Galle- 33 3 In Mrs Hurtado's apart- apart tin Bingham on June 30 llIe Je e defendant testified he beW be- be 1 W f estranged from his wife got t Christmas 1940 and that oral nl times limes since then he had ob- ob Wd apart at ii Gallegos gos enter her apart apart- ft tat and stay for several hours that at on several occasions upon MJ g to the apartment to take the ther r children out he saw Gallegos Sf testified that on two pons ons he questioned his wife uti jt t presents she had received IY from Gallegos and one i Li's Lis fri friends and that once she ot of answer him and on the J occasion she replied Oh a get t It it t. t 1 ij Wanted Ranted Divorce Hurtado asked him to get I I ores orce but he declined because aped to get back together make a home for the kids testified Ce e defendant testified he broodier brood brood- ier ver ier the situation and wondered tre re were any connection be- be in a the Incidents when some- some him hint if it was true Mrs S do was going to leave Bing- Bing B tor li or a vacation and he was wasy ib y another person that Galle- Galle Iu aj going to Colorado for a adon trip witness t stand Tuesday Hurtado testified that t on the theS S lt Of of the slaying she had her herI ei 1 I Packed and was prepared R e e a vacation trip with Galled Galle- Galle sad M d one of his friends I was on the witness s a J when court adjourned at l. l S. S and direct examination by inse floe pw attorneys attorney continued into afternoon session The case is W ed to go to the jury on f fore ore calling Hurtado defense f eya s presented testimony character witnesses tun Burton W Musser Salt Lake LakeI Lake I authority on Pan-American Pan t dons Edwin w W. Johnson f may- may Bingham since 1937 and L. L assistant Aslant mines ma mark man t the United States Smelting fi un n and Mining c company I Man lan aror Johnson testified Hurtado had a S good od reputation jjr as known as a peaceable Musser testified that in her nl studies she has come now many man many Mexicans and that krado's dos do's reputation Ration as a man who re toe e good order der and quiet Peace very very r best 1 Walker r testified that while o as SUperintendent of U U. S S. e a v v ui th the u o e a v v ui u o On at Sham Sham- he Knew v Hurtado i rt d oOn Am der oye He also testified o r had a good Puta- Puta V B ue a peaceable g 1 a. a legal legal man the twist the thc defense ged Vate late Tuesday to elicit tes tes- y iny by the tt defendants defendant's wife k Hurtado that she had been mate with t with Gallegos Gallee fi s- s tn ed first as a state witness Hurt yi-he yi hH do was examined cross-examined n a k defense se but JUdge Clarence er iino Aker ny refUSed to o admit a admit any testS tes- tes tS vhf im as to her relations with to n because of state Loay n Y Propriety of such the defense later called ind as a defense witness r y tl on an direct examination ob ob- t ii led t t nony ony she had been inU f Calleg Gallegos se w i