OCR Text |
Show SOUTIIVORTH SAYS HE GOT RIGHT MAf, Man Who Shot Band Man- ager Says Note Was ' Signed "Ned. FOUND CHILDREN AT HOME UNATTENDED Sight of Brother's Rerolrer Suggested Awful Deed to His Mind. . (Special to The Telegram.) OODBN, Ang. 14. When HM la th Ogdsn city Jail this morning. Henry ontavortk, who shot and kill B. h. ("Fed") Hank Oleowood park on atnrday night, said that, ho got "too right man," refuting tbo story that tho musician who sent the trouble cawing noo to Mrs. Southworth was seas an othsr than Hanks. It develop, de-velop, that too not asking Mrs. aonta-irorth aonta-irorth to go to tho Bead botol In. Of (an was slgnod "Hod," Hanks' aop-alar aop-alar name. Hanks will bo buried la Ogdrfn. A telegram from Mrs. Hstia V Bailie, His sinter, of Jersey City, N. J., asks isat tho body bo gins a respectable burial here. ountT AttorT Jensen will conduct i a coroner's inquest over Hanks' body Friday morning st 10 o'elork, ' and burial will not take place nntii sfter this inquest. The jury impaneled to conduct the investigation ia comprised ' of Kraok Ooddard. O. 8. Oiean and W. C. (tamp. Bon th worth, the slayer, said this aorainc that he felt that aa had done the only thing be 'could do nader the circumstances. Found Homo Deserted. "My wife had told mo shs waa golsg to 8allair for ths day." he said, "and tbongh I didn't liks to hsve her going out so much, I thought it would be all right. When I got home from work 1 found this aoto that Hanks aad seat her. "My child res were ruanisg about the house, without csre or sttention. eating just what they could find ia the houee, aad getting along as beet they eonld without a mother's care. It made my blood boil. . "I went dowa to my brother's and when I saw his gun there, the impulae to kill the msa who had Inred my wife away seised roe, and wtthia an bour and a half of that time the deed had been committed." H. 8. Davors of Fsrmlngtoa said this morning that the sympathies of the people of Davis eounty are all with bouthworth, and hs believes thst every maa and woman in the eonaty will givel Houthworth moral and even flnaaeial eopport la helping him Ight his-ease. bouthworth is spoksa of as being a eonerieatioue, hard working maa who, before tbia trouble, had always lived at penes with his fellow men. Bouthworth ia in a stats bordering - on nervous breakdown at the city jail. Hnnry euuthworth. a farmer and miner of Parmlngton. Davis county, fired five aliete late the buuy of K. 9. ("Ned" Hanks, manarer of ths Don Phlllpplnl band, at tilenwood para. Osden. at 1S:I0 ovinck Haturday night. Southworth altering al-tering that ftnnka had been unduly in-llniHte in-llniHte with Mrs. Bouthworth. who recently re-cently filed eult for divorce from her hua hand. Hanks died almost tn-aiantly. tn-aiantly. and hla alayor waa disarmed and taken Into custody without offering resistance. Houthworth told the officers . that he "had to do It." Bouthworth la held without hail oa a charge of murder. mur-der. - Mrs. Bouthworth maintains that she had met Hanks hut ones before In her life, snd that there waa no Intrigue between be-tween tliem. aire. Houthworth. her mother, moth-er, alra. L. Lund, and Hanka were walk-t walk-t Ing from a drinking fountain at the ' purk toward the danClns pavilion when Kouihworta at. pped from behind a tree and alerted ahuoUng. Mrs. Houthworth says that the meet-' Ing at Ulrnwood park with Hanke waa not prearranged, aa Houthworth evidently evident-ly believed It to have been. A note, believed be-lieved by Kouthvorth to have been written writ-ten by Hanks, which Houthworth found In hla wlfe'e mall, arranging for a meeting meet-ing at the Reed hotel, waa written. It ts thought probable, by another member - of tlie PhUlpplni band. Wife Seakinf Divorce. Ksitthwnrth wse recently notified by tti aervtnc at papers of his wife's S'--rlca for divorce. A similar action had been Sled four years aso, but was withdrawn with-drawn upon Houthworth'a promise to "be (nod." and It la believed that he was so rnmged by Jealousy snd by his belief be-lief that hla wife had been untrue to him that he killed Hanks ae Boon aa he saw him with Mrs. Houthworth. whether or not Hanka waa really the guilty man. The name of Don Phlllpplnl. leader of the band beariag hla name, was hrouaht Into the storiee of scandal In whkh alra. Houthworth and her mother, Mrs. Lund, figure, act-ordlng to neighbors who talked of the affair after the shooting. It Is said thai aeversl parties hsd lieen held st the South worth ham far th Entertainment Enter-tainment of member of the band, during outhworth'e absence, and that Indiscreet revels had taken place at the alona. Mrs. Southworth, la a statement made yeaterday. admitted that bend men had been entertained at her home, but ae'd that her husband had invited them there and that he had been present all ln tlme and helped to entertain them. rrtanda to Hl sVmti.wrth. Smithworth la In the Welter county )ll at Ogden and haa little to ay regarding re-garding his posit ton. Many Davis county coun-ty friends have visited him and offered aid and sympathy. Among these visitors have been h. S. Dae-nee of Farm In ion and H. L. Mouth worth of Halt Lake City, a brother of the prisoner. The law firm of Harveraoa A Pratt haa bee engaged to handle the caa. It Is probable that th "unwritten taw" (a written law In Utah will enter Into the defense of th prisoner. Friende of Hanka the dead band manager, man-ager, and of Don Phlllpplnl, tha bandmaster, band-master, have also came forward with words of praise fid) them and their conduct con-duct as gentlemen. Hanka. It Is understood, was to have been married to a Denver girl In the early fall. His fiance la said to be visiting oa the Pacific coast now. Hanka whose home waa In Chlcmgo, waa recently recent-ly divorced from hla first wife, according to report, and It le said that hla former wife and several children survive him. It la pmhable that hla body will be taken Ni Chicago for burial. An Inquest will be held over the body of th dead man before be-fore th funeral arrangement ar made, Don Phlllpplnl eavs - he la not acquainted ac-quainted with Mr. He Kith worth and that he haa aever been In her house. The band haa goo to Butte, Mont., and is echeduled to return to Oaden to fill aa en. aaaament at the four atat fair la the falL |