| Show I KillS HUSBAND y IN RAGE OVER Si ANOTHER A NOT H E A I I WOMAN I J I f. f I P Police ice Make Investigation I of f Death of S. S J. J Sweeney Sweeney Swee- Swee Ji x ney at Hands of His t Wife Charge of It 1 Murder to Be BeI I Made t As th the result of ot a family quarrel to have originated In jealousy on the part t of ot tho wIfe over oyer an Ogden woman J J. Sweeney age Rge 34 a Salt Lake lawyer son of tho late J. J C. C Sweeney former chief justice of ot tho Philippine Islands was wa-i yesterday by his wife wICo with a 0 small t penknife chased out of the tho homo home and later taken to the county hospital where he ho died at 5 6 o'clock two hours after the fray tray The quarrel took place In fn tho the rooms of Mrs N N. Butler 33 Herbert avenue where tho the Sweeney family were living JIving According to the In Investigation In- In vf of or Capt Emil Johnson of the city police department the quarrel was aggravated by tho the drinking of ot three or four tour bottles of ot beer Tho quarrel according to Information Riven iven the tho tho police originated some time ago when Mr Sween Sweeney e began beJan paying at attentions attentions attentions at- at to an nn Ogden woman Mrs Sweeney upbraided her husband and yes yos- in a 0 fit ot of rage rago caused by bv the attentions of ot her husband to tho Ogden Ogdon woman It is said denounced him bit bit- terly A souffle followed Mrs Irs Sweeney picked up a small penknife lying on tho the table tabla and stabbed her husband The blade which was no more than two Inches long ong entered between tho the second and third ribs on oi tho the loft side of Mr MI Sweeneys Sweeney's breast grazed an artery which later burst burnt causing the man to die from Internal hemorrhage Up until the time Ume of ot his death It was vas thought the wound was not serious Exonerates Wife Just prior to his death Mr Sweeney dictated a a. statement exonerating his wife of ot any of the blame It wa was as follows Ho Sweeney makes the statement that his hla wife hit jit him In endeavoring to get getaway getaway getaway away from him and then stabbed him ITo Ho says it was entirely his fault Ho He will not make any statement as ns asb b 10 o the direct cause of or tho the trouble The record is signed by Dr C C. C L L. Shields assistant county physician who I took the statement in writing as the dying man gave gove it Mrs Sweeney was arrested shortly after I the tho stabbing Detective William C. C I placed her under arrest and placed her herIn I In the city Jail on charge of oC a assault lautt with a dead deadly weapon All during the thc interval al the woman a 0 beautiful woman of about 30 years took Inn matter coolly sa saying that her husband was not bad badly I and thinking that h he would woul soon SOOIl soonbo bo be In Jn perfect health a gum Later I. when she Nhe was told toli of or his death she became h hysterical and her moans were heard through the corridors corridor of the city jail Ions IonIC lon after the tIO other inmates had dropped off to sleep Thus far Car sho she has not regained control but IH la In a weakened condition as ns the result of last kist nt nights night's ht's suffering Sunning Running from Wife Capt CapI Emil Johnson who responded to the call left the Ule woman entirely to the custody of Detective Zees while he hel l searched for the tho husband Ho He found round him himon himon himon on Main street endeavoring to escape escalo from his wife whom he thought was on his hla trail When Captain Johnson went Into the home where the tho quarrel oc occurred occurred occurred oc- oc he lie found the wife with the automatic automatic automatic auto auto- matic shotgun which she Is said raid to have threatened her husband husban w th should he not ILot leave the premises Immediately nn and she insisted calmly but determinedly upon I removing remo the loaded shells from the gun fun On her return with Detective e t tc to police headquarters ehe ahe rc r W the tile incident in In- In as of ot lIttle Import and laughingly made several se admissions of or lna dl damaging n weight Intimating that family quarrels were not a 0 new feature of tho the Sweeney household and that tie several times the two had had warm discussions over the husbands husband's husbands husband's hus bus bands band's attention to the Ogden Osden woman A According to the testimony of or neighbors neigh nd-h- bors borg Mr Sweeney had returned st last night from Crom Binham He entered the rooms In which his wife was and the they evidently e drank several bottles of beer the empty bottles being found when Captain Captain Cap Cap- tam tain Johnson and Detective reached the household yesterday afternoon A quarrel aided b by the effects of the beer originated and in fn a short scuffle scuttle which followed Mrs Irs Sweeney picked up a n small penknife lying on the table stabbed her husband later picked up a shotgun and drove e him out of or the home Asked for Police On his way out the wounded man asked Mrs Butler Buller owner of the house to call caU up police headquarters Captain Johnson received d the call and went to the scene in the tho patrol wagon They picked up Mr Sweeney a Mock block from the home bome antI and rushed him to the tho county hospital hos boa pital where Dr C. C L. L Shields attended him Mrs Sweeney was arrested on charge chargo of ot assault with a deadly weapon which was changed to manslaughter upon death cath of or her husband She is nO now 1 in the city jail pending trial on that charge Judge J. J V. W. McKinney speaking of Hr Ir Sweeney said Mr Sweeneys Sweeney's s death shocked me rue Im Immeasurably Immeasurably Im Im- measurably and nothing could have ha caused mused mo me greater amazement He Ho was wasa a young man of great promise lie Ho had Just successfully taken the bar examina tion He Ho was vas more than ordinarily capable capable capa capa- ble In his hla ho was no winsome winsome winsome win win- some and genial that without effort hewon he ho won 01 the regard and friendship of ot all who made his acquaintance Ho lIe was an Indefatigable worker and performed his duties with fidelity In my association with him In our law firm for Cor more moro than a year ear I became much at attached attached attached at- at to him because of his amiable ways waya and reliability Apparently he was very ery devoted to his wife nd she to him and my deepest sympathy goes goca oes out to her herIn herIn herin in this unspeakable affliction for I cannot cannot cannot can can- not think for a moment that she acted I wi with th any felonious Intent In Utah a a. Year Yur Mr Sweeney came to Utah from Balti more Md about a 0 year ago go and on on- en entered the employ of ot the law of Powers He had been married ten years Ho Ec was as asborn born bom in Paris Tenn and was the son of J. J C. C nn and Mrs May Sweeney Surviving ing him Is ia his hla widow and a sister slator Mrs Ins ue ue c Carter of Warren avenue New Now Rochelle N. N Y The body is now i In the tho undertaking es establishment establishment establishment es- es of or S. S D. D Evans who has charge of or the tho funeral arrangements No funeral announcements will be made mode until Mr Evans can cnn got a a. response to a telegram telegram tele tele- gram sent Zent to Mrs rs Carter this morning Until then the body will lie He at the Evans E undertaking establishment and Mrs Jesale Jell Jen- lIe elf Sweeney Mr Sweeneys Sweeney's widow willbe will be held in tho city jail pending arraignment arraign arraign- merit ment on the charge e of or murder in the first degree which Is being brought against her in tho the county attorneys attorney's office toda today E. E P P. Sw Sweeney eno brother of or S. S J J. J Sweeney Sweeney Swee Swee- ney has left leCt Memphis for Salt SnIt Lake to take the tha bod body In charge |
