| Show WOMACK GULt Jury Returned Such a Verdict in Mathews Murder Case This Afternoon ACCUSED THEN DISCHARGED Hail One Onu Moro Inlo Witness Wll lint lintIn Hit In II View Vi of ur Finding Hu 10 Was WI Not At 2 10 tills Jury In II tho murder tIO brought In Inn InI n I of ot not The Tho arguments In the case cuso of at thu lh e of Utah against Frank Frnk charged with wih the murder of ot Joseph Mathews on the night of Oct Oc 2 2 1900 I O OI I were heard by Judge JUlge Armstrong today loday i and ant the caso CIO submitted to the Jury I I shortly horty after ater noon When court cour opened I this morning Col Kaighn stated that I the tho defense had hll ono one more witness winess for forthe the defense der but he had hi left lef the county le I and Ind could coul not be he found In for the th trial today so the defense der nM would rest restI Its I case without his testimony District Attorney Loofbourow then made the opening argument In behalf of the state scored Womack round roundly ly Iy for his attentions to 10 Mrs Irs Mathews I I and stated sin led that the defendant hall had caused Mathews to 10 become Jealous of at him and Ind had brought all 11 this on by his conduct 1 I Attorney George C Buckle followed the district attorney and made a 1 brief argument in II behalf of ot the defense He le leWI was WI followed ell by Col who hn re reviewed reo viewed the testimony at considerable con length He argued that the th defendant had always acted tho part art of or a n gentle gentleman man while he stayed at the tho Mathews home hOle and an that thai he acted In II when he killed District D At Attorney torney lore Loofbourow ll made lurje a short hort clos closing cos cosIng ing argument und and the tho court then de delivered livered Its Instructions to 10 the jury und I the ClUe case was wal finally submitted DEFENDANT mI END T TESTIFIES TI STI IS I Frank the defendant was wason wason on Jr the wines stand stan nearly all al after afternoon noon yesterday and told laId his story of ot the trouble with Mathews which In the latter later being shot hot and killed He pave a I brief history of ot his hisel le life stating tint he was born bor In II Idaho ami el Is 21 years of age und Ind that he hei i en mo to Salt Lake three vears ago I go He le denied that he had ber J un unduly unduly I duly familiar with wih Mrs or M he had met her anywhere II by hr appointment He 11 admitted admi led that ho h went bicycle riding with her on three occasions He Hc detailed hla hl movements on tho day of ot th shooting from tho time ho cay arose In the morning moring until arrested by the tho police at night after Mathews ln had been bien killed He le said that he ho was 11 In bed be but not lol asleep when Matthews came home that night he Mathews lathews quarrel quarreling ing with his wife Shortly Shorty afterwards Mathews caled him to come out and he arose nrose and put Jul on 01 his trousers trou en and ali out oat and went Wen I Into the the room rom romand and sat lat down at the thc table He said that Mathews pounded his list st on the tho table cursed him and told tol him to 10 him leave the houie and a 11 threatened threat to 10 kill kil OF m KILLING Continuing his story Womack said I II In part partI I told lold him hll It was the whisky talking I In Il him Ilm and Ind that I would talk It over ovel with wih him hll In the tho morning moring Then he across arrs the table grabbed me by bytho I tho hair and InI struck me mi In the face We WeI Hot got up UI about together I J knocked down downa a f chair us I 1 got up Mr lr I I Ithe grabbed the lap lamp and left lett the room rom In darkness Joe JD had hul me by bythe bythe the hair with wih one hand and had tho I other hand on my lY throat I 1 shook him hll loose und and then he hit me In the ear I le That must have hae stunned me for a min minute mil ute for far the next thins thing I knew klew I was wason LS LSon on my m knees kneel and he ho was bending over mo 10 with wih his hands on Ot my m throat I tiled t to 10 fluke him off Ir hut but ho h was wa larger Inn el and stronger than 1 am so 10 I I get loose e I think I 1 would have In a n minute more when I thought thou ht of ot the tho gun In my I pocket t I I It out pointed It up UI along my lY I face and Ild shot hot He loosened up U a n little Itlo I Iut ut that and 1 I think I shot at nt him twice more the last time when he hc was WIS I over near the door I thought ho was S going out to tho tl hall to gut his shot hot shotgun gun BO 10 I threw the lh revolver on the table tuble and Ild started 1 to t run out tha tho back backdoor door dor through my Just Juat as a I got bt gotto to 10 the door somebody I forget torget who It was said Youve killed him hll or Hes den dead I or 01 something like Iko that thai IMn I called up the Illco and tried to teach reach a I doctor tor by b telephone I was WUI still try Ing III to reach a 1 doctor when the tho came Womack held pretty pret closely coI to hiM hla story when by b the dis district attorney nothing of ot any ad nd advantage vantage to the state was Ins obtained I from his evidence His examination wal concluded shortly shorty before leCore the court I adjourned for the clay tay I |
