OCR Text |
Show NATHANIEL WILLIAMS CASE HEARD BY JUDGE CHIDESTER Startling and Depressing De-pressing Testi-money Testi-money Given by Voting Girls in UBCi The Jury In the Nathaniel 1 Willi" m can went out at 6:02 p. m. They wen in ! I itructed by the court that ! ! tbcj could return a verdict 1 ; ' at any tlmt before 11 o'clock ; p. and tht court 'would bf ! la teuton. At Hair wal iirom a bailiff Tt call of theStatl ri Nat bin' M WitiUtU oasae Up bsford tb fonrth district court yeiUrday pKiAog. Judge Ckiddter ot the lUlb judicial djltrlct wag on tha kwcL, Judge Bbolh iiaving bettl Ud to bear a aaaa in the south-era south-era part of tha atate. Attorneys Oorfman and Rydalch ware counsel for tbi dtfenaVuit while diatrict attorney at-torney Hout aad Countjr Attorney Tbopai 4oh a4ed for tht atate. few spectator! ware In tha court Win and tha interest in tha case to have aubejdid. it had baw aald thai the case would be hld bsblnd cloaad door but thla VHBOttbp caat, Whau thfcaae VMMlltd there ware not a half dopa ptopla In the room who were Ml directly connected with the 1?Ei,EcrNO tjiic avV. A, niw venire was necessary to ropplate the jury, tha regular Hit Meg been exhausted. The at. Urnsyi tor both (Idea seemed ta tike pirtioular precaution in ao-Hptlog ao-Hptlog tin jury and it waa not until un-til fourttin men had been ax-imlotd ax-imlotd that the jury waa complit-ti, complit-ti, Some of thoaa exwlned pUIkkI to have had their minds IMda Irm in regard to the caae. The following are the jurore that fill try tba caae: Oliver Chrfsten-, Chrfsten-, Payson; Samuel Shumway, YlTrdjJ, W. Kramer, Lake &or) J, 8. Boyer, Bpriagvllli; Theodora Farley, jr., Lincoln; D. B. Huff, Lake Shore; Stephen Mirkbam, Lake Shore; J. H. Strat-K Strat-K ot Provo Bench. XtTOnKKY JIOUTZ OPEMH CABS. When the jury had been eworn Attoraay Hnutz made a statement to tie jury whiek act forth tbe allied al-lied charges and aaked that the tike into conilderation every WJ of the evidence which would b presented. The dtMriptioa ot the alleged u depleted by Attorney wna the moat pathetic. Eviry eye in the court room reeted k tie attorney aa ha told tha atory to him by the little girls who Wiwppoeedto have bean conaect- with the affair. Mr. Houtz as-d as-d the jury that the girla would fk for themael LlTTL OinLB TEHTIUOMIK8 The ttitlmany given by tha little IU in the caae waa atartling and "fring lu tffect. Poaaibly no JtoU tha history of the eourt r young girla gives out auch h&rrib' dlieloaurea. The charges f igalnat the defendant were Wj nd were really to aerioua to I ffHn print. If U?'l5 nd Attoru Corfman in (I waif o the defease made a state- ment to the jury. Deffoii then called Nathaniel Williams to the wltnen stand. He was examined by Attorney lly-dalch lly-dalch for the defense and I). D. Houtz for the state. The defendant defend-ant made the statement that he had had little girls visit his homo for several years and had given them money but had always treated them with respect. He attributed the faot of giving children money to his kindness for children. Attorney Houtz in his cross-examination brought out several suggestive features fea-tures of the case. Defendant was on the stand about forty-ftve minutes. min-utes. The following witnesses were called by the defense this afternoon: Waa. A. William, Dr. Roberson, Dr. Slater, W. D. Robert, Roger Farrier, 8. S. Jones and Char. A. Allen. Dr. David Westwood was called by the state for expert testimony. testi-mony. HiBTonv or CASE. During tbe early part of last June a teacher at one of the schools in this city become suspicious of the actions and circumstances surrounding sur-rounding several little girls iu her department. She noticed that they often had more money tnan usual for children and also an abuudauce of candy. it waa decided best to investigate investi-gate the matter and then called the children to account. To the tench-era tench-era great astonishment tbe children implicated Nathaniel Williams and accused him of actions entirely unbecoming. un-becoming. The matters were reported re-ported to the oflicers who further investigated tbe matter and tbe arrest ar-rest of Mr. Williatna immediately followed. Mr. Williams was charged with tha crime of rape ou the twelve-year-old daughter of Adelbert 1'ack, Mr. Pack swearing to tbe complaint. He was arraigned before be-fore Judge Noon June 4, and bound over to tbe district court. While it U aaid that there waa more than one girl connected in the matter, mat-ter, tbe complaint pnly mentions out case. |