| Show mark halls trial in the first dietr district act court at ogden yesterday jerome brown was fined 50 and costs rusts for striking james horrocks witha with a beer glass elass the trial of mark hall for the killing of wm M bybee was then taken up most ol of the day was occupied in getting a jury the prosecution stated that the facts they donld prove were substantial as follows on oa the lath day of april 1888 wm win M bybee the deceased was pasturing some sheep on the range the land being claimed clair ned by deafen defendant ant on the morning ot of that day defendant demanded that he remove his sheep bybee told him to sue for damages and if they were recovered he bybee would pay them hall exclaimed any man that will pasture his sheep on another mans manla land is ig a dirty lousy 6 0 of f a b h 11 bybee stung uy the vile epithet clinched the daf defendant enfant and threw him down and struck him hall struck bybee with a knife in the stomach twice As soon eoon aaa s stabbed bybee cried to the boy john T clark im stab stabbed ked send for w doctor 31 this was done and bybee was war moved to the house ot john T dark clark where he be died of the wo wounds linds the direct testimony of john IT dark cl rk aleye an eyewitness eye witness was as follows I 1 live at hooper am 17 years of age aab knew mark hall knew william le M bybee during his lifetime I 1 first knew him eight years bears ago was working for him on the ibah day of last april herding sheep on uintah flat saw defendant on that day witnessed the bisp dispute ute between hall and bybee that day on the aforementioned flat fiat it was after noon noen mr bybee had bad sent him out ont with the sheep while he was gone away rail hall came up bybee came about the same time hall told witness to keep the off the land bybee told sold him to find the damages and he be would pay it hall called bybee a s of a b bybee clinched hall and grasped him by the head and threw him on his hia knees bybee struck him from behind hall struck backward I 1 saw a koile knife then in halls hand band only saw hirs hies strike twice after hill hall struck he got up bybee called to me to go for mr clark as he be was at stabbed abbed did not see defendant strike after he got up on his feet after after witness came back with dark clark he said go tor for tile the doctor witness did not examine bybee by bee but saw blood near his stomach mr dark clark returned with witness s bybee was then alone on lais bis knees under a bunch banch of oak brush he looked pale and sick ue he made no statement as to his bis suffering did not see bybee any more that day after summoning a doctor here witness was shown the knife that had done the killing and though he had only seen the blacic blace thought it to be the knife after the clinch he had not seen defendant put his bis hand in his bis pocket did not know hall elan had a knife until rali hall was on his knees and he be saw the blow struck saw no attempt to draw a weapon the cross examination of the witness did not materially change any of his hir statements and when etwas con eluded court adjourned till today |
