| Show THE HALL TRIAL the jury now Wre wrestling stUng with the case the trial of mark hall for killing wm win M bybee continued in the first district court at ogden yesterday the defendant himself was called to the witness stand his account being in substance as follows he FN had lived thirty six years on the corner corne of main and eighth streets ogden was 64 years old last october was a married man and had bad a family had a farm three miles souta west of what is known as uintah flat it was acres years had bad seen wm bybee by bee once before april eth in salt lake City attending a meeting at a friends house bouse where he was introduced to bybee whose business he did not know it was a conference of the mormon church slept in his wagon with bybee all night that was about the ath or ath of nine nide OF or ten days before april 16 th met bybee again on the last named dayon day on the larmon farm on burch creek hail had been working on the buil building dial bybee went to halls farm about 10 am aib when L the latter was plowing jn in the east part the encounter of fie ape two was between 2 and 3 8 his little boy spoke poke to nim him about the sheep he be went to drive away bybee and a boy were close ta together 9 ether by the sheep bybee told h his 1 boy to drive the sheep toward the lucern in calls field to which he objected asking him to drive the sheep back which bybee y bee refused f U sed claiming he bad as much right re as he be hall said he had held beli that ground a long time and ordered bybee off who said 1 I shant go I 1 you can get me off do it and also offered legal settlement of the difficulty hall replied 1 I never had a lawsuit lawsuit in M my r life and wont have any now kind of talk went on repeatedly till hall got out of patience and called bybee a stinking of a 11 bybee then struck him and threw him faim down when hen he rose to his knees on his hands benee hitting him witness rose the third time mad by this time and pulled his knife out of his right pocket and opened it and made two strikes did not think he struck him the first time but did strike him the second bybee still dealt him some blows they then picked up their hats and had some more angry words hall threatening again but on seeing the cut cat in byrees body and realizing the deed he expressed sorrow for what he had done dene and offered to get a tem for bybee and take him to his home this bybee refused walking some distance to an oak brush to sit down hall went to his field where he got his bis wagon and put hay into it from the oak brush to the wagon and back again it took him about half an hour on returning he found mr dark clark with bybee the latter on his bis knees resting on the former said to bybee get gee a up i ill help you to my house when clark dark offered his wagon as his house was wa nearer witness put hay from his own waga wagon into darks clarks where also some blankets were spread bybee laid down in the wagon head and shoulders resting on dark clark he returned home between 4 and 5 from where the fight occurred to the oak brush otimay have been about forty or fifty yards Bybee walked to the brush unaided and even after walked about some witness repeated further the details of the tussle showing by getting on the floor how he did the stabbing with the knife bybee struck him between the first and second knife thrust and once more af after ter the second when bybee stepped back after another blow he witness then held his knife in his hand and bybee told his boy see this man has got a knife when he first map bybee bee he had in his right hand band aldry adry talut twig of oak brush and his bis left in his bis poe pocket got home with his bis team some hay in the wagon met frank dark at the gate frank told him charley richards wanted to see him had admitted mit te d to dark clark that lie he had hurt bybee but did not know how much also said he be would go and set seft richards did not show dark clark the knife nor tell him anything about him nor ask him to feel the back of his nor tell teli him he had bad struck bybee twice etc dark clark and he were together only about five minutes he be had a bruise on his forehead which bled a swelling on the back of the head and felt hurt on the shoulder as one would from blows the examination then changed over to the stephens squabble witness described me seane scene of the meeting saw stephen and remonstrated with him about his cattle being in his halls held field and asked him to take them away which stephens refused todo to do referring to an alleged decision in judge hendersons court about letting cattle run on commons mods after cropis were off witness would not believe it and insisted on stephens removing the stock called stephens a liar har W aten 1 11 stephens hit bit him with ba his is neithal fi fist it B not call him a s of a ab b id he threaten with 69 powder and lead in case the law did not protect him did not mention the names of byrne and others his hay bay and wheat stacks were faced around at the time of the controversy with stephens bybee had promised him in salt lake city that he would remove the sheep from halls farm as soon as he return edi to mr hiles after cutting he and bybee walked together forty or fifty yards ads indulging in friendly talk mr riles hiles made witness go through his hia evolutions in imitation of how he took and manipulated the murderous weapon when bhea he be failed in opening the knife with one hand as he had previously testified having done could not recollect ab nb ether he bad any feat fear then of great bodily harm afraid of bybee did not think his bis language would provoke bybee to anger did not stop to think whether bybee would strike him did no not joke by calling people B s of b s he be must be provoked vo ked to do so in 1 conversation with bybee in salt lake the land referred t to 0 was understood by bybee and he said he had given his bo boys a instructions Instruction sto to obit k keep the sheep off of it quite a number of citizens of Ogden OgdeR were called and testified to the good character of mr hall previous to the trouble of april last |
