Show following Is the letter which amanda amson had on her person at the time she slew prank frank hall if anything had bad been wanting to show premeditation and such premeditation as comes of a foul and deadly wrong which nothing could entirely obliterate this letter supplies it SALT LAKE CITY sept gentlemen I 1 A manda Olson write this to relieve me of a public explanation which I 1 know I 1 will be called upon to do 1 I will not have the nerve it is hereby 6 y understood that I 1 have shot prank frank hall all my betrayer for this reason reasons i two years ago last june I 1 was introduced to him by mrs hart a lady neighbor whom I 1 have known since I 1 was a mere child attar after the introduction I 1 was invited out buggy riding with her and the said mr hall was ane driver I 1 did not know that they had bad plotted any harm against me I 1 trusted her as a friend and him as a gentleman eitleman ent leman and she cannot say that I 1 g sifted arted with or gave him any cause to increase his thoughts to me nor did I 1 dream of anything but friendship but nevertheless she became jealous and told me not to come over any more for she was afraid that mr hall woula would fan fall in love with me and from that day to tb this is I 1 have never neter been near her door but that made no difference he met me coming from my work begging me to let him have a conversation with me but I 1 refused him time and time again but he gave me no peace I 1 asked the advice ofay of my parents and they said there theme was no harm in speaking to him and it was the old story I 1 refused him he then asked my parents if he could visit at our house abuse and they thought he was an honest man and said he could come and see me a L few times and acted the gentleman in every way but he soon earned carried out evil purpose to me and blighted my life with his smooth tongue he gained my promise to keep quiet and would marry me debut but he was afraid that I 1 would not ana and he left the city and nd been away for ten months ady saturday I 1 an explanation from him but he was so hard and cruel to me and only laughed when I 1 spoke to him and though it was a public place we were conversed he even then dared try to assault and so that I 1 had to push ush him over the chair to get away from from hinic him and he told me then he never had bad any intention to marry me then I 1 swore vengeance that is all AMANDA OLSON the inquest before coroner harris began at 2 p m the first ft rat witness bitne called was or dr P F A mea chaam who said he viewed the body and found powder marks on the left side of the head and face found gunshot wounds just behind and above the left ear removing aku 11 cap just on top of crown of the head bead a little to the rig right ht of meridian lin found exit of bullet fragments of the skull were forced ou outward t ghere was no opening in the scalp after removing the cap I 1 found the bullet had passed through the left half of the brain just grazing the right half the wound would have proved fatal in time but in my opinion as there was ireat great hemorrhage that was the cause of death the shot passed upward at an angle of about forty five degrees the weapon must have been discharged at short ra ge to make the powder marks found on deceased decease ds face mrs ann hart was then called Between and last monday afternoon I 1 left home with dev deceased essed going south on U J street and walking bowly until vre ve reached Cal caldera derle corner on fi rat street just before reaching the corner I 1 saw miss olson standing there two feet from a tree she made some remark which I 1 could not understand neither of us answered her hut but hall looked back we walked about two steps after she spoke before the shot was fired she was not more than eight or ten feet away when she spoke after shooting she pointed the pistol at me and said yes and I 1 will serve you the same way sho sh then started to run across the street towards mr bulmers Cul mers others were coming up the street and I 1 called for them to stop her somebody asked why and I 1 said bdeau because se she has shot this man when he was shot hall moaned and said oh dear I 1 felt his pulse but he was dead we both recognized miss olson oison I 1 do not know what she said she had something in her hand band which I 1 did not then know to he be a pistol first knew it to lie he a weapon when she discharged it she then went down C street toward brigham did not see her fire the shot but saw the pistol in her hand band immediately imme immediately diatel biall afterward ter ward and saw the smoke hall was going to the mint saloon to work I 1 was going with him as far ab brigham street I 1 was eight or ten feet from miss olson when I 1 first saw gaw her I 1 was struck by the terrible look she gave us noticed her hands later something in them looked like a handkerchief neither of us answered her when thesbit was tired fired hall was going south he and I 1 were talking when the shot was fired hall was looking straight abeal when I 1 saw her after the shot she was standing just off the sidewalk when she fired she was in a northeasterly direction from hall and three or four feet from the tree he fell immediately to and then I 1 turned and s saw aw her with the pistol in her hand the tree is on the corner of first and C streets we were on the west side of C street I 1 was on the west or right hand side of mr hall Miss Olsons look was wa devilish I 1 saw miss olson leave her home at 11 a m on monday and saw her at home through her window between 3 and 4 she was writing did not dot see her face then did not meet her yesterday yeste y ester jay rJay marshal john M young called was in my office at the city hall monday evening abolia about when a young woman came in and handed a pistol to one of the officers leers off saying here I 1 have shot my betrayer the officer took it and handed it to me she handed kne ine a letter I 1 asked her to step into my office which she did she said the shooting occurred ou on the corner of first and C streets sent captain lange and patrol wagon there and telephoned dr meacham about twenty minutes later a m messenger informed me the man was dead I 1 telephoned the coroner for authority to remove the body As I 1 could not find him I 1 then sent for mr evans evana the undertaker and a messenger to Cap captain tair lange to bring the body here dr meacham mcacham gave directions for the disposition of the body the girl mentioned said her name dame was amanda olson mr young showed the letter and pistol the latter was a 32 caliber double artion affair with one empty chamber john F olson the girls father testified as follows while going home from work on monday evening saw a crowd of people on first and C streets he was told that a man was shot and mrs hart said amanda had done it I 1 then said that man lying there seduced my girl that was all I 1 said and they took me horne homi in a buggy I 1 asked if he was dead and they told me he was amanda olson is my daughter she said last sunday bunday she would like to kill hall but I 1 told her not to do so she said be had bad seduced seil her and rul ruined tie her for life I 1 did not know she had bad a pistol when she said she would like to kill hall she lay in bed fainting william N mccurdy testified last monday evening a young lady accompanied w by several men entered the police station saying she wanted to give herself up as she had bad killed prank frank handed him a pistol and a letter she bhe was much excited exclaiming amongst other 1 I stand it any ary longer ll 11 captain lange said he went to the seene scene of the tragedy with the patrol wagon and found hall lying there apparently still alive chief W AL A stanton called was near first and C streets about p in n and saw the crowd people called upon him to hurry up which chedid he did saw the man who was shot and found by feeling his pulse he was not dead I 1 drove after dr Ha hamilton milSon immediately ay iy and sent for the patrol wagon I 1 found the doctor at home and was not gone more than about eight minutes this closed the evidence and the jury thereupon returned the following verdict T or OF UTAH county of salt lake lake J an inquisition holden at 33 west temple street in the second precinct of salt lake city on the day of september 1890 before thomas E harris coroner of said county upon the body of frank 0 hall there lying dead by the jurors whose names are hereunto subscribed the said jurors on their oats oas say sa from the evidence presented that the t L deceased frank 0 hall came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted at the hands of manda amanda A olson at about on the afternoon of the day of september 1890 in testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written signed S MASTERSON L L LEVINOS levings J 0 ross boss jurors |