Show THE MURDER CASE the killing of homer J antone under mider investigation A CLEAR CASK CASE AGAIN THE CASK CABB alb OTHERS NOT ACT YET DEVELOPED at a few faw minutes before 11 this morning louis steen samuel B woolley william B mccloskey mckloskey and 4 james halley who were under arrest on the charge of murder were brought la in from the penitentiary they were F securely handcuffed but the irons were removed 1 in 4 the marshals marshallis office and the defendants issued in into to the clerks clerk si room where the preliminary examination was to be held A large number of witnesses and spectators were present sheriff turner of utah county who made the arrests being among the number district astorr attorney kiy dickson conducted the t he prosecution and judge PM PL emerson appeared tor for defendants woolley mccloskey and haley the defendants were ibok arraigned before commissioner and listened U ned to the reading of the corn coni plaint ch chir d arcing ino them witie the crime of murder murd d in fil having engaged on in toe the unlawful lAwful Va k killing i of homer omer J stone at price emery mery county co uty utah on friday january j an u a ry 21 I 1 A plea of not guilty was made imad e for f or each steen speaking scarcely ab above 0 ve a whisper while le his i associates ga gave ve their reply in positive language r the commissioner asked steen have counsel steen in a no sir air commissioner joo do you yot desire any steen yes sir commissioner how old did are you steen Eig eighteen lateen years commissioner have you any money to pay an attorney steen no sir mr dickson suggested that judge 91 merson and mr vans evans who appeared for the other defendants also ad take care of steens interests bu but t they declined judge E D hoge was then requested ito act but said me he had done so much not of f tat that class of business that he did not relish it he would not positively refuse but would prefer if an attorney from the judicial district where the crime was committed would take the casid case I 1 A G sutherland sen of provo finally consented to act as counsel for steen dr hall bf this city was the first witness and testified to having examined the body of homer J stone on jan 25 he described the course of the bullet which had entered at the back just below the right shoulder blade had passed through both luus lungs severed the principal wio blood od vessel vesel leading from the heart aheart and came out at the left lef t breast the ball had ranged upward and the wound inflicted was necessarily fatal 1 william henry reeves beeves w was as the next witness he testified that he was from cleveland 0 on the night of the shooting he was with stone at the saloon where steen asked him to settle a bill of 16 and had afterward stayed with him until the shooting at which time he was 10 or 15 feekin feet in advance he turned and saw a person whom he believed belleve dAo to be steen run away from the scene his version of the affair does not differ materially from the account already published the order on stone which the defendant was trying to collect was in favor of paul meyers for 16 and meyers had offered steen one half if he could get stone to pay it wm win F williams also testified he was shown a pistol and identified it as the weapon that steen confes confessed kled havink having used in the commission of the crime he had bad listened to the de fead ants confession in which be stated in addition to the account already given that he borrowed the pistol from S B woolley telling the tatter latter that he had had bad a row with stone and wanted to defend himself Woolley had remarked that he also had a grudge against the deceased another of the defendants wm win mccloskey had bad told him that if stone had treated him as he had steep he would call him out and bran brain X nim im steen had then gone in search of stone and when he met him made a second de mand for payment of the bill this was again refused and the defendant drew his pistol from his belt stone placed his bis hand band on his pistol and called none of that he then turned and tried to get away when steen fired the two were then about ten feet apart the murderer stopped a nip moment ment then ran off he crossed the river to the deserted village of cleveland but after wandering around until the next night came and gave himself up he said in the presence of quite a number of witnesses 1 I way may as well tell it all first as 98 last I 1 am tu the man who killed stone he further claimed that he had been encouraged to the deed by other parties at the conclusion of mr williams testimony the court took a recess the case was to be proceeded with at a later hour this afternoon |