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Show WATERS CHARGED I WITH ASHBY'S DEAIH I Wife of Suppose:! Suicide (Jiven H Damaging K vide nee Against H Neighboring Settler. H MAM PREVIOUS ATTACK I ON Lin OK 1K( 'KASED. I Love and Intrigue May Have I'nrn- M ished Motive for Slav inn of Home- M steader in Lonesome Cabin. M Pilled with remorse for tin' part .9 she hail taken in conceiting the facts M at the coroner's impiesl, and feeling tfl that she could not permit her hus'oand gfl to be buried as a suicide when she was gB convinced that he had been murdered, gfl Mrs. II. ,1. Ashby, widow of the man M who was found dead in his cabin near gH Mud Springs) this county, on thn M morning of October 2:'., has unfolded M a story to the county sheriff suflic- M iently inrriminating to warrant the gB arrest and plading on trial of Steve M Waters, a neighboring homesteader, gH for the murder of the BeCOsV d. M Waters was placed under arrest last gB Sat unlay anil is being held by the M Sheriff in the jail at this place pend- M ing the preliminary hearing, which it gfl s understood will be held at Lund gfl before Justice of the Peace, Harry ! . Doollttle some lime next week, prob- H ; ably Tuesday or Wednesday. fB Other .settlers, notably Mr Fox. H who iias a homestead in that locality, B and a man named Clark, who was a H gueat of Mr. Fo Monday evening, H when iti s supposed the murder was B committeed, and with whom Waters H took BssJSMSBj Siee pivf mmnirinjr tea- k M H timony. They report that Wateis ap- -.UllZjgjjJ psarad ill at ease and departed with- B out finishing the meal. M Mrs. Clark testifies to Water's in- fatuation for her and repeated at M tempts to induce her to desert her , Bfl husband and go with her; also of M row which occurred at the Ashby call- M in some time previously, during which M Waters seized Ashby's gun the same M gUB that mulcted the fatal wound-- I and attempted to use it on Ashby. M The woman and the two men all crap Bfl pled for the gun, and Waters agreed H to desist and give it up. On the night H before the murder, Mrs. Ashby stayed H at the Waters cabin with Waters and M his sister, the following day sccom- M Denying Miss Waters to Parowan tn M do some shopping. During the even- M ing Mrs. Ashby testifies that Wateri M . tried again to get her promise to de- g sail her husband with whom she wm. H to go to California within a day or oH two, and stay with him. Saying that M f she refused he would pick a quarrel H with her husband. M Attorney E. H. Ryan has been em- aH ployed to defend Waters and his H brother residing in Oklahoma has at- U so been sent for to look after the in- H terestS of the accused man. As the K evidence is all circuit tantial, the CSSS fj will be bitterly contested and will be B the most important one in the criminal gflj .mi, i!s of this county in many years H |