| Show W. W R. R EVANS E JR FOUND NOT TY Y BY HY JURY AT DUCHESNE W W. R R. R Evans Jr of Boneta charged ed with assaulting his parents mention of which was made last week was acquitted in Justice Lewis' Lewis court at af Duchesne last Thursday In last weeks week's Issue of the Free Press I was published claims made by the prosecution Since that time we have secured evidence at the trial by bythe bythe the defense It Is substantially as follows The bo boy claims i that he e has an in interest interest In- In terest at the ranch in land and stock He went there and started to drive away a cow cow and calf and a heifer W. W R. R Evans Sr disputed the right of the boy to take the I h heifer and took away and put It Inthe in inthe inthe i the stable and his wife went with him and the young man rode down downto to the stable and let down the bars and and his mother and sister and father fath fath- er were inside and it il seems that the mother had a willow stick and struck at the young young- mans man's horse and he took the stick away from her The young man the defendant stoutly maintains that he did not strike his mother at all nil and that the father Evans Sr struck the young young man on the head with a hoe hoe and and cut a great I gash in his head and dazed him so I that he really did not nol know what was going on and he tried to get away and as he ho was going to get on au his horse to ride away the father was ras following him vigorously and as yet the young man had had hadnot not struck his father but then he turned and struck the father with his first In the eye and succeeded in getting on au his horse and riding away The mother had two 1 gashes on the head and they were proven to be e of the same nature as as' the gash on tho tim timboy's boys boy's head had and ana the jury thought that the old man mall was greatly excited and hit his wife on the head with the hoe hog ill In tho the general general gen gen- eral melee either eUller bya by-a by a back stock or ora ora orn a n front st stroke oke o 0 |
