Show I j THE HALLIDAY TRIAL I A Verdict of Murder In the First Dcjrrcc The Halliday trial lasted two days The jury was out two hours Thursday Thurs-day and returned with a verdict of murder in the first degree The criminal crim-inal lawyer who defended Halliday must have slept through the trial The public understanding of tho case is that there were strong mitigating mitigat-ing circumstances in the killing of Bishop Joseph Dobson at Kanab i Nov 23d 1886 Wilford H Halli day and Joe Dobson were both Mormons Mor-mons and the trouble grew out of an intimacy between Dobson and Halli days wife while Halliday was serving a fiveyears sentence in the pen for cattle stealing Whatever the degree of crime of which he is convicted con-victed if the facts are as reported ho is entitled to the greatest clemency I Frisco Times I |