| Show 1 WITNESS CHARGES ATTEMPT TO BRIBE Sensation in Southworth Trial as Old Woman Exp Exposes ses I Unfaithfulness V tf f fr lJ l- l 4 J i Special to The Republican Herald S den Os-den Ogden Dec 19 WIth With his taco faco flushed antI and his hit eyes staring a ait as asIf If it ia ghost of ot the tho past h had lt sudden suddenly ap- ap dar d to Accuse accuse him of oC his hs own unfaithfulness un un- ta faithfulness Henry Southworth on trial for Cor tho killing Killin of ot Ned ed Hanks Hanles gripped the tle table before him this afternoon af at- and listened to tho the story of oC Mrs Bessie Bessle of at Salt Satt Lake e sev soy sev seven enty-seven n years tars of a age c at whose home tho defendant Is said aid to have ha stopped with another woman He uHe introduced her to me as as' as Mrs Ir Southworth his Ills wife and sho aho stayed from Crom 3 o'clock one afternoon until 5 Ij o'clock the next day dar declared the aged witness Uness They were together almost second cia day being bein being be be- constantly part of the in ing passed In tho the tool hou house e across tho the street et I know Myra lyra Southworth now as hla real wife On the second day referred to however Myra I ra called at atthe atthe atthe the house and asked If Ir Henry Southworth Southworth southworth South- South worth stopped d there I told her that lie Ie did and sand that he and his wife wife- had hadt t gone to spend the evening e Myra Ira then broke down und and told me that she she- was lils and had como to draw some Borne of his pay p to feed her hel hu hungry gr children The ThEl witness related rated how hov she had been summoned to appear in the tho trial and how n. n man had offered her If f she he would not testify She said she later ier saw gaw this same man in Salt Lake and nd that she Eho had hod run from Crom him as she fhe feared he ml might ht kill her for tor not doing as he had suggested Sugs Sho then t told ld of ot being approached b by the same man nian as she he alighted aIls from the and of oC hi his asking ger er train tr at Ogden den lier ber if IC OO 00 would shut her mouth In Inthe the matter i Defense eC Ti In A bombshell suddenly dropped Into the ranks of ot the defense could not riot have caused a more profound sensation and spectators and jurymen alike leaned forward In their seats scats to catch each word from the the- sturdy old German woman woman wom worn an as she answered questions The at attorneys attorneys at- at tornes for or the defense e objected strenuously sly to the he questions being asked by bythe bythe bythe the district attorney and as each objection ob ob- ob- ob j was as overruled iJ an exception was declared j ind nd noted When Whim the thc state Stat had finished with the witness the attorneys for Southworth gathered in front of oC the witness and began hegan a determined effort to confuse her Their only onh accomplishment however however how how- ever was to brin bring out even more startIng startling start start- ling Ing statements than had th the district attorney in his examination and th the session closed d with th tho aged Woman oman in inthe the chair replying confidently to ever evor every san sally of or the defense and sticking to her stor story with exactness Mrs stated that she sho lives lIes at i 3 Browning avenue Salt Lake and that during durIns- the summer of 1910 she rented a r room om to Henry Renn Southworth because It was near his work He Hc was was' brought th thereby rc b another J named Boden Roden Mrs Str broke down early y in her Examination ion attributing the Incident later to the fact that sh she Is i even years of ot age ago and did riot not like to i be bc In court with so o manh manyi people looking at her She stated that thai she had twenty ent children of her hr own and that hat two of ot them were 1 living living- with hert her her- the nt-the t the time Southworth was wag rooming at her home I |
