J. C. Hemingray participated in murder trial

Local and Other Matters.

FROM THURSDAY'S DAILY, DEC. 21.

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The Homicide. — An inquest in connection with the Phillips - Jones homicide was held at the City Hall last evening, resulting in the following verdict —

"An inquisition holden in the fifth precinct of Salt Lake City, December 20th, A. D. 1876, at the City Hall, upon the body of William Jones, there lying dead, before George J. Taylor, coroner of said county, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed. The said jurors upon their oaths do say, that he died on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1876, from the effects of wounds inflicted by a knife in the hands of David Phillips while in a saloon on Commercial Street, Salt Lake City.

In testimony whereof they have hereto set their hands the day and year first above written.

JAMES PAYNE.

FRANCIS ARMSTRONG.

S. GENSLER.

GEORGE J. TAYLOR, CORONER."

The funeral of Jones took place this afternoon under the auspices of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which organization he was a member.

A large crowd of people were at the City Hall at ten o'clock, for the purpose of witnessing the proceedings before Justice Pyper, of the preliminary examination of the perpetrator of the killing. The case did not open, however, till about 11 o'clock, Judges Z. Snow and J. C. Hemingray appearing on the part of the people and Judge Woods for the defense.

The accused is a stout healthy-looking young man and does not appear to have the cold, resolute, hang-dog look of the calculating, cold-blooded murderer, his parted lips giving an expression that seems to indicate not more than a common amount of determination.

The evidence for the prosecution showed simply, so far as developed, up till half-past two this afternoon, that the accused and the deceased had a fight in the saloon where the tragedy was enacted, and that in the course of it Jones was stabbed and killed by Phillips. It was also shown that Phillips had previously, during the same day, purchased the knife used by him, and that he had stated that he bought it for the purpose of killing Jones.