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Gold Hill, Utah, July 23rd, 1919.

Where dry goods boxes serve as chairs, the earth as floor, and homemade tables, beds,

and benches constitute the remaining furniture.

This is the home of Mrs. Alice Harris, mother of Leland D. Harris of Trout Creek, who is alleged to have shot and killed Jesse Cone,

cattleman, and perhaps mortally wounded, a Cleo deputy sheriff.

The sanctity of the Harris home, a crude Lincoln cabin-like place,

was invaded yesterday by sheriffs and deputies seeking at the domicile

clues which might throw additional light on the recent tragedy.

Deserted and still, every article mutely evidencing the workmanship of the hand of a woman or women,

the place offered meager material for investigation.

At the cabin, it is said, Mrs. Harris lived with her daughter Florence, 19 and beautiful,

awaiting for many months the return of Leland in the Army. The son had been home only a short period before the tragedy,

it is said. Mrs. Harris is alleged at one time to have said, the reason I moved out into the desert

was to protect my daughter from the wickedness of the city. Residents of the Gold Hill and Trout

Creek districts say that Mrs. Harris has repeatedly stated that she was prepared to protect

her property with firearms if necessary, and that she had taught her children how to use a gun

to protect themselves.

The True Crime Historian presents yesterday's news, tales of classic scandals, scoundrels, and scourges told from historic newspapers in the

golden age of yellow journalism. Episode 281 is dedicated to listener and patron Kimberly Anderson,

who shares a hometown with the defendants in this case. Although first reports said that Mrs. Alice Harris was a widow,

it turns out she was a divorcee whose ex-husband was of the Harris family of Harrisville, Utah,

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