Show A something hew new RR am 1 la last s t sat saturday ur day e evening 0 a man named andrew 31 smith who came ame c from camp floyd that day and stays at in or around that post most of the time and who had takena tavena little of the critter but not much as reported threatening in to take the life of mayor smoot and others said he had come over from flom camp on purpose to shed mormon blood and he intended to do it if before he returned curbing cursing and swearing at the time in a shocking manner he was soon arrested and taken biome pe persons who were present and delivered over to a policeman who took him to the city lockup lock up where he was kept till monday morning and then taken before alderman clinton and fined on the mornin morning of monday the very early peter dotson esq U S marshal served a writ of habeas corpus oa on mayor smoot of which the following 0 is i a co copy py of dyall UT dlf TERRITORY i CEDAR COUNTY 88 to abtam bram 0 smoot of great salt aake city in the county of great sait salt laase GREETING gree TING whereas a petition tinder ander oath hath this day been filed with me the undersigned undersigner under signed chief justice of the supreme court of said territory stating among other things that one andrew 11 sm smith it h hath bath been by you illegally arrested and imprisoned and that you yet keep and band imprison the said smith illegally and u unjustly nj u r tl you yol a are hereby commanded to have the body of the said andrew 31 smith before me at my chambers in fairfield in the county first bufore aforesaid forthwith after being served with this thi writ fo to shaw cause if any you have or can for the arrest and imprisonment of the said smith that he ma may max be dealt with according to law abile and to abide such euch order as I 1 the said chief justice shall make in the premises and an 0 have hate you then and there this writ with the return of your doings in the premises thereon endorsed wit witness ess esl my hand band the 1 ith th day of october A D 1859 DELANA R E ECKEL cef jus of ct UT V T mr smoot made the followed following return oh the writ and returned it by express toi toa the judge who issued it I 1 to D IL eckas chief justice Tu stice this writ was handed me by D marshal marshai P K dotson on the lath dinst on receiving which I 1 informed mr dotson dots on that the person was waa not in in my charge or custody nor has everleen ever been and desired him to take it back which he declined the within named andrew 31 smith waa was arrested for a breach bleach of the city ordinance of great salt lake city but I 1 understand has baa been discharged I 1 therefore respectfully r re turn the same A 0 SMOOT OCT 1859 this proceeding T to say the least of it WA isaa new thing under the sun and there is some mystery attached to it that may be solved heye hew after who was so interested in the matter aa as to go to camp floyd of which fairfield is another name to petition judge eckels for a writ wilt of habeas corpus to have a man who had been beert arrested for a breach of the municipal ru rules and regulations of great salt lake city brought before him in order to be released and why the chief justice issued a mandamus with so much haste baste how bow it traveled BO so fast and why served on the mayor who never had bad the poor fellow in custody no do one has as yet been able to tell and ard it occurs to us that there is something 0 wrong in the matter we do not wish to say ay s 1 much about the occurrence till further facts are elicited but if the tha th mayor and aldermen of this or any other city in the territory are liable to have a writ of habeas corpus served on them returnable if not hot in a military camp in its immediate okli vicinage and within ran range e of its guns outside of the county in which the city of which they are ace officers is situated and in another judicial judi jadi cial clai district every timea man is arrested for disturbing the peace threatening 0 life or for any other of fence lence justice must have assumed som some new 1 attribute of late or those whose d duty uty it fx to obey and enforce e the laws as conserva conservator tors of the peace must have forgotten if they ever knew for what all legal rules were made and intended caa those who prefer good wines mines and liquors to bad whisky 2 can obtain them if they wish at ir rosenfeld coms coas co a on east temple street near the salt labe labs house than whom no more gentlemanly dealers dealer can be found in this city they also deal la in cigars preserves dried fruits cordials cordiali cor dials e eig etc t c see advertisement |