EVENTS edmunds law prosecutions the following items which properly r ae come within the record of edmunds law prosecutions were not so placed in the WEEKLY at the time they oc on apr aar 24 bedson eardley of the seventh ward was arrested on a charge ch e of adultery the offense is alleged ae gae t to have been committed by the do defendant enfant with h his is plural wife the accused was taken belore before commissioner norrell and waived examination he gave bail in the sum of 1500 to await the action of the grandeury grand gran jury djury two witnesses witness iss J C mather and H van dam were summoned and were called before the grand jury at provo april 24 in the thet case of united states vs julius nielsen the defendant received for adultery with his plural wife a sentence of twenty seven months in the penitentiary tent iary lary about p in apr aar 24 three of marshal dyers deputies made an incursion into the sixteenth ward the object of the raid was to search for president joseph F smith and to subpoena members of his family as witnesses before the grandeury gran grand jury djury about 9 welock the deputies ato proceeded to search president sm premises the houses being ransacked the objects of the search were not found an old gentleman mr La lampson and mrs jlewis wid and another lady were subpoenaed to ap pear before the grand inquisitors inqui next day clay at ogden on the ath of may the following parties were arraigned on the charge of unlawful lawful cohabitation and pleaded guilty eugene campbell arthur parrell farrell alex hill richard bichard jessop rasmus N jepperson jeada jeppeson jas jaa hansen and wm wm C brown sen tence in each case was set for may the following was done at ogden on may 7 in the cases of the united states vs orson smith two oases samuel N lee phineas cook unlawful cohabitation john girard adultery and catherine graebel fornication may was set for defendants to plead 1 1 in the cases of the united states vs wm evans perjury hans L I 1 nielson and abram chadwick unlawful cohabitation may was set as the day on oil which defendants were to be arraigned at ogden on the ath of may the cue case of the united states vs chas 0 Bon quist unlawful cohabitation haN tation was wad called for trial after hearing the testimony on both aid sides e the he court instructed the jury I 1 to fl find n a verdict for the defendant which they did and was discharged and the sureties exonerated at ogden on the loth of may the cue case 0 of the united states vs thomas wilson of ogden unlawful cohabitation was called for trial while awaiting the arrival of witnesses in the mcfarland Farland Mo case it was represented that the first wife was dead and that defendant had bad married the second wife upon this showing the case was dismissed on saturday may 11 bedson eardley of the seventh ward and his plural wife were arrested by deputy marshal cannon the late grand jury found an indictment against mr eardley charging hinl him with adultery with his second wik wife who was indicted for fornication mr eardley gave 1500 bonds for himself and for his plural wife the following was done at on may 11 one case of the united States vs moroni marriott unlawful cohabitation was ordered dismissed it being an indictment brought under the segregation system another case of unlawful cohabitation against mr marriott was continued for the term the case of the united states vs james N hansen unlawful cohabitation was put upon trial and a jury paneled impaneled im the defendant took the stand himself and testified thit that he had lived and associated with the women women named in the indictment as his wives thus confirming the charge the jury on this evidence returned a verdict of guilty sentence was set for may F A Niels nielson was arraigned on a charge of unlawful cohabitation to which he pleaded guilty sentence set for may the case of the united states vs CO Pol bolkman kinan unlawful cohabitation was ordered continued for the term bent peterson who on ma may 9 withdrew his plea of not guilty and and ente entered reil one of guilty of unlawful cohabitation was arraigned for seti sentence he made a statement in answer to questions by the court he was sentenced to four months imprisonment and the payment of ft A fine of and costs thomas Bull bullock ocic was called for sentence having formerly pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation he was sentenced to four months imprisonment and to pay a fine of 1 00 aria coste coats a the court the following business was trans trana acted before judge henderson Hen ierson at ft 0 ogden den april 13 18 we the case of the united states vs wm win williams was dismissed ori a showing that defendant had for merly been convicted on an indle indictment t covering a portion of the timo time named in the present charge severin N lee was charae arra arraigned ed on a charge change of unlawful cohabitation to which he pleaded guilty sentence was set for may the case of the united states vs L archibald mcfarland unlawful cohabitation was called for trial a ind and 4 jury was called but not sworn swore before concluding the em empanel paneling iniS 14 of the jury it was learned that th the wrong witness had been called ft a sister to the alleged plural wife had ba V been subpoenaed in place of the to latter so the case was continued for la the term the case of the united states V Vs niels P olsen adultery was placed on trial A fury jury was empanel 0 and the first witness called was V the alleged plural wife elsa olsen the gist of her testimony was to t tn he 4 effect that during the past six leazo yea or more she had bad not lived in utah U while defendant defenda at was a resident at A T logan ogan upon this evidence mr clapp ol app for the defense asked for a sult suit united states attorney peters raised no particular object cioll and the request was granted the case of the united states vs jaa olsen fornication was ordered on motion of mr peters the cue case of the united states vs thos anos bullock adultery was con aued for the term I 1 the case of the unite I 1 states vs john ohn burt unlawful cohabitation IMS as continued for the term because application for amnesty was lVell tending ding the action of the president ater it was ordered dismissed the he case of the united states vs T rans ns C hansen adultery was ordered dered dismissed he warold and tippled and had formerly served a stence nt ence for unlawful cohabitation which time was covered by the present indictment of adultery the case of the united states vs john oha Christoph son sorn unlawful cd 06 on was called far trial the result atilt was a conviction and sentence tence was set for may 25 0 on may 14 bedson eardley of the seventh seventh ward was arraigned in the third cloird district court on charge of adultery dul tery with his plural wife W ta pickard was foreman of the grand JU jury w which aich found the indict went fhe ie alleged offense is calmed to have been comal committed eted bout about the of june 1888 the pleaded not guilty mr peters aters wanted the cue case tried on WAY y 16 the defendant had 0 o attorney however and judge F andvord and ford set the case for that date ath ith tiie the provision that if the defendant or his counsel needed furr ther time it should be granted mary A holding brother eard a plural wife was also arraigned we chang charging i ng her with fornication tornio atlon with her husband to ia she entered a plea of not guilty ger trial was set for may 16 with the same bame understanding as in the other mier caw case decision announced OR on may 13 hon F S bich ards ds received a telegram from announcing that the tt reme preme court of the united states i reu rendered dered a decision in the ha corpus pus case of df hans nielsen dialed Hi led aled from judge judds court afi decision reverses the action of vile dge en judd and will libei liberate ate mr n and adl a number num ler of other en cormons mormons Mor mons who have been held under a similar unjust rendering of the law there are now in the penitentiary foar i persons under sentence of un UJ cohabitation and ad adultery Otery amese are joseph dark clark charles charlea S gal albert jones Jone and sand bishop wm win g y aiau maughan ghan mr nielsen himself arving a term on a charge of fl iery b having av ing completed his se sen ny uise nee far unlawful ml cohabitation we Huer stand that there are a number vr of othere Others in the same situation released from prison s ay 7 andrew hansen who was aws in the first district court fa to a term ini of six months in the peni ce atlary ialY for living with more than one ne wife was released from prison having com completed p feted the term fixed by the court may 10 thomas gunderson guilderson of mill creek was released from the penitentiary tent iary he has completed a aberin of 50 days for living with his wives and 30 days additional for the fine lm imposed posed bishop peter C jensen of mantua box elder count county was liberated from the penitentiary on may 13 having served a term of six aix months for unlawful cohabitation he also paid line fine and costs on the same day james keller also of mantua regained his liberty he had served a term of six months for living with his wives and paid the costs of the prosecution it