Show CU CURRENT CUt E T EVENTS TS Edmunds Law Prosecutions Jacob Jacoh Hews charged with unlawful unlawful unlawful ful cohabitation pleaded d guilty John was tried for un- un unlawful unlawful un unlawful lawful cohabitation coha-bi coha but a quitted hoe J Jones of C Cedar dar con con- convicted convicted convicted of unlawful gi given ven the full penalty Niels Hansen charged with un- un unla unlawful un unlawful la lawful ful cohabitation pleaded guilty sentence sentence was wae set for fr January Fred Christensen and James Han Han Han- Hansen seu sen charged with unlawful cohabitation coha cohabitation i- i tation pleaded not guilty Th The case a against Qi Henry Ti charged with adultery was con on continued con continued for the term Elias Blackburn was sentenced to pay a fine of three hundred dol dol- dol dollars dollars lars and ami costs for unlawful cohabitation cohabitation tio tion n Edward A Bagley unlawful co- co cohabitation cohabitation co cohabitation habitation also promised to obey the law and was waa sentenced to p pay y and costs Hyrum Peterson convicted of fornication was sentenced Sk n to six months imprisonment and ana a fine of The judge gave him a severe lecture Win Wm Robinson pleading guilty to adultery and promising under the judges judge's obey the law was given one year in the penitentiary penitentiary without fine or costs Christian L Christensen C risten en was sentenced to six months in the peni peni- penitentiary penitentiary and to pitY piny p y a fine of three hundred hu dollars and costs for unlawful unlawful ful ul cohabitation Hans a Dane unable to understand the English language sufficient to fully answer the Judges Judge's interrogations hut but promising to obey the law was sentenced to pay 50 and costs Shortly after ten o'clock Decem Decem- December December December ber 12 Deputy Marshals Vandercook and Cannon went to the undertaking un undertaking ing establishment of Joseph E ETaylor Taylor Counselor in the Presidency y of the Salt alt Lake Stake and arrested him on a charge of unlawful cohabit cohabit- cohabitation cohabitation The indictment WAS found December 1 1886 Bail was fixed by Judge J Zane at Mr Taylor went h before fore Commissioner Green Green- Greenman GreenY Greenman man Green Y man and gave the required bond boud Royal J Cutler indicts 1 for or Un- Un awful un-awful awful cohabitation on pleading guilty had quite an interest Interest- interesting Interesting ing conversation with the j judge when called aUed for sentence Judge informing the defendant defendant that the court would not require any renunciation on the part of tie t-ie t ie defendant of his religious belief or belief in polygamy polygamy amy nor nl that he should turn his plural wife outdoors totally vided for nor in fact turn her ber out at all but that the court would re- re lequire require quire le-quire quire ra a promise that defendant would strictly observe the law tu ceasing to cohabit with and hold holdout holdout holdout out women to 1 the world as their E wives whereupon Mr Cutler prom prom- promised to obey the lawas lawa lawas he aJ alleged ged he be had been heeD doing for the past two years and Judge Anderson Andersen A ndel n there there- thereupon thereupon thereupon upon suspended sentence |