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Show BEFORE JUOGE BUCKOORH Tils Castle Bats Daps Found Guilty ot Riot. Interesting Suit From American Amer-ican Fork for 82800 Damages. Arising From the Alleged Failure of Defendants to Keep Their Contract. . THURSDAY. Court resumed session at 10 o'clock. Wm. Taylor, John Misler, George Orsten, Henry Boyle aad Frank Hal-laday,all Hal-laday,all of Santaquin, were arraigned on a charge of riot. They took the statutoryjtime to plead. The Castle Gate riot case was resumed. res-umed. John Bell testified as follows: I was at the saloon on the 22ud of February; Feb-ruary; had six Italians around me; there are about 50 coke kilns ther which give a good light in the neighborhood neigh-borhood so that I could see everything going on. To Mr. Sutherland. Whipped all the Italians; used chairs or whatever 1 could get my hands on; I knocked them all down. Wm. Reese testified that he got knocked down and was in an unc on-sciousstate;recovered;about on-sciousstate;recovered;about five or ten minutes before the shooting. Wm. Corrick, Ambrose Toner and Samtiel Hebrue testified to having heard the shooting; were in the saloon during the fight, and had a hand in it. B. F, Caffrey testified that the coke ovens and the electric light made the vicinity of the saloon and the Italians, houses light at any time. Pro.s?cution rested. Mr. Bounett was sworn as interpreter interpre-ter for the defense. Ben. Lombardi was the first witness: I was at Castle Gate on the 22nd of February last, was in the saloon; saw tl.e light; Jones and Jack Samuels started it,Jones took a glass from John Laurenti and was going to throw it in his face, and another one held him; he then went to Laurenti with his fist,' and another one threw Jone3 down; then Laurenti got knock-d down and a lot of the white men piled on him; they 'fought with chairs, billiard cues', etc., there were about sixty or eighty men in the room; of these four or six were Italians; Jm; Lauren.: tfimseli and walked to the, billiard table; the Italians did not follow him into the corner. Heard shots fired after af-ter the Italians left the saloon: before they got across the creek about eight or ten shots were fired at them; the bullets passed over their head; the 6hots were fired from the saloon door. To Mr. King Did not follow Jones into comer; Jones did not fall down near the bar, I was near the pooltable looking on at some persons that were Playing. Court was adjourned until 2 o'clock. AFTERXOON. The Dago riot cas was continued. John Laurenti was the next witness called. John Mosier acted as inter-pretor. inter-pretor. This witness testified that there were about eight or ten Italians in the fight and that there were about twelve whit.- men on top of hiin wjth chairs. Joseph Dajjis testified there were about ten Italians present; there were chairs and billiard cues, etc., used; the Americans were using them on the Italians; tbere were about fifty or sixty Americans present; heard pistol shots; after leaving the saloon the shots were fired. To Mr. King Bid not see any of the Italians drunk; there is only one man who was in the fight who is not here. Charles Girrfla: I live at Castle Gate; saw the row at the saloon; there were only teu Italians there; there arp about thirty-five Italians in the camp; Jones started the row by striking Laurenti, and he pushed Jones down. Toney Boizier and Joseph Delclif, a Frenchman, were called and gave corroborative cor-roborative evidence of the other witnesses. wit-nesses. B. F. Caffery was recalled and testified testi-fied that Mr. Samuels did not have a billiard cue; he took one from Laurenti. The case was given to the jury and they retired. The case of Alfred Tomlinson vs.TJ. P. Ry Co., ten days stay of execution was granted. John M. Hansen was admitted to the bar. Court adjourned until 10 o'clock Friday morning. FRIDAY. Court resumed session at 10 o'clock. The jury in the Dago riot case came into court and returned a verdict that the following named defendants were found guilty as charged: Joseph Dajjis, Joseph Moitre, John Laurenti, Tony Patrico, Antone Bozier, Ben j Lombardi, and a verdict of not guilty j for Joseph Alberto, Joseph Delchef, j Chas. Ginraffo, Sebastrau Forgetto and Mitri Cymami. Sentence was i:et for 2 o'clock. j The case of J. J. Abererombis et al. vs. W. W. Jackson et al., in which the plaintiffs claim damages of $2,800 for failure of the defendants to comply with a contract between the plaintiff and defendant, for fifteen carloads of potatoes, then came up for trial. M. M. Kellogg appeared for plaintiff and King & Iloutz for the defense. A jury was empaneled and the case proceeded. pro-ceeded. The defense claimed that the coutract they signed was not the contract con-tract that was drawn first, further claiming that Mr. Abercombie, in copying the original contract, had substituted another contract, and they had signed it without having read it. Plaintiff denied that any more than one contract had been drawn, and he had made a correct copy of jt, which defendants signed. I A number of witnesses were examined ex-amined as to the price of potatoes in the month of November. Court adjourned until 2 o'clock. AFTERNOON. Court resumed session at 2 o'clock. The Dagoes, who wert fouud guilty of riot, were each sentenced to two months.jmprisonment in the penitentiary peniten-tiary and to pay a fine of $25.00 each and costs. The case of Abercombe et al vs. J ackson et al was resumed. Witnesses for the defense were examined in reference ref-erence to Mr. Abeicomb's writing a copy of the original contract and also as to the price of potatoes. Plaintiff claimed, that, because of-potatoes rising in price, after the signing of the contract, the defendants broke the contract. con-tract. The defense examined the witnesses wit-nesses to prove that instead of rising, the price of potatoes fell. SATURDAY. ' Court resumed session at 10 o'clock. The case of Abercombie et al vs. W. W. Jackson et al; was continued. After Af-ter arguments the case was submitted to the jury. The case of C. Deveger et at vs. St. V. Le Sieur was called and a jury was empaneled. The jury in the case of J. J. Aber-crombie Aber-crombie et al vs. W. W. Jackson et al; rendered a yerdict of damages to the amount of $1,800. Attorney King asked for a ten day? stay of execution, which was granted. An order to subpoena the witnesses for the defense, in the case of the People vs. Ranson E. Johnson was issued. Hyrum Ilend, a native. England, and a resident of Ut jpty, was admitted to citizen sK" j!oV Court " adjourned tttiU lxVjllck Monday morning V; - |