Show FIRST DISTRICT COURT A red letter day for sentences ALBERT JONES imprisoned FOR FOURTEEN MONTHS several promise for tho baturo and get off scott free there was no session of the court on saturday his honor judge judil being in salt lake attending th supreme court IX AS REPORTER aenry A noon was sworn in as official reporter in thu trial of alie case of heibert bate et al vs american fork city IIEr BEItT ronk CITY this case was then called the full rf port being found in another part of issue the business of sentencing was then beun KIELSEN was the first of the victims to forward in answer to tha bourl he said by counsel that hd was under two indictments he could not live with cither of hi nivea the first would not permit him and lie could not legally live with the second he had no property larl deeded all to his folk married liia second wife in 1864 the court aid the object of ahe law was not to punish him forthe sake of punishment he was sentenced to months and and costs it wae tha net to come forward he had been convicted of adultery with his wife the court arkid if this man was not the one laving three wives and twenty seven children on being answered in llie ahe court said lie would yive hua n light punishment nd see it it not correct the avd hu was t to even month made a statement to the court in his behalf he had been in his domestic af lairs but came forward now to obey the law in the future and liv only with his lawful wife this was the result of his fixed determination mr evans he lias a child two months old by his plural wife the court I 1 understand it As you mean 10 livo straight ap to the law in alio future you can po home you will however have to come back at alie nest term of court to answer to the bharga of adultery vi il was the next who came forward and said lie had lived with his first wife slice his arrest in juno he was a one legged man and biad a large family he understood eliat lio could now live with only ahe lawful wife sentence was suspended until ahe next term of court JE next appeared before the court mr thurman stated that the defendants firt wife biad left him and married another man he had since married two women however to alie court defendant said ho was living entirely tho first of alie two wives lie had now he was a poor man married tha wife he was living with now 20 years ago he was sentenced to three months and 50 and costs ELI A DAY was one who had been indicted for unlawful cohabitation and adults rv in july last lie heard the marshals mars nals wanted him and lie voluntarily went a short lime after before the commission ir was thirty two years old and married his second wife four and a liala years ago up to the time he learned the mar hals biad enquired for him he had lived both wives alie court said that defendant had evidently knowingly violated alie liw and he sentenced the defendant to five months and fine JOHN r donica indicted for unlawful cohabitation and on two cases for adultery said he had three mr thurman said lie thought each case douht to rest on its own merits uia honor said that is and you may assume it it was the purpose of tiie court that after a defendant had en dun d a term of anil after coming up for seni enie on he second cabe waa ready to oay lie had had enough of it to relieve the defendant of any further imprisonment the defendant made a further explanation of his domestic relations alie court se him to four months and 50 and costs OLOF C LAKSON said he biad awu wives he harriod the baat in 1884 he now understood that ahe law 13 constitutional and it is his duty to live with the first wife mr evans your honor he has four wives defendant ant they are dead sir laughter he was sentenced to five months WM biad two wives the laba lie married in 1871 his second wife and lie had arranged to live apart he would not promise but it was his intention to obey alie law mr evans sal it was an ordinary case of unlawful cohabitation defendant was sentenced to three months JOHN had married liis second wife in 1860 was a poor man biad been laboring among the indiana trying ti teach thorfin how to earn their living and live in accordant e with the usages of civilize civi liza tion he had been doing a good work among them the court said you will have to answer to another charge and would make a tight sentence een tence in this case defendant was sentenced ced to four months andlee costs recess till one at the afternoon session josepn SWAZEY vas called ap to receive sentence hav tg been of feloniously mark ait aln fp ahti was biven oiny months and fined loa and costs B CLUFF appeared for the charge ot adultery his annie carew tie plead not former condic lor unlawful the aade was sentenced to four mocha and toa ami coats for cohabitation deiure sentein e de ici baid when allm raid begun lit aul hia pep iralee iffy liavine lived tofi lier knew by the ulin ot llie lie lauve u his alund wife giedd to live away n he huud provide a liu ny her brother who in alville Lu came an i currad lier a biome conen td I 1 haid she left athrur eais agi alio h rii r lied kiy 0 da since thi was why I 1 plead not quitty at niba de udini thau went on to lie lia changed his plea they raised no fru there and ns he biad plenty he sent wo d to laid brother in law that he could lave all le wailed his brother in 11 v sent plural wile for th fruit and he re here at h leoine preparing it iau her filteau yeara aiace mr 1 evand remarked eliat there was proof af adultery he hd been seen out with lier was given buur montha and aj aau coats X appeared for sentence judge dusenberry that defer daut several aej married a crippled aa N ad tha ji ba lived with her but hnz always lived and expected to live with his first wife A church divorce was now pending sentence was suspended alfried came forward he had been suffering with rheumatism he had two wives married the last fifteen years ago was living exclusively with ilie first wife he was given 30 daya and fined 50 and costs and married hid second wife 20 years ngo he biad been indicted also for adultery his youngest was six old he was given days and 50 and costs the court saying it hoped he would be able to promise to 10 lo better when he canio out of alio penitentiary 0 3 said he had married hii second bif twelve years ago he wa war r living with his lint wife he had lived with alie second up 10 18 months ago he was given days and 50 and costs JONES appeared for sentence he read a statement as follows to the honorable john W jadd judge of the ast 1st district court of utah territory on october lat I 1 surrendered myself to U S DC uty marshal appeared at once in buur court plead guilty to an charging me with ui lawful cohabitation 1 wiy admitted to bail in the flum of pending sentence to be rendered on thia the of november again on the morning of the of october hearing that 1 was sought for by the officers of alie law to answer ans to mother indictment jiwat found bythe grand jury alien in session 1 again surrendered myself to your court courand nd plead guilty to the charge of adultery As far back as november while absent from home in england I 1 heard that an indictment was pending against me 1 ic turned england in 1886 since which lime I 1 have been in arizona and this Tern tury earning barely means enough to support my family 1 have sun ered much in my i emi exi ie condition while yet in england my family have also suffered my pro and I 1 find myself by my absence from my fiume during the three years i could have removed my family from the territory but being averse to leaving my home aud alie laud on which I 1 have spent the better part of my days in improving the real estate of our nation whose laws against my marriage relations I 1 have been fully convinced for some time would be enforced although I 1 had hoped the law would have lain idly on the book as it did for some time utter its passage hoy ever I 1 have never doubted that tho nation had tile power to enforce the law whenever it determine on doin so Therefore after some deliberation and hoping from the more merciful rendition of tie law of late particularly in alie case of the ex delegate of alie territory the honorable george Q cannon I 1 myself and now ask our honor to extend unto me that mercy and leniency which ou as the enta 1 the of alic power of the nation may exercise in my case knowing I 1 hae surrendered to answer a law which my action proves I 1 trust is not intended to crush those nho may to its pow er the court said it was not of course the duty of the court to dictate to him what he should do but the court could not but wish defendant had gone farther and promised to cume within ilie lines of the LAW he wished defendant throw himself within alie breach and help save the that w as giang on in tins community I he court had to impose entente en tence for two of fence one for unlawful cohabitation and one for adultery 1 I he court imposed a sentence of days and a tine for cohabitation and in alie ten L came forward sir Thur inui said that defendant did not know which one of hid wives was the lawful wife his first wife is dead during her lifetime he majied another afterward i lie married another yare ago the first difo hain died twenty eaic abo defendant therefore in liin with his third wife excle iely he was bvm with his leral wife he biad not with hisser ond wife for eleven 3 cars the court thorit tho uIt that if ibis was the state of fact defendant had not io the law alic third wife was cu dently the li asil wife mr einns said the testimony before the jury showed eliat defond nt had cohabited arh more than one woman the court said there was too much doubt about this casp and he would postpone the sentence tt e defendant admitted the facts aud had plead and was ready to anuw obey the law his last 01 fourth wife had di edThe court said that lie thought was no sense in bothering oer the anee any more and ordered him to go home geeron appeared for booth made a statement in behalf of tin foith ini within the law inasmuch as he was living only with one wife that wife was the second wife he could not agree with liis first wife defendant biad been in the penitentiary for the odense already he waa now before alie court the child was born one month after be came out of the penitentiary ho was given sixty days S came forward he had two wives had not lived with his second wife for two he was given four months JOHN was the nest defendent he had not known it was unlawful when he married his second wife the court told him it was unlawful for him to lie with any other than his first wife lie must let the balance alone defendant what I 1 do your honor I 1 now live alone the case of this defendant was a peculiar one he had tn keep both wies together one was blind and feeble and the other biad to look after lier defendant wanted to know what he rould the court seemed as much guzzled over the situation as defendant waa he was told to appear beffie alie court on alie ath of december in alie meantime lie could see aliat arrangements could bi made BO that he could live within the law in the future labeit barmer who had plead cuilty to unlawful cohabitation said liis plural wife and be had separated 18 months ao he was given 4 months and fined and coats WILLIAM GALLOP indicted for unlawful cohabitation was annia ned and plead guilty said he bained his second wife in 1883 he biad not lived with lit r alie indictment was found he knew it was unlawful for him to live her he was sentenced to ninety days and costs sentencing being over the cro wd of tiled out in charge of the deputies for tasir destination |