Show FIRST DISTRICT COURT bishops borms dorms arid breid go to the pen THE GRAND JURY IGNORE SEVERAL U C CASES president H II 11 cinfo pleads guilty to the usual charge on saturday morning charles mank watered pleas of not guilty to the indict against him for unlawful cohabitation and adultery and two cases were set for the philander brown entered a plea of not of unlawful cohabitation and the case was set for the loth L gee was arraigned for bigamy and took the statutory time to plead the case was set for tho james latimer levi curtis and henry hamilton entered picas of guilty withdrawing their former pleas each for unlawful cohabitation whittaker was admitted to citizenship ou saturday afternoon marintha loveridge indicted for perjury appeared and withdrew her former plea and plead guilty ledru Loven dge her father made a statement in her behalf to tho effect that the young girl when before the grand jury was embarrassed and probably a little over zealous in her efforts to screen her parents her testifying falsely being without their knowledge or approval and he besought the court to bo as lenient as possible in viea of the circumstances the judge stated that this had been the second case of alie kind which had come before him in this district and lie had proposed to make an example of mich but owing to the age and sex of this defendant he did I 1 not feel like imposing imprisonment but 1 gave her warning to be more careful in the future and eliat if the costs of the prosecution amounting to 44 were paid sentence would be suspended the young lady then withdrew bishop CX as dorius appeared to i receive sentence in answer to bucs tiona from the judge defendant stated that he had married his plural wife 17 i years previously and hia youngest child was four yeara of age but he had noth i ing more to sav ho waa thereupon i sentenced to imprisonment for six months and to pay a fine of and the costs of prosecution i in the case of thomas hardag convicted of unlawful was postponed until the bishop W T stepped toward to receive sentence in reply to the judge he stated that he biad married in 1849 and that hia youngest child was six years old he had nothing to say and was sentenced to three months and fine with costs aco farnsworth had nothing to say except that he married his second wife in 1861 before any law was passed against plural marriage ha was sentenced to pay a fine of and the costs of the prosecution sentences in the basea of robert 1 i king frederick weight george storrs and ledru loveridge were ordered bet for the joseph S jones who had plead guilty u to the charge of unlawful cohabitation had nothing to say and in reply to the judge stated that he had married his second wife since the law of 1862 passed and that a child had been born to them since the law passed he was sentenced to six months imprisonment and to pay a fine of and the costs john jacob walser also had nothing to say he had married one wife in 1870 and the second in 1875 his est child waa nearly four years old sentence six months and and costa the case of the united states against georga sennett was on motion of district attorney peters dismissed the accounts of walter jones u b commissioner at Monroe were approved court adjourned until monday at 10 a m JIon bionday day mornings proceedings juror 0 wilkins was excused for the dav on account of sickness m his family prof K G maesar appeared for arraignment ment on the charge of unlawful cohabitation he plead not guilty and trial was set for the mst the grand jury came into court and presented seven indictments indict mente under tho united states laws the U S cases against john davia joseph sawyer and john crawford were ys anderson appeared for arraignment ment on an indictment charging him with unlawful cohabitation he took two days to plead the case of the united states against george taylor unlawful cohabitation was called up for trial on carhuff the roll of witnesses for the prosecution it was found that taylor jr was not present mr devaus stated that he was informed that the witness was evading process Uail itt li ennett was called up to testify as to his efforts to make ser vice and stated that he tried to aub acena the witness several times even at 0 in iha morning at witnesses homo but failed every taie mr hiles moved that the case be continued for the arm and an order to that effect was entered the case of the united states against harvey H cluff unlawful cohabitation was next called mr thurman arose and stated that he felt physically unable at that anno to go on with the case he had just returned from his legislative labors and was feared he could not he said do justice to his clients case if the prosecution insist on going to trial hiles and evans objected to further delay cases had been set for this day and they insisted that flioy bo disposed of mr thurman then after a whispered consultation with mr cluff announced that defendant would change the plea to that of guilty the cour tasked if the fact of mr thurmand Thur mans indisposition induced this change and mr cluff stepping forward said that the rulings of the courts in just such cases as his in the past left him no other recourse and it was for that reason lie was constrained to plead guilty Sentence was then bet for march the case of the against thomas R cutler unlawful cohabitation was next called for trial thurman sutherland and dusenberry appearing as counsel for bishop cutler and hiles and evans for the government there being a witness ab pentin consequence oi sickness court adjourned until monday afternoon in the cutler case a physician certificate was produced certifying to the ill health of the alleged second wife the rial was therefore ordered postponed l saturday next albert 1 thatcher was admitted to citi izena hip joseph presented himself and plead guilty to the indictment charging him with unlawful cohabitation sentence set for march in the caso of the united states against udall an order wa senter overruling demurrer the court called attention to the law recently passed by the legislature providing that thal jurors shall every day themselves to the clerk otherwise report they cound not afi entitled to their pay adjourned until morning la Q this morning james higginson unlawful cohabitation changed his plea to that of guilty the case of E L gee indicted for bigamy was set for trial on the dinst the case of brig crocheron charged witha reon came on for faial hiles and evans prosecuting and sutherland defended A jury rois sworn and parley S darger wag the first witness called he testified that in october last in spanish fork three hay stacks to the value of the haystacks beloney belo ned to witness his brother and father Defendant was in their employ at alie time the stacks were ten or twelve rods apart defendant ceased working tor us three cr four days prior to the burning we lad words about his throwing cigarette stumps around the stacks I 1 told him to stop it and he gotman and said he would not on the day of the burning he said to my father 1 I say ancle your stacks are oa fire but I 1 set them on fire ho worked for david malcolm at the time and malcolms house is situated about ten rods from the stacks there are no other houses nearer than fifty rods nobody else but crocheron had been round the stacks that day cross examined we paid him no wap but gave him his board and clothes I 1 suppose the stacks v ere set on fire dont see how they been otherwise destroyed did not see him set fire to them were in flames when I 1 got there defendant is 17 years old father said he was satisfied who had set fire to the stacks the case was still on trial when we went to press |