Show FIRST DISTRICT COURT bishop dorius guilty of honoring his wives ISABELLA ADAMSON REFUSES TO TESTIFY and Is sent to the penitentiary for contempt of court on thursday morning the business of me court was resumed by the entering of un order for the drawing of eighteen additional jurors a number of those on tha first venire having been excused the names of those tho se summoned on the extra venire are as follows 59 robe i 17 george Y isaac allred 33 hone 17 leai iss mckeese Mc Kense 18 1 8 alexander tennant ca samuael f ewing 30 daniel llos aJr U A larssn 4 W H berry 18 henry J ben la N M jordan ay it L 71 corse C llean 1 K mcf 3 WB 25 edward dark the case 01 the V S vs wm gallup unlawful cohabit aiton was called up hut one of the witnesses th alleged plural wifel not appearing mr hiles asked that the case be postponed at least for a day or two A postponement was granted the case of the U S vs C C N dorius called up for trial dusenberry and geo sutherland defended and 0 hiles prosecuted the following named jurors were called and took their seats E J ward A raymond A eastmond wm A haws E J conrad 0 wilkins A crane aaron dewitt wm parks D C huntington and vardy mcneill E J ward was critically examined by alie prosecution as to his belief in plural carmye did not know whether the rey clation to joseph smith was right or wrong could not say whether it is a revelation or not did not believe it was and came to that conclusion many years ago believed that those who break the laws should he punished but thought alio had been in polygamy many years and raised families should be dealt leniently with do not pay any tithing believed the laws of the land are paramount and should be obeyed before the laws of god A haymond was nest examined and believed eliat a man who belonged to alie mormon church biad a right to have more wives than one if lie conscientiously believed it to bo right he was excused eastman mcneill and haws were passed 0 wilkins did not believe in polygamy he was a member of the mormon church but did the revelation was right he was passed T G wimmer had not given the subject of polygamy much consideration as a moral proposition he did not believe in it wm parks believed it right to practice plural marriage under certain conditions and was excused judge dusenberry examined th jurors as to bias and then passed them for cause the prosecution E J ward and the remaining eight were then accepted and sworn three more were called namely wil tion cragan edward J hall and amasa L wilson cragan wag examined if there waa no law against plural marriage lie thought a man had a right to enter into it he waa excused E J hall was passed and sworn A L believed it was right for a man to have living and nn divorced more than one wife and was excused and jos richmond were called jones wanted to see the laws enforced with more earnestness than any other laws perhaps not so much in murder cases but with more vigor than in an assault and battery case would want more grouf in a case of assault and battery than in a polygamy case but could give a man a fair tri il defense challenged juror for actual bias to the court I 1 am a little bitter against these cases to mr hiles I 1 think defendant should have the benefit of reasonable daubl tho rca son I 1 would require less proof to convict a polygamist is because I 1 think it ought to be put down to mr evans I 1 would try it as any other case my bitterness is the principle to mr sutherland what I 1 said bo fore I 1 will take back I 1 answered somewhat recklessly I 1 was not quite in earnest when 1 gaid I 1 would require less erlof in polygamy cases I 1 may have een joking the court excused the juror richmond was passed and sworn the court then took recess till 2 after recess on motion the case of joseph swazey was continued until after march lOth next in the case of tha people vs jarf W criep indicted for an assault with a deadly weapon the prosecution consented to change the charge to simple assault the defendant withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered one of guilty and WAS fined 25 the of the jury in the dorius case waa resumed A JB bowman was called and after passing the ibcal examination was accepted and abom this juror completed the panel the indictment was then read to the jury by the clerk mrs helen dorius was called as first w knees to her testimony being given as she was the legal wife of defendant after being sworn she took the stand and stated that she was the legal wife and declined to testify the witness was excused the next witness called and sworn for alie prosecution was deputy marshal rasmus clawson he testified that be lived in ephraim had known defendant about thirty vears helen dorius was defendants arst wife she had a child 28 years old defendant was the reputed faglier fat lier knew a woman named julia dorius she ia reputed to bo hit wife in the family and neighborhood think julia has children both wives lived in the pame house up to september 1887 was present at the arrest of do fondant fen dant the arrest was made by dykes and ether at this stage of the proceedings the grand jury came into court bringing with them a witness adamson mr evans stated that she was alleged to bo alie plural difo of samuel wagstaff and had declined to state before the grand jury whether or not slie was a married lady alie court instructed lit r to see counsel and make up her mind before alie train left for she would bo committed to the penitentiary for contempt incase she persisted in iier refusal to answer the question the witness intimated that she would like to have her baby with her it was only seven old and it was sick and at her comein american fork the grand jury withdrew ind audgo dusenberry look the witness aside to consult with her casmus clawson then continued his saw rebecca Ee becca julias daughter in tha house at the time of the arrest julia ia the reputed mother of three or four children cross examined could not say what age the youngest is might bo three or four bearg old am not positive that any of the children are defendants ke direct have seen defendant and julia walking together and at a dance it is ten or twelve years since witness first saw julia at defendants house doriua am fourteen years of ago defendant is my father and julia dorius Is my mother my mother lived at fathers house BO also did helen borms dorms in 1887 and the before year R hea child is four years old jt is understood in the family that belenis defendants wife and that Julia also is his wife last time I 1 saw mother was lait fall sometimes we all eat atthe earns table cross examined we lived in a arate part of the house as aar back as I 1 cah remember was at this point arraigned on the charge of unlawful cohabitation on an indictment found at the last no vember term george fidall indicted for perjury ed the defendant is a son of david udall and it is alleged that he had falsely sworn before the arand jury during the examination of his fathers case the statutory time in which to plead was taken in both cases ex deputy marshal dekea took the stand to testify m the dorius case he testified that he had sei ved the warrant on defendant it was in the morning the arrest was made defendant was endeavoring to make his escape he stated at the gate that everybody knew hiar circumstances and it would be no use fighting and intimated that he would plead guilty cross examined when defendant wn going off I 1 told him to atop or I 1 would shoot him him it would be better for him and his family if he would plead guilty clawson said aliis in answer to defendants remark that he would plead guilty as everybody knew his se direct one of the women mrs helen dorics I 1 think held a child seven or eight months old up in her arms and said to clawsen see here what misery yon have caused this family jacob johnson U S commissioner after being sworn stated that defendant had appeared before him and after being asked if he wished to employ counsel said that he did not intend to em apy counsel said that he would plead guilty and offered to give bonds for the appearance of his second wife before the grand jury after awhile W K came in and after a conversation between him and the defendant said that he had been retained as defendants counsel that they would waive examination and refuse to give bail for the second wife at this sage both sides rested and mr hile made the opening argument for tho prosecution sir sutherland closing the court delivered the charge customary in such cases and the jury retired at a few minutes past five the jury filed into court with a verdict of guilty isabella adamson the reputed plural wife of samuel wagstaff bedl persisting in her refusal to answer the questions propounded to her by the grand jury waa taken by deputy redfield to salt lake by the U C train and lodged in the penitentiary where she still remains the first business dono this morning was the admission to american citizenship ol 01 christen germonsen Her and martin F bohney the grand ury came into court at 1045 a m bringing with them a woman named electa coltrin who was blind and had child achild a in her arms and who had declined to answer certain questions propounded by them mr E vans state d that she was alleged to be the plural wife of one james higgins against whom there was a charge of unlawful cohabitation that sli eliad said that when she married being blind she could not see who it was she had married when how i ever she was asked to tell the jury what the name of her husband was she declined to answer the court after informing her that she would certainly be punished puni shod if she pres isted in her determination asked her if she would return to the jury room and answer the questions she replied that she would and retired with the grand jury the case of the people vs henry nelson grand larceny was called up for trial mr booth attorney for defendant stated that by some mistake the to appear and asked that the case be continued mr hiles consented that it go over for the the term and it was so ordered the contempt case against mrs sarah eggertsen cluff was by consent of tho district attorney Attorn ej dismissed bichard hall charged with unlawful cohabitation appeared and blead guilty after some explanation of tho case by judge dusinberry and reference to the defendants extreme age the court stated that in such cases he thought sentence should be suspended and it was so ordered the case of john buchanan indicted for unlawful cohabitation was continued pending returns of petition to the president of the united states for clemency the names of the extra venire of trial jurors drawn yesterday were called showing only about one half of the num berbling ber being present the case of th people against marion draper grand larceny was called up for trial mr booth appeared as coun ael for defendant arid mr hiles prosecuted twelve jurors called and examined as to qualifications and sworn to try the case chas havnes was the first witness called bj the prosecution he stated that last year he was constable in keahi precinct he arrested defendant in june last in salt creek canyon on the charge xi stealing a brown gelding belonging to samuel re to mr booth dont remember whether J told him I 1 was an officer or not before telling bun I 1 had a warrant for hiim in the conversation before the arrest did not caution him against making any statement that raight be used to his injury mr booth alien objected to witness testifying anything in relation to any confession or admission made by defendant to the officer at the time of the arrest court overruled the objection witness proceeded defendant admitted that he took the gelding off the range and rode it to gintic tintic where ho turned it out but that he meant at some time to take it back again after conversation he read warrant and took him to Nephi i edward hudd testified that lie had known the horse from a sucking colt it was raised by william defendant afterwards owned it and it passed from him to john carter in may last horse in defendants possession in last spring the horse was a three year old air booth did you see any bill of sale pass from llewellyn to draper objected to objection sustained witness stated that when he saw the horse in gintic tintic it appeared a little lame henry adams said I 1 am prosecuting attorney or juab county saw the horse several times in keeda possession before i the arrest at the examination on june jtb the defendant stated that he bad taken the horse oat to the boree had got bitten by a rattlesnake and so he left it at the north end of gintic tintic A letter was produced by adams which ho said had been written by the defendant while he was it jail the letter was offered in evidence mr booth stated that though the letter waa not signed the defense would not object to its introduction the letter was written to edward draper and contains admissions asto the stealing cross examined know that reed owned the horse know it because I 1 nm satisfied patis fied that he did and because it was iu big possession decess taken until 2 ihfe defendant was on the when we went to press |