Show IS IT TRUE It is said that in the FirstDistrict Court Justice Powers refused to permit per-mit the Stock Associations lawyer to assist the District Attorney in the prosecution pro-secution of an alleged cattle thief The refusal was based upon the fact that the government having employed an officer to prosecute such cases private parties were barred in the matter The story has not been verified and we hope it i > not true for if it were correct it would be a departure from the practice in Utah Courts that would bode no good to law and order but be hailed with delight and encouragement by the lawless and criminal classes From time immemorial the prosecution has I been assisted by private attorneys The railway companies the express companies and individuals and associations asso-ciations have been in the habit of employing em-ploying lawyers to help the District Attorney in the prosecution of offenders offend-ers against them Wells Fargo s Cos lawyers are ever more active then the government attorney in their efforts to convict personsaccused of crime against their company If we are not mistaken the Fish and Game Society has employed lawyers to prosecute pro-secute every offender against the game laws who has been prosecuted Unless we are to have abler and purer men than some who have held the office of-fice cf districtattorney it will be absolutely ab-solutely necessary that other lawyers take part in the prosecutions if there are to be convictions and the guilty are punished It is not so very many years ago that thieves and scoundrels generally gener-ally smiled at the suggestion that they might be convicted the then District Attorney having the reputation of being no lawyer and also the reputation reputa-tion of being susceptible to insults I such as were offered to PooBah one of the lords of Titipu It was said that the cattle thieves used to understand that the prices of escape from punishment ranged from 20 to 5100 according to the enormity of their thefts and the odiousness odious-ness of their names in the community I commun-ity It is possible though happily not I probable that a prosecuting officer of equal ability aud no higher ideas of morality and duty mightcome herein here-in which event the thieves and rini mals would enjoy another period of respite from the annoyances of indictments indict-ments and convictions In another column is a communication communica-tion from Dr Faust president of the Stock Association in which the doctor mentions that the society is being constantly applied to for assistance in the capture of cattle thieves One of the main objects that the stockmen had in view when organizing < < their Territorial and County AssociaKu i was the detection prosecution ants punishment of thieves the funds of the societies are largely devoted to that purpose and much good has already been done by these gentlemen Thei sQouldbe ene ouragd and aid Thtelyisliiloulddybe ftgig1n I efforts to free the Territory from thieves if they want to employ a lawyer to help the public prosecutor jt occ its to us II thatiiwillbe in l the 1l crest of justice and morality to permit them to do so and we fail to see any good reason why they should be denied especially a8 they put neither tlfo government nor the accused to additional expense by reason of their action We must assume that Justice Powers is interested an punishing the guilty hence we are at a lo to understand why ha should object to any legitimate prcVeeding tending to that end We hdPe the Judge hui been incorrectly I in-correctly reported in this matter 1 |