Show B I ROBERTS CASE He is Sentenced to Four Months 8200 and Costs THE ILVKD STRUGGLE OF A JURY Bapti Grrtlelll Convicted of Drawing and Exhibiting Ex-hibiting a Deadly WeaponPolice Court PickingsOther Business On the opening of the Third district court yesterday morning B H Roberts j who had previously entered a plea of puilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation cohabita-tion appeared for sentence The following dialogue ensued The Court Mr Prosecutor have you the evidence that was submitted to the grand jury S Mr PetersI have not The CourtI would like to know what fflic evidence shows in this case if you could procure it Mr Peters retired to obtain the desired information On his return he announced that there had been no minutes kept of the cafe Mr Peters said the defendant married mar-ried his plural wife since the passage of the law of ISbJ and had lived with both of his wives Mr Young understand you have that from hii < Mr Peters Yes from the officers The CourtMr Roberts February H 1SS7 you were indicted for unlawful cohabitation cohabi-tation To this indictment you have pleaded guilty Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you Mr Roberts No your honor I havent anything to say The CourtThis indictment charges that from March 1 ISM to February 7 1SS7 you lived with more than one wife Mr Roberts when were you married to your plural wife Mr Roberts In the year IRS The Court Have you any children by her herMr MI Robert Yes sir one The Ionn What is its age S Mr Kobwis Four years The Court It would appear that right in till fati j the law passed to prevent further uiarrx inr of second wives or living liv-ing IN nil iiioru than one woman as wives you deliberately I in full knowledge of the I aw married another wife and lived with g tpr aiil she had one child You now make 1 0 statement of regret for what you have none noi do you make any promise as to our future conduct It may as well be inUirstMKi hat 1 this law was passed to be I obeyed aim will be enforced Any failure of tins people to obey it is likely to result I n more strinircnt legislation against them The lustor < if legislation shows an intention inten-tion that this sort of social life in Utah shall be uprooted So far as I ant foneerned I dont feel disposed to be severe I would desire to be relieved from passing sentence in this class of cases but it is my duty This case would justify the lull penalty There is no intention in-tention on your part to obey the law I understand that after vou were arrested you conccjled yourself and the officers could not learn your whereabouts until you surrendered yturself a few days ago This is the first time however that you have been arraigned for any offense and I shall not inflict the full penalty made by llnolt ciheiI 1 law I hope that further reflection will i convince you of the usclessncssof opposing the United States and the universal sentiment senti-ment of the people The sentence of the I court is that you pay a fine of dOt and costs of the prosecution and that you be confined in the penitentiary for four months AITKU MINY IIOLll c jAJiury was then called to try the case of Aiic People vs Ha ti Uardelli a eUlicle inentcd individui1 with i pair of blue overalls over-alls a battered hat and an immovable ountenanee He was charged with draw ng and exhibiting a deadly weapon in a rude angry and threatening manner and the persons upon whom the assault was made were Mrs Julian and Mrs Jeffries both rot I Bi ighain cfion The jury wrestled with the aw and the evidence for over six hours when a verdict guilty was rendered It is understood that one man fought off the other eleven for over five I but he 1inal etoel the hours finally over to great majority i I I illicit iisi > Hope Bunnesler vs John AV Skinner Co case dismissed by plaintiff James P Christen a native of Denmark Den-mark was admitted to citizenship Charles Gilmorn vs Henry Williams ten days given to file statement People vs Howard Spencer order of attachment at-tachment for Leonard Phillips The People vs Xiels Lund erg case I dismissed Sharp vs Sharp order that the plaintiff pa into court by May 4 2r counsel fees md Sii temporary alimony and in default of siih pajment the action will be dismissed dis-missed The United Stats vs John W Pierce dismissed J In the matter of D H Kimball decree l f petition and order of saleS sale-S ourt adjourned until Monday next when the case of the People vs H O pcncer will come up Police PIckings ti u t ic police court yesterday the follow ig busWJss was transacted Karl Reves It 1 drunken soldier was turned over to the OJHtary authorities Ivins Conks phiz vsT frCU in 1 rayt J t and was assessed 810 for being orim to f which offense he plead guilty and was also cinched 50 for disturbing the peace Charles Just plead guilty to being intoxicated in-toxicated and was lined N John Thompson for bejg a common drunkard was sentence tu a term of thirty days in the city rosipiitoj lliam BenJlett 5 Lltard with battery forfeited to Fraor Minor Mike Buck Richard Wi IiasDNois and Richard Gillen all up for being drunk tailed to put in an appearance appear-ance and forfeited 5 each |