Show IN THE PROVO COURT Two Crooks Get Three Years A United State Jlall Case L PJIOVO Sept 2P 1SS9 Correspomleuco > or THE HEI L1 > J Tae First district court ojfaqed at 10 oclock William Garbet Geo Ercanbrack Chas IHrcaubrack and James Burrison were ar T raigncd on a charge of having stolen 12 i sheep near Tintic belonging to Francis M I Wilson Defendants took the statutory time to pleau li Hpnry B Jensen was arraigned on a charge of unlawful cohabitation to which i lie pleaded not guilty I William Smith and William Goodwin I I who were convicted of having burglarized I Rockhills pun tore at Spanish Fork wcro sentenced to three years confinement C the penitentiary S I John Hickman came un on a charge of havingforped a check on the First National 1 bank wtU the purpose of defrauding S S h Jones The defendant pleaded not guilty I Trial was cot for October 1 I John Pierce chained with having broken irIL S into the Pleasant Grove Coop to which I5iu the defendant pleaded guilty He was sentenced to tbrf years confinement wasS I o James Hulsp and Tis E McDonald o hn tffc with bavins hrhton inln Hilbert S 0 S I I Bees store pleaded cuijfcy They were ent up tor three ers 3rArrSlJ FALSE KETUI > S I The case of the United States vs Jos i Page was taken up for trial Jacob Johnson John-son nod W K Red represent the defense 1 I who is accused of having made false returns re-turns from tne post oflice at Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant on Jan 7th 1tO und on various dates I succeeding The returns of IBJ were offered in evidence being eeriitied copies I under theseal of tim sixth auditor The returns of tho Mount Pleasant postfi otlice from September oO IbTty Decem fi b an ai 15S3 were putr in as evidence also the returns subsequent to 1885 A discussion discus-sion arobo as to too legality of admitting these documents as evidence Tho 1 prosecution prose-cution urged that by comparison tnese re I I turns would effect the case The judgo or dered that these DO marked and he would give a ruling later S I I Christian Bowman was called and on account ac-count of not showing up an attachment was ordered against Him 1 i Samuel Porter testified Am postmaster I alFuitview six injles north of Mount i I Pleasant There is a mail running through i i both pjaces from LVirvJow Thistle have j j lived there since ISbiJ could not say how I much mail matter comes out of Mount Pleasant1 It was a stugo line John Whitbeck LiveatNenni am postmaster post-master there S Tim prosecution endeavored to show by comparison of Nephi and Mount Pleasant that there had been some delects in tint postoOice at Mount Pleasant but this class of testimony was overruled continuing the witnovs saidThe occupa tion of the people at Mount Pleasant is is farming as was also that of Nephi in 1885 Nepht has had an increase in cancela tions since IbSTi > of about 15 or 20 per cent Zane for the prosecution endeavored to push in the comparison evidence that had been objected to and sustained stating that this was the only testimony they could pro duce but was ajain overruled To Johnson Isephisince 16SS had an express ex-press office which would make a difference in the cancelation of stamps Neils Eliason of Maroai Was postmaster post-master there in 15S5 Have kept a check on the Mount Pleasant postmaster in ISbli Jc was in June and kept it one mouth Ve I counted all the letters and stamps coming from Mount Pleasant All tho mall from Mount Pleasant passes through Muroni except ex-cept what goes to Pairview Have not kept fi a memorandum of it and cannot remember any of the amounts r Figures were shown the witpes to re fresh his memory but his memory could not be refreshed He continuedCannot remember how high the check run To Johrs3n There was one mail to Fairview Fair-view connecting with Ihe Denver Rio Grande at Thistle besides the mail that came through Monroe Vo weighed the registered mail in order Jo tell what tho cancellation would Could be not tell accurately ac-curately in this case what tho cancellation would be The principal witnesses of the prosecu I tion were not present but will be in at345 today Adjourned until 2 oclock |