Show CASE MillS 1 GOES CUES TO JURY TODAY For Forand and Against the Defendant Defend Are Almost Concluded Judge Powers Mikes Makes l ies a Strong Talk in Favor of Acquittal Verdict May Be Reached By Noon Moon A Hr rn fwd r w i of men and women J ju Iud f court room yes j 1 11 t rn rr fon n fl to b listen to the th closing Of the MU trial There fl I n i who had bad known the de del de 1111 l li had known of him bim or had nw ii It ir f the case ce and Ud men too i far fi fa i er number came carne to 11 1 i I w WU s I i the I he afternoon n Away be beK be bek t tk K t he hI eit room was wae filled would be ben beI hII K I W that tIM the place I nd n L t h bad had come early i U J S l IX bt fore fOi ore 2 a large II ii 1 had come COllIe in and andi andt ill i t 1 i t hi long bench just jut in L ig of the court IM td whet 1 hi t was wa probably one I I nt and moving v mad ma d in a court wurt room of 1 I L 1 vas as a II t most unu ua scene t L us U S JH It about Judge lud Pow n 1 f th thO front row hud had their U 1 4 to heIr hh faces ng a athe al athe l t the ch They y held is 5 best bet they tey coull but roo 1 e de h tion of tile t oe pa of or the he case ee unnerved j jui ui tl f t ladies ladig sitting on benches j ft t f Norrell used ed u their i iiii iii Ii f in continual effort to the Ii tearS tetira But one of the Ruble lIle k H ti enes cues of at all an was as the then n J i n by Deputy I uty Sheriff Cuin 1 t ii i hate hail and hearty t arty Scotchman u ein As the teaM tears rolled n i he wiped wd them away ay J iii nd acain ain Mills Kills ills Breaks Down Bows I T J r Captain MUlL Mills was ut ute r c e He wept silently and aDd andy aDdi y nil Ii i h b Judge l JUd ad adI and I l when it was waa u finished he al aI alf 1 t f t t c I I f h i p 4 I t i 4 ji GUD 1 1 U lUj II jg 4 RoTT TtE 1 I JI Jf 4 i I if 1 4 H U 1 I i 4 j I H 4 f uz i 1 i The iL eloquent and M lIti a by the speaker to toP his P the fall of Mrs Mra di k him down clown CODI s J Jise J ise ti I Ii i of S f a I t t of f God Got said ld d he K h value vahie that tb twelve L i itY place piece upon n the v li Ii oi o shots went tata the j 1 I brain twain of C they struck ruck terror Jute into the hearts of many I men who follow the dark shadow at nightfall in ID city elty to prey upon the wives and daughters Aye convict this man and titan then look any virtuous in hi the face if you yU youcan can ean le Jealousy is la the naming flaming tore that God gives us UtI to protect the household bou The ca e is ia not DOt yet fUllY for Coutt County Attorney Putnam has hM not IlOt yet hill bis hi speech Cb which was begun n nw w Judge Powers finished his him argument meat ment He will likely require an hour hoar or more during dun the ue morning eoa lor and then the case will go to the jury so se that a verdict may y be had during the afternoon unless unIs the Jury take a n along aIrn long Irn time to agree on a verdict ae oW w wever ever it is hs sot not thought that very vevy mUch ic J time will be spent in deliberation 3 Mr r Speaks j jI I The fleet first t of the day daJ w was s by Attorney D N for the ue d i He made a strong ro itro and dress one of ot the features of which w i his bitt demand for a verdict of acquittal or of murder in the first Mat degree depee Mr maintained that teat there was wan co to clu chai chance nce for a verdict of or nm niu m slaughter He read rd the statute sev W WIng ing ft Justification for homicide when I Idone done in a sudden heat of passion paon ugh the discovery of or the th defile Se Set at t of a wife He said that It If It were not for this statute there might be some ome chance chenee te to consider a of Passion sion Pa was wa any state of feeling which controlled a maas judgment it might be anger J rage raae resentment res or an abject feeling of shame ll me and aAd disgrace j Pa cover COV all these the states s of l Continued on Page Pace S 2 i 0 I I l f ff f THE HOT OF It II I t 4 e i aE IS f I tf Ii II i J 1 0 GOD T 4 SOR OF rUDGE POWERS ATTITUDES H i 4 5 f fH v H tt 4 f 4 4 1 I 1 S i 4 I 04 04 t i 4 L t oi 4 4 I r i MILLS V Continued Front From Page Pago 1 feeling said he One man knowing of the defilement of at bitt wife may become maniacal another may have hare the feel lug ing of despair No what that feeling that passion is th tl compelling cause is th which justifies The county attorney celled called this law a relic of I condemn the law said Assistant County Van Afan Cot Cott who was wag present No but your youg principal did answered Mr This is i the te is and it is in on the statute and aM It must he enforced If a man goe go to corral and steals a sheep you may iea shoot him down cant you su protect the sanctity of your home the purity of woman to th the same extent Mrs y this state aiSle statement ment nent of the lawyer a s little quizzical smile which may something or it may not But it is a smile which has las been seers during many pathetic moments of at tide thio trial and there are many persona parsons in th room who cant understand it itIn ItIn In what has bps tit the aM a greater in Inter ter jt than In the of or the marital relation This law a relic of barbarism I sty y it Is i as humane and andas andas as just as any law ever passed It fe ks for you te to apply the facts in inthe inthe the cans you aro aris the sole judges of them It to is for say what wit witnesses nesses you believe an iU whom you dis ErIq a J S S S I t ii V I t airily t f 4 TH S c i 4 4 4 S credit No procedure of law can in vad that province We have shown the character of the accused And it itte te j sometimes amusing to see how a a lawyer no matter whet what the facts are will try to use them against the de defendant defendant Mr Van Cott tried to use the unblemished reputation of the de defendant defendant against him ad Mills a bed bad reputation he would have used that against him He said as tie the defendant possessed a good character he should have known better upon unon some friend of yours a man of quiet peaceful dispo disposition and you should learn he was charged with murder what would you yon say First I dont believe bellave it and second If he lie did it there was good Justification Chief of Police Felice Hilton saw that there was a good cause for this killing Captain Mills is honest and upright and that kind of ofa a man in the twinkling of an eye is not transferred into a criminal Happy family Relations His family relation was one of pence peace and happiness Ho may not have aN a ways been in a financial condi condition condition tion but he was always honorable He chose an honorable profession and was in it a man of ability Because of pa patriotism he went to the war He cots con contracted typhoid fever No matter what the prosecution will say he was sick in ill body and mind You know it He in physical or Os mental health He was a changed man sian I 1 take It that he had the promise of a position from hut but the its order for his bis phy physical Steal examination was rescinded When at he wrote the letter Tetter to Mr OalY n y which has been produced hi evidence It has a spirit of i t it IB is not tho letter of a bad man it contained captained no threats He had bad in pursuing his work there ther as has bees hwn He had the tho chance far a position at the Nevada university a good g o position He comes here meats his bla wIre wife on the street with the children and finds her he depressed The next According to arrangements previously made she went to Pocatello to visit friends That evening in the rooms room at The Halls Hella he found the note addressed My Dear Husband When you receive this I will be dead Think of It Imagine the shock to one of Ms his nature to one who had always lived peacefully with his bis wife and family Leave out his Suppose that he was a healthy strong man can you understand the shock that such a din dis discovery covery would cause He Lie is I astonished amazed sine ted he No doubt in this time he has re recalled no called his whole life wat is it that eon can make her fear do such sLush a thing The idea suggests itself to t him nothing but her infidelity Hf Hp goto to her to learn and he asks her and she admits that her infidelity is the cause canes They spend a sleepless night but she will not tell the name of her Mr spoke at length In fact for almost two and a half hours cov covering ering the ease case very vr fully On several occasions he had arguments with Mr Van Cott who was sas sitting close by When court reconvened after the noon recess for Mr had con consumed consumed the whole morning In present presenting lag ing his side of the case there was vas a abuzz abuzz buzz and a whisper of many urany voces The strangers who had come to hear Judge Powers of his fame as asan an orator looked bout about Inquisitively and eyed the defendant and other whom tIter they thought were connected with the trial Many of the women woman Inquired for Mrs Mills slut she was in the court room they were not to ap the woman who has caused all this trouble Judge Powers Begins Judge Powers whop who s the large lae audience and knowing that It had conic como expecting a mighty effort from him va somewhat nervous at the c corn m of his argument but he I soon Bonn settled nettled down to full and complete i i command of the and talked I I with ease He started in by quoting a speech of George A Smith made in his bin maiden effort before a jury in November in a case o the same nature as this one in which one man pursued and killed the of his wife He quoted extensively from Mr Smiths speech showing the belief concerning seduction held In the pioneer days In justice to myself I may say that I do not appear before you in the best of health and I may not do justice to myself or pr my client today In my die dis this afternoon I shall take you back to first principles to the feelings I of the heart to a case cam filled with trag tragedy tragedy edy and sorrow May I ask of you what i is the chief glory of woman Is It b which j like the rose ree with Its p rf taste but buta a day Is it intellect The h hi inflect may be wedded with a black ened soul It is not the symmetrical guro for the bedizened bawd may have a perfect form But ft It is 1 virtue which hangs ilk like a resplendent J jewel wel a coronet which sets her apart spart frow I man What is the chief glory and strength of the state Is It an army with win winners il ners and the beat of drums a long title line of men with bayonets marching under the flag Iq Iu It wealth or expanse of land and ships sad and armies No It Is the purity of home the strength of the government U Pen in Pt tto the sacredness of home in the se purity v at women In Ip days of ef old the law was written thou shaK apt t covet thy j boYs bors wife That was the law for gen generation upon it wa usg upon the statute becks It was the iw aw of f England aa an English peasant killed a courtier the favorite of King Charles Who his and a subservient judge it Why Wb do sues men enter a home boise anti and make it the h house us of f death Why do they visit disgrace upon innocent children Why to do men forget firs burns Jealousy is the wrath of man and the wrath 91 of the wronged husband is the vengeance of or the Almighty Where Reason Beason Disappears A mart man may boast of self control but when the iron enters his own soil sepi the gifts of reason and meditation die dis disappear appear Jealousy is the th instrument that God has given to man with which I Ito to defend his hie home for it comes with his life Did you ever stop to think that in the plan of the Almighty the male to Is the protector In the male re no resides sides the Instinct of protection which is as deep routed rooted in the animal as in Iii the human being A mother has the instinct to save her brood she will dash into Int the fore she will plunge I into the water to protect It it The lion lieu may take no notice of the cubs cube that thai are playing around but let danger ap appear pear and his instinct of protection L arises God has given the instinct to tt toman I Iman man and to beast You cannot wipe i out by legislation this which has been implanted in man and beset beast by the te Almighty To the glory of Utah it has been put lute into the statutes of the state I say eay all honor It Is the only state in the Union brave enough to write on its statutes what God Clod has written upon the hearts of men They say nay It is a relic of barbarism the county attorney has bee declared so in open court but in the dawn twentieth century it is not the first time that a young man has hag risen up and declared that the pIes ples ef of his father and mother w were re pot not good Salvation came with John wit out of the wilderness it is repeated by the rust ling of the leaves as they descend the trees by the force forpe of the brasses and enter into mother earth to undergo chemical decomposition and be utilised thousands of years hence in another form it is on the highest mountain peaks where God has written his will with a pen of fire it is heard in the cascades that dash their waters to the river bed hundreds of feet below It resounds throughout the forest whoa when the winds sins aing through the pine plume and am it Is heard amid the roar and majesty of lIt Niagara Out of the wilderness came John and out of the wilderness earn the statute at the time when the men uen of Utah were a little nearer to be God they are now Is it a relic at of barbar lain ism Read your Bibles there yta win WIlL find the Mosaic law all ail adulterers bp stoned to t death Christ came cam he said eald of 1 tile taken in adultery L Let him is without sin ain cast the atone To po my friends on the other ther side I corn com mend it when they consider this woman Glory of Woman If it bd l a relic relle of barbarism Stem we ar are barbarians The act itself fe Impelled by the enormity of the thu ors ers crime It is a terrible thing t to W Wa ke kea a human life Ufa which is given ts mae by Almighty God But what ip IKe lW without home without the glory of Man hilts has the stronger will of this the two wp there Is Is no time when a man appi es 00 his neighbors wife that he h put his foot down dawn and say I will so go no further The seducers crime is greater than murder it out souls couls it violates the rules of society Tnie may assuage the grief of the widow and the orphans but adultery sears scare like a white hot brand and leaves its ita burn forever The seed aown by the libertine perpetuates Itself through the recurring seasons The home destroyed by the seducer has been blotted out the seducer knows I bis 1518 art the art of flattery he ha sews th seed of suspicion war so society he strikes at the laws Jaws of the commonwealth he strikes at the heart of the nation Who 10 i the more to be feared the theman man who rho strikes a dangerous blow at the flag and arouses the whole nation I or the man who assaults the bhe citadel of virtue It is not murder by the hen hus band to take his hie life for it 9 K written by Ov jj r 5 the law provides thai ti i band may sue the man u ed the home but shall I a i p virtue upon rhe r j u r block Shall he c ain h hInto I Into dollars Who un unman i iman man with the heart of i ilove i love Jove of man could do thu tx By your verdict verditH yiu ou v your estimate of the viru vir This Thin defendants chara ehart put into toe the crucible lit fir come forth like pure goM have known him have tell you that tast his vis chara reproach that his heart hear heart of a To Toman T i iama man ama wI audi ach a chara t would strike down a cause Purpose of i Jealousy is placed in a i ifor for a it is the given by God to man wh protect his name hess The gt pent peat to you yon is the V life a story that of stone liS on this thu lv cine cHic island where Che th tr Ii V Von on the annie of She eca n dance upon he was stricken wit n V V ful disease J Plot or weeks wees ai n A lay between lif 11 i Rio Bis wit wife fell as the m |