Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1896-11-17 | Page 6 | In the Federal Court

IN THE FEDERAL COURT The Coal Trust Members Were Not Sentenced Yesterday A MOTION FOR Ai AT3W TRIAI TO BEJ HEARD ThURSDAY Judge Hnllett Refused to Entertain a Motion for a Stay of Judgment The Matter of a Xew Trial Will Now Come Up Next TlinrsdayTK the Motion Is Denied the Members Mem-bers Will Be Promptly Sentenced The members of the coal comttoei were not sentenced yesterday The convicted coal dealers filed into the federal court room at 1230 oclock the time set for sentence Before Judge Hallett could set the judicial machinery in motion the attorneys for the defense asked permission to argue a motion for a new trial His honor granted the request and fixed Thursday afternoon at 2 oclock for the hearing of the motion for another trial In so doing Judge Hallett announced an-nounced that inasmuch as he had already al-ready heard a motion to quash the in dictment he would refuse to entertain a motion for an arrest of judgment Thus if a new trial is denied next Thursday the coal combine members I will be sentenced without delay 51