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Show BAD WEATHER FOR ROBBERS. One week ago last night a robbery was committed on the C. P. E. E. in which seven persons were engaged. The next night the same train was agnin robbed, four persons being engaged en-gaged in the latter crime. Eleven persons are in custody charged with these crimes. Six were taken in Nevada, Ne-vada, and five in Utah; and the five ' taken in Utah were captured by some of those people called Mormons. The militia of the Territory having been ignored; and Probate Judges, Sheriffs and other county officers having been ruled out of all interference in criminal crimi-nal matters, by a certain judicial interpretation in-terpretation of the law, the probabiii-' ties are not unreasonable that the men implicated in the late robberies of stage and train, consoled themselves with the reflection that county officers were rendered harmless, and that armed bodies of men dare not pursue theui nor even repel an Indian attack if such were made and so considered they could pass safely through Utah, it being manacled and bound by straDge judicial rulings and proclamations. We ask in all soberness, if the late ruling of Judge Ilawky was strictly enforced, what would be the condition of the Territory to-day? Every district practically prac-tically without a Judge declared to alone possess criminal jurisdiction the Judges being in Salt Lake City and without a marshal or deputy marshal, criminals might enjoy high.carnival in the Territory, outside of this city, and officers legally constituted under the Territory would be powerless to prevent pre-vent their progress. We have a great respect for the law, and for those who administer it when they will permit us to respect them but tke idea that justice must be obstructed and the due course of law be stayed, to meet the limited ideas of any man who may desire to lord it over his fellows, fel-lows, 6macks too much of king-craft and hereditary rule to meet much favor in a Republican country. We direct Judge Ilawley's attention to the fact, that the men whose services ser-vices were first sought to track these persons, and who captured them, were of that class of people so obnoxious to him the Mormon3. We hope, however, how-ever, he will be merciful in dealing with their cases. |