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Show COI KT ntOCKKDIStiS. 'bird iK.-al Out, in CiamU-rs, : Mclv.an, U. J. I ( V;i:t '. 'li-i at - p. ta. jui-tcrday ' j h'.ar tin: m-jtiuu tjn the part of tin; I ov'jromtjiit f r the r.-havj on Lull of , he prbufi;r.i n '.l in cil.:tu Jy. 1 j Mr. lii.'h, d'.-pu:y I'. H. att.jrney, I aid hu l.jd b:i.n iii-truetc-d by tin-at-1 1 urii'-y-L-i-n- rui uf tin: I 'mled -Stat-.s tu i .pp!y lur bil in all criminal ea-es now .ii'iiii-' un the tjaiuiidar. lie 'heuj, (i.jvi d lur the r lea.-.s jf Steven Mor- ij i:nin and b';wis, indietud for, Kecny; and uf A'ldruw i-'tuvens, in- i lii;tud fur a.-vin!t wl:li intent to uiaim, i ive tliiju-aild dullafM builds to bo lmvcIj ' n each cu.'.e. '1'he curt granted the nioliuii, re- ' I'jirint! two sureties fur each. Mr. llir-h th.-n m-,v.:dfor the re ' - a-e, on bail, uf llriqliam Yuung, sen., (u. i St jut, William II. Kimbail, Meander li'irt, Jame.i Tuiih, JuhnL. iiyme, I!. V. Ilanijilun, John Allen, l:inii M V.'ali s, Jum.vi 1 larr'uiL'ton.-Joiin M-i 'aii and one Juti'H, charged with! imnb r in th.- tir-t ibree, the applnra- j .iuii liuin-; Hindi: in the mime ol' the! ilNrney-g::icf;d. The court rciuv.-drd tu see Mr lliudi'a in-lniutiuns. Mr. lk-h saiil thuy wuro in the diapo uf two dispatehetf from the attor-iiuy attor-iiuy 'ieinTal of the I 'uited States, one jtit to Mr. Uates, lielure his departure fur Wa-liinL'ton, and une received by himself last Saturday. Tho di-jiati-hes were read, preceded by one from Mr. ll.it"s, the date of which Mr. Ilk-h could njt remember. The first was : Salt Lake City. Vll.-hutf;,l, I), C. (,'ases against Hii.udiam Young continued con-tinued until March. Hills for keeping prisoners accumulating. Defendants asked to be released on good bail. Shall I consent i Ueu. (J. IJatiw. The attorney general's reply was brief: WAsm.viirtiM, I). C, January 1 1, 1.7-. Gti. 0. l-t.t, f'.K AUornni, S'dt JaiW, City: Admit defendants to reasonable bail. Ueoikie II. Williams, Attorney General. In addition to this, Mr. High said ho had received, on Saturday last, the following, dated on .Friday tho litith: Washington, 1). C, January liu:h, 1S72. .;! cw L. Jiyh, JJt'piiii . 6'. Atfonifi: The attorney general directs that you move the court to bail in such sums as will secure the attendance ol' all criminals, crimi-nals, to save expense. t.J EO. U. JiATES, U. S. District Attorney. On these instructions Mr. High made tho potion for bail. Tho court then read tho following decision, which closed the proceedings: proceed-ings: There are eleven prisoners charged with murder under Territorial laws. Six of them are hold in custody in tho city without expense to Ihe government; govern-ment; tho other Ovc arc held at Uamp Douglas, and furnished with rations by order of the secretary of war, at an expense of about thirty cents per day lor each man. Ttiis expense, so trilling tri-lling when compared with the magnitude magni-tude of tho issues, ought to be, and no doubt ultimately will b?, enforced against tho Territory. Some of tho murders were committed under circumstances of great mystery aud atrocity, and some were committed openly in tho lace of mankind; and some of the prisoners are known, oven before trial, to be most desperate .characters. Were these prisoners now to bo turned loose upon society, before they are aeqiutted by a jury, it would be an act without a precedent in criminal jurisprudence. Such a decision decis-ion would hercalter be quoted as a precedent pre-cedent in every murder ease in this Territory, k would bo a most pcrnie- j ious precedent. And, besides, there are reasons, which cannot bo made public, why these prisoners should not be admitted to bail reasons which district attorney Hates cannot have communicated to attorney general Williams, Wil-liams, and to which Mr. Dates seems quite indifferent. Indeed he is known by the court to have made, in other particulars, serious misstatements in regard to affairs in Utah. Whether or not a prisoner charged with murder shall bo admitted to bail, is a judicial quesiiou addressed to the discretion of tho court. I am placed here to decide, under tho law, all judicial ju-dicial questions that shall arise iu this district court. Were 1 row to shrink or swerve from a plain duty, it is not improbable that the irresponsible magistrate mag-istrate called "judge lynch" would assume as-sume the seat which 1 would thereby have proved myself unworthy to hold. In the discharge of a judicial duty, which devolves upon me alone, I refuse re-fuse to admit these prisoners to bail. The court then adjourned. |
