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Show A Brigliam City Bad One. Bear Riveb City, Box Elder County, February 28:b, 1879. Editors Herald: In cur rural seclueion and retirement retire-ment on the banka of the far famed river, whose name our settlement has adopted, the monotony was broken to-day, by having a couple of criminal oaBes tried and adjudicated before M. 0. Martensen, our precinct justice. The cauio of action, if any there be, in both cases, arcse in Brigham city, on the 24lh, inet., the one growing out of the other. One Hans Jensen was then and there -taken bold of by two policemen of said city in the act, aa alleged, of disturbing tho peace of a neighborhood. Hans refuaed to be arrested, claiming that the laws of Denmnrk do not allow arrests in such a manner. His legal lore wa3 not appreciated by the officers who marched onward with him, though at a very slow rate, as be held himself to almde treea and threw himself down, etc They (the officers) were, however, how-ever, touched in their sympathy at the cries of the wife and children of the obstinate fellow, and let him go io tbe meanwhile, with the intention of coming back to try to take bim before be-fore a magiatrate in a moro quiet manner. Soon afterwards a complaint under oath was entered before Justice Jus-tice Eishburn, charging Hans with violating the provisions of section 233 of the Penal Code, and upon a war rant of arrest ho waa brought before said justice who, upon bis application, granted a change of venue, bringing the case here. In the meanwhile Hans bad, without delay, in a neighboring neigh-boring precinct where bo was not known, caused the arrest of the officers on a charge of assault aud battery. In thia case a change of venue was also taken to Bear River city pro-cinct. pro-cinct. There were 'counsel on each side. The evidence in the case of the officers on trial, which was proceeded with first, showed clf.arly that they had acted properly in their calling in arresting or trying to arrest a man disturbing tbe peace, and they were discharged. Their only fault, being young in the service, was their lenity in not holding on to their prisoner, who, however, may be an idiot. The testimony given in this case in main bad only to ba repeated in the case of tho People vs. Hans Jensen, the alleged peace disturber, to convict con-vict him, and it was thought by some that the matter would go bard aaiubt him, as he bad caused such extraordinary extraor-dinary proceedings. Hans pleaded not guilty to tbe complaint, but wore a downcast look, and there waa profound silence in the court lor a fev moments, mo-ments, when Mr. Christensen, for the prosecution, come Io tho relief, and entered a nolle prosequi, by which the case was dismissed. Hana ia considered con-sidered in Bngham city to bo a disorderly dis-orderly end somewhat troublesome person, quarrelsome aud noisy. He is such a kind of man as io any city, hy his antics and pranks would cause a crowd ot boys to tullow him and h.; would lecture them almost lor evrr. He has, no doubt, been treattd with kindness and forbearance in li.-igfiani city, as m this cte; still it in not io dp wondered at that tho awful stories of persecution, murder aud vioK'ucfi whi.h he ih nu.i Io have circuUttil in! Salt Lake ci'y ar.d other places should j receive credence because form- people 8 re inclined to believe j anything bad sod auainct au un- popular people, should it even conic " through the organ of an idr-r 11 We think tbe sek '.men uf the count) should give fun mu'.'tr ai:en'ioM, an. I ' cause his head to b-3 examined by a ' rmdic.il comuii-sion, and if instead of. bsirg insane bo may be ui-iliuious -and loohsii, let him nut 0 nltngether ' 1 without, punishment for disturbing the peace. He is very por, and it is said has sold hia bouse and lot to enable bim to jToaecute iho eaid officers. Fedagocte. I;1 |