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Show A CARD- To the Public ; Having this day boen served with an order from the Second judicial district court to appear on the first Monday of April, 1875, at Beaver, to show cause why I Bhould not be punished for contempt of court, and prohibited from practicing therein, and learniog that the caso is first to be heard and decided, as usual, through a news paper, I make this brief statement of tho facts, leaving the people of Utah to decide whether I am guilty or innocent in-nocent of the charges preferred inTairiHt me; and tho moment I can fcot tue petition whicn provoked the judicial order I will make answer and siiwt.iiause both to the court and the country : On the 9th of December, 1874, 1 received a letter from eight persons outside of and beyond the jurisdiction ot Utah, who supposed they were in- Meadows massacre, September lUth, 1857, from which I extract : Wo wish to oiiguga you as our counaol. We havu novur oviui d nor sought to ovudo a fair invesliirntion of tbu crimes with whicd wo ro clmd; but, on tut; contrary have over 1 c'n willinp atd anxiou to have flic 1 nn investigation betoro u fuir-mmdtid and impartial court andjury. Wo a o now anxious lor a t'nir and epeedv trial of our eauee. 11 tboro bo any ebunco f ir a speedy aud impartial im-partial trial, wo will plodu our honor tu be and nppodr in any court of justice and meet all cbarRoa that nviy bu preferred against ue. Acting on this retaiuer 1 wont south, had several interviews with their attorney at St. George to ascertain ascer-tain by what means they could give bjnds, and for what sums, in court, .iic. vnvj. .w.tt ... ubu.Ui j utur without any arrest, at the next term of the court, and Biibmit themselves to legal custody and go to trial. I learned there that unexceptionable unexception-able bonds for $100,000 would be cheerfully given by their friends, that each one of theso defendants then beyond the jurisdiction of Utah would Yoluutarily appear whenever needed for trial, provided they were permitted so to do. The effect of this would be to save all expenses and trouble trou-ble as to their arrest; and to ensure either their attendance or $100,000 being paid into the Second district court at Beaver county. Returning to Beaver, I laid the proposition before the assistant U. S. district attornoy, and he at once referred me to the statute, that in capital cases, ajltr ar- rest on warrant no bail can, be granted, which was no nov- eliy to me. My answer was that I these defendant were not arrested; that they were beyond the jurisdiction of the court; and that bonds for their voluntary appearance, before arrest, would be lawful and valid, as I have, no doubt they would be. Assistant District Attorney Wheedon finally advised me to apply to Judge Bore-man, Bore-man, saying that whatever order he might make would be satisfactory to him. Having no time to see Judge Boreman then, I called upon him thrice while he was in attendance on the supreme court in this city; I told him orally that I desired to make an arrangement as to the trial of the defendants in the MountainSMeadows massacre cases, and asked him to fix a time to hear me. He fixed an hour, when on calling I found him engaged, and then I stated to him that I would present in writing the petition that I proposed to make orally, to which he assented. Accordingly I, myself, prepared the offending petition to the Hon. Judge Boreman, had it copied, duly swore to it on information and belief, and sent it to the judge, but kept no copy. As these cases belong to my department of the business of our firm, I did not consult Judge Sutherland Suther-land or have his aas;stance at all. If offence there be, I alone am solely responsible therefor, and Judge Sutherland is innocent of all connection connec-tion with the matter. That petition prayed on behalf oi the defendants, the privilege of giving by their friends, bonds to be approved by Judge Boreman, in $10,000 for each defendant, conditional that such defendant Bhould voluntarily appear at the next or any term of the district court at Beaver, when the government was ready for trial, and not depart without leave of the court ; to stand to, abide by and perform all orders, decrees and judgments made by said court; and praying the judge, after such bonds were given and approved by him, to order that no warrants should be issued or served on them before trial. In short, t hey would at will submit to the court, ensure their voluntary vol-untary appearance, and so aid the officers ot justice to enforce all punishments pun-ishments and judgments against them, without the expense, delay or uncertainty of their arrest. " My offence hath this extent, no more." So far from being guilty of a contempt, con-tempt, I proposed by these means to ensure trie prompt voluntary appearance appear-ance for trial of each one of these persons charged with criminal connection con-nection with that massacre, free of all expense to the government, and thus enable a jury to determine whether, as the law presumes, and as the result will prove, they were entirely en-tirely innocent of the charges. The petition thus presented by me was respectful in its language, and made on my part by the purest motives, mo-tives, and though the word "insultingly" "insult-ingly" is quite frequently used in the order served on me, yet it is manifestly mani-festly intended to characterize solely the substance of my application, and not the form. Therefore, I am to be punished as for a contempt, for presenting pre-senting a respectful petition to the judge, which, according to his opinion, opin-ion, he could not legally grant. Geo. C. 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