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Show A Bigamist Pleads Guilty. Some four years ago a man named Hector S. Wisner came to this territory terri-tory from the east, and joined Ihe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. He moved south and began to teach BChool in Sevier County. Here he married a youog woman, by whom he had a child. Some two yean after be wsut cast .and remained re-mained p.way a couple of years. In ;the ineaLtime it was ascertained that , be had a wife aud family in Palmyra, New York, to whom be w.ib married priur tu comiDg to Utah, aud his wife iu Sevier County, in communication with a relative of Wisner in tbe east, ascertained the status of afiairs. Wiaoer returned but a abort time Bince, and had hardly been in Rich field a couple of hours before he was aireded on a warrant issued by Com missioner B. T. Young, on a complaint com-plaint filed by Wisner's wife there. He was, of course, bound over, the graod jury indicted bim, and hia trial camo ofi at Provo a couple of days ago. He e t s ted that be would plead guilty, but fiudiug be would not be allowed to make a speech he had written, he withdrew that plea. A jury was then called, and making hia epeech, as he desired, he plead guilty gain, waa of course convicted by thejury, and recommended to tbe mercy of the court. His speech ia repreaenled aa being a very remarkable effort, and is said lo contain a number of epe-cifis epe-cifis allegations against Mr. Agra-monte, Agra-monte, tho lawyer who assisted in the prosecution of Wisner. These allegations alle-gations are reported to be of a very derogato y character, and as the epeech waa written, it ia believed the effort will be printed. |