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Show The Riot&rs. Eleven of the parties engagd in the recent riots and throateuing conduct con-duct at Park City, hud a preliminary examination before LI. 3. commissioner commis-sioner Sprague, on Thuredny. Th prosecution wau repreiented by iisa'wt-ant iisa'wt-ant district attornry Lewis and Sutherland & Kimball. The case for the defendants was conduct d by one of their number, Robert A. Wad dill. The lender of the rioters, and the one who took the most active iari in the threatening assault upon Mr. E. W. Thayer, of the Marsac company, com-pany, Col. J. A. Nelson waived an examination. Many wilnemi' were exaniiued, and the conduct of the accused wns shown to be even of a more criminal and serious character than was Atatcd in Thursday's Heuald, Ou Monday night a meeting of perhaps sixty men some of them leading citizens ol Park city, was hold at the residence of Col. NeUon, when most incendiary, threatening threat-ening and abusive language was indulged in-dulged in concerning Mr. Thayer. A committee of ten, appointed by the meeting, proeesded to Thayer's office betwoen 11 and 12 o'clock, with a written request for him to slate in writing the price ot loft ta the town-site. town-site. Nelson seized Thayer by the coat collar, flourished a six shooter, and had it not been for the timely in torfereuce of some of (he committee, who saw that they were going too far, he would probably now be held to answer a more serious charge than that of engaging in a riot. Thayer was necessarily greatly excited, and stated on the witnoss stand yesterday that he be lieved he would have been killed had it not been for the intercession ol some of the committee. He was finally compelled to write an answer to the rioters' request, when the ten ing. Subsequently another committee commit-tee of ten was appointed to wait on Thayer, and warn him to leave the town within six hours. Iu the mean time several men had assembltd at Thayer's office that gentlemen hav ing secreted himself in the vicinity and the justice of the peace, sherifl And constable had also interfered in bebalf of the threatened individual and to preserve the peace. All of the committee except one remained h short distance from the office, whih the message in regard to leaving town was beiug delivered. The mes seuger was not permitted to enter the house, hut he told those in the office ot the decision of the committee. Mr. Thayer remained secreted for there , inaiuder of the Dight, aud early Tues day morning tjok tne necessary steps for bringing his assailants to justice. Evidently a majority of those who took part in the illegal proceedings had no thought et engaging in wrong doing when they attended the meeting; meet-ing; but they were led into a violation viola-tion of the law by a few inconsistent hot-hcada, who can bo found in every community. The prosecution wa, not vigorous, the people's counsel evidently evi-dently having compassion for all ex cept the leaders. It was stated that the prosecution was not so much for the purpose of punishing the defend ants as to teach them the lesson thai law prevailed in this country, and that if they had grievances, or were wronged, the courts were open to them to obtain justice. The commissioner com-missioner was particularly plain in his language denouncing the conduct of the rioters. Three of the defendants, defend-ants, Robert A. Waddill, Maurice MoGrath and S. Greenbaum, were discharged from custody ; but the others were bound over to await the action of the grand jury. The bonds of John A. Nelson were placed at 1,500; and those of the.other defendants, defend-ants, John Pape, Henry Johnson, V. L. Thomas, Milton Thomas, P. Swan, B. W. Smedky and Joseph Goodell, at $300 each. |
