Show JUDGES DECIDE TO CALL GALL H SPECIAL GRAND JURY Action i te I by Recent Rumors Rumor Regard O in of Polygamy in the f Conditions Con nion Will Also Aso Be e Co by the tbt th By S 3 t C noon yesterday t rda the tIM S three Judges of at the be t district court cit decided to 10 call a special Jury Jul for tot the April prU term tenD to investigate tn sundry dry public Mabile 0 alleged to been committed and aDd various abuse ab altered alleged to t exist aM Within this Jurisdiction tion The TIle public offense S hive haTe been committed refer Nt to the charges cba recently made of the practice of poly polygamy polygamy amy am In this thIn city and county comity count The Tb va various rious rlou abases a to exist within this tb Jurisdiction rider refer to moral condi conditions dons including U e Victoria alley aliey lie ex expose expose pose made some weeks week ago aco 0 by The Herald and aad the open violation of th ordinances ord regarding Sunday saloon closing and ad the protection given p to gambling houses bouse Shortly after ft exposed expeNd the deplorable existing in la some part parta of the tile cHy number lIeD Dent cAtero eft signed a petition petit asking the three Judges of ty district court to call a special grand for to investigate t the matter JUt and pel examine into t to the u at af affairs attile fairs the tile 4 git sad lid city The not be taken taba up and acI at that time by bp the Judges and K It was waa permitted t to He lie un until ill til a few days day ago when Judge Morse MorN returned from his Ida term of court coart tn lit Summit al and Too Ie tiM The in la inability Inability ability of the U f tiara three judges to hold Mid a Joint conference at ai ay one time tillie dur flur during tag ing the tile past week or ten tea daYs day da pre Pro prevented vented the tIM action act at t yesterday 7 being taken sooner sonnet than tIIa it was wu Grand Jury Tar Pie A fl Term I I But Bat yesterday morning IC Judge Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art made hi his IUs appearance in ID court after a few days claP indisposition and ad adhe imme immediately after he left the bench the three Judges met discussed the peti petition Usa tion and decided to call ml a special grand jury for tor tb tl April term Just when the will be sum Ulft summoned melted oDed to ear appear to in court be sworn orn and take up their investigation de depends depends penda upon UllOa District Attorney Dt Denni DenniC aI C The mw Is to o be placed in his b charge As La tt deliberations will I occupy all his lt th ry Will not probably be called until after that official O II cial has s eluded his criminal case caas The be teat last ha baa been set for trial early in Ia next month tho I Under the statutes staw providing v for fm t the Che railing palling of a grand juip J the tM names must LIt I be bo drawn before fifteen day of the beginning of the tM peat 41 A ia jury j is called 91 term rm U the jnames must maN be file drawn wn Jury JUl J jn The sanke IIII i WB names ilme stunt must be d ab aJ r tie box by Ute the clerk clark in the pres presence ence enee of the county treasurer and aDd the county attorney Where it is 18 impossible impossible sible for one olt or more of the tM three to be present they can Call be represented by one on ono of o their deputies The names of tile the Jurors will there theme therefore fore be drawn by County Counts Clerk John James while County Attorney George Westervelt and County Treasurer Trell r Car Carb bi b baa t will witness the tle legal lecal act The following communication which to have bue been h fl rious abuses abul ell slimed alleged to 10 exist within Jurisdiction n xi AS your hoes boner sm aware nI tilt facilities at the of at C this Uda office art are art in many Ra m Ift adequate ute for the purpose D ot at y yand and aDd property properly we the or falsity of such charges chares char or 01 reposes la in view of the above facts and III 1 eon eoa I would woud respectfully adt t to 0 your OW honors that t suck such BUt a r III at r al af a exist wet in ill this U county that th Ute the Interest demands dt the summoning rv and d i Ia Una of u a I grand jury Jary at aa an early date elate Respectful y v GEORGE EORGE County Attorney y S For several days daYi seat pUt the three Judges judge have bave had under ader serious eon con consideration the advisability of caning calling a special grand craM jury in Ja response meis pOMe to t the petition for dM die same alma lid and to 0 investigate the polygamy charge which have filled the air ah durin d the be theIst past two or three months Will wm Investigate r The existence of ot immorally Immorality In vari various ous ens parts of the cit cI J the Mart heart Martof of the business lint first brought to the atten attea Ju jv dietary and the th people by TIM The Her Herald Herald Herld ald ld The incentive wu tile the revolting 11 Ryan murder at 47 Victoria VIctorI alley when a colored woman wo Mary Jane I Smith it is alleged administered a fatal tatal dose o of poison to a man maD named for the purpose of robbing him The police scoffed at the theory of murder until The Herald reporters pro gee produced such och evidence as to cause cau the tae officers o to awaken a aken and aDd ferret ferrett out the tile crime Then hen ben came the Ute stories Modes of shocking conditions which wl were fol tot followed folIo lowed Io by an expose of the tM flagrant t tp p on rk of the anU or ornan nan Remor of S Ever J since County Count Attorney George Gears has bas been in ui he lie has bleeD apprised of ot polygamist Hardly HanDy a day went by but blat uon on one went w nt to him and aDd told him what they had heard beard upon the streets or 01 in sa 1 the home of their friends friel He Be wa was w pow DOW powerless erless to act in the matter a u he had Met haduo no direct evidence upon which wl to t taD base an aD information formation or charge charce against tt any 01 anyone anyone one associated with the stories afloat t The statutes do not mass make it a sari art of ot the duties of ot the county attorney at ator or his office oalee to ferret terret out evidence In Incases cues cases where he be desires desire more mare than has bees been furnished fUll him to te make sen 3 r me certain tain tam a conviction convictionS S With th hilt bin hands thus tied County At toJ Wt wa WU act He lie had rumors galore over ovet hut but no DO one ne came to M him hl with ta facto t sufficient upon t And go o out outI the M During I this time t the same e stories came to the ears of the three Judges of the district court As 8 time sed they became more store persistent finally JID ly the tile names of alleged guilty cou couples were connected with rumors And ADd then Samuel Russell made his JI hi charge CU against City CIl Judge H 8 S 8 Ton Tan Tanner flee ner About a week or ten teD S days clan laD ago the tile district judges took up the matter of I t z c l lS L I S SAMUEL RUSSELL Whose Wb Polygamy Charges Have Hasten Hen ed eel the Calling of a Grand Jury J was wu sent SoOt to the three tb Judges yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day morning mor by County Attorney Westervelt waa was shortly followed by the announcement from the judges Judge Ju that they would call special a pedal grand Jury for tor the next term of ot court We Latter to Judges J Salt tAr Lithe City t Utah 13 18 1151 To Tn the th Honorable Hon rable the Judges Judge of the Dis District triet Court of 0 Salt Bait Jake bake Count Coun Ut titan Utan n I giro 1 be beg bee to to your our honors hono the of Sits log In u IA grand r rand d jury jur ju for fOt Salt Halt Lake county Since Binet I entered upon the duties cf of f this thIN office about two months ago there have nave come to m me directly and Indirectly a va variety 11 riel ot 01 complaints reports and rumors bearing Mart aw arb or ices the tI stamp of truth concerning sundry public offenses offense al af calling a special grand im into the iM polygamy c char charges im immoralities moralities of the city aD aDnot es not be stated with ith authority there are reasons for tor believing that the tile charges made against Judge u H if S Tanner by Samuel Russell ell had bad much to do with the t e Judges deciding that the purification tendencies til of a grand crand Jury are more seriously required now nov I than thau th thy y have bave been for some ose time past pat Act i UK upon pon that assumption Judge Juris Stewart Julge Jilge J Hull Hall and Judge Jud Morse Mortie r ly h to grant gran the u th request t contain d in the tte petition and will win call a grand jury fo the April term terra |