Show 1 MORRIS mm CASE CLOSED two arguments heard on each side GOES TO THE JURY TODAY prosecutors made a strong ciso case against the ex selectman review his effort to keep witnesses away I 1 from the investigation ridicule the idea that hayken would pay for a prospect in dugnay judge powers portrays the innocence I 1 of 0 hits his client joseph R morriss rase ease will go to a jury this thin moaning tha healing of testimony was completed yesterday morning and tile the arguments of counsel in the evening 1 nothing remains but judge rol ipps charge before the case li Is submitted to the jury deputy county clerk reese was called at the beginning of the morning sc eblon to testify lint tat martin hayken had appealed before the th county cobit in elie spring pt or im to testify that lie he had bad never paid the selectmen an anything thing lit III any way tor for the elie contract jolin r was called lie ile swore that lie had nothing to do with the furnishing of 1 the lie murray opera house harry haynes danild Il aykens statement thit that 2712 worth or of tuini turc had been ci edited to him and charged to mor morris r n by andrews co OPENING FOR till STATE T this his closed the testimony L R rhodes made inalle tho the opening statement tor for the stute slate it was an arraignment of 0 mos idol ris logically developed and clothed in eloquent lang language aage lie he had not quite completed ii hen the hour allowed him had elapsed mr rhodes rhoden in opening called attention to the importance of 0 the case lie he said paid that there vas aas no offense known to the law that required more vl vigorous orous prosecution and more certain punishment than official corruption it if men honored by office rie aie corrupt in their dealings their example quickly debases all beneath them lie ile then went on to tell liow low the people of salt lake county had decided upon the erection of 0 a public building that would be a credit to the paris 0 of utah cheerfully they agreed to give up their bonds artil anil to tax lax themselves lie bald aid tc lc balse the money with which to erect tile joseph R morris lorris was elected to superintend the work nork and to see w that the money via mas i properly expended pen lod the people wanted something creditable there was no stint of money it was only asked that there should be an honest return fur for the expenditure pend iture and lilo irig was chosen it 0 se a A as the Pe peoples orles representative as the hie guardian of their interests no into citizen of salt lake county he said can look loo kupon upon this without a blush of 0 shame at the file thought that no sooner was the monument to popular enterprise and pluck completed than its dedication was made with official corruption this feeling ot of shame can he obliterated only by the conviction in the building 0 of the men who disgraced their constituents in ili its furnishing till FORMER ACQUITTAL mr rhodes rhoden referred red to the pi pica ca of former acquittal ile he said that the charge on which morris tied had been tried and acquitted was essen essentially dally ill different from the present charge charee ile he was acquitted ot of the charge of re receiving e alving a bribe but tile the statute mado made t the h e abrec ment to receive a a distinct offense of tense ait and it was tor for tills this that morris lorris 1 was being tried ABIr EVIDENCE in III summing up an the he admitted that lie had no apology to offer tor for hayk e it if in I 1 ills dealings with the county 1 hayken y I 1 cell was unquestionably dish dishonest onesti he continued there Is no doubt that flat he then anae many false statements lit in order to seccie a better price for his linn than tile lie furniture was worth cause lit lie bit has come upon this stand tho the defense calls him an informer we admit it 11 but we contend that unless a crime had been perpetrated pet rated there could not be an all informer it if hayken Is so no bad a man as aa the defense depicts him how low much better Is morris ills guilt and moral turpitude are a thousand ancl times greater than halkens Haiken 8 for or hayken was acting simply as aa an individual for his firm W without tile expectation of retting getting a single dollar of the corruptly K gained tined money horn flom salt lake county on the other hand morris was a public ofil vial tat acting in a fiduciary capacity under an oath of omee office and the impelling motive in his corruption wa was f to benefit himself lit at the expense ot or ills his employer the hie people ot of the county in cases of this character an informer lot la usually necessary knaves and rati rascals cals do cio not confide their the crookedness to horst honest n men nor ar arf ry honest men parties tie to uch such infamous is but morris never ca ed d ila hayken k a liar and perjurer until E began clan to tell the before that morris always albru va inferred 1 I to hayken 11 0 C it as it his friend they were closer than S and hayken was apparently as dear to morris as one could be INN INNOCENT MR AIR Iq MORRIS ORRIS mr rhodes referred anith much effect to morriss statement that until tho the tribune expose ton rn september 17 1 lie he had no intimation that there vas as I 1 any suspected irregularity in lonnee lion bilth 11 ith tho ILIA fuin furniture iture contract he was utterly u copti continued aued mr Rho rhodes dint yet three montha before this morris was sending binding telegrams acl granis to hayken advising him to stay away from salt lake iske and licit to return unless so no to do so 00 by judge dey ills hl attorney A lorils knew then that tho the county court waa wa investigating the elie furniture deal it he wax waa an honest man and innocent tilly hy should lie he seek beck to keep haken way away it if Inno reni he be would have desired above all thane that the investigation should lie bo thorough for ills innocence bould have been demon what vua UA con conduct duct tit at icv time of 0 this pulli calin S a in ill ho he wax wasi charged I 1 aih phinn did lie proclaim hl its innocence DM did h he then rail raft ilao ken a liar far and ra a I 1 did ho he imm to fay abea ihen 0 of f a mining leal deal in payment fr hleb it rev received elved tile money nl A told in ill tile story llo lie did mono liine or of these things instead he sought out culken unit and with ill win began to plan LL a defense WENT UNDER ALiA SEtt in january of 0 IMS monts sent money to adania in and for what purpose to prevent stratton straiten an important mitnora against agal him from coming coining to limit lake to testify fy it innocent noc clit why did lie he fear Strat tons testimony even though stratton had been the financial man ot of andrews C co and thoroughly informed of every detail of the lh furniture deal lit lie a drifts he know stratton in that event by should he fear him unless because of the he be knew stratto koralton Kl ralton n i possessed in january last lal morris went to chicago after at the wellington hotel ax aji mr porch he ha wan wa int introduced ro to lawyer adams as mr smith ill men do not nol salt nail under all s es yet morris maintains he to la honest hone fit the testimony as to tha wining deal w wui then ihen reiterated ly by clo counsel ho told in graphic gran ll language thorris desir 1 to hav the dood dod lignel on janu ary 21 31 1846 though dated april i 6 aw lie ile wanted the deed he said for u use ue e in case ut tit an emergency emoi what w wan i 4 ait llila I 1 a cinci gency risked asked 1 sir I r 1 rhodes bode 9 it la Is here now it Is this trial CHEAP OPERA HOUSE then lie told how morris A sent to adams the copy of oc it a letter lie he wanted trait n to nond mend him stratton was to 1 be riven a job and in return rl rema remain 1 attway A ay from utah to alic theau tur r bishing or of the murray opt opera ra house anil and stole stoic counsel le marked the strangeness 0 of a business proceeding by which opra hairs were ibold for and 1000 oah of 0 store furniture sold on in a ve r bal contract cont raitt requiring payment after atter the lapse of three yearn ar 0 T then lie tile the testimony ot f 1 local f furniture u experts who nho placed the value of the county building furniture va 1 IOUs y fit at sums not ex exceeding emling though t tough andrews andreus co charged sloko for it lie commented upon the secrecy that iba t ur rounded the whole ithol e deal tile the absence of competition by failure to A advertise dver thic and the evident corruption by which the contract was obtained FOR FOP THE DEFENSE judge loofbourow followed briefly after lunch he said raid that in order to convict morris the law required that it lie shown not only that lie he received money but that ll it nag as in pursuance of if a corrupt agreement by which its his official conduct was to be influenced ile he maintained that morris had already been acquitted of the crime vi with ith N aich lie Is now cia chained liged as ag the essential elements element 3 51 of both are the same 1 I believe that old scamp I 1 bayken was trying to work ork some one said 19 judge L loofbourow with till much emphasis then he went 0 on n to argue that hayken was ions Nor corking king not necessarily L any one in salt lake but rattler rather his own hodio unit tind using the money for III ills s own purposes in order to accorn this ila ll aken ken lie he deceived his employers and ami them toy liy pretending to be compelled fr to bribe the selectmen and by getting money to do so lit hr promptly retained ac c col to judge hilcken was ss tile lie guilty sinner while morris was simply an apparent victim of circumstances cut cum ns stances judge howera followed follow ed ills plea for morris ris consisted in the main of abuse of ila hay ken and ot of every one A alio coult could look upon without beholding lit in its his translucent eyes tile the sunlight of honor bonor and probity haykin was de si filed in tt A word NN ord picture as mendacity 1119 tongue Is blistered by the lies lie liag has told said judge judee rowers ers at times limes I 1 have felt that the billack angel of lit lies was vias in tile the courtroom flapping its his win gsand pouting into martin hackens Hay kens cars the poison with fill hah which he hopes I 1 lo 10 lock joseph r B mortis lit in tile the penitentiary judge judee rowers said that the plis pes had been hounding lorils even during his trial lie he accused them ot of distorting what occurred in the courtroom this led up to tile the climax of his oration ile he quit his position in front 0 f the devoted jurors and striding toward county attorney whittemore lie berated that official for spending the V peoples oples money like water lit in the P prosecution rose of morris and for the wicked newspaper attack on hla his elle client n t CLOSE BY WHITTE IORII MOREL mr jr whittemore follo followed NNed he said that the leuth of the hayken letters was vas boine out hy by the facts ho he qaid ilist there was no persecution of terris morris and that the charges against bambei beiger per would also be pic ived ile he laid much etuess on the mining deal by which iilah moerls sought to escape the tha consequence tie of his guill lie he asked the lury jury it it scenic seemed d plausible that hayken a cautious capable man of business bould buy A mine at dugway tor for 19 offo especially when the prospect for such auch it Is at the best has never produced anything even it not far re remote mo to from the railroad oad ns its it Is its value would have to he be demonstrated before a any 11 y one would purchase it at such a figure ll Kure yet according to tl morris hayken bought boi ight this mirl mine from morris upon a valuation of 10 mr whittemore also brought out haiken Haken a 8 mony that a portion of tho the money paid him really was a credit tin on the belh ot of co against haynes and cahoon |