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Show Bigamin West's Cam to Go Before the Supreme Court to Have tlie Merits Reviewed. THE GEAND JURY RESUMES WORK. Examination of the Various Territorial and County Institutions The i Criminal Calendar. The rase of the United Slates against J:cobJ.W. Went, the wrinkled ttml ' decrepit old man who fooled once too often with the fickle and trenche rons lires of matrimony, came n before Judge Audcrsnu in a new attitude, liiis rooming, on w hich occasion ihe first j step was taken to secure his liberation from the pen. H Is said th;,t a new deal end a rehearing before t lit! supreme su-preme court would develop a number of important questions of law and evi- tlence. Colonel II. V. A. Ferguson, who fought so persistently ami adroitly in behalf of his ill -fated' client, submitted tho following allidavit: II. V. A. Ferguson, being lirst duly sworn according to law, upon his oath pays that lie is an attorney and conn-sellor-at-law, etc.; that ho was the attorney at-torney of the above namud defendant on tho trial upon the indictment, indict-ment, which said indictment was for the crime of polygamy or bigamy nnd which said trial wa9 had at the September term of the staid Third district dis-trict court, and upon which said trial the sajd defendant was found guilty and rentcneed to a terra of years in the penitentiary. pen-itentiary. Afiiaut saith further that to bis own personal knowledge tho said defendant ever since his conviction and sentence in September, IH',10, both made strenuous strenu-ous and repeated efforts to procuro moans and money to present to tho supremo court of Utah territory certain cer-tain questions on appeal, which said questions aroso upon the trial of said indictment and which elfect tho regularity regu-larity and validity of the defendant's conviction, as a:so the regularity and validity of the sentence imposed upon the defendant after his conviction. That the defendant has wholly failed to procure or raise tho money and means, or any money or means, for the purpose of said appeal; that he is poor and destitute and has no means with which to perfect an appeal. , That there aro, so afliant believes, certain questions in said cause which are of importance to the legal profession generally, and of special importance ss concerns the defendant above named and that a re-View re-View of the same would probably result re-sult in tho reversal of the conviction and in the giving of the defendant a new trial upon tho indictment. That tho record, practically will consist con-sist of the indictment, the brief of the defendant, motion for new trial and the motion in arrest of judgment. Wherefore it is asked that tlie court order tho record to be furnished as for i u poor person. The court ordered that the transcript be furnished as prayed for and that a copy of the record be supplied by the clerk of the district court. There is considerable feeling in tho case, while the convict himself has quite a following who believe that at tho solemnization of the secoud marriage mar-riage contract he was really of tho impression im-pression that wife number one had turned her toes up to the daisies. Mr. Ferguson feels conlident that he will be able to securo a reversal before the supreme court. The grand jury who took a recess of two weeks upon the consent of the court settled in their moorings on the second lloor of the Wasatch block this morning and will proceed to file their reports upon the various territorial ter-ritorial institutions that have been critically crit-ically "sied-up" by them during the recess. They have comprehended everything in the whirl and will submit information as to the asylum for the insane, the reform school, the peniteu-, peniteu-, tiary, etc. It would be impossible to anticipate their reports save as to the penitentiary and the county jail, both of which institutions are in easy reach of the local missionaries of the daily press. The penitentiary pen-itentiary which is now making a number of improvements presents pre-sents its own front and on an open face. The county jail, it is said will also be put down for a number of improvements improve-ments that have been rccemmended by Sheriff Hurt. They will not involve much expense but they will put the jail in a condition for perfect security. The reports will be anxiously awaited. The Young Aeoaalt. Jim Young, the highwayman, who was arrested by Marshal Young in December De-cember last, after a desperate chase, and who now languishes in the penitentiary peni-tentiary pending his trial on three indictments in-dictments for robbery, will probably have another charge to answer. It will be remembered that upon the occasion occa-sion of his arraignment and after entering a plea of not guilty, he was being removed to the penitentiary, when he suddenly wheeled in his seat, and in his desperation would have murdered mur-dered the driver of tho conveyance had not the trusty put a six-sb'ooter to his I head. Where he got the gun has been an impregnable mystery to tho authori- ties, nor has there ever been tipped 10 I the authorities a more positive example ! of the Masonry that exists between the j crook and thug. That someone smuggled smug-gled the weapon to Young there is no speculation, and should the authorities succeed in identifying the parties who did it there will be another chapter in tho case. |