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Show HE IS IN IT FOR LIFE. MURDERER MURDOCK JOINS THE IN MATES OF THE PENITENTIARY. - Two w Recruits go Oat ThU Morning JJ The Cockrell Assault Case tswytr a Johnson Indicted A Solitary " Cohab. in Court. - Alma Murdock, the cold-blooded murderer of Ernest Olds in July last, came up from j Provo last evening in the custody of Deputy A United States Marshal Bachnian, and will W lake up a life residence at the penitentiary, Judge Blackburn of the Second district H court having presented him with the fran- rf cliise. Murdock when seen was very . gloomy and downcast. Ho declined 1 to be interviewed and probably J regrets that the jury saw tit to insert the H4 clause which drew a sentence of life servitude servi-tude instead of death. There is a strong probability of his being joined by Brown, the wife murderer, who is now on trial' al Provo. Cork re 11 on Trial. '" The case of the people against Anthony Cockrell charged with having maliciously assaulted Wiiford Roy, in the running run-ning of a wagon over his frail body, opened the regular calendar of crime before Judge Zane today, witnesses for th prosecution testifying that in August last the defendant was driving along and came upon a number of boys who infest the streets across the river. A woman had undertake a to call his attention to the youths, but h is horses struck young Ray and the wheels of the wagon passed over him cutting him below the' eye and inflicting other injuries from which "it is said he has not yet rccov. ered. The defense is that Cockrill did not sea the youth but had his attention drawn to the woman whose cries and gesticulations were rousing the neighborhood! Today's Sentences. John Cranton and James McCarthy, two healthy waifs from Missouri who were convicted con-victed on charges of petit larceny, were arraigned ar-raigned for sentence this morning, and the court having picked up the indictment for burglary which had been subsequently revised and changed to one of petit larceny, had sentenced sen-tenced them to three years each in the Pen. before his attention was called to the error. "Then," said Judge Zane, "you are each sentenced to six months in the county jail." Lawyer Riley had interposed a statement in behalf of the convicts who had expressed ex-pressed a preference for the penitentiary in that there w as a school in connection with it but the possibilities of an academic education educa-tion diappeared with the announcement that it was not discretionary with the court. Court Notes. John W. Cary was admitted to practice be fore the supreme court this morning. The case of tho people against John Doe Fisher has been continued until December 2. In the case of Bank of Phillips vs J. W. Fairchild ten days were allowed ..plaintiff to answer. The jury in the Cockrell case returned a ' verdict of "not guilty and the defendant was discharged. The grand jury has taken another recess, ; and will not renew its labors until some data ' in November. . Malachi Dillon, held in the penitentiary I for the murder of an Ogdcn barkeeper, wiil , soon be called to the scene of the tragedy for 1 trial. Alex Johnson, a graduate from the Ann ' . Arbor la w school, was heard espousing the t cause of justice in a somewhat erratic, way , during the trial of Cranton and McCarthy, r charged with stealing a ham from I a suburban cellar. Today be is iu custody '. of the United States marshal, who is holding I him on au indictment charging him with forging the name of Judge Hoge to a note. ; The case grows out of the recent, arrest of 1 Ben Driggs, who claims to have aided John-son John-son in his hour of need.- Before Judge Anderson. The following orders were made iu cham. t bcrs bv Judge Anderson: r W. H. Whitney vs George W. Mayer ct air r hearing on demurrer tet for Mondav, Oct. r 27th. ' Charles Nelson vs J. W. Hamm ct al j plaintiff allowed to amend complaint. I Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs Railway , Co. vs. White, it Sons Co.; demurrer ovcr- t ruled. Ten days allowed to answer. , George M. Church vs. William E. Ryan; I default; judgment and attorney's fee of 5 per cent allowed. Order of sale granted. |