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Show CRIMINAL MATTERS. James Parsons on Trial for Perjury in Making: Proof on a Homestead Home-stead Entry, BETJTAL TREATMENT OF A WOMAN Police Court Proceedings Groesbeck to be Sentenced on Saturday Officer Green's Case A Tintic Lyncher Pardoned. The trial of James Parsons on the charge of perjury was begun in Judge Zane's court this morning. Mr. Varian prosecuting and J. A. Williams defending. The indictment alleged that on August 12th, 1891, the defendant appeared before Register Hobbs of the land office and under oath stated that he had resided on eighty-acres eighty-acres of land, which he had entered as a homestead, continuousl- since 1SS0. When in fact he had not resided on the land at all since that date. Alfred Goodsell and William Wil-liam T. Jenkins, who corroborated Mr. Parsons Par-sons statement under oath, were also indicted in-dicted for perjury, and all pleaded not guilty. A jury was secured without difficult-, and the case will be given to them this afternoon. after-noon. IT WAS NOT AN ATTKMPTEI) SUICIDE. The ltrut.il Conduct of a Gambler Towards His Mistress. A sad tale was ventilated in police court this morning; one which is shocking enough in its details to make the average man's blood'boil with indignation. Rumors of an attempt at suicide at First West and First South were rife last night, but nothing definite was ascertained at the time beyond the fact that the party attempting attempt-ing hari-kara was a woman, the alleged wife of a gambler named Wilson. But the facts are now the property of the public and the story they make up is one which deserves more than ordinary mention. The woman is named Frederiekson, and her parents reside near San Pete. She has lived with Wilson as his wife for nearly three years, and by him she has given birth to one child and is again in a delicate condition. condi-tion. Yesterday Wilson beat the woman in a most brutal mauner. He was arrested on the charge of disturbing the peace and deposited de-posited $10 under the n-uue of J. L. Doe for his appearance this morning. He did not appear and the bond was forfeited. While the practice of taking bonds in small sums is a good one in most minor eases in this one it should not have been allowed aud the police officer who, knowing the facts of the case, would permit a man to lie booked on a charge of that kind for so serious ser-ious an offense is deserving of the warmest criticism. The man who raises his hand against a woman is a brute and should be treated as such. The woman was arrested also, and deposited de-posited a like amount, which was also forfeited. for-feited. Parties who claim to know say she aggravated Wilson, but words do not justify an assault, especially on a female. William Redding, charged with trespass, pleaded guilty, and sentence was suspended providing he would leave the city. The demurrer in the case of Phiiip Adams was overruled, and the defendant took an appeal from the decision and gave a bond. Nick Mepohl was fined 5 for an assault. A MIDGET IN TKOiBtE. The effects of Tom Thumb' AVidow Seizsd by a Deputy .n .!..;. The small voice of Mrs. Count Margree, better known as Mrs. General Tom Thumb, is being lifted up today in tne city of Ogden in what Chas. Dicken's Sairey Gamp would have designated as "a wale of grief." A wicked deputy marshal, around with a writ of attachment obtained in the Third district court by George Kellogg, the well known well boring contractor, swooped oown on Mrs. Thumb this morning and levied upon her diamonds, her nice dresses, all her personal property including her trunks of underwear. And this is the story. In 1SSS Kellogg and Dave Kciller, now of this city, were the proprietors of a museum and vaudeville theater in Denver. Keiller disposed of his interest to Kellogg, and the latter for a time ran the place alone. Mrs. (ieneral Thumb and others visited Denver, and decided hat instead of being all her life a freak she should become a manageress. manage-ress. A company was formed under the title of Mrs. Tom Thi m & Co., and the transfer was made, the new mauagem.-nt giving Kellogg as part of the purchase price notes to the amount of 7000. These notes, by the way, are yet unpaid, and hence the action. The plan of action hit upon by Kellogg was unique and effective. While Mrs. Thumb and her small company have been showing in Park City for some time, no attempt at-tempt has been made to attach the effects. The countess, therefore, opened up in Ogden Og-den without the fear of the law before her, and last night the effects were seized. In one of the trunks of the midget was found over $200 in cold cash, with wardrobes, jewelry, jew-elry, Shetland ponies and the carriage which Queen Victoria presented to Tom Thumb and his wife will go a long ways towards satisfying Mr. Kellogg's claim. Another Plan for Escape. The prisoners confined in the county jail seem to be continually planning an esciipe, and Sheriff Burt's men have to keep a strict watch to frustrate their schemes. One of the worst characters at present in the bastile is Gorman, a plan of his for a wholesale escape es-cape was discovered by Joe Burt this morning. morn-ing. The fellow had discovered that one key would open the locks ou all of the cells, and with such material as he could find he proceeded to make a key. He had just com- I pleted the job. this morning w hen Mr. Burt found the key and confiscated it, much to Gorman's disgust. Officer Green's Case. Justice Kesler this morning overruled the demurrer of Attorney Eichnor in the ease of the colored man Adams, charged by ex-policeman ex-policeman Pitticus Green with resisting an officer and disturbing the peace and Eichnor will appeal. Pitticus remarked to a reporter today that he was in "a devil of a scrape," and that he wished he had arrested dams instead of hitting him as he did. The Grand Jury. The members of the grand jury arc today inspecting the penitentiary and prisons, and will resume work in the jury room tomorrow. to-morrow. The nj-mphs du pave have been before the inquisitors in shoals for the past few days, ami if anything remains to be learned about the social evil it is past finding find-ing out. The Last of the Tintic Lynchers. Pat Regan, the last of the Tintic lynchers, was reteased from the penitentiary today, he having been pardoned by Acting-Governor Sells. Regan, with seven others, was convicted con-victed of lynching a man in ISSfi, and in 1S87 he was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment. imprison-ment. N. II. G roe -hack's Case. Judge Zane has announced that he will sentence N. H. Groesbeck, who was convicted con-victed on Tuesday of adultery committed with Kate Houtz, on Saturday at 10 a. m. |