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Show When a very notorious case was beforo the public many years ago, Involving a great divine and a woman prominent In society, church work, and literature, It was apparently established to the satisfaction satis-faction of many minds that It was possible pos-sible for the woman to be guilty and the man innocent. Again Js this curious rule exemplified in the courts of this city, in the trial of a nauseous case that has just ended. It is well to have this rule firmly established by law; otherwise other-wise there are people who would rebel against It, as a thing that is plainly Impossible. The fact that leprosy has been stamped out among, the Hawalians In Utah Is ono of much importance and significance. Tr, T. B. Beatty concludes con-cludes that this Is so, after a careful Investigation, so that the fact can be confidently accepted by all. The disease dis-ease existed amonc a few of the converts con-verts to the Mormon church who came hither from Hawaii, and for' a good many years the cases were heard from at their settlements In Skull valley, Tooele county. But those afflicted with It arc now all dead, and the disease was not communicated to any others of the race here. A new turn Is likely to be given to the Caleb Powers case If the court of last resort in Kentucky alllrms the conviction con-viction of murder. It Is proposed to take the case to the Federal courts on the ground that his conviction was in violation of that section of the fourteenth four-teenth amendment to the Constitution which forbids that any State Bhould "deny to any person within its jurisdiction jurisdic-tion the equa4 protection of the law3." The point wherein it is claimed that Powers was denied the equal protection of the laws was that the court which tried him allowed tho jury panel to bo packed with Democrats, out of a total of ninety-six all but four or fivo being then selected by the court officers from tho blatant Democracy, und the trial jurj' as constituted thereby was exclusively exclu-sively Democratic. It Is a most vital point In the Powers ease; no doubt that Jury packing, which the court sustained and excused, was what convicted him; and if that Is held to bo a denial of the equal protection of tho laws, then Powers has a clear case. |