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Show KIHE MORMONS PLEAD GUILTY TO POLYGAMY Arizona Citizens Make No Secret Se-cret of Fact They Have Plural Wives. Special to The Tribune Tl'CSON. Ariz, Nov. 15. At the Prcs-cott Prcs-cott term of the T'nlteel States court this week, nine of the eleven Mormons Indicted In-dicted by the I'nlted States grand Jury last spring, appeared by counsel and pleaded guilty to the practice of polygamy. polyg-amy. No Secret of Polygamy. The defendants made no secret of the fact that tin y had plural wives, bat a.skeel i lemeni y on the ground that they had enlereel into polygamy before the passage f the Edmunds act, and that It woulel have been Inhuman on their part to have deserted the plural wives by whom children chil-dren had been born. Includes Prominent Ones. Among the defendants are some of the most prominent Mormons in Arizona, Including In-cluding Jesse M. Smith at SnowMake, brother of President Smith of the Mor- ii apcstl.-M Smith l suppc.-ed to have four wives. D. K. I'dall Is the pr sident. of the Mormon stake In northwestern Arl-ons Arl-ons and several of the defendants have at one time or 'mother been members of the Arizona Legislature. Two Will Fight Charges Ixvi M. Savage of Woodruff and Andrew An-drew W. Gibbons Of St Johns have decided de-cided to tight the charges against them These I'liud will be heard December 7. at which time also will h pronounced the sentences of the defendants who have pleaded guilty. |