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Show SPflFS HAT I BEFORE WD ill Relations of Jva Wallace Arc Determined Kc Shall Be' Punished. . HIS WHEREABOUTS UNCERTAIN JUST NOW Both fhe Criminal Lav and the Ecclesiastical Laiv Will . ' Be Invoked. f Samuel O. Spencer, who was charged with a lecherous offense against Tvt Wallace, fifteen years old, and who was discharged by Judge Whitaker on a technicality, returns to Salt Lake City, he may have lo face a grand jury indictment. .Relatives of the girl do not bv anv means accept the Whitaker decision as releasing Spencer from culpability be-lore be-lore the civil or ecclesiastical law", and they are taking steps to have tho ease sifted oy the grand jurv in nil Jis aspects. as-pects. One of their first steps is the employment of counsel. The imnnnel-lmg imnnnel-lmg of a grand jury with its pfenary powers is welcomed by them as 'a means of submitting tlic testimony bo-lore bo-lore a tribunal that can select a cSiarne that will hold water in the district court. They arc certain that Spencer has committed some statutory offense and 15 amenable -for it. Thev are also satisfied sat-isfied that the testimony thev now have, not only from members' of the allacc and Uortoch families, but of others, is suilicieut to bring him to all the ecclesiastical punishment Ihcy believe be-lieve he merits. It. is their purpose lo prefer charges ti.lnie ihe teachers of tho Kigh teen Hi ward and if necessary tuk; the case io the high council of iMtsign btakc. 'IVtsmis in the rhinch higher than Samuel G. Spencer," said J. K. Wal-lace, Wal-lace, an uncle of the girl, "have been driven into CA"eunmunicalion and there is nr. reason why he should not be Mrs. Josiah Wallace, mother of tho girl, and tho girl, visited thc county atwirnoy'R t.iV.c.o yesterday and asked Ucputy .Job Lyons to prosecute the case along different lines. .Mr. Lvon assured Mrs. Wallace, she said, that he would take up tip? i-ase in a few days. Intimation of Marriage, GcOl'Cre Uortnclh ' :i hriiflmi' nf Afrc Wallace, .and uncle of the child, save that offers to compromise thc rase have been made aud rejected indignantly hv her , family.. He says iho 'week thai Spencer was arrested John llirsh, a brother-in-law of Spencer, drove bv their home at Hunter. JTc was on a load of hay which he was hauling from his ranch at Pleasant Green lo Stilt Lake. 'He stopped and talked to my father and -myself." said Mr. Bortocli. "lie said Iho charge mado against Spencer was a serious one aud th.1t n way ought to be found to cover it up. "Wc" replied that nothing would be covered up. He then asked-, . ' ' 'Has Spencer promised to marry her? ' "We said this could not be possible. "'Oh, they say it can't be done, but you know there is a wav to do il if you want to.' "Wc told him wc didn't know anything any-thing about il and that wc would not permit anything of tlio kind." Mr. Bertoch said llirsh did not pretend pre-tend in that conversation to speak for Spencer though they look it as nu in- j timatiou of what might be arranged, j Mi.. Walktct- says she was visited by Mrs. Uiish aud a woman known as Mrs. Sunvart. both fisterb of Speucer. The women sousrht. to condemn Iter for having appealed to the civil law before appealing to the church tribunals. "If thej' kuew what n nether suffered under un-der such circunibt:: " said Mrs. Wallace, "they wow. not aBk such a question. If they had known as 1 did wh&t it was to" have a sacred trust broken by a man like Spencer they would not think of fucIi a question. "Tmnted You as a Brother." "I had arranged to tako Iva to the ! car at Murray every morning," continued con-tinued Mrs. Wallace,' "and to' call for her every evening. When 1 told of this arrangement to Mr. Spencer lie said it was wholly unnecessary as Iva could stay at. his home and be perfectly perfect-ly safe. So T said to him: 'All right. See that she is safe for I will trust 3'ou like a brother.'." Afleiv a pauso Mrs. Wallace added: "And Spencer is an own cousin of mine." She said sho coufd not comprehend anv suggestion of a marriage for tho child for jt would not only be polygamous polyg-amous but would be within the proscribed pro-scribed lines of consanguinity. "Such things may bo done." snid she, "but I will never believe with tho consent of President Smith." D, Spencer Wallace, another uncle of the girl, says that thoro will bo 110 let up in the prosecution of Spencer, lie was indignant at tho editorial in Thursday's Dcscrct 2sews dis-vussing the Rpcncor caso. "Tho Tribune." he said, "has boon perfectly fair in this matter and has done much to aid the cruise of justice." The family resents tho intimation of Spon cer aud his delondora that the case ia "trumped up" from suite. "To think that nny mother. " said Mrs. Wallace, Wal-lace, "would ruin her own daughter's life to gratify spite is outrageous. No, it is not spite. Tt is a wronged child crying for redress and we shall not. stop until redress and punishment have been gained. " |