Show 0 FIRST DISTRICT COURT forty seven more TJ S indictments SENTENCES SUSPENDED IN SEVERAL ADULTERY CASES the grand enry complimented by the court naturalizations on friday afternoon win chappell and john pearson were after examination admitted to citizenship arraignments hans nielsen was arraigned on two charges one for unlawful cohabitation and the other lor adultery he took the statutory time in which to plead jena hansen indicted for unlawful cohabitation was arraigned and took time to plead caroline nielsen indicted for fornication was arraigned and plead not guilty TOO on saturday morning andrew poulsen applied for citizenship it waa found on examination that the applicant had not been in this country five year within a few days and so he was told by the court that he had better apply at the next term of court the broadhead Broad bead perjury trial was resumed on the calling of the roll it was found that two of the jurors were not present and the court intimated that he would be compelled to impose a little fine if such delays continued the two jurors came into court very soon afterwards D B NOT GUILTY mr ayans addressing the court said there were some inaccuracies in the affidavit fi and he would be under the necessity of asking the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict of not guilta ia the broadhead case CASES CONTINUED the case against thomas nance charged with calle dup defense said there were two witnesses chev could not get and would ask for a continuance ti nuance for a few days it was agreed that the prosecution would admit the evidence expected to be given by these absent witnesses and the case went over till saturday afternoon the caso of the people against wm walters charged with assault with a deadly weapon was then called this case was continued until october albert haws came forward for ari ment on the of unlawful cohabitation and plead not guilty arraignments AND SENTENCES moroni moore came forward to change his plea to grand larceny he now plead guilty mr evans stated that the defendant had rendered material assistance to the officers in connection with the crime the principal offender P P briegs having been convicted the ends of justice had been fully met he thought and moore was penitent mr thurman also stated that moore bad previously borne a good character the court lectured defendant and permitted him to go on suspended judgment during good behavior john walton appeared and plead guilty to unlawful cohabitation to the second indictment that of adultery he entered the plea of former conviction sentence on the first offense offence was set for october ath wm beeston appeared and plead guilty to the indictment charging him with unlawful cohabitation sentence set for 2 C plead guilty to un sentence wae beet for 2 christen sorensen charged with law ful cohabitation Seu ienco set for 2 jens hanson plead guilta to tho charge of unlawful cohabitation hans eielsen Xi elsen to the charge of unlawful cohabitation plead guilta to the charge of lie entered a plea of former conviction sentence sei for the first nov john E scofield appeared to change his plea from not guilta to guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation mr petera stated to the court that he had ascertained that the wives had been separated about six weeks after the first date of the indictment namely oct 15 the charge was merely technical understood that for two years of the time named in the indictment defendant had lived apart from his plural wife mr petera therefore recommended the court to take these facts into con his honor said defendant had approached pro ached him on the street and stated these facts substantially and bad referred him to counsel so that the matter might come up in open court under the circumstances court said he would therefore suspend sentence sen during defendants fend ants good behavior MADE A CITIZEN john rowe applied for citizenship and was admitted CHANGES HIS PLEA randolph H stewart plead guilty to the charge of adultery his honor said he had a letter defendant wrote to judge henderdon Hende raon it appears from that letter that defendant was in a bad fix three wives and twenty seven children it seemed to liis honor that if he were in defendants fix he would break his neck to get into the the court then told defendi appear on nov for sentence john W gardner came forward and after tho reading of an indictment charging him with unlawful cohabitation plead guilty another indictment indict meni was then read to him charging him adultery with his plural wife annie N gardner he plead not guilta and former conviction annie M gardner the plural wife then camo forward and plead not guilty to the of fornication this case went over till next term court adjourned until 1 THE NANCE CASE SET FOR TRIAL at the opening of the afternoon session mr geo sutherland stated that the most important witness in the case of the people vs thomas nance was in colorado and it would be unsafe to the defendant to go to trial without him he asKed for a continuance until next term mr evans opposed continuance after hearing both aidea the court stated it did not appear there had been diligence enough on the part of the defense the witness in colorado was not in the jurisdiction of this court anyway the court overruled the motion for a new trial and set the trial for oct the witnesses for the prosecution and who were in attendance were excused until that date TOOK TIME TO PLEAD oscar berglund Ber gluud came forward for ar on the charge of grand larceny defendant was accused of stealing a calf he took time to plead NINETEEN MORE indictments the grand jury entered court at they nineteen in I 1 t land a laws d oue under territorial laws they also re tny 8 ignored tle cafeo ane united Tn states against john T JOHN SENTENCED joun durrant came up for sentence TOd that he was 52 yeara he had been here sentenced two yeara lawful ga imprisonment and paid a tho court d he had received a petition from the mayor and others of i american that ho wa I 1 ft poor man but unfortunately hd said nothing about his conduct since he came out of the penitentiary the court sentenced defendant to eighteen months SUSPENDED elizabeth durrant the plural wife of mr durrant indicted for fornication came forward the court said he did not propose to send her to the penitentiary and suspended judgment in her case provided thedoes ehe does not live with her husband 0 P BERG GETS SINE MONTHS 0 P berg came forward he had been indicted for and plead guilty to adultery the youngest child he said was eight months mr thurman made an explanation in regard to the case of this defendant that he did not know of the passage of the edmunds tucker law until some time afterwards and when lie did he at once separated liis wives alie defendant was sentenced to nine months imprisonment GETS OFF WITH A FIKE david broadhead who had been convicted of unlawful cohabitation the court said ho hoped that the jury had acquitted this defendant though the facts were sufficient to justify the verdict judge dusenberry presented a petition in behalf of the defendant asking for suspension of sentence signed by a large portion of the jury that had convicted him the court thought under the circumstances it would not be right to suspend sentence but would impose a fine upon him of and costa niels M petersen who had plead guilty to unlawful cohabitation had married his first wife 50 years ago and his second 14 years since he was 69 had not cohabited with his second for three years the court sentenced him to and costs A HIGHER william beeston next came forward he had been indicted for unlawful cohabitation married his last wile 16 years ago am 57 years old thin is the first time he had been on trial for any thin or had even been in a court room mr evans eaid there was a higher charge against this man defendant said he thought there was a mistake about this he retired a few minutes to enable mr evans to ascertain the facts SIXTY DAYS AND 50 FINE C P beauregard came forward he had been indicted for unlawful cohabitation hia youngest child is one year old he made a statement to convince the court that he had testified himself and taken the witnesses to the commissioner he was 66 years old court sentenced him to sixty days and 50 fine FOUR MONTHS AND FINE mr evans stated that he wa in error in reference to the beeston casa he had found that the defendant had not lived in the same house with his plural wife for over two years sentenced to four months and SENTENCE SUSPENDED TILL NEXT philander brown who had plead guilty to unlawful cohabitation appeared for sentence judge dusenberry stated that defendant had married his plural wife in 1861 for a year and a half he had ceased living with his second wife he was 64 ears old and his first wife had had no children when his first wife was away which was frequent he had made his home with his boys at the second cifes bouse air brown banded a certificate to the court from dr pike stating that defendant was in ill health defendant said he proposed to continue to live as he had done and he had not been in his second fifee house for a year past he wanted to support his second wife and family at the same time he would live with his first wife he wanted to be in a position to direct the labors of his children coit said b ifould sentence until the nelc term of court ana if judge dusenberry will then come to court and say that you have not violated the law the court would christen sorensen indicted for unlawful cohabitation come up for sentence he answered that he had married his plural wife 17 years bince the court told defendant that he must cease living with his second wife he must treat her as he would a dependent sister he was given 90 days FIVE MONTHS imprisonment john W gardner came forward he bad been indicted on two charges and it was the first one unlawful cohabitation that he was up for sentence his wives had lived together he had been ignorant of the exact meaning of the law until lately and had ceased association with the plural wife i the court said living in the same housa with your two wives is association to all intents and purposes he was sentenced to five months imprisonment lorenzo argyle was called several times during the afternoon but he failed to appear THE courte VIEWS OF THINGS his honor said the defendants fend ants who biad been sentenced that lie biad been here two weeks and during that time had passed sentence afier sentence upon men old enough to be his father and until his heart ached referring to the case of pros smoot he said it had been shown by the testimony of his wives and daughter eliat he had for several years past lived in obedience to the law now he thought if a man like pres who was prominent man ian the church and society here could do this tie saw no reason why these defendants could not THE SIX montha lorenzo argyle appeared he said he married marr fed his first wife twelve years aeo and the second wife between five and six years ago mr vana stated defendants wife had been confined in alie penitentiary for two months for contempt she having refused to testify before tha grand jury mr evans also stated that the woman while in alie penitentiary wrote to her husband asking him to let her testify and that he only responded by baying she could act according to her best judgment the court sentenced mr argyle to six months and and costs on saturday A was appointed as attorney to defend wm walters indicted for assault with a deadly weapon at monday morning his honor jude judd took his seat and business re summed A BATCH OF arraignments andrew peterson for unlawful cohabitation was arraigned and took until wednesday to plead T taylor appeared for arraignment on jhc thc charge of unla awful cohabitation and plead guilty 2 wa fayed for sentence edick enokson aas arraigned on th charge of unlawful cohabitation and took until 2 to the same defendant was arraign u also on the charge of adultery to ale ul at 20 clock sophia peterson wife of the defendant named above ras called and arraigned for fornication took until 2 to plead BILLS at the grand jury came into court they under united states laws fand one territorial case mr egaas reported the following bills ss ignored bv the erand jury united states vs jog A shelby for obstructing an officer united states vs charles sperry unlawful cohabitation atea SS david west t people christen john 1 oa t baana Blag tose complimented the court complimented the grand jury on the thoroughness with which they were performing their work his honor had never seen in all his experience a grand jury work so thoroughly he cautioned them however to avoid bringing in indictments without sufficient investigation and bringing cases into court that will not warrant conviction vic tion the grand jury then withdrew SENTENCE SUSPENDED J 0 olsen was arraigned for unlawful cohabitation and plead guilty mr evan stated that this defendant had placed his family in such a condition as to enable him hereafter to bobev the law the defendant himself said lie would hereafter obey the law the court told him to go home that sentence would be suspended during his good behavior THEY ALL TOOK TIME TO PLEAD soren christen christensen was ai reigned for unlawful cohabitation and took until two to plead he was also arraigned on the charge of adultery to plead at 2 george fenn indicted for unlawful cohabitation on arraignment took until 2 to plead john F allred was arraigned on the charge of unlawful cohabitation took until 2 to plead at 2 yesterday afternoon court resumed business plead OP GUILTY james watson was arraigned on a charge of burglary and plead guilty george fenn was arraigned on a charge of unlawful cohabitation and plead not guilty soren C christensen plead guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation to the indictment charging him with adultery he entered a plea of not guilty and former conviction sentence was beet for october ath on the unlawful cohabitation charge HE peter eielsen plead guilty to the charge of adultery mr thurman said there were circumstances in his caso that demanded lei nency the defendant proposed to live within the law when he bieard there was an indictment against him he went notwithstanding he was under no bonds and desired his counsel to see into the matter in answer to the court defendant said he wag 43 years of age had been in the country 22 years and intended now I 1 to joyfully and cheerfully submit himself to the laws of the united states as alio highest law in the land he had determined ter mined BO to do for 6 or 8 mouths past the court eaid the government did no intend making an attack upon the people but upon alie system that they had been practicing practising the government govern men t did not look upon this system as a crime Was glad that the defendant biad determined ter mined to take this course the defendant said he had not lived with the plural wife for sis or eight months past the youngest child was six weeks old sentence was suspended in his case pending good behavior the court said in his leaving goodbye and I 1 hope mako a good loyal citizen BOTH PLEAD erick enoksen plead guilty to unlawful cohabitation and not guilty with plea of former conviction to the charge of adultery sentence was set for so vember Te ancombe taylor was arraigned and plead guilty to a charge of unlawful cohabitation OSE YEAR FOE james watson then appeared for sentence for burglary he made a statement to the court in which he confessed everything and hoped the court would be lenient in passing sentence he had already spent three mouths in jail the court stated that he would impose the lowest penalty the law in such cases allowed which was one year in the penitentiary SUSPENDED Tean combo taylor appeared for sentence mr thurman stated in behalf of defendant that he promised to obey the law inthe future in answer to the court defendant said he was born in the state of 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