Show AN ABRUPT ENDING the court calls for the indictment of two boys for perjury alie case ol 01 the united states vs thomas broadbent charged with adultery waa tried before judge judd on wednesday afternoon TJ S assistant district attorney david evans prose anted and thurman and king defended A jury was duly sworn and the indictment read the offense to have been committed on the fifteenth day of december 1887 with mary jane nuttall elizabeth broadbeiut Broad beut was alie first witness called I 1 live iu elsinore EI sevier county am the wife of defendant know mairy jane nuttall she is married to him he has another nuttall by name I 1 dont know where she is ane has biad five children by defendant fen dant mary jane nuttall licca in a house thirty rods from me 1 visit her slie very seldom comes to my place she has two rooms in her house her boya provide for her her husband lives with me he has done so ever ince eating and sleeping without any exception at my house am not mistaken about court are you his first wife witness yes sir he lias two others yes but has not lived them for quite a while the witness said that the third cifes youngest avys two years old on the of september baat my husband has I 1 lived avith me entirely since 1886 this I 1 am positive about alary jane nuttall as next called she testified as follows aan tho second wife chaney ellen spainhour is the third I 1 married him twenty bix years ago have had eleven children by him the youngest was lour years old last march I 1 live in a separate house in aich my aalf and sik children live my husband haa never lived in that house with me my husband built it for ne I 1 moved in it three yeara ago this coming 11 inter my husband has been there to counsel ali e buys about their n ork he never slept in it 1 did not state when I 1 was before the erand that hubband slept with me about a year ago from the time I 1 was before that body nor did I 1 say that he ate at my house he did take a meal in my house about two years ago when the threshers thre were not cohabited with him since livins in my house I 1 did not so state before the grand jury I 1 ceased living with him in 1886 we talked it over and came to this conclusion so that we could live within the law joseph broadbent Croad bent was next called he said my mothers name is mary jane nuttall I 1 buess the defendant is my father they tell me BO have lived with my mother in elsinore my father often cornea to our house to tell us what to do he may go into the house but I 1 dont recollect that he did I 1 may have seen him eat a meal there have never known father to bleed bleep with mother 1 I dont cleeo in her bedroom I 1 dont recollect that I 1 testified before the grand jury that my father slept in the aliouse in december 1887 have not aaen him there early in the morning at night have not talked with father or mother about this case my mother may have asked me what I 1 testified to before the grand jy david broadbent said I 1 am the eon of mary jane have never seen my father sleep with my mother do not remember saying so before the grand jury haye not talked with anybody about the matter have seen father at my mothers house in the day time he would stay a few minutes he was never there at night to my knowledge I 1 was frightened when I 1 was before the grand jury and dont recollect what I 1 said it is not a fact if I 1 did say to that body that I 1 saw my father getting cut c my mothers bed court sir evana do your notes abow that both these boys testified to these facts before the grand jury econs yes air court then I 1 want you to take this case right batore the present grand jury as goon as it reassembles and indict both aliese boys for perjury its enough to try the patience of any court this trifling with the strings of justice gentlemen of the jury you may return a verdict of not guilty in this case the clerk thereupon made out a verdict for the jury and they approved it the defendant was accordingly released |