Show COURT proceedings the grand JUIT ignore three U 0 gases CURTIS IS FOUND NOT GUILTY A number of unlawful cohabitation cases called other business transacted at 2 the court assembled reassembled re and the examination of witnesses by the prosecution in the burtia case was proceeded with joseph bush was called he testified I 1 held the position of deputy marshal last august went to thompson springs to moab and on to the L 0 ranch vo were following horse tracks from about two miles and a half from thompsons Thomp sons springs to the blue moun thins the L G ranch is just at the foot of alie blue mountains saw mr curtis on the of august told him 1 was looking for stolen horses he told me he worked at the L G ranch be directed me to a spring I 1 went in the direction he told me but there waa no spring the next time I 1 saw him was when I 1 arrested him and bommel at about seventy five miles west of bluff city or about ase hundred miles from the L 0 ranch 1 had a company of men and indians with me he and kommel had a white horse a yellow horse and two sorrel horses with the L C brand on the shoulder I 1 delivered these horses to mr benning I 1 came back to loab eliere the prisoners escaped from me thoy were shackled but succeeded in escaping into a bunch of willows several shots were fired after them we recaptured them on the fifth day I 1 ironed them and through to salt lake it was about six or eight miles from the arizona line where I 1 arrested them to mr kellogg I 1 arrested these men on the reservation when I 1 rode up to aliese men I 1 told them I 1 was after them I 1 have any warrant or papers for thema told them I 1 had authority to arrest any men who were charged with robbery have no feeling towards mr curtis mr curtis claimed to have borrowed the four L C horses from mr haute mr komel claimed two other horses that he had mr haute was called I 1 never loaned mr curtis any horses I 1 had known mr curtis six or sevan months 1 dont know whet lier he had occasionally borrowed horses the prosecution rested and the defense introduced the affidavit of what the defense expected to have proved if the two witnesses william bowen and thos bonner has been present it was to tha effect that curtis had been given permission to use the L 0 horses in archine sc for his own mr burtia testified I 1 was at the L C ranch a part of the fall of 1888 I 1 have anything special to do su I 1 stayed and helped break some horses I 1 had no intention of et ealing any horses but I 1 simply desired to use them to find my own horses I 1 received permission from mr haute to take alie horses bowen and bonner were present and heard mr haute give me permission to use the horses I 1 told mr bush where he could find water did not know there was water near by mr houte did not say I 1 could anke four horses he said that I 1 could take some L C horse with which to look after my own I 1 tried to escape from the officers because I 1 did not want to lay in jail 1 cut the shackles off with an old pocket knife I 1 haute bush benning and others were recalled and testified concerning curtis character none efthem seeming to know much about it the attorneys briefly argued the case and the jury was charged they retired about 5 while the jury was out a jury was em paneled in the case of the people vs jamea dumerill Eu merill and was instructed at the solicitation of the prosecuting at torney to bring in a verdict of not guilty alie case did not go to trial as the evidence in this cabe would have been similar to that in the curtis case which would not have been sufficient to convict the jury in the cartis came in about with a verdict of not guilty many of the spectators tors were evidently surp at the virdice judging from remarks made in the case of the united states vs andrew anderson defendent was ordered to appear march the cabe of the people vs bolivar watts was set for trial march 15 1890 court met at 10 this morning pursuant to adjournment the mads V C case was called and continued until march the 20 the grand jury filed into corn t and reported that they had ignored the charges of U C against christian jensen F C grundvig Grun doig and keils frandsen A recess was taken until 3 p m |