Show COURT thos shelley acquitted of cohabitation AXEL GOES allee OX THE SAME CHARGE J B tried for adultery and found on wednesday the following cases were disposed oi salt lake western railway co vs john giblin dismissed at plaintiffs costs salt lake western co vs patrick shea and T D hulln au demurrer withdrawn salt lake western railway co vs ella Dep rezin ot al dismissed at plaintiffs costs demurrer overruled in the case of vs john S fallmer death of defendant in the case of enger L arnoldus vs H J arnoldus proved by testimony and case dismissed salt lake foundry co vs mammoth mining co motion for abw trial submitted and exception taken herbert bate vs american fork city motion for new trial argued and taken under advisement united states vs J D pago defendant by his attorney jacob johnson entered plea of the cause of theus va J B mccauslin et al was dismissed L S wood vs john bash et order fur intervention in the petition and answer filed eph nash vs scofield brog motion for new trial taken under advisement major litchfield excused as petit juror until oct 19 cornelius dickerson was admitted to citizenship court resumed en thursday morning at 10 the case of ernest bullock was aaa for trial on october THE GRAND JURY REPORT 16 U S INDICT the grand jury came into court and reported sixteen indictments under V S laws and ons under territorial THE ADULTERY CASE the case of J B charged with adultery with his plural wife was brought up for trial yesterday morning D evans prosecuted and W H kin defended the first witness called was mrs caroline she testified that she waa the plural wife of defendant mar ried twelve years ago and had six chil dren defendant went to colorado on april alth 1887 she followed ten months later while there her youngest child was begotten she biad not lived with him in utah since march 1887 when the edmunds tucker law passed he ate hie meals at my house in a few weeks before he went to colorado defendant went to work ou the railroad at picton colorado she lived at gunnison sanpete county at present her husband had not visited her there since the birth of the child seven months ago she came to salt lake from colorado stayed there five manias and the child was born there james M robbing testified that the report was that caroline was defendants amond wife that both went to colorado two years ago lie returned last winter but did not see caroline till last spring to sir king I 1 understood he had gone to work on alie railroad in colorado am not sure that they went away at lie same time D T dark was sworn was a member and ane clerk of the last grand jury this case defendant came and gaid he wished to make a voluntary statement and admitted having two wives he said the second wife had eix children the youngest ans three months old and he was the father he said he lived right along till about a year before the case came before the grand jury 0 o mr king I 1 dont remember where he had stated he had been living with hiis second wife he might have said in colorado hiram J taylor came forward and was admitted to citizenship after the usual examination T E thurman was called as a witness in the caso lie said eliat he was a member of the last grand jury but could not recollect the nature of the testimony given by the defendants fore that body arp the first wife lad thatah fi was defendants leidal bif mr evans has A second wife sir king wisher tue court to instruct witness jap ta her privileges mr vans said witness biad no es altis was an adultery case and not one of unlawful cohabitation and tlc alc legal wife was bound to answer counsel then proceeded to hunt up and present authorities on the question the court ruled eliat witness was a competent one she stated she did not know personally that her husband had a second wife he had told iier he was going to marry another wife known caroline about ten years dont know how old the youngest child is she lived close by witness caroline went to colorado a year ago alafat lafat february caroline lived six or eight blocks away irom witness house before then if defendant worked about my place lie a good deal of the time he put in some lucern on his farm before going to colorado caroline did not jivu went with my husband in march to brooklyn caroline did not occupy rooms in my house the winter before defendant went to colorado she may have stayed over night we have been friendly aid visited each others house my husband did not go to stay at carolines before going to colorado that is for gome time before dont know that he visited carolines just to his going away as much as he used to do to mr king have relations albrook lyn went to visit relations and spend my birthday there we artent on march lat and stayed two weeks from the time of our return till april when defendant went to Colo husband stayed every night at my house before I 1 going to brooklyn caroline had not stayed at my house for three months alien caroline came on april alth to bid defendant good bye it was at 9 in the dave T dark was recalled he said that he wished to correct hia former statement defendant said in the iury room that he had lived with caroline up to one year before then londhe was the father of a three months babe to mr king defendant did not say he had been living in colorado the prosecution rested mr vadden the defendant took the v atness stand my home is now in grass valley sevier county I 1 left gunnison for colorado on april alth 1887 and remained there till december 1888 when I 1 returned home to gunnison was not in utah territory at all during that time before going to colorado during february 1887 1 was traveling between gunnison and salt lake did not visit carolines house during or after that period did not make such a statement as that named by air clark 1 told the grand jury that I 1 had claimed caroline as my wife and I 1 was the father of that babo I 1 quit living with caroline on tha ad oi march 1887 to mr ayans th child was conceived in colorado I 1 sent for my secord wife to come and nurse me as I 1 was very sick at the time my first wife ia weekly and cant travel which was the reason I 1 did not send for her the defense rested teguments tegu ments were then delivered evans speaking for the government and MiKi ag for the defendant after the budge delivered his charge the jury retired U S VS JAMES L JOLLY the case of the united states vs joseph I 1 jolly was called on for trial M evans prosecuted and mr king defended defendant was on trial for awful cohabitation mrs jolly the legal wife declined to testify and she was excused the 12 year old daughter of mr jolly was next sworn knows sina have not seen her within tha last three years dont know that she is pas second wife have not heard any of the family say anything about it to mr king it is a long time since I 1 heard anybody say sina was mf fathers wife joseph L jolly jr stated that he knew lauritzen Lauritz cn she worked at my fathers house some years ago dont know whether she has any children or nol think I 1 saw her with a child once it was in a crowd never hauled wood or anything else to her house have not seen her within two years heard people speak about her being my fathers blural wife to mr kins I 1 am away from home a good deal the talk about sina being my fathers wife was said joki nelv steuben E jolly am a son of mary have a number of years ago dont think I 1 said before the grand jury that I 1 saw tier two years ago with a baby in her arms had seen her down at the farm never been at her house dont remember saving that I 1 saw her tho baby heard alie boys joking around she was mv fathers wife she had lived in one of my fathers houses to mr king father lias several houses about there never saw him go into sinas house to mr evans I 1 dont remember ever saying before the grand jury that 1 had seen sina within the last two yeara I 1 dont remember anything I 1 faid before the grand jury christian blom live at moroni know defendant and sina lauritzen Laur etzen saw her two years ago this fall she lived in dellys house saw a baby there it would now be three years old she loft about two years ago she lived across the street from me a year saw defendant go there lots of times he going in tha evening and leaving next morning it was reported that she was his plural wife to mr king I 1 said once to some men that I 1 would do all I 1 could to get mr jolly convicted getting mad with him because he my boys for stealing lumber have just waited till now to get revenge on him yes I 1 feel as though I 1 would like to get even with him laughter jolla has three houses there he visits them all to make repairs of fences etc it is not three years but two years this fall since I 1 saw him going in and coming out of sinas house jolly has several city lots where the houses adeon which he raises vegetables and he visits them a good deal mrs sina blom was the next witness or the prosecution am the wife of the previous witness saw sina two years ago she was moving away she had a child which was just learning to walk say defendant go to the bouso gome times night sometimes day alie childs name was lydia jolly christian blom recalled cpr was called up witness answered through the interpreter that lie had so feelings against defendant did not have feeling oi levange le and had never eaid he wanted to see jolly convicted had not said if he could get into court to testify against jolly he would had heard two persons eay jolly biad a second wife both sides rested and counsel proceeded to make their arguments A VERDICT OF GUILTY before the conclusion of the arguments court took a recess to enable the jury in the warden case to report at that hour the jury came in and rendered a verdict of guilty court then adjourned till this morning when arguments in the jolly case wore resumed tho jury went out at half past 10 mr king entered motion for new trial in the case of convicted of adultery SUNDRY PLEADINGS levi S dunham plead not guilty to unlawful cohabitation H 0 sorensen indi acted for unlawful cohabitation plead not guilty thos broad adultery plead not guilly JB enjamin barney indicted for unlawful cohabitation plead not guilty geo curtis and daniea indicted for un laKy cohabitation took until 2 plead appeared for arraignment ment on the charge of an assault avith intent to commit murder and plead not guilty M M kellogg was appointed defendants counsel peter johancen Jo hangen indicted for unlawful cohabitation was arraigned and took until 2 to plead james anderson indicted for unlawful cohabitation was arraigned and took until 2 to plead joseph T ell is appeared for arraignment on u indictment charging him with adultery and plead not guilty DEPUTY AS BALIFF the court made an order that as the sheriff T fowler was compelled to be absent from court for a few days john A bravn his deputy act in his stead by attendance on alie district court THOMAS SHELLEY ON TRIAL alie case of the united states va thomas shelley charged with unlawful cohabitation was called on for trial this morning district attorney varian prosecuted and sir W H king defended after the jury was sworn and the reading of the indictment mrs charlotta shelley aca called and sworn she testified eliat she was the legal wife and declined to testify against her husband she was excused mrs ediza hindley was sworn she has herd eliza shelly spoken of aa aunt eliza had not seen her in defendants company wasa daily visitor bouse airs eiza shelly the alleged plural wife testified that she was married to defendant twenty years ago had lived iu american fork ever since but ceased to live with defendant several years aeo mr varian asked the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict of not guilty in this case which was accordingly done and the prisoner discharged I 1 ANOTHER GUILTY the bame jury was em paneled and sworn in alie chae of the 17 S vs axel Tul groen mr varian made a similar request to that in the shelly case and defendant was discharged sentence in the case of J B was eel for october 10 VERDICT OF GUILTY the joiy in the tolly case rendered a verdict of guilty EIGHTY FIVE AYS benjamin barney who had plead guilty to unlawful cohabitation appeared for sentence he was sentenced to eighty five days SEVENTY FIVE DAYS unlawful cohabitation was sentenced to seventy five days PLEAD QUILTY TO thomas yates indicted for adultery withdrew former plea and entered plea of guilty ADMITTED TO peter gregerson Grege raon thos hatband Hat tand and jrobert cook were admitted to cit |