| Show THE DEAN TRIAL excite ex city coulie councilor 1 ordean dean alleged to have hava two wives his first affa compelled to testify against her husband the evidence founded foundation on suppositions and rumors unable to agree the jury jary is DIs cha charred charad on oil still and wednesday tho the ruse cass of unlawful alleged against joseph 11 II dean occupied tho the attention of ilia third district court tile the indictment alleged eliat ti at tile defendant tiei dei from ami lat I 1 1881 to 0 april 1 1880 1886 liv li edwith vedith as his its gife sarah A duan dean in salt lake county mail and with florence ridges in tile tho bamo san e relationship 11 in davis county mrs surah saraha aa dean was tho the first witness witless railed called mr lit reeks objected to mrs dean boing being boi bei I 1 ng sworn its as a witness against tier her litis it us b band tin d the court overruled the objection I 1 mrs mra dean dealt mas aa sworn anil and testified that she bho was jos joa 11 II donns deans wito wife and had been for over nine years lived in y SaIt alt lake city had lived there tour four yeara how from san jan alth to april let 1886 kears her er husband lived with her knew floronce ridges i aus alle also lived there part of I 1 left on january 1886 i site sho was assisting mrs lira dean in dressmaking vi linens remembered her husband going I 1 to logan in jul ju ne 1885 never heard tier lier husband say florence ri orence Ridges was there no said she aha was v as on the train tins this was n as before florence llo renca lived with witness florence hail had made maclo calls at tho the house before ellie elie to live there witness never called lit fit misa ridges home witness mado a contract v with ith florence rl orenco for or dressmaking and shared the proceeds florence arso also b boarded 0 added there and lid did most of the sewing the defense objected to tile testimony bestlin on as immaterial tile court overruled thy tho le 0 objection b ec ti loll 1011 iv witness it nees continuing I 1 this difference differ enco in the amount of 0 sowing sawing to be ba done by each was taken into consideration when tile contract eastmade wast made the defendant was not a party to the contract but may have hae known of it there were five rooms in tile tho house witness had four our children there was no limit of time to tile the contract florence ll orenco leit left tile tho house because there was v as riot not work enough for both witness w saw 1 lorence florence a month or so BO atter after and had not seen her since cross examine I 1 when tile agree in cut was intimate it was nas understood that witness v took care of tier her 0 own n house housa and children witness had employed to tie do the same barno work as florence rl orenco orence did and in in one instance Sn stanco divided the profits bad worked at dressmaking 12 years tho the last time 1 lorence florence N vas as lit tile tho house w was as when mrs lira dean was waa sick to lo wr jr dickson I 1 lorence florence did not do the house work might have helped on a few occasion occa sioni ion did very little of it the defendant deen dant was at logan over night to str young sir dean went vent to logan on business for ills his father who M lio was waa ill to mr air dickson the defendant told me this a day or two before he went did not soy say what iv hat the bu bumpiness miness was waa lid III not know wether defendants defend anta father had any ny inter in logan glogau mrs alto agatha 11 ridges was next called ea florence was her daughter d u vo r and waa IS years of 0 aceil age did n not I 1 know where she was last saw her or in in february y 1880 1486 he ehe went ansy alone vit received a letter from nor net a couple of 0 weeks since tile iho letter vim vas destroyed dee troyed mr dickson where vare was the letter wl itten from the defense objected to the testimony as ammal immaterial ellal sir air dickson urged th that at it was material to show that the n tion had not been able to find florende florenc ti ridges Ki ilges tile court overruled like objection bitne so I 1 con t wit ing j chiro ll iero ws no headge to the lette 4 atness pl did not know how long after aft erlAt it was aa written sho she received it when 1 lorenco florence went away she did not say say ere bho was vim goina and v witness did not n t know this ibis was wag the tha only letter witness had received witness did not know where hero witness was waa and mala made no inquiries ni iines about lier her she had never lett t the house more before in a similar manner Fib albenco Fl benco lencel went to logan lasa laa june filie was waa away three or four days went to live liva with defendants wife w ife ahert ly after florence had only been to IQ locan an once she sha lived at al defendants until january january 1880 1886 sll she was waa away a month subsequent to this where witness did not know she bho was waa only at home three or lour jour jaya days witness was satisfied her bister sister florence wai va hafe edid not know whether hether w she bhe was married never inquired aired of the defendant about it had heard card i that she wat married to him de fondant now never spoke to olinar marg ring her daughter or to witness hus and that she aha knew of al mrs rs adel adelaide aide W wood testified that florence F was her halt half sister enter witness lived in davits davia county florence florenca ridges had stayed there da dunap i ng the past six months came there alter it t or january I 1 let st mid and stayed three months i 1 left thero over a month a ao o witness did not know where 66 ava WM had heard from her shortly after she tie left florence cameto came to witness house in ill a buggy jos jog H dean was vila there the same day saw him drive in alie buggy lie he left the same day b he called e bithe ed there again about once a wee week k on katurd ty ly generally the defense objected to the testimony tile court tilled ruled that it the circum is indicated marriage that was wag all that was necessary the tha proof 0 of mar ria nake e was wai not a I 1 etuess continuing I 1 not know how long defendant stayed there had seen geen him there next day I 1 lie never via cited the house before t lorenco florence ridges was waa there suppo supposed Ned lie ho occupied the room with F lorence florence 0 i lie he aft lpt with flor 1 lor en cowhen alia vent away thi sunday defendant was a there but a few w times to stay over night when witness retired on one ona or two oce occasions asians she alio left defendant tit and florence in the cirlor did not know that lie ha stopped all night lid did not know whether they thayn were ere married marcie I 1 or not mr yc you ill have hae per er malted milted them to remain t together 0 ether as aliey lid did if you did aid not know they were married led Witness yes Yea sir lit dickson you were ft ire oiling nelling to convert your houas nto into a bawdy house I 1 witness no pit mr lit did you yoa believe they were married anil and occupied the same room objected Obie ctol to by the defense deene mr di dickason ackson characterized the witness as hostile to the prosecution the objection v wita m overruled by the court willi es sir I 1 did not know whether they ivero were married or not had heard they pro ere I 1 made ro no inquiry abou tit imd bec gerrge r e 0 wood wait wa then callahand calla called dand te le hiltel lilice that ho he lad had been in the temple at ait logan I 1 the church of jesus christ of latter day saints sometimes celebrated in tho the temple alto carali A dean was recalled 11 her I 1 I 1 husband was waa a 11 member ol of tt lh C churill ach of 1 jesus christ ot ol latter day saints fc ointa 4 alter after waiting a short timo little tor for mrs airs emma rich who anllo failed to come collie tile tho prosecution rested the ireme at tho the r ruf ineat of tho the defenso jolin john south wai culled for but did not respond mr dickson Dick suii asked mra airs A D I 1 cooil ohe elia it knew new mr air dean liml hid a wife I 1 living in the city mr alta wood replied that she supposed suppose he had the defense then called john south afta a llo testified that lie he know the defendant witness was secretary of the iho will ward AV ard sunday school ft it convened every sabbath nt at 10 a lit I 1 from roul january to the present tile defendant it anni ab bren cell present t ev every cry sunday except the of march crons examined there Thero 40 to 47 officers and toa teachers chers defendant was M tell teacher ell er oft of the lie theological class tl 8 fitness mado the record of defendants attend anco the defense rested their case and As A a distant district attorney hiles made the opening argument ament tor for tho the prosecution cution ile ho wits win fol followed arf owed by young and ami sheeks for tile tho de feuse mr dickson closing clotin ff for the prosecution alter after tile charge the caso cano was submitted to alio jury tho the jury were out from 4 on oil I 1 tuesday evening until tile time opening court nest next morning at 10 when they entered and informed tile court that they mere unable to agree they were discharged and the witnesses released until the september terin tena |
