Show A high Canu ellor promises john H rumel indicted on oil the usual charge was before judge zane on tuesday when naked asked by tho ilia clerk whether lie would plead gut guilty 11 y or not guilty addressed blui himself self to tho be court na as follows if 11 your honor please I 1 like to to ma make lour 0 a short statement with regard to pleading g to tins this indictment court What la IB it yon have ha e to i any ra y 7 mr thou then read the following follo w ing a statement tat ement in pleada pleading ug to this indictment if your lionor honor P please 1 emic I 1 would like to anft ako it e a short my lily record as a law abiding citizen for or nearly sixty eight years h his as never been called in question until this day during tills this time I 1 liae have net never er sued a person nor have I 1 e ever cr had bad a suit to defend to say that I 1 arn am guilty it I 1 y of this charge would tie be doing violence lal to my conscience nevertheless the grand jurors have indicted me ma for this crime of 0 unlawful cohabitation and as their findings are entitled to respect ct I 1 snail plead guilty which seems to b bo rather paradoxical it II I 1 have erred in 1 n my judgment or understanding of the law in the past I 1 shall chall not tarnish in my y record asa as a law abiding citizen in llie lite future and will obey the tha law in tho the future as construed by the court JOHN 11 II sen mr varian vanan said he ha would recommend that judgment bo be suspended judge zin zane a said aid defendants statement a opened opined to be candill arid and frank and as all in in these theo cases it had bien been usual to suspend sentence that order would now lie bo made the tha defendant thereupon left the tha court room mr rumel is is a member of the eiith council and one of the homo home missionaries aries and his action was wag the cause of considerable comment both among mor mons and non cormons mormons |