Show A mm CASE C AS E brother aud and sister tried ned fil for incest STORY OF THE E As ai told by witnesses for the prosecution horse thieves sentenced A quite important asse case is engaging the attention of the first district court it is the case of the people of the united states State sva vs J R E cherpillod and mrs mra maud carson il est defend dans are brother and r prosecuting attorney juad ii id conducting the case for the government and the warner bros are defending the indictment charges that on the lat of may 1893 the two defendants committed incest in san jaun jann county the evidence of the prosecution showed that early last spring deafen cants came together to monticello san jaun jann county with a covered wagon and a four horse team they rented in that town a small email log cab cabin la of one room with a small foot shanty attached here they libed together for a couple of months eating to getner gettier 1 the defendants went by the name of I 1 mr an and d mrs edmonds edmands in society y al though at home they called each other jim and maud and people generally regarded did them as man and they went to parties together and on the last of march when mrs edmonds was coming home from a varty party with a neighbor lady she fine confessed she was preg nant and was about three months along the two always avoided telling where they came irom from at one time mr edmonds had stated they came from the A shley ashley country which which generally dby the society people of monticello mrs edmunds is reported by all the lady witnesses to have deported herself beco becomingly bingly in boci soci society eav and they never suspected her of being other tb than an a lady on may the brother and sister moved out on a creek called recapture Recap tura about eighteen miles from monticello A little boy about nine or ten years old accompanied them and he testified that th the night they camped campea out on the way to recapture he saw the brother get into bed with his sister he said his bed was about a rod away and the campfire camp fire was waa burning maud got in bed first and shortly afterwards jim followed he was positive it was one bed and not two close together at recapture he stayed with the so called mr and mrs edmonds in their Bli shanty anty some five or six das he slept in the shanty which contained two rooms with arand Mrs Edmonds there was a bunk in one corner and the boys bed was waa spread in the other he never saw mr edmonds or mrs edmonds go to bed because he usually went to bed first and he never saw them ahem in bed together in this ranch house bouse but he be was quite positive the bunk and his bis own bed were all there were in the room A young lady testified they slept to gether she also alsi testified fiel that she fihe had been given money by goo geo W carson tho the husband of mrs carson she had been hired by defendants and while working there she ehe slept in the shanty the ev evidence idenie also showed there was but one bed in the cabin though there thare may have been some b bedling bedding e d rollel rolled up UD in m a WA ft i on cover one w witness aness te tined that be saw w bueb a roll ti 11 on one ce occasion casion when he va vat vaa t at tle cabin that is the cae of the w wh h ch completed its testimony at noon boon this afternoon the defense will endeavor to shw show that it wes ass on the part of ane hufhand of mrs mra canon can on that drove her to lo tier her brother for protection tec tion toey they left coo ado and went meat to san juan county to hide from geo W carson who they expect to show is a bad man they deny there was ever any crImI criminal intimacy between the brother and si ai ter it is admitted they went by the name of mr and sirs mrs edmo edmonds because mr Cherpillod a name is ia J edmonds cherpillod and the cowboys generally called him jim edmonds Edmond fl OTHER ciak zacharias Zac bariss lamborn law horn was fa found and rot cot emilty of forgery he be ak was as tried vester day afternoon on the charge of writing orders on the fairview coop on co op vm nuttall pleaded guilty to the indictment of unlawfully cutting timber and was sentenced to pay a fine of 50 teague and dempster the grand county came up for aen sentence tence this afternoon they were each sentenced to three years in the penitentiary |