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Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-22 | Page 7 | Know Utah

Type issue
Date 1930-10-22
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Know Utah
Type article
Date 1930-10-22
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 7
OCR Text KNOW UTAH By y ALBERT LB F. F PHILIPS S J Conviction and sentence of ot Thomas Hawkins caused the tha newspapers of the country countr to mako inako some caustic comments Tho Sacramento Union said sald that The Tho end and of ot tho affair j Is 15 not with the decision of oC ofa ofa a court in Utah The Tho case cne will go to tho supreme court coui ourt t of ot th tho United States for tor final settlement We very much fear that tills this raid on tho institutions of If tho the Mormons ns is 18 8 dictated m ro by popular hato bato than springing from an nn honest desiro to rid tho the territory of at Utah of at an institution that lias not the sanction of or the tho civilized world S S SS S Th Tha Tho Carson Nevada Novada Register said ad To convict Hawkins it Jt was n necessary essary to a a. statute a a. different dIfferS differ ent meaning than then was wa Intended by its authors nn and l lt t to an ul ovil Intention the reverse was wa known to exist e. Whatever vc opinion one ono may entertain respecting the tho Mormons or r polygamy no unbiased d observer can cnn r read d the tho proceedings of this trial as detailed de do- tailed by the Journals of t Salt Lako Lake without tooling feeling that the tha court w waS was org organized to much regard for tor law a S S Of 0 he Mormon people the Albany Law V Journal said much can bo ho said Bald in praise as 05 well a as M blame They havo no doubt trampled u upon On ono one of the strong strong- c est cat t civilization b but t the they have done some service to th tho tate For a a. quarter of at the tho century their thela ve peculiar Institutions have been tolerated by the Government nt BO SD long Indeed n as t to justify them in as as- s Burning that they had become legalized by y prescription In vl view w of 01 those these t facts w wo have havo no rio hesitancy in BaYIng saying say BaY ing lug that the Justice which I is now nw meted out to them should bo be tempered with mercy merc and that t neither the chief justice nor his followers an imperishable able abl r renown no n by b an uncompromising crusade S S S Daniel II H. Wells mayor of 01 Salt SnIt lake was was' arrested on Saturday afternoon October 28 8 8 1871 Ho was charged with murder Two other othel- well known and prominent citizens Hosea Stout and William H. H Kimball Kimball Kimball Kim- Kim ball were arrested at tho same samo time on a n. similar charge Tho indictment nt covered a a. range The Themen Themen Themen men were accused of at being accessories to tho the killing kUling of ot Richard Yates at tho mouth of Echo Echo canyon Dill Bill I HIckman a notorious character confessed however that he killed Yates Upon tho promise o tot of t immunity for all his crI crimes es ho agreed to implicate Mayor Wells and others and it was an aa upon an nn indictment which based on the testimony of at this slayer that Mayor Major Wells was arrested What tho the facts fads S S S Richard rd Yates during th the Buchanan n war was arrest arrested as a a. spy and ho felt fell into tho the hands i f If Bill to guard It t was believed at that time that Yates was possessed of ot considerable money n and aud d instead dot of guarding him as nS was the Intent of Qt the authorities until he was further examined Hickman Killed him t to i obtain bt in the tho funds u ds he ho was supposed to have havo Hickman confessed tho the slaying of Yates
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