Show t L h When hen George Reynolds wa was taken to the territorial prison to serve ser the sentence of five years which was his punishment for disobeying the law la regarding plural marriage the tIme United States marshal was Colonel Michael He lie brought with him to Utah Colonel Butler whom h he made warden of the state prison and nd the warden and his wife as also the guards and the marshal were unusually kind to Reynolds Among the matters that Re Reynolds was eged to do w wEts was s sto to organize a school among the convicts convicts convicts con con- and it was sas said of his hits school that his pupils were hard students and that the force of example that he set made him worth more than all the guards In the preservation of ot order among the prisoners DurIng During During Dur Dur- ing his time In the time prison he lie also was a correspond correspondent nt for the press pres Good d behavior as has been stated before reduced his sentence days dams Pi PrIor lor to the of Reynolds after the decision of the United States supreme court an another another another an- an other case of ot plural marriage was uncovered the party defendant be beIng being be- be ing John H. H Miles Mlles of oC St. St George who had In October 1878 married Miss Caroline Owen who had recently re recently re- re enthy come to Utah from England It t was declared that the marriage had taken place in the endowment house and was performed L' L y L-y Daniel H. H Wells ells who was the counselor to ta the twelve apostles MILES INDICTED Miles had been arr arrested sted In Salt SaIt Lake City taken before E. E T T. Sprague United States commissioner commission commission- er and was held to aw await it action by bythe bythe the he grand jury which later returned an Indictment nt against him Mrs Catherine Miles 1 was wal the accuser and she declared that on the same day and just prior to her own marriage mar mam- mal to Miles Mlles he lie had been married mar mar- ned ried to Miss Emily Spencer who was also a resident of St. St George and antI that while she was not present pres pres- ent eat at the th ceremony she had consented consented consented con con- to it A disagreement ment occurred occurred oc- oc between the two women over overa a number of ot things and it was durIng during during dur dur- ing the h huff rr between them that Caroline informed th the United States marshal of ot the plural wed wed- ding cling The m marshal immediately had MI Mies Bes es arrested for tor having too many many wives vl Then seeing that her husband bus hus band against ag whom she had In Informed informed in- in formed would have to b be Imprisoned imprisoned were he con convicted she alme relented relented re relented re- re and In a letter written to o and published In the Salt Lake Herald Herald Her Her- ald aid denied statements alleged to hav have been made by her However the recanting of ot the informatiOn information tiOn did not prevent the trial of ot other her I hush husband d which took place in Salt Lake in inthe the l latte t part of April Judge Judg Emerson mer tn hg i WELLS IN CONTEMPT The trial proved a more than interesting in- in tere one as during the course of the hearing General Daniel II Wells ells was wits adjudged guilty of contempt contempt con- con tempt empt of Court sentenced to pay a aIne afine afine fine Ine of ot 00 antI and be imprisoned In Inthe inthe the he territorial prison for two days The prosecution made every e en endeavor en- en deavor to prove that Miles l had married married mar mar- ried ned EmlI Emily Spencer r. r for unless this could be proven the charge charse against Miles would fall It was as conceded b by the time defense that his marriage to Caroline Owen had place This concession of course barred the placing of Mrs hs Miles Niles on the witness witness wit wit- sit ness stand in In that a wife could not legally t testify against her liar hus- hus band The defense made nade emphatic emphatic em em- denial that the mal of Miles to Miss Spencer had taken place and the mission of the pros- pros wa was to show that tha t it had and that the ceremony had been pelf performed by Counselor Daniel II IL Wells Well United States Attorney Van Zile called Counselor Yells Wells to the stand and II In his q questions sought to o bring out what the ceremony inthe inthe in inthe the endowment house was wa but the witness declined to answer a question question ques- ques tion ion which asked ed for Cor a description Justice Emerson held that the questIon question question ques ques- tion was a proper one but still Counselor Wells declined to answer and the result was his being adjudged ad adjudged ad- ad judged in conten contempt pt of court and the tue justice ordered him committed to the care of ot the United States marshal but he lie was as later released Three days clays later on n May 1 t 1 h he appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap peu-ed peu In court COUlt to endeavor to purge purse himself of ot the contempt |