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Show FOURTH DISTRICT. PROCEEDINQS IN THE FOURTH DjSTRICT COURT. What Judffo Duflcnhorry Jlag Been Doing: Since Our Last Issue. MONDAY. Th cstato of Niels Nel9on,dcccn3cd, was set for hearing on Ootober 3d. Tho caso ol tho Stato vs. Cragan canio up ou domurrcr. Domurrer wns allowed and Stato took oxccptlon. Tlio caso of Mnrwlch vs. Agricultural Society came boforo tho court on mo-tliju mo-tliju to got nsido and vacate judgmont. Tho motion wua donlcd and defendant takes exception. The motion to quash summons In tho case of A. Jl. ltalolgh vs. Utah county was granted. Tho caso of Aruiltstead vs. Plorport & TIcaton camo befuro tho pourt on motion to dissolve injunction. Tho motion was dcnlpd and restraining order wns mtido pernianont by ordor of tho court. T. E. Thurman was sworn In as bailiff. Tho oaso of Thomas Einls, charged with housebreaking at American Fork, camo before court and was tried before a Jury of eight. Tho Jury found hm guilty of tho offenso ns charged. Tho sale of tljo real cstato of Wm, Wignull was approved. The case of Luclan Hinckley et nl. ys. Peay was set for trial pn September Septem-ber 20. Monday afternoon the caso of John Hunter camo up to bo heard. The defendant de-fendant In this caso was charged with housebreaking nt American Fork, it having boon nlleged that ho was tho accomplices of Thomas Ennls who wns tried and convicted qp the samo Information. Infor-mation. Ho was trtd heforo a Jury of cjght, who rendered a vordlpt'of nop guilty, Tho caso of T. J.Wndsworth vs.Jolin Woodnou.se camo beforo the court on wilt of prohibition, pofendant's ino? Hon to 'dissolve was sustaiqod, TUKspxy. Tho" caso of Wm. n. Bllck ya. R G. W. H'y company was set for trial on Soiit. 27. 1808. Thomas Enuis, who was found guilty of housobreaklug, appeared in court Tuesday morning reprosonttd by his counsol and ready for sentunco. Tho court fjoutonr.cd him to tin months Imprisonment Im-prisonment In tho pciiltontlary. Tho Ciise of tho Stato ngnlnst Zams Partridge, wherein tlo defonaut Is charged vi liosobreal;ng, It was ordered by tho court that II.' S. Par-trldgo Par-trldgo bo "brought as a witness In tho caso. Tho caso of Zanls Partridge was called up tho second time Tuesday morning. D. D. lloutz ,vas nppolntod pounscf for defendant and a jury of eight. Impnnolod, vlz.i A. W. Miller, Benjamin JJatos, Harvey McCoard, Win. F. Gumoy, John 1. Strong, Jmc3 Goodall, rm. D. Itoborts, Jr., and Alfred Dunklcy. Application for letters of administration adminis-tration .was, lllod In tho mattor of tho estate, of Wm, IJolt, doceascd. - The pcaco olllclals roport today (Tuesday) that tho Jail Is empty, except ex-cept for (ho cook. The caso ot Hyrtim natton, charged with adultory with Julia Felkor, al-loged al-loged to havo beou coiuuil(tcd on October 10, !7, camo boforp iho court Tuesday afiornoon. Tho defendant wns the assistant engineer a,t Iho nsy-lum nsy-lum and Mrs. Felkor was working In tho laundry department. Ho Is n Prpvo mau and sho was a married woman, wo-man, and her husband wns at that time an Inmate at tho asylum. Tho evidence tended to show that ho had access through thp roof to ber room; t.hey had been seen walking arm in arm through tho corridor and in the orchard. orch-ard. Thore was no direct evidonco to show they had had sexual intercourse At tho conclusion of .ho cvldoncu for the State, tho defonse moved to in. struct tho Jury to render a verdict of not guilty, for the reason that tho evidence evi-dence wns not sufllclent to justify a verdict of guilty. Tho court hold that while tho parties wer.0, guilty of Indiscretion Indis-cretion there was no, oyldQuco to provo them guilty of tho pfjfcnso charged. Jury rendered a vordlct of not guilty. 'f hQ Indictment against Mrs. Folker wns dismissed ou thev grounds that tho samo evidonco would bo brought up In her caso is in tho Hatton case. Tho caso of Zanea Partridge, charged wjth housebroakhifl. Jo wns ajiegod In tho indictment that tho defendant entered the storo of Elas Garner of Indianola on t lie 28 of May, 1890, white tii owuer 'wus away, aud took hotwen 15 und 20. dollars, 'Iho. evld'inco r" " " brnpght out did not show that ho was Iho person who hnd entered tho storo nor was any money found on him, Thoreforo tho Jury returned a vordlct of not guilty. Partridge's brothor, who wns also an accoinpllco with him at Indlnnoln, Is now serving n term in tho penitentiary for housebreaking on another charge, "WKDNKSDAT. Jn tho caso of the Stato of Utah vs. Hober Dates, charged with fornication, tho defendant was discharged on motion mo-tion of tho county attornoy, it npponr-Ing npponr-Ing that tho parties In interest have piarrlcd and aru living together. Tho caso of tho Stato of Utah vn. John Hanson was contlmiud lor Iho term. In the case of Olatk vs. Clark, decreo of divorce was entered by default. Tho enso of the Stato of Uiah vs. Bowon, being nn nppcaled ciso of assnult from Spanish Fork, Is on trial this afternoon boforo a jury consisting of John W. Dlackott, Jr., II. W. Bari nott, Jas. G. Ilnws, Wm, F. Gurnoy, Benjamin Bates, A, W. Miller, Goo. B, Moutnguo and James Goodall. A nuh tlpn t,o dismiss was ovorrulod. .avtf |