| Show of hosea stout it 11 I 1 feel fed nailed called fo mako make a fow few remarks rc marka with the permission of tho the court I 1 gentlemen of tho the jury I 1 lid did not expect to havo have to mako make any remarks on this occasion but ant tho the course which tho the gentleman has seen att t to 0 p u r u c compels mo me either cither to acquiesce iril what v t ho 0 has advanced ot corenter enter my pi protest piot otest cst th T alig s jury ury was summoned for the purpose of ascertaining if pos possible ible who assassinated dr robinson and to better understand what has been done dono to accomplish that object I 1 am compelled to give a short history of the proceedings ce in the case in tho the first place tho prosecution Prose prosecuting cutin I 1 g attorney mr blair biair called to his assi assistance stanco mr hempstead and they two requested mo me to join them I 1 did so wo to had bad a short session at independence hall things worked somewhat curiously tho the next morning when I 1 got out olit I 1 learned that telegrams and communications were passin par gand and that other parties were to bo be added to the court and to the prosecution in the case if a assistance ss 1 st from any quarter could bo be brought to elicit truth in tho the investigation invests 11 aalon I 1 was glad of it I 1 so BO stated the place of meeting was removed to this hall my colleague who wh 0 hns has last spoken lort took the lead in the case he be has as you will all boar bear witness been unobstructed ted in a the course he be desired to pursue ho he has never deigned to counsel with me in any ono one item ohp t I 1 can remember ho he has never informed nio mo of what he be wished to do we havo have not any obstructions in his hh way now I 1 am city attorney tho the aspersions on the city which ho he has seen fi hi t to make I 1 feel called upon to reply to the gentleman in his opening remarks stated staled that ho no did riot hol wish to say anything that would arouse personal feelings I 1 do not wish to do so but I 1 wish mish to set the m mitter milter itter in a truer light than it now is before you tho the first course pursued was to take the police of tho city through a rigid examination rig as to the complicity they toight might havo have had in tho the murder not as to what their duties might havo have been beed on that ight but it was a direct inquiry as to which 1 of them committed the deed suspicion rested on mr heath he was seen by three men going up ill the sheet directly after aitor the murder no one was to blame for the tho suspicion but it camo came out on testimony col corroborated coiro borated abed by those three men that he was bent on oil an errand of mercy at the time gong going for a doctor for tho the suffering man another thing was inquired into of tho the police and I 1 think of them a alono one they rigidly catechised catechi sed whether thero there were not secret combinations horo here to commit crime to violate abo law to trample on tho the tights rights of citizens and tako take life thoro thero was no information elicited at that period to show that this was the case I 1 informed the gentleman who shoko that there were such combinations in this city and I 1 knew it but had bad not nol proof sufficient for a court of justice combinations to violate tho the law and set icat it at ance and do as they pleased independent of law I 1 requested that the gentleman would prosecute cuto that inquiry vigorously with every witness called but after the examination of tho the police was through I 1 do not think tho the question was asked yet combinations of this nature do exist to the knowledge of this court and jury they havo bare covenants that the ahe members will not testify against each other in coults conits of justice and they do as they please in despite of the die law I 1 why waa ayna this not inquirer into tho the inquiry went direct to the president in the stand and no where else if tho abo could not bo be detected fin that liah t action T it po from the gent lemans speech and tho the conree that they ind n f for ny further knowledge concerning it there has been a au onslaught mado made upon gentlemen here and upon tho the people that has bas been most unwarranted and unjust I 1 a am in one of the gent lemans colleagues in this ibis prosecution and I 1 am alu sorry wo we differ wo we do not differ in rela relation t ion t to 0 tho the murder of dr robinson it was a crime that struck gloom to tho the heart of every man in the territory tor y with whom I 1 have eon conversed versed without ro 46 et to party or faith I 1 do not think thero there was a P I 1 ilso but what beat in tini unison soil on t tho he subject the case of the warm springs has been introduced trod and a very wrong uso use lias hai been made of it I 1 am implicated myself in tho the affair for I 1 am attorney in tho the caso case on tho th a part of the city I 1 appeal to tho the jury und and every man present if there was v as anything in that case to call forth private ven vengeance bance dr robinson did seo see ut fit to lay claim to land there and the city saw fit to ong oust t him somewhat summarily to take lako back what they have held for the last sixteen or seventeen years and improved to tho the extent of BC oral thousand dollars to my knowledge In the case was brought to law it had bad been hotly contested and all the I 1 points that ingenuity and counsel could raise were brought to bear on oil it the last decision given on it placed tho the springs spring s to all intents and purposes in the handisf hands of the city thero there were no grounds left for ro or hard bard fco feelings lings this has been made use of before you not to pois a pardieu lar individual but to implicate a community A community has been charged with the ho murder of that man how does that case stand 11 witnesses who havo have no knowledge of law have been asked their views on it lot let in md give my v lows the case is pending it lias has been brought to trial on its merits the city does doe not obtain by tho the death of dr robinson before his death wo we were contesting with tho the doctor after his coith the conteas I 1 is with the bereal bereaved D widow what has the iho city gained upon tho the ch charge I 1 rge that the gentleman lias mado made against it it js is now the poor widow with whom in th the matter hasto be contested instep instead of tho the doctor that is all tho the city could baad gained I 1 if it had done dona tho lie deed I 1 with ith regard govrd to mr wells ordering the doctor dector out of hla Is house that was a matter ot their own afra affairs irs il L Y f you we acro ro assured by my colleague that re ligmond ligion was no part of his bis subject yet lio lie aou wonna up with a sermon n very good sermon on the we meekness ekness of jesus and a person unacquainted quain ted with the case could scarcely determine from it whether tho inquest was waa on tho the death of jesus or dr dobinson Ko binson I 1 have noa ing whatever against tho the doctrine it is very good ho he hasetold has told you what tho the latter day faints saints or 11 cormons mormons 11 are arc ile he lias has taken tho the trouble to draw a distinction between gentiles 11 and mormons cormons Mor mons such a party spirit has no business in courts court it is told you that no 11 gentile dan c an successfully con contest a caso calso here with a 11 mormon tho the thousands of cases on tho the records of tho the courts prove the incorrectness of tho the statement the gentle mans high character before the nation should mako make him moro more in expressing he is so consummately ignorant lot let w ua talk a little about tho the religion of the latter day saints and see ece who ho committed tho the assassination si men havo have been asked what they thought of the anti polygamy 7 law and whether they hey would take another wife I 1 what hat could bo be in biow in so BO asking but to raise a party spirit and uso use it for I 1 protest against t such a bomse men kert asked what bat were the view of the 11 mormons cormons in relation to law I 1 believe I 1 can choir low tho the law is resisted and kept hero here YOU iver this became a territory tho the 1 mor 11 have bavato to mako make tho the laws and ana they were if they did not make those laws to suit hem themselves selves but from froin the time tho the F federal first camo cama to this territory we have had ha il 0 o contend with it to maint maintain nin tho the laws what has bas been convicted and sent IV to the penitentiary tor lor thie ebo asked for a writ of diab a out b as got it granted and been logsoon loo soon society it if has been a const ailt 10 to sustain tho the lows laws against the efforts of men inon who should havo have maintained them tho the rei retrains rains of worn out politicians politic iaus who como come hero here to tell ng that a systematized organization for br brcak e ak ing in the he law my dear colleague you should b bo posted your position in tho the nation ought t to 0 have t taught glit yon bettor better the 11 mor mons mong 11 having boon been knocking at the door of G congress on anress ress all tho the timo time tho the gentleman was in the genato benato and he be did good service there reference has boon been made to to the ia language of president young ile iio line lias mado made some strong remarks in tho the stand iio he ling has ofton dono done that is where ho he does all his sly deeds bo be foro tho the nesem assembled blod multitude etude ile iio does not stalk about nt at midnight doing the work ofies of assassination sassi nation ile iio has had to settle difficulties with thousands and where is tho the man ihan abor mormon in on 0 or r anti mormon who over ever appealed to him for tho the decision of a case but wits satisfied with the i result I 1 defy any man to godico produce ono one toli solitary tary example of chicanery or double dealing in his diameter character or career editors were referred to ani and our city press I 1 have bato very little more sympathy for editors than president young ins his for lawyers I 1 do dc 8 piso a vonal press I 1 despise billin Billinge g gato editorials to rials and I 1 do hope wo we will wi 13 have v a high toned hero it would bo be so I 1 three of tho the policemen wore bound over for br breaking e aini tho the alloy alicy said to belong to dr robinson I 1 did not know who owned that alloy but I 1 havo bare tho the pleasure of knowing that thai ahse poli policemen temen curc not there that will como come out on their trial I 1 presume tho the men who vrho en ore the they saw thorn them there supposed they did I 1 do not j i impugn apu their testimony but bui what was ivas that bowling rilley alley good ne neighbors testify that they could not sleep for it they say it was a nuisance that prevented them irom from ac night it was a gambling house bouso and a liquor hellhole hell hole besides diametrically opposed to tho the city ordinances and that is within tho the knowledge of members of this court to my knowledge then why make a sanctified thing of that will wh should wo TO turn from murder of dr robinson to inquire into religion and who dipped tho the men in tho the jordan why turn from tho the sacred cause of the duty that wo we ought to perform and go to hunt up tip something about tho the warm nr springs lo 10 try and mako make somo political iVal capital I 1 am ashamed of tho the course that las been taken it is nothing upon which a man can make political poTi fame tho the results can call do nothing but inc increase the acrimony of party feelings which is a shingi have ever despised ever sinco since I 1 returned to tho the city I 1 have la bored to put down this a acrimonious acrimonious crimo party spirit wit which I 1 eh I 1 found hero her 0 in the courts and 0 out ut of the cour courts ts when I 1 came hero a man could not no bo be fined 5 before tho the alderman for being drunk drauk but the great point had to bo be raised whether great salt lake city had any existence groat great salt lako lake city wag not hero here if some poet scamp ecamp got drunk and was fined 10 what rig right al thas has the city to frame ordinances to punish men for being drunk and making disturbance 0 oil n the streets st r cots I 1 you havo have no city and you yon never neter had tho the legislature Legisla turo cannot mako make a and then I 1 amindore amin am indirectly dire t asked to implicate myself with tho the city if I 1 wore were to sit thoro there and not speak my silence would acquiesce wi with fill what has been said who havo have sent the men that havo have committed cliine crime to the penitentiary was it not mor imor monsa mons havo have gentiles over ever been sent there yes and I 1 am sorry to say many who call cormons mormons Mor mons have also been sent there but I 1 have no knowledge of an any y scoundrel being refused a writ of habeas corpus when ho be asked for it I 1 havo have been told by men notorious thieves that it did not matter what they did there were certain bertalli judges who would them they might x teal steal and bo be imprisoned but a writ it of f 1 habeas beas corpus would bring thorn them out and tha tho would 0 id agam bo be at liberty to ho prey rcy upon tho file honest and peaceful appeal Appo alto to tho records and see whether I 1 arn am corrad corr fiLc this jhial has hp liam a T its t 7 J judges havo aavo tn teon to nullify the efforts of tho the tho the Legisla cannot pass that law tho the leap legislature cannot make this law now you may go ga add an d steal this has been tho the practical working and yet leto hero wo aro accused of systematized organizations to break tho the law that wo havo had such duch a constant struggle to sustain gustain the police I 1 ara am told are implicated in this very crime and if I 1 wore were silent I 1 would tacitly say it is true that is hy I 1 replied lam I 1 am sorry gorry such a course was taken by my honored colleague who wants to know who were the assassins in this case lot lei thorn them go forward use till all diligence and spare no effort to find it out and whether they bo c c 1131 mormon ormon or contilo Gentil Gon tilo let them bo be punished now to show tho the difference between a Mormon 1 and a gentile in tho the pursuit of this investigation A policeman was seen going from the place where tho murder was committed soon actor and was suspected suspicion was strong so much so that ho was as to bo be arrested on the charge another ma man n is I 1 is brought on tho the stand who was himself close by the murder and saw it done ho he swears ho he avers things that ivero impossible what is tho the result it is said eaid that ho he havo have lied no one wants him te forred ile iio was not a 11 mormon lormon dont havo have him arrested I 1 notwithstanding a pistol was found on tho the street subsequently on tho the w way ay that s somo 0 me of t tho he pr presumed 0 assassins ran and claimed by him ono of the witnesses a 1131 mormon ormon swears that lie ho does not know anon anything about the mur der but that ho he heard another man a gentilo say lie ho know who did aid it why was that other man not put ori the stand it is a very mysterious way to me gentlemen of the jury dt bringing the guilty to the light tho the whole effort ig i to malco make this ft a means of raising party spirit and I 1 enter my solemn protest against any such effort I 1 i illusion allusion was made to president youngs boing being opposed to lawyers it is unaccountable tb me ilic liow how lie he can call dis dislike lile a lawyer so go but ho he does docs about jumping claims I 1 will say a little for I 1 noticed in tho course of tho file gent lemans remarks that it was said that president youn young 9 had declared if anybody 7 jumped on to his fenced lots lib ife would 9 send on them to hell cross lots I 1 have rio no doubt I 1 in n the world but that |
