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Show i LOGAN CITY, UTAH. VOL. XXIV. prison Attorney Jerome Mr. Clark, had life for willing Sentence For Hooper Youngs of Mrs. Anna Murder Pulitzer. Advice of Judge Herpieadd Guilty Upon in Sing Sing rick Hard Labor for Life Extended Consideration Prison - gyu of Mental Unsoundnew, York, Feb 8. William cm trial for the Hooper Young, mnrder of Mrs. 'Anna' Pulitzer, to murder in the and was sentenced imprisonment today, Justice Herrick explained that he Lad advised Youngs counsel to to life change his plea and also advised the districTattorneyto accept it, this action being tak$n .because of thesnrisoners mental condition. brdiug to the report of the doctors. he was not insane in the legal aspect of insanity, but from a purehe is ,not ly medical point of vifcw . w i ne- - In sentencing Young,' , the , just- ' ice said: , j There is no occasion ' now .for me to make any remark as to the You enormity of your offense, ofare aware of the penalty ; your crime. The sentence of,4the court is that you be confiped,. In the state prison at iSing $iqg at hard labor for the term of your natural life. For the first time since the ease was called, Young walked into the courtroom today without assistance His eyes had lost their look of vacant terror anil he sat straight in his chair looking at the court. His responses to the judge, however, were made in an audible' showed no signs of after sentence had voice. He perturbation been passed. This ending of a lamentable sad as it is, will be a relief to maDy people here, who used to case,J known and his assistant, said that they, ELDERS ARE SAFE were to accept a. plea of i guilty to murder in the second degree if they could be assured that! lie was. mentally unsound. -.-This" Elder Jos. E. Allen - Ot Cache Narrowly meant life imprisonment, and it is also understood in New York that Escapes Destruction iq South Seas. after he has" served for a certain tinie,Yonng will be examined by a prison commission and should ho be found insane be will be trans- Elder Bell of Logan Escaped Tcirlble Ex- perience fcv Being Atuent en Another ferred to an. asylum. ShellitU. E,perW-!Sn- K" Youngs mother, Mrs. Libbie Cnm-B- fa Willard, and his brother, J. Wes Huv of the ley" Y on n grhave been with him Cbwcn Members. during his trial. The sympathy of many frieuds here cannot fail to be extended to them. - For several years past Hoopers mother That the apprehension felt for has been the wife of Dr. Willard, the missionaries on the South Sea a retired armysnrgeon, and has Islands was not waa lived principally iu the sound mde clear of today,. on country, at Seattle and Tacoma. news from the scene of receipt devastation, Drt Willaad has been with his wife the same Elders that Heber stating in New York during her recent J. Sheffield, of Jr,, Kaysville and trouble. It is understood that they are coming to Salt . Lake to make Jos. E. Allen, CovevilleCache theirfuture home. Deseret News. county, had the experience of their lives in the tidal wave which swept Eddie Wells, thirteen years old, the islands last month. V of Salt Lake, a newsboy who has . The latter was from Elder Ed.S, been in the habit of running away Hall of Cannon ward,- - this city, from home seems to have gone for who is now temporarily charge jn good this time. He had been yearn- of the Islands mission.' Society It a for time to see the ing long was at written and stated but had been induced to atPapeete world, tend school. Last Wednesday, briefly iu effect that Elders Shefhowever, he disappeared, and it is field and Allen had just reached believed lias started on bis travels. there from Tuaraoto, almost naked The police of a number of western and in rather a bad way, as a result of the awful experience to cities are on the lookout for him. which th.v were subjected in that Minerva Reeves and Amelia section. Elder Sheffield,- - the letter Curtis, the two young girls who states, not only suffered the experiwere chief actors in the Reform ence of beiug nearly drowned, but School fire, were held bv Judge to make matters still worse he was Rolapp in default of 1500 bonds bitten on the right hand by a scor-pioto answer to a charge of arson in presumably while assisting to the District court: . lb developed bury the victims of the deadly disduring the evidence that a general aster. The letter bore date of Jan. conspiracy to bnrn the school ex- 26, the Elders having arrived just isted amongst the girls, but that all as the steamer Mariposa was pull but three backed out. One of these, ing out of San Francisco. This Amelia Robinson, will escape accounts for the brevity' of the punishment by turning states evi- story sent. It stated, however, dence. that Elder Sheffield was fast re' M. V. Reeves, who so positively covering from the bite received and identified the body of the holdnp that otherwise neither was any 'the t shot by officer heath, has since worse for their experience. in As stated last News' nights admitted that his identification was a whiskey inspired - lie. made of Elders Bell- and Corbridge, who whole cloth. The latest identifica- were on the Toamotus in October, tion is by Detective Sheets, who are now laboring on the Gambiers says the body is that of Frank and thus escaped the experience of Howard, a crook who. with the aid their eorapanious. It is impossible of a female confederate, nsed'to to tell just how many were drownlure men into wine and lodging ed, but-i- t is supposed that a good rooms in Saltjbake in 1896 and many members of the Church Were then rob them. 'Sheets claims that nmongthe victims. The work, says Elder Hall, is he arrested him several times and to be positive it is the same man. progressing nicely. The missionaries laboring in the Marquises have uot beeu heard from for four months, as there has been .no means of, communication. Those on the Cook archipelago are meeting with considerable opposition and consequently are not doing much. However, the outlook generally is eucouragiug. Deseret News. Tr mrT New pleaded guilty second degree THURSDAY; .FEBRUARY 12, 1903. Hooper Young in the old da9, before he had gone hopelessly to the bad. Private letters from some of his relatives in New York who had tried to do something for him, and who had assnred them that they would aid him in making his defense if he Could" give him any assnrauce of his innocence, some time ago stated that District ill-advis- . U, 4 - - . STATE NEWS. NO 350 excursionists have made the cash deposit necessary to secureyNfc 18 NAILED TO FLOOR. seryations, David RrMiller, thirty-si- x years t of age, wliohad been a resident of Salt Lake for about three years, Four Poles Drive Spikes Through - from died suddenly the other-d- ay an attack of neuralgia of the heart, ' Countrymans Foot. t a m with which he was seized while singing an air from an opera. An eastern manufacturing firm Suffered Excruciating Torture For Four t 13 saU to have made the Ogden .au Hours Before Help "" ey.rUr! For fr,. Unheard HU Offense 7ai Help made of A nother Mans Place. T aking the sngalTiasrbeen extracted, for ? the purpose of manufacturing it into alcohol. John Pope, a visitor from Ver; Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 10. Anton nfll Uinta county, to Salt Lake a Pole, suffered one of rePorta that Butch Cassidy, the oat- - Merhoon, 1 the most excruciating tortures ever do,wn to a quiet ?" onhasa settl!d and mo ranch, proposes to be allotted to man. For four hours he citizen if the officers stood with one of his feet nailed exemplar will allow him to be, to the floor. Then he underwent The Supremo court will not reof having the nail exview Peter Mortensens appeal the pain tracted that he might bo released from the sentence of death-passMerhoon was cmployeiThs a by the trial court, until May term, laborer at the Schoenberger mills, at least. The brief by his attorneys arrived in this country rehas not yet been prepared and. for having For some reeson his this reason the case does not appear cently, countrymen disliked him. He says ou the February calendar. that this dislike isdue to his havThe dead body of John M. Muring , succeeded one of their most was in his found cabin three ray intinhate friends at the mill. They miles east of the town of Eureka allege that he took .the place ,for on Tuesday afternoon. He lived less money. alone, and as he had not beon seen At auy rate, they resolved to arouud his nsnal haunts for a "get eveu .with him. Merhoon day or two a search was instituted was working alone in a room. Sudwhich resulted in finding his body denly the door was thrown opan lying in fiis bed. Death had en- and his four countrymen entered. sued apparently from natural Merhoon says that they demanded causes. , that he give up his place at once A mahogany colored coon named uud leave the city. This Merhoon Piff was fined $30 in the Salt Lake refused to do. The four men then set upon him police court for striking a black named Mott. seemed It that and beat him iu a terrible manner. fairy be had already received some Then one of them picked up a punishment, as when he failed to Tiammer which was lying on tho heed her warning cry of cut yo floor, secured a nail or small spiko wid dis heah knife, he did, ac- about four inches long, which was. cidentally or otherwise, receive a driven through the struggling: gash on the thigh. After causing mans right foot and into the floor. Piff s arrest the colored dcmsel beThen they left the room, takin licame repentant and started out to the key and locking the door after hustle the thirty bncks to pay the them. Every move that the unfine. fortunate man made put him in On Feb. 5th, 1902, at Ogden, awful agony. He screamed, but Richard Flint was found guilty of as the room is far removed from he-wa- s forging a receipt for $20. Instead any other portion of the mill, not heard. of passing sentence upon him, The attack upon him was comJudge Rolapn released him without date for sentence, upon his own mitted at about 2 oclock in From that time until 6,. recognizance. On the fifth of the present month Rolapp had Flint when the man whose duty it was brought before him aud sentenced to relieve .him .'arrived, Merhoon. him to one years imprisoment, suffered tb jnost.horrible pain. When his relief arrived he found and Fliut has instituted" habeas By this time corpus proceedings for his release, the door locked. he-wclaiming that the sentence imposed Merhoon was so exhausted that almost unconscious. He could at this late date from the verdict, himself being at liberty in the not speak, and the relief attempted meantime., is illegal and should be to lift him up, only adding to his . set aside. misery. Arrived-HUScrea- CVn.?'r byjtofactftert ed , -- . the-mornin- as CONGRESSMAN MONTAGUE LESSLER. - Mount Pleasant is going to bond for $20,000 for the installation of 0 waterworks. The remaining $5.-00- needed will be saved from current expeuses ; On Feb., 6 S. P. Draney of Plain City, while sawing off one of the upper branches of a large tree, lost his balance and fell to the ground, receving injuries from which he died on Sunday last, , ' Two boys, A. Simmons and found J. Brotherington, guilty of stealing quilts pud Iaprobes from iu Ogden, have to the Reform School been returned from which they had been paroled. farmers-wago- ns Although the date of the Tabernacle choir excursion to California is still five weeks nhead tire- zeal and interest manifested by the - - members and committees who have the- trip in charge liaj made its success certain. Nearly all of the - , JOHN MCULLAOH.- - LEMUEL K. QUIGG. TIIE BRIBERY CHARGES IN WASHINGTON. Leaaler is the congressman who alleged that Lernn.l E. Quigg and John McCullagh, superintendent of elections of New York, tried to influence his Tote, t r -- |
