| Show ineffectual intimidation wr WE publish today to day a letter from frona bedle bevle harrig harris it 16 is not ofton often that we decalve communications from too penitentiary so BO this thib will be ba a sort of novelty As will be seen the prisoner iain lain Is in good health and spirits cheerful hopeful and yet determined to maintain the position which she has assumed no matter what may bo be tho consequences those who have seen been her in her place of confinement can but admire the calms calm ealm quiet unassuming yet firm and unflinching manner in which she the endures her present indignities and faces the possibilities of the future true everything that her friends can do is done to mitigate ga to the unpleasantness of her surroundings roun dings and tha the prison officials BO 83 far aa ati we have seen are extremely courteous and gentlemanly in their demeanor and while enforcing strictly the rules of the tho prison exhibit no d disposition to bo be hard or too acting exacting es the report that the prisoner has been b een visited by tho the over officious deputy prosecuting attorney whose ferret like proclivities were tho the main cause of her incarceration and that he endeavored to intimidate her by intimating tin that he her nen imprisonment would probably provably ably be made perpetual unless she gave in and au answered the questions which he propounded to her in rhe grand jury room we find on investigation investing stion to 10 to be correct he niso aiso was anxious to find out whether she was under some bome secret obligation not to answer those questions and he played the part of a cross examiner as though she was tn in the witness box instead of in the penitentiary where he had no shadow of right to intrude and reenact the part of paul pry the argument he offered in support of nis his attempt to induce the prisoner to reply to the questions she declined to answer was that the grand jury is a perpetual body it does not dissolve but new members are chosen to fill nii it that if she refused to answer when taken before the court again judge twiss could remand her notwithstanding the discharge of the persons to whom she was required to answer and bo ao eho bho chuld bo be imprisoned indefinitely the object in view however way waa not effected belle harr harris was simply annoyed at such a pr pre pra tenso at reasoning and sud though having no know leage of the law in relation rel rol aion afoa to this matter had sense enough to bee see the injustice and absurdity of such nonsense and so it had bad no other effect upon her A grand jury is organized for each term of court when the term ex plies the grand jury for that hermits term tero ysla itla discharged and the body dies A new now grand jury has to be ba organized for the new term of court it la Is usual to discharge the grand jury in the or of thu tha term torm because ies its labors are aro usually at an end at atter after ter ten it has inquired into alleged of onnen fences cea within we lne district presented indictments examined public records and made its ita report lp in this instance judge reiss adjourned the giand erand jury iury before which bailo bahle harris was waa at beaver until august chis was waa dono without doubt jur the express e of her in as long na as pr possible salbe when uhe the grand grandeury gran jury djury meets again bhe ebe may bu be taken iet cef ore it and have an opportunity port unity ef au the imperil nent questions asked af her by the deputy prose prosecuting euting attorney who usurped the position of the grand jury but defore before the september Septem bei bet term of the court begina begins when a 26 ne w grand J ury ary will have to be organized gani zed the present body will have to be ba discharged it was that body before which belle 11 hsrris iorii w wao was as sub bub it JB is thit body to which ahe bhe must answer it if any and when that expires there can be no excuse for holding her further reference to thu lawm lawn ur tiie tile eer ker ver rhory also to tho the acl act of congress known as the tho yoland voland law vill enow snow that each grand jury in ia a sep bep separate grate entity and anu that icia ic is not a continuous organization the poland jaw bays says whenever a grand or petit jury la Is to bs ba drawn to serve at any term of a district court etc and the jurors so drawn and summoned shaff shall constitute the regular grand gt and and petit juries for me the term for all cases it will be observed that tho the grand lury jury like ilke the petit jury Is ia drawn only for the term it ilia ilja Is in this thia respect jike like a congress of the united un I 1 tej states when it has lived its term it a new congress takes takee its place for this renton reaton each con gress greas Js is numbered the last being known as the forty fonty next the forty eighth and so on the position taken by bel bei belle belie a harris may be thought by some to be one ono of stubbornness insubordination and but any further proceedings against her will bo be universally pally looked upon as vindictiveness find and persecution she is clear mear in mind on the issue to her the questions propounded were such buch as no woman ough t to be required to answer in refusing bho sho vindicated her rights and those of her ber sex she sho well weli understood that they were designed as an opening wedge to prepare the way for othera others they were not put pat to her either by any legal authority the grand jury opened not its rrb mouth an officious omm off lelal official did the whole business he waa was the grand jury for the occasion it was he that was baffled and disappointed it was waa he that pursued the witness and if the grand I 1 jury juny uny any had known its business and kept the attorney in fa his own place which wag was not in the grand jury room at all unless his legal services were required belle harris would not have been beem forced into her present position and we have not conversed with a non Mormon on orl this matter who does docs not look loo upon the tho bourke coarse pursued towards her as shameful and unnecessary atia et Is time thal that men summoned and sworn to act as grand jurors learned their duties and prerogatives so ao that they may not be bb usurp usurped d by others it llis ills Is not the business business of a prosecuting at attorney t orney to question and badger witnesses before a grand jury he prepares the in furnishes the names of witnesses required gives the grand jury the benefit of his legal knowledge bat that body examines examined exa mines minea the witnesses the foreman swears thema them and it Is for that body to find a true bill or ignore the indictment and also to decide whether it has been treated with contempt A meddling official hunting for notoriety and seeking to intimidate a woman is a natural object of contempt official ly he is not a court nor a grandeury gran djury and when he be steps beyond the lines of his duty he may and ought to be treated with the contempt that he be deserves we are surprised to find rind that some eo me people in commenting on this matter which is one ono of general in terest speak of the meddling author of the trouble as judge rudge snow this Js is a mistake judge snowa egowa name is Zerub babeJ and he Jano fano is not taman a man of that hind kind but a gentleman generally respected for his ability and integrity the name of the deputy prosecuting attorney for beaver county is zera snow and he be should not be confounded with the judge who has an established reputation in this territory when the time of beila beile harris unjust incarceration shall ceabe cesse we trust that tho the interest which hns has been taken in her hercane eme and the thead ad mi ration for her and devotion to principle will be exhibited in substantial form and that the contrast from irom her preb prea beut bent position which it will secure will oe be such buch ss as to cause her to look jook upon the evil intended by the malicious as agi a means out oat of which providence hu hiu evolved that which shall be for her enduring benefit |
