| Show AN APPARENT CHANGE OF BASE RASE MR the U S prosecuting atto attorney rny ruy is not lacking in ability if he were cd by prejudice and as untainted by a desire to cater to popular prejudice as ho he is clearheaded clear headed he would make an efficient officer in view of his ability which must be conceded when he makes mistakes they are necessarily as a rule ruie errors of the heart and aad pot rot of the brain butof of whatever character a mans errors may be it is never too late to mend r repentance nuance being always in order vei vee we were pleased to note a special point polut made pleased py y the U S prosecuting attorney yesterday in the preliminary proceedings in the irons fowler fowier abortion ase case lie he argued in favor of an examination being had before the justice Justlee that as the testimony would be submitted to writing in case of the deather death or absence of any of the witnesses at a trial that might ensue it could be used on the contrary ary arv if i the ile tie case cas went directly to the grand jury testimony the taken before that body being a matter of secrecy could nou nol be so used its production in court for trial purposes being bein forbidden by statute it is 19 to be hoped for the sake of consistency that mr nir Dick sons sous conversion to the legal doctrine of the secrecy of the krand grand rand raud jury proceedings proceeding 5 ial stick adof and not be cast off aud taken on on like a convenient garmen garment according to circumstances other uther wise it would have been in order fa for him tobice to have haye injected the pro proviso visko yesterday except in cases where mor alor mons mans are charged with polygamy or unlawful cohabitation the remarkable we might say astounding tonn toun ding tactics adopted by the pro securing sec attorney in the clawson and connelly Connell jr cases are arc yet fresh in the public mind when witnesses were not testifying to suit the prosecution mr hir dickson had recourse to alleged grand jury minutes a number ot 01 pencil he drew the attention of the witnesses to those bogus memoranda with the remark did you not testify so and so before the grand jury then whispered the secrets 0 of f the grand jury room confidentially in the ear of the witness so as to preserve their sacredness the witnesses who were thus thiis sought to be intimidated by these terrible jottings cottings jot tings of a secret conclave did not however have any recollection of having testified as stated in effe effect et by the prosecution the result of the inci introduction of the tile boe bog bogus was gas grand erand jury notes was simply this granting for the sake of argument 1 u but not in point of fact that the Grand jury notes were correct mr dickson in effect told tile the trial jury what the witnesses testified to before the jermer body this had a double result for tor which it was vias doubtless intended it had bad all the force of legal testimony upon the trial jury and prejudiced them against the regular evidence of the witnesses because of it its conflict with that given in secret had it not been evident that the court was already set et and prejudiced against the defense it would have led to the supposition that it also had been influenced ey by this apparent but not real conflict of evidence but the fact of the court allowing the introduction of this lle lie illegal testimony against the plain rights of the persons on trial showed that it was was open to conviction but it would like to sec see the man that could convince it except on the side to which it was leaning not only were the trial juries liable to be by the baand jury minutes dodge but also the thel court the latter actually admitting us as much it expressed the opinion that perjury had bad been committed by wilu esses and aud the only apparent evidence to justify such a view was the assumed conflict between the evidence illegally introduced and that which was legally given eiven during r the trials however mr nir Dick sons po position of yesterday shows a change of base irom from which it is to be doped there wili wilt be no shifting to suit sult circum circumstances sta aces and cases there were evidently other objects besides enumerated for the introduction of the bocus minutes in the cases referred to it appears to be the proper thing in the minds of some people to misrepresent the I 1 1 mor bior mons by painting them in the blackest possible colors it was evidently deemed essential to make it appear to the great gullible public abroad that the mormons cormons Mor mons had bad no DO scruples against c peri perjury ulry tiry upon the stand thu pacing the prosecution under great difficulty in enforcing the laws against polygamy to further this nefarious object and thus str strengthen enthen the howl for unconstitutional anti antl mormon legislation the profound secrets of the J lury jury ury ary room were given to the salt lake tribune the advocate and apologist of the seducer libertine prostitute and abortionist hat that paper published a transcript ofa ota of a portion of those secret proc froc proceedings eddings before etore the grand jury we were rather pleased with this thi i step because it enabled us to catch datch the conspirators on a hook the object of publishing that section suction of the grand j jury ur minutes was to show that A anna nua Galil gallifant fant faut testified to one thing before that body and another at al the trial of john Connel conuel lyThe portion of the minutes published as we have heretofore contemptible tricksters trick away it contained answers falsely stated to have 0 been given by anna gallifant before the grand jury yet it is a notorious notor lous ious fact that that lady was imprisoned for contempt for not giving the answers with which she is credited in the bogus minutes minute of secret proceedings the the tho subterfuge was very attenuated and fortunately the doctored illings carry their refuja refutation refu con uon upon their face it will be expected that mr dickson will in his future ofil official cial clai practice stand by the position assumed by him yesterday in relation to the illegality of introducing secret proceedings into court during a trial either by dancing around the stump or otherwise it if such matters are to be intro deuced however let it be done dons openly and aud above board an ana l not by insinuation nor whispers for vie ele latter iatter method would be e undignified even if the minutes were not doctored as those referred to certainly were |
