Show stan fustar STAR cna CHA CHAMBER PRACTICES OUTDONE tue THE simpson sampson polygamy case affords another illustration of the kind of justices justice that is bein being meted i out in utah the defendant was placed la in legal jeopardy not from motives of public necessity or the public welfare I 1 but from malice and revenge on the part of one who considered himself aggrieved in an alleged alle alie aed wrong done to a relative ile he was accused of marrying a young woman in utah while he had a wife wile living livina I 1 in england from the evide evidence nce nee before the commissioner missi oner onor it appears that thomas simpson formed a connection in england twelve years ago with abom a woman n named hannah powell that he came to this country and afterwards married miss everett the probate judge of this county performing the ceremony e ile he subs subsequently subsequent equen aly sent for the woman powell a subscription being taken up to assist 1 in n her emigration when his wife repudiated him and he was divorced tho the alleged first wife arrived and it was stated that the name ac a c simpson was on a sack of baggage on which the defend ant was seen sitting it was not shown that the baggage belonged to hannah powell nor whether etwas it was the tho property of the defendant all the this evidence evid cuce duce adduced of the alleged first marriage was statements that the defendant had spoken of his wife in england 11 and that the woman had lied stated she was married in england to simpson sampson but on the witness island she swore that she never was married to the defendant also that she did not believe in polygamy and would not inal inai marry him after his union to miss everett yet he is held heid in exorbitant bali baji to await the action of the grand jury the sum suin of so large largo that the unfortunate accused was not very likely to obtain so he had to go to the penitentiary to consort with criminals of the worst kind until a grand jury can inquire into his case cass and see whether there is probable caus for his indictment it will be seen from this how easy it isander tile the present mode of procedure in utah to throw an innocent person into prison if he is poor and has an unscrupulous enemy ene my we vye do not know what the facts are re in the simpson case casc we cannot be justly accused of defending him because lie he is 1 si a mormon lormon 11 we are arc informed that the parties panties are arc non 11 it makes no difference about this we vc only look to the evidence there has been no proof adduced that the man was married in england yet on the supposition that he was arising from secondhand second haud baud and partial testimony a man moan who apparently has no wife at all is sent to share in the tate late tateos of convicts on a dubious suspicion of polygamy I 1 the star chain chamber er infamies amies of years a ago 0 o are often referred to byway by way of contrast to the more enlightened and equitable jurisprudence uris prudence of tater later later times but in view of recent proceedings in utah courts it looks as though the star chamber practices of the past are arc not merely to be revived but to be outdone in free america and in the nineteenth century |