Show THE ARIZONA ANTI antl MORMON 1 CRUSADE ADVICES from phoenix arizona otho othe atthe eth bbate that when the district court opened on that date the first case called was that of the united states status against A P indicted for polygamy and unlawful cohabitation ile he plead not guilty the indictment cli charges arges the defendant with committing the tile offense of polygamy oil on the same da dar day I 1 it ou on of about ulie ihu of may alay 1883 the tue R L defense moved mosed that the indictment ent be quashed on the ground that the offense as described de bribed was impossible of perpetration tra tion the court overruled the motion to quash but intimated that it would be necessary forthe for the prosecution prosecute on to prove the charge as specified d ill in the indictment two more indictments had been found by the grandeury gran grand djury jury lury one being against hyrum phelps and the other against george T wilson witson our advices advises did not state wilether they were for polygamy poly kamy or unlawful cohabitation they were arraigned and plead not guilty it was understood that efforts were being made to indict james T wilson lor polygamy there being already an indictment indict ent against him on the lesser charge the ath the rabid anti ant ion mormon formon feeling that had existed sometime for some time had settled and there was no excitement so far the rulings of judge pinney had been fair and b so 0 recognized by all classes since the foregoing information was obtained we have received a comment cation catlon from phoenix under date one day later the loth and herewith present the greater portion of it this morning hyrum phelps geo T wilson and jas T wilson were arraigned before the court to plead to indictments against them for polygamy each plead not guilty A jury was not im paneled and the trial of A P F pis als bury pro proceeded e ceded the prosecution ti n pro proposed posed t to D prosecute ro acute the two indictments title at one F for 0 r polygamy and one for unlawful cohabitation under one head bead the defense objected on the ground that the indictments were lound found at different periods the objection was overruled the examination of jurors was begun by the df defense ense each was questioned as to his guilt or innocence aa 48 regards unlawful ul cohabitation T smith declined to answer and was excused ile lie is a married man judge pinney ruled that married men intent be catechised catechi sed as to their guilt or innocence but unmarried men could not one was peremptorily challenged and excused I 1 did not get his name finally a jury was obtained the clerk read the indictment and the assistant district attorney addressed the jury jane was the first arst witness called but was not present hon thom thomas as fitch said she could not be present on account of sickness the court ordered the tile marshal to bring her tier into court or if she was unable to attend a doctors certificate would release her tier the next witness was it F gordon be he testified that he came tame to arizona with mr air that the accused slept in different wagons on the journey and that he admitted to ill hil him that he took chances as to his family relations in coin coln coining to arizona george P D dykes ykes jr was placed on the stand the lie lle prosecution wanted to prove b by t this s witness what were the family re relations at lo 10 ns of the defendant while in U utah h an and his determination to carry carit them th out here as presumptive evidence dence denee that he was living in the practice of polygamy the court ruled that ali all that could be elicited from this witness was thad that he knew the defendants family b but u t nothing no thing co could uld be sho shown wn f from rom it of a marria marriage e havin having been consula mated marion bagly was the next witness ills his evidence was to the effect that be he had seen in utah two women at defendants fend ants house and each had been introduced trod to him as mrs airs defendant himself had bad only introduced his ills older wife to him that portion of his ills testimony which related to his being in introduced to defendants wives was stricken out geo goo P dykes testified that be he k knew new defendant in utah and had seen two twe women in his house mrs airs susannah bagley had bad been to mr house and knew him in utah also his family had nad been introduced to his wife and to another woman as miss aliss smith mr air pierce had known defendant for the last two years had seen him and two women in company had never been in the hoube was once introduced to one woman as mrs marion marlon baglas wife knew defendant in in utah when he lie had a wite wife and one child know now his family to consist of two women and three children besides the older ones the women were never introduced to her as lils his wives knew of his family relations charles hill had seen two women around the house and some children this was all he knew at this stage of the proceedings the judge ruled that no proof had been adduced to prove or establish a second marriage there was not sufficient proof adduced before the court that defendant had married two women in utah and if he had committed that off offense offence ence there it would be out of th the e jurisdiction of the court it must be proved that he had married them in arizona no such proof had been adduced and the judge said he doubted whether cohabitation had been established mr air gillory nii Mi llory U S district attorney then harangued the jury ile he made no particular argument but insisted that polygamy must be stopped mr lemon for the thy defence reviewed the evidence arld and showed that no proof had been f furnished to tile the effect that mr was a married man to say nothing ot of his bis being guilty of poly polygamy hon hou thomas fitch made a magnificent argument in nicil aleli lie he sald said that it was remar remarkable kaule that the prosecution should ask for conviction when the court had ruled against it Assi assistant stadt district attorney alexander delivered a violent anti antl A lormon tirade which had little if it any t bearin beaning bearing 9 upon the case at bar lie lle he insisted that the edmunds act was designed expressly to destroy the sect known as mormons cormons Mor mons s 4 the tile court in charging the tile jury stated that the charge of of polygamy had not been sustained but that aney might bring in a verdict of guilty on the indictment for unlawful co cohabitation ila lla b ita tion at p pm in on the loth tile the jury returned a verdict of guilty |