| Show BEAVER deaver COURT ite ITEMS dis nis received by Deser deseret ct telegraph BEAVER may 14 editor deseret vows news kirkpatrick and denny arrived here yesterday at noon but lot being ready the case of the united states vs fotheringham was postponed till 10 today to day at which time the case was called twelve jurors were called into the box eight of whom were of even numbers and were accordingly excused on the ground of rell reli religious dous belief the attorneys for thie defense contended inch by inch calling forth several rulings one may be e mentioned as an illustration A juror stated that outside of the law he believed it right under some circumstances for a man man to have more than one wife living and at the same time there being a law against it he bellev believed cd it wrong under that law and would convict according to evidence the juror was challen challenged ced zed for belief by the prosecution ro se cution and the challenge denied gy by at attorn tornay sy for the defense who argued the case I 1 the judge ruled that there might be bo some force in these arguments if the offense was not what it id is it being an oense odense against all good persons and wrong in itself but he added if I 1 believed it richt right I 1 would not fight against it for a moment ile he then sustained the challenge the court in every ruling showed its evident intention to convict MOON SKEEt |
