| Show prosecutions AT OGDEN commissioners bourt COURT IN FULL BLAST THREE PERSONS dersons AR nESTED arrested r F A BROWNS MANLY ACTION OGDEN CITY utah may loth 1885 editor deseret wems feus since the arrest of james taylor every everybody bodyl has been oai oal the gui qui qu vive and the one continuous question has been i who will be the next that question lon ion was answered this toils afternoon eider elder moroni brown was arrested on the complaint of one miles mix certainly not a very euphonious euphone ous name the complaint charges that the defendant brown did on the first day of june 1882 and on divers other days between that time and the first day of may 1833 live and cohabit with more than one WOMAN AS nis HIS WIVES to wit emma brown and frankie frankle porter brown three witnesses were exam examined in ed namely homer br brown 0 wn and heber brown sons of the defendant and frankie frankle the alleged plural wife of moroni brown the evidence did not prove anything ma material teril terii yet the prisoner was held to answer in the sum of 1500 joseph jackson and james M brown were accepted as sureties THE BALL has now commenced to roll the gods pods to grind and all being in cotton we may expect some tate interesting resting developments our town at present is well supplied with spotters and informers all anxious to earn an honest penny by the honorable employment of conspiring against the libert ilbert liberties ies leg of their neighbors against whose characters they know absolutely NOTHING contrary to honor truth and virtue but to gratify their spleen and to satisfy their sordid appetites there is nothing mean low and despicable to which they will not resort commissioner mckay prosecuting attorney Dick dickson and the deputy inars marshals halsall all ail expect to reap riches fame and laurels out of the cases of unlawful ul cohabitation in ogden city today to day it has been stormy at intervals but notwithstanding this there was one of the grandest processions professions process ions this morning that has been witnessed for a long iong time in ogden city it con sifted of BEST CROP the scholars of all the mormon day schools in the city have had a gala day they assembled at the central school building formed in line and marc marched lidd thence t rough through some of the principal rin cipal streets to the bench and lito into into the pay niton Ulton in iester tester park paa square they were accompanied by two brass bands one led by captain john A boyle and ana the othen other by win wm puli pugh the procession was moving alon aloa along main street at the time mckay and dickson were and attracted much attention and elicited many complimentary remarks one man a german said veil ivell dese all mormon mornion shilden and der parents must go to de do Penitent penitentiary lary laxy for begetting dem bellivell Vel veil livell veil vell the children enjoyed their holida holiday y much and spent the time en engaged aged in various athletic and other exercises 3 since commencing to write this another arrest has been made that of francis A brown this was on the com complaint plant of miles allies mix the commissioner read the complaint which was living with more than one woman harriet canfield brown and martha marths A anderson as his wives the dates were the same as in the complaint a against ainest moroni brown the defendant a t said bald a in reply that he had t two wo wives and be he llad had lived with them as an HONEST MAN the 1 he district attorney was not satis satisfied nned fled with the plea and insisted on examining in witnesses the defendant did hot toot wish any witnesses called and volunteered to give the court coart all the information it needed or would ask dut out did not plead guilty to any crime the complaint c charged arged him with living and cohabiting with harriet 0 brown and M H anderson as wives ISRAEL C BROWN being called as a witness testified that he was the son of tile the defendant and that his father francis A Brown lived at the house of witness mother most roost of his time indeed he might say right along as he was always there when witness was ile he then gave the names of the members of the family defendant at this point further farther objected to the examination of witnesses saying the ladies named were his wives and be was not ashamed of them ile he had bad lived with them as such all the time the court then said it would suspend any further examination in his case and placed his bonds to appear at 1500 in reply to the tile question as to whether there were any persons present who would become the sureties the defendant said yes sir plenty of them where Is MARSHAL vandercook I 1 think likely he is willing to become one of them this created considerable merriment which was promptly suppressed by the Commis commissioner ioner loner hon D H peery and john watson Esq were accepted as sureties the witnesses were then put under bonds to appear at the district court on the them dinst after which the defendant was released the court and the prosecuting attorney as well as the audience were were evidently TAKEN takes BY SURPRISE by the bold unflinching demeanor of the defendant in this case ile he said he had no counsel had no means to employ any and indeed he did not need any the examination occupied less than thirty minutes at the close of which time the court room was cleared and the off omm meers officers went to hunt up another victim which when it is offered on the altar judicial I 1 will endeavor to report WEBER |
