| Show TIIE THE casel CASES OF LUCY DEV gainin 1 ra some featured feature connected W with ith the case of lucy devereux bevere ux that will bear ventilating venti 11 anda and blittle a little explanation the tha young woman named as is well weli edil eddi known p is a prisoner in the uta utah ry io so is 1 ller lier i c r babe the cause of their incarceration incarcerate lon ion was wore before the grand jury when I 1 the ease kase of bf W D Nov newsom soul soui charged with polygamy agamy and unlawful cohabit cohabitation was under wunder investigation she refused reused f to answer certain questions pro fouad poun aed ded ed by bythan that body in consequence con quence I 1 of the ge declination she bhe was takae taken before judge zane who decided that tho the interrogatories were proper As the witness persisted in her refusal to answer them the court decreed that she should be imprisoned until such huch time as she shib chan changed ed her mind thattie Th that atthe the mem memories criep of our readers may be refreshed p we here present the questions the se second cond of which however was withdrawn by the district attorney 1 Is 19 not noi your little girls name mul zeta maud newsom 2 hois hols t the father little girl 3 Is D newsom the sat father e of your little girl giri C j S 1 4 after aften Aft enyou eryou you went to ilive v t e borns house bouse did you not occupy t th e i sime same li a The amk e P W whale hurden burden h af h of these questions uc eions is V apparent conits face it Is to td evidence evl evi dence of sexual intercourse between wt AV DS MO Newsom the person whose case was eing being investigated and the witness the latter had previously stated that she was not married to mr dirr ne newsom w som if af she lias has nathis being the father of her child would not bo ac affirmative proof upon that point the offense of polygamy consists totally in the act of or th crying a plural wife with wilh fact any relation to subsequent conduct answer to any adv or all of the questions would not establish esta esia blish the adof it of marriage mar riago which the witness had already seady denied but nut B ut how would wo uld answers answer in t lie lle ati ye affect the charge of unlawful cohabitation according to the rulings of judge zane sexual intercourse form formuso for sor muo mno eio iio part of that offense under th eEdmunds edmunds act we will use his own words as given diven in his ruling rating in the cannon case s pinion opinion that it is not necessary to show an offense against agair this law emual intercourse it is to td show that a madriles man mau ma Tives drives with inore more than thail oab woman wo ruki rudi cohabits with her and holds her out gut 9 ut to td the world as his wife that being so that he did not have bAve sexual intercourse with her occupy occue inthe the same bed with either eitner 0 of the them Is no defense and is immaterial so far as the jury is concerned I 1 I 1 AO y I 1 11 raf in the case in which this rulin ralin ruling was given the defendant was refused the of introducing evidence to the effect enat these conditions had not existed exi exl sted yet lucy devereux Is sent fo to prison for not answering an swerin questions up very points A pertinent casse caise came cama before judge zane a short time ago A fellow named rudolph ames seduced his cifes sister a chill child being the result the birth of the infant was not held to be any evidence that the defendant adint llad had married the woman not on only i 1 t that but it was not even held to be evidence vi d att e that he was guilty ot unlawful cohabitation tat idin and anthe he being a non allmor mon was discharged but W D newsom is a mormon lormon A which makes at alithe iohd difference and evidence evl evi denee that he is the tile father of the child of lucy devereux is is demanded from the witness herself hier fier self seif the mother of the infant in order to fasten either polygamy or unlawful tion or both upon the accused how wonderful are the ways wais ways of the anti mormon crusader crusaders sl 1 the 1 only hypothesis upon which w bl ich the questions an can be insisted upon is that toe tue answers might lead toward proof odix of a marria marriage gc ort fort to unlawful cohabitation according accordia accor diu dib to the holding out theory but why should not precedents c in this respect be maintained maintain led without having recourse to ridiculous judicial advance and retreat tactics le leai leal legal al oscillation and somers somersaulting aultin are arc not calculated to keep the head of of the court above the current of popular contempt why wh y should such evidence be b eig elg ignored nored in theames ames amos case and sought with vindictive oppressiveness in that of newsom it must be upon the general reposition 0 laid down by attorney tit torney fal S ic las eason son bon ou that the saints are a virtuous people and consequently when evl evi deaice of sexual intercourse Is apparent IU I 1 to be presumed thit that it has jias occurred under udder the in marriage relation whereas such auch Is 1 by no means to be pre fre sume d th to non nou mor honsl no as loicy devereux Is in prison yet she has committed no crim crime she bb e is not even charged with one yet ted she is consigned to the fate i of the lavy law lawbreaker breaker pi placed aced a par with the thief ana and incendiary her sole offending consists in declining to tell who is the the father of her infant and with its mother tiie tile little babygirl baby girl is also of necessity cons conslaw consigned lae laL d to a place designed for felons the proceeding is perhaps more vindictive than most people are arc aware no special pains have been taken to bido an expressed intention of adjourning the present grand jury from time to time and keepin keeping z them in ai existence stence as a body until ilie the period fon for forthe the empanel inz ing in of the next nest arrives for the purpose ur of giving lucy devereux Dever cux and her infant no opportunity of beim bring released from prison seon feon if it the present j ury jury were ivere to go into court dud aud sta state te that the District Attorney had no f urther further business to place before them thein aud and ud ask to be discharged and ano the judge juIge act upon the request the young woman would deliberated be Ve liberated the body to she was required to answer being no longer in n existence the liberation of this unfortunate young woman who has broken no law and d Is charged with no crime would be a great grest disa appointment to such buch man mab malicious cious clous officials as the district attorney and probably some of those composing the grand jury who were placed in the panel because they were in sympathy with the prosecution prosecutions 1 of mormons cormons Mor mons 1 it is said that comparisons are odious 11 they are however not infrequently appropriate Occasion aly some so I 1 me of the phases 1 of the anti mormon crusade have bee been 11 I 1 compared to the methods ot of the iniquitous spanish inquisition history states t that it at cruelties cruel ties wore perpetrated pet rated upon the victims of the latter for the purpose ot of extorting in confessions from them Is not this the very process resorted to in the instance under consideration incarceration in a repulsive prison is applied in the case of a woman innocent ot of any crime in order to squeeze a statement from tier her IL in relation to the paternity of her babe nay more than this the demoniacal demon lacal disposition is evinced to render the tue infliction perpetual providing the witness refuses to auster answer au ster which we understand she intends to db the proposal to make wake one grand jury lap on to tb the other ao 0 that she shu could be held to answer to each eacil successively ces if it carried fo rivard in den ded bitely would make inake hers hera a case of imprisonment for life the infamy of this proposal is luten sailed in putting the government to unnecessary exp eap expense inse ense uy adjourning a gradd grand g rai ral dJury jury from time thue to time aside irom ane requIre requirements of legitimate business thus is the government made an involuntary participator in a piece bece 1 of I barbaric cruelty worthy ot of tl the dari dark darl ages but federal officials hero here are in the habit of claiming that they are not acting from personal motives in the antl anti mormon crusade they are operating in the capacity of agents of tais taig great republic and upon this question represent 01 or people it if this thi sisero were true and all this conc cone concen u grated greatness done up in innel e tes simai parcels really ed existed sted greal great heavens what a spectacle would be here presented 1 A ponderous republic Ite public of great magnitude centralizing its in ammoth mammoth powers to crush crash a helpless wo woman man and a tiny infant such hluch a su suggestion is not only an insult to tiie tue government of tins tius country but a parody on common sense the perfidy of tula tuia tin contemptible business should be placed eliere it it belongs it rests upu the shoulders of the actual operators operator it may rhay be asked what properly constituted people from whose hearts have riot not been ejected the tha last drop of the milk of human kindness think of such things ask them what estimate they would place upon the courage magnanimity benevolence ole oie nce nee and general manhood of the burly ruffian who taking advantage of the plenitude of his physical pa powers fells to the earth a poor weak helpless apers less woman the answer to each would doubtless form a fitting parallel except that the thare re would oe be a surplus in favor of the brumat inflictor of corporeal blows ills his cruelty would bo be of or a temporary character while that of the modem in qui rg is intended to be perpetual while the latter are inspired with cold calculating vindictiveness the act of the fhe formen former would be more the result of impulsive passion pas siou and therefore more susceptible of being excused if cruelty to the helpless can cau be palliated pallia ted under a any uy pretext whatever |
