Show tilie THE FULL PENALTY IN CITY utah july ills 11 1883 1885 editor deseret the court room was crowded this morning with persons who desired ti V hear from the court the sentence pronounced on the defendants F A brown and moroni brown convicted of the crime of unlawful ul cohabitation tio with their wives in response to the inquiry of hon F 8 richards of the defense nse his ili lii honor said he would be pleased to hear anything counsel had to say in favor of the character 0 of f the tile defendants ile he said F A brown was a man highly respected in this comma community anity and had bad held many positions of TRUST he has filled them with dignity honor and inte integrity grit and counsel desired the court to be lenient and that ills his honor would remember remmer the becom emendation men dation to mercy by the jury ile he also entered a similar plea piea iea lea for moroni brown the court said it gave him no pleasure whatever to sentence them or even any man for breaking the law but while he gave the defendants credit tor for bainn being conscientious iaus laus in the bract practice I 1 cc of plural marriage they ley must five yive give him cre ere credit it for being conscientious in n the discharge of his bis duty as an a n meer officer of the aan government in administering administering the law he said he was grieved to be compelled to pass so severe a be sentence n upon them but the majesty of the thelah law must be upheld Francl francis sA A brown then received TILE THE FULL PENALTY of the law namely to be imprisoned for six months in the Penitent renitent penitentiary ia pay y a annne aulne tine of and that he stand com corn fitted until it is paid moroni albron brown then stood up and read a statement the full text of which is published elsewhere which was listened to with respectful attention by the t he court and with seemingly almost b breathless r athi interest by the immense audience aub in the court room at the conclusion ol 01 his bis speaking his honor said notwithstanding the defendant had entered into polygamous marriage in good faith falth ne dess less it was alleach of the law and be he regretted that he could not the sentence altogether ile he could not however and painful as it was he would do the same if defendant was his honors own faher moroni brown was then sentenced ed to be imprisoned in the utah penitentiary for six months and to pay y a fine of three hundred dollars ania anga and aud stand committed until paid it is putting it mildly to say that nearly every person both in and but out of the court room was ASTOUNDED AT THE SENTENCES when the court was expressing so much grief and sorrow at the unenviable condition in which the prisoners are placed and possessing as he does discretionary power it was thought believed and hoped that ills his honor would be he mild and especially so when judge powers rowers said that the defendants had behaved so honorably during the trial they pleaded guilty and had bad the witnesses on hand band who might be required to testify against them they gave the court no unnecessary trouble nor did they put the government to any unnecessary expense hence when the sentence was pronounced by the court it FELL LIKE A A thunderclap THUNDER CLAP upon the cars of all who heard it their countenances fell tell and disappointment and grief were depicted depleted upon the physique of each the prisoners were ivere remanded to the custody of the I 1 marshal harshal and tonight to night will be taken to the penitentiary I 1 reserve my comments for tor a future time WE WEBER B E it |