| Show A SPECIMEN CASE yesterdays division of the farce that has been enacted in commissioner mc kays kaya office was repeated this morning n I 1 anere was no formal opening of tiie tite the Courtaud court aud and the commissioner prosecuting cutin g attorney and marshals demonstrated beyond a rea reasonable donabie dunable doubt that the failure to produce miss hu hughes was the result of disinclination tio n on their part the cause of this was they had discovered that t the ccase case trumped up against mr cannon had not a particle of evidence to sustain the complaint made by deputy marshal marshai S SHU 11 gilsong ilson lison some of the methods employed by the official anti antl 1211 mormon ormon crusaders were were exhibited during the investigation one witness testified that he had been off offered ered cred money to td put up a job on mr cannon so it appears that in addition to the despicable spotter system that has been established resort is had to bribery and co to for formulae mulat foundationless suits against tin unoffending offending and respectable citizens the baseless charges against mr cannon as exhibited by the examination just closed or which practically closed two days daya ago serves to show the utterly contemptible character of the prosecution ile he was accused of marry marrying ingin in plural conjugal relationship a highly respectable and intelligent young lady the case is brought into court and the accused put to great trouble and inconvenience and all the evidence adduced to sustain the accusation Is that the gentleman had several times visited a public institution of which the lady in question is an official that he had loaned her a horse with which to drive out in her bu buggs buggy ag yg aad had been seen conversing with miss hughes fl on ba the front step of Z CM C M I 1 bu building notwithstanding the shadowy ground upon which U S attorney dickson generally desires mormons cormons Mor mons held over who are accused of of fences of the matui e that was alleged against mr cannon this was too untenable even for him and that is saying jaylim a great wat deal so he magnanimously mom sf casts the poly polygamy amy charge on one side and requests that the accused be held in bonds to answer on that of unlawful ul cohabitation yet the testimony adduced was as weak in relation to the one charge as the other it was shown in evidence that since the passage of the edmunds law mr cannon had resided in the same house as his wives but occupied different rooms except when taking his meals and in ing iny with ith them and his children in ogan ordinary iry ary family intercourse only that and n nothing at hin more to ask that a man 1 l 1 7 ip be beheld held heid to answer to tea a grand jury on such a showing sho ezi eci 11 1 is s supremely absurd the edmunds d law under which these proceedings are arc brought does not specify that only those guilty of cohabitation with more than one woman in the marriage relation shall be liable to its penalties badas bad as the law is it makes no such odious discrimination arwill it will be seen se enthen then that it would have been just as consistent so far as the testimony in this case is is concerned to have requested that the accused be held had he been a non mormon and an unmarried man providing it had been proved that he resided in the same habitation with more than one woman this afternoon outrage was added insult I 1 when commissioner mckay decided to hold the accused in bon bonds s of 1500 to answer to the grand jury on the tie charge of unlawful cohabitation |
