| Show LOCAL bocal NEWS p FROSI WEDNESDAY DAILY dally OCT 7 1 amp p NEW isOM ne lie ED OX 0 thial TRIAL voil voit POLYGAMY AND the case case of the united states vs woi win D newsom New soro charged with polygamy and unlawful cohabitation was taken up this afternoon the usual proceedings 1 beding s in this thid class of cases obtained the following aurora jurors from the regular re cular eular panel pane i T C armstrong wm C lyne 1 L A scoville and adolph anderson i 1 the open venire produced james anderson Ander son sou C P mason alason J P 11 keat S 0 ewing samuel paul W N cole 0 D diehl diehi lehl iehl C a wilkes and J W V barrell barrel barc barrei louis cohn was excused having been a member of the grand jury which found the tae indictment 0 W WN N cole and jas P keat were peremptorily challenged by the def defense ense enge the indictment was then read al fleging that oil on november loth 1833 the defendant while having a wife livi living marn marald marf ld cd lucy luby and since thi thy thal that at time had llevad and cohabited with both women as ag his wives at the request of the prosecution the witnesses were excluded f from rom dile the court room i mrs catherine Newsom was the first witness called and sworn as to her competency as a witness she testified that she was married to win wm D newsom and was his tits legal wife ghe she had r been mai mal married ried 23 years I 1 the prosecution offered mrs new somas bomas som as a witness but the defendant refused to consent i mrs mary swain was called and Ae testified stifled that she was ivas a married ried lady she was acquainted with mrs and aud a also aiso iso mr air newsom haa had crossed the plain plains witti them tawni naj had been acquainted in sait sali lake city had visited the family a of times 1 visited mrs New newsom who w was as living liam with the defendant lefenda nt cli fil oid old not know whether they were married had bad seen them bothin in the ibe house together 11 all ail aud and had taken meals with them they had go children did not know who mccu pied pled the head of tile the table had seen them together in the thi evenin evening during tiie the last list two years and taken dinner and supper wilia them did not know any other members of the I 1 f family mrs airs newsom had call cail edar d fei fet eli ell anth har bar r husband never hea v fe ant acay where he came fr 0 and hi wife had vi visited s I 1 te A honse house ethey they vere were ther Blast sunday bundas at her invitation was last at defendants I 1 house this morning on second south between eighth and ninth east streets they iia ila bad had d lived there the past three years in tiie the tile same house there was a grocery store there on the same lot close to th the eliouse house but in a separate building there abere were vere four rooms and a pantry in the house only one bedroom the bedroom was used as a sitting room there was another house adjo adjoining ining there was no door bet betwee en them in the other b building bildin were three rooms ana th etore attached there was a dittli room litch n and an unfinished room they had bad been like this for lour tour years did not know how long iong they had haa been mccu pled pied it was more thai tha 4 three years they were occupied by lucy devereux haa had known Lucy about four years sears was introduced to her by mrs airs newsom had visited her in issa and 1884 had seen mr air john freeman there but never saw mr air newsom newson in the house lucy had a child did not remember the date it was vas a bout about thirteen months ago saw the mother the day the child casborn was s born korn did not see mr air newsom newson i there then or ht any time never saw defendant with tile the child or with lucy had never seen lucy in mrs new house had seen been mr newsom he was speaking to lucy in the tile yard vard i had naven never seen defendant go 20 into lucys bucys house fross cross ross examined the two houses joined about half the length of one room room lucy devereux had occupied the rooms but she shedid uld not know how how long heard she had rented them a porch connected both houses the roofs were separate the case was in progress as we went to press FROM erom DAILY dally OCT 8 a J I 1 na ten years george georgc thorn found guli gull guilty ty of attempting to procure an tb 0 tion an on elizabeth crai cral craig in span ish h fork some months ago was yesterday 1 aday roay sentenced by judge powers to ten 3 years gears ears imprisonment in th the penitentiary tent lary iary cases continued the cases of the united states vs henry din woodey indicted for unlawful cohabitation it united states vs royal koyal B young toung polygamy and unlawful cohabitation tta tion und fud and cud t the people vs agnes mcmurrin perjury were ivere today to day ordered continued until the thee next term of the third district court on the decrease the quarantine physician reports that yes erday four diore yellow flass were taken in diphtheria havins disappeared from each place but two iia ila nags hags are now out one at jos Mc in the elz eta eighth ath ward where there are three children afflicted afflict edby by the disease and one at mrs Mus gens gers in the eighteenth ward balisano musser fea fia suf from a very severe attack of tiie tile contagion fire at tooele thoele our correspondent JD J D informs us by letter from tooele thoele that a fire occurred at that place on the uth last dinst which entirely consumed the house of mrs airs john dunn sr a poor widow ane neighbors did their best to save the property but oft ing to an supply of water in the tile ditch they were unable to do so among amon other things consumed in the house hoase was a quantity ot of dried peaches which the old lady had bad toiled tolled to accumulate as a means of procuring her winters provisions no indictments dispatches received from green river announce th that at the grand jury failed to tind find indictments merlis merits against the perpetrators of the rock springs springe massacre or aily ally of them stating as the reason that there was no evidence produced to justify it this is a splendid commentary on 66 justice as it is in the territories in utah indictments are arc ground out as if by machinery for differences of opinion I 1 10 a wyoming they fall fail to present even one case with a mass of murders to work upon conference the following account of the proceedings in conference Con ferenze at logan yesterday afternoon and this mornin morning was received as a as special p ecial telegram ta to the news thia afternoon the speakers yesterday afternoon were apostle ia F sa M lyman and elder seymour B young their remarks were I 1 of a beneral frener srener al character and referred moie more particularly to the trials the saints were at present called to pass through brother lyman in unmeasured terms deprecated the actions of certain men who for many years had been looked upon and considered staunch in the faith and who had wavered in the hour of trial and hesitated not to go back upon the sacred covenants they had marte with their wives he attributed all ail huch such hucl such faltering fa terin to a neglect ne of religious duties and aid ald asserted that no man who had lived his rell reli religion lon ion and enjoyed the spirit of god would ever be found willing to renounce all ail any Y principle of his tits edth even in the face of imprisonment lie he exhorted cx the saints to be faithful faith falth lui tul and sald said all would mould yet be well brother young the sentiments contained ia ha trie tae epistle of til tit the first presidency he spoke of the earl carl canny earny UT days davs of the Church and bore a faithful faittie testimony ony to the work of god this morning thursday tiie tile speakers were P F D Pl Ichards richards and bishop john Q cannon fhe rhe former in er delivered delict reed an elaborate discourse upon the f I 1 principles of law as laid down by black tone aud made to the al laws that had been beell passed against tie tle tae the latter day saints in regard to kneir marriage relations rela vela ions clous ile he spoke of the trials bome shome people were called to pass at the present time and exhorted the people by drawing inferences feren ces from the sufferings ot of the former day saints to strict faithfulness ne to all the laws of god when celestial marriage was revealed there was no law against it congress had passed assed laws to entrap the saints who iad ead had no desire to break any constitutional ti law of the land THE TRE newson NEWSOM 1 CASE A VERDICT OF GUILTY ON OX botu BOTH COUNTS WEDNESDAY AlTE RyOON orson P arnold was sworn he knew know the defendant and also mrs airs newsom first saw them in the 0 commissioner court about ei eight lit ait months ago was never introduced 1 to mrs airs newsom george rodford was called lie ile knew the defendant andIN and Irs mrs newsom first saw them hem in 1865 when crossing the plains f from rom nebraska to utah haa had not received any introduction t mr ne newsom vv om was an employed hand and his wife was traveling with him they were in the next wagon to witness had heard defendant call cali mrs newsom ills his wife said he came from cape colony colony bild lild did not know where they were I 1 married ari or for how bow long lizzie lizzle devereux was the next witness she was living at rowland hall came to utah a little over two years ago in the summer of 1883 3 had lived at various places since then knew mr newson and airs was first introduced to defendant on the street and was introduced by her sister lucy to Mrs Newsom in the batters lat house in presence of defendant had never heard defendant speak of his marriage did not know mrs airs newsome newsoms New name lucy came boutah to utah over four years ago when witness came she was livin living with mrs austin lucy left there G in november 1883 and went to mr air new boins boulls witness had visited her sister who occupied the house next nest to the store always saw her in the kitchen there were three other rooms luc lucy occupied the bedroom there was another house very close occupied by the Ne newsoms newsome New nedom wom had seen the latter in lucys bucys rooms during last year many times this was in the daytime and evening bad never been there at nights all had used one kitchen part of ahe time and ate together before and aft after r the birth of lucys bucys child the child was about thirteen months old named mucella maud malid never heard it called any other name when the child was born luc lucy v lived in her own rooms mr air and mrs newsom were there about that time had seen defendant with the child but heard him call it his he had had bad child in his arms had bad not seen mr air newsom in lucys bucys bedroom but seen him taking supper with them this was last year witness had remained in her sisters house all night and slept with her before the birth hirth of other lier tier hild child went there on invitation of t loth both both defendant and lucy lad had never heard them ieter refer to jaca jach other as ausba husband nd and wa wife fe 1 hir air newsom was reputed to be the tile childs father lucy went to her rooms in newsoms newsome New in november witness was there the same day with her and also the defendant there was nothing said sald about a marriage mr newsom invited gitil witness ess there I 1 she remained until about 10 pm and went home alone leaving mr and mrs airs New and aud luc lucy ludy there the endowment house was wa 4 spoken of and of the three having been there she testified stifled te that on the day that her bleter bh ter lucy went to live liv e in New ew souls boms house nothing in was said of getting married the witness had never seen ar air newsoms newsome New writing her mother lucy devereux writings was jl living in england had heard mr air newsom speak of writt witting ing lug a letter to witness mother did not say what it was written about defendant asked witness if she had bad heard beard fr from 0 in her mother her mother afterward rote he her r what it was about the con coa with mr newsom took place in lucys bucys sitting room never peard beard of any otner letter lette r mr miller marshal Ir elands clerk that habad he bad had seen the defendant write his name lir mr varian vanan here witness a letter judge harkness asked mr miller low many times he had seen def defendant enfant sign his name nama and answered three times this was all the acquaintance with his writing mr varian state mr miller whether theror or not this si signature nature I 1 ha have N e shown to yb yz a i is New boms si signature e 0 objected bj acted to by the dete dele defense nhe abc mr varian argued that it was proper testimony to prove the thu handwriting andreade and read from authorities to sustain ills us position the question was submitted without argument by the defense and the coun court overruled the tile object objection lon ion mr air miller replied that the signature referred to was that of mr new essm it was very similar by the defense mr miller said his opinion wa was s based on a comparison of the two signatures made anade within fifteen minutes of the signing bf the pay roll tile toe defense moved to strike out the testimony of the witness the thel motion notion was overruled overrated by the court marshal marshai ireland was next placed on the au stand and testified that he had meen been the defendant delen deien dant sign his name three nee times timed and that he believed the signature to the letter to be the same fame defendant had signed the pay roli roll iu in the 1 Mar marshala shala bhala office witness had compared the papers at the time and his belief was irom broin knowledge at seeing defendant write and making the comparison the prosecution then off offered ered a letter purporting ur porting to have been written by the defendant defendant in utah to mrs lucy devereux in england the defense objected to its int introduction the court overruled the objection and commissioner mckay read the letter dated march 8 1884 placing the date ate of defendants marriage with lucy devereux on Nox november ember 13 1883 lucy devereux Deve neve reus was next calad called ud and sworn she lived in the lith wt ward ird on the corner of ninth east and second south bouth streets on the tile same lot as mr air newsom easom there thure was a passage between iler her house and the store there wa was no porch to her house bouse witness had a child she was not married varian who is the father of your child A I 1 refuse to answer varian have you vou been in the endowment house A yes cariati van an in november 1883 IM were you married or sealed to W D newsom A no sir not then varian varlan when were wele you sealed seale d to him A in november 1881 varian thal thai would be four years a ago 0 AI 1 guess it would varian how long had you been in the country A A few months witness went to live at mrs aus tins when she came to utah did not know defendant defendants ls writing varian have ha e you lived with him as his wife A I 1 refuse to answer varian showing letter ietter did you ever see that letter A no oh yes in the jury room not before witness arst first met defendant at mrs airs austins akstins Aus tins where he came to see her was not married was sealed for time and eternity moved in november 1883 to mr air newsoms newsome New iid lid lillise sise lise she aenied rented the rooms and provided for herself had always had rooms of her own varian since the day of november 1883 and prior arlor to the of april 1883 chave you occupied the same seame bed with etli efm him bim A 1 refuse to answer mr varian insisted on an answer to this and the first question declined who is the father fattier of your C hild child the defense defenso objected to the question as immaterial The Court overruled the objection objects ohl forthe for the reason that the birth of the child was an indication 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