| Show that lewd decision A Il corres ponde 0 ut query propounds the following fl ing concerning the point ont at issue in judge zanes decision F an fn n the Vau van vandercook dercook cases on saturday judge zane in the habeas corpus proceedings held that the city ordinance was valid the words lewd and lascivious conduct i having reference to open liets acts he also said that the arrest was illegal the warrant not nut showing a breach of the ordinance now if the portion of the warr warrant allt atit published in the papers was a correct copy the actual language odthe of the ordinance beine used haw how now F i it that lewd and lascivious conduct in an in ordinance cafice means one thing and when written on a warrant ot of arrest means another was there any evidence be bei 1 fore the court that the act complained of was in private if query will examine the whole matter lose closely Iose losely Jy and give the subject reasonable consideration lie he will see that the question que stion atlon was not as to the validity of the ordinance or the thel of the arrest the tile t situation was simply fly plythie this two officers ot the court courts lad had been arrested for having committed teda a filthy crime a num number berof of other anti auti mormon morality scree chers were in imminent dan daner danger 11 er of being 11 placed in the same box and hav having 1 ng their infamy exposed the case was a desperate one with them and something must be done to prevent the truth from being made public c it was for this end that tha chief justice risked a reputation of years yeara of official life in order to hide from the world the immoral practices of his associates so socia tes the words lewd and iasci lacci lascivious conduct used in ill the ordinance were aiso also latso used in the warrant if they could be reasonably interpreted to mean one thing in the former instance there was nothing to show that the same words should not receive the same definition in the latter document there was nothing op on the face of the warrant to indicate that the offense was not committed openly as the judge held the expression was intended to mean nor was there any an evidence introduced to show that tile the octvas act vas a private one the warrant alleged the offense designated in trie tae ordinance in the same language and a contrary state of facts was not shown the validity of the ordinance being the ques question tion raised by Vander cooks attorneys tor and not any supposed difference ance between the section in dispute and the wording of the warrant the discharge of the prisoner was a fore foregone cone zone conclusion be because ause of its necessity for the anti antl 66 mormon cause as we stated before the case was heard it will be perfectly plain to a casual observer that in every instance where a 11 mormon is is in te rested all decisions ifill mill he be adverse to him if made by judge zane but if a hallowed deputy marshal or an boffl officer of the court commits an offense off ense enso noth nothing lill itil will be left undone to turn him loose upon the community to continue his bis pernicious acts and then hold him up as an example for those who are struggling upward to the scandal bongers mongers plane piane of immorality to pattern after the motto of the utah courts is not let justice be done but down with the 1 mormons cormons Mor mons 1 11 is wanted of the whereabouts thereabouts of anthony shaw if afi all ali alive ej farm formerly riy ariy of new now york state who was iasa jast heard from at nauvoo or of his descendants if any there be fhe bhe he or they are heirs to an estate of which they may learn further by conferring with or writing to geo F gibbs book B this city |
