Show PECULIAR JUSTICE IN prosecution of B F Y hampton f for or planning to detect lecherous men in breaking the law and violating decency i is one more among the many novelties in jurisprudence which render the administration of justice in utah both pecullar peculiar and aud uncertain we do not believe that iu in all judicial history a case can be found in which a person accused of arranging with another to open and conduct a house of III ill fame was ever prosecuted for conspiracy it nor do we think there is one in wah which a person so arranging was deemed worthy of double the punishment of one actually engaging in the business in this case M mr If hampton ampton is sentenced to imprisonment for one year it if he had been convicted of keean keeping 9 a bad house he could only have been imprisoned for six months so the penalty imposed by the court announces that the punishment for talking about doing a wrong thing should be twice as gre great greab at as for committing the evil then the lewd woman with whom mr hampton was accused ot of conspiring to open a house for vile purposes is 18 not prosecuted although althous gh it has been proven that she kept the house bouse and carried on her filthy I 1 trade therein and it the theory of the prosecution is correct she was guilty of conspiring to open houseas house as well as of act actually actu airy alry alfy keeping it so that the man against whom there is but the flimsiest flims iest kind of testimony for conspiring only is sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law while the woman as to whose guilt there is not the slightest pretence predence pre tence of a doubt and who is not only guilty of conspiracy to keep but of actually keeping and operating a house houge of ill fame is set at liberty with the sin soaked lechers lechars who have been convicted of resorting to such places for lewdness T this h is kind of justice is what makes me men n chary of trusting their liberty and pro ero property yo erty to the vagaries of law in utah U courts they see no likelihood of a fair adjudication of their cases and so they determine to avoid the issue if possible until there is some likelihood of equity A mormon does not anticipate a legal trial in the proper sense of the term but only to be cincher cinched cin ched it if he is unfortunate enough to be placed in legal jeopardy mr hampton is to be punished for exposing the filthy practices of persons persona in sympathy with the prosecution against mormons cormons Mor IMor mons 11 the persons exposed and is not denied are to be exempt irom from all punishment and the people of utah looking upon such a travesty of justice as this are expected to fall down on their knees and worship the law and its administrators tra tors our respect for such pr proceedings ce edings and those who conduct them is egui egnal to the esteem we have forthe for the foul debauchees debau chees who gain immunity thereby and for the deeds which have blackened them as with the smoke of hades mr hampton ampton li has become a victim to conspiracy A federal officer against a ainest whom the strongest strong gest evidence was on hand of a flagrant crime was set at liberty without trial by the same court that with words of rancor rancor gave mr hampton the utmost penalty in 1 n his power bail was all right for lor vandercook why not for ila lla hain Harn 1 Is there no remedy for the victim vict im Is there no habeas corpus for his case or is it to be regarded as a settled fact that when justice is required and equal rights are demanded the answer is I 1 no mormon need apply I 1 I 1 |