Show p GUILTY r J jf SNOW CONVICTED ON T THE F segregated cailide chy CAY lidE J JAS 11 II NELSON ENTERS A PLEA OP OF GUILTY A J f r OGDEN jaap jan jana 1880 alws Y I 1 1 P I 1 i the case of jas H nelson sen charged with unlawful cohabitation with his hiff own wives was called in the first district court today to day and the defendant withdrew his former plea of not guilty and by permission of the court entered a plea of GUILTY sentence in this and the S snow low cases will be pronounced on erida frida friday y the tho ath dinst the case of the U S vs lorenzo snow was resumed harriet snow deposed to riding out in thebus the buggy g 1 gato to the farm with defendant and his sister miss ellia Elif elifair hir ciR R snow some time during 4 the year earI earl 1884 on their return they all alighted at the brick house P F madsen probate judge of box bos elder eider county Count produced and read the dates of dee deeds s granting to all the wives of defendant except minnie snow part parts of the old homestead as places of residence which they nad had each occupied for many years past pasti some of them for 21 25 a yea yua years and all of them during the year ar ile he also produced deeds granting to mrs airs minnie minute snow the brick house for her home where also the defendant made his home during the year 1884 and said sald it had been the tile general repute in brigham city that defendant lived at and made the brick house his home SNOW exclusively for quite a number of years pait past pa st witness never saw the defendant at auy ot of th the other homes of the wives wises d duling ux n isa ish 1884 he then described the sto stone wall which had before been published thu the examination of mr air madsen was similar to that on the former trial 11 E bowring lived in brigham city on the same block as the resonie residence of mr aft snow in which he passed in going to and from his place of business defendant lived in the brick houle houwe house with minnie snow and did so during g the year 1884 and witness also affirmed that it had been the general repute that he had lived with minnie exclusively clu ciu fora number of years past this was the last witness called during their examination the prosecution attempted to have the witnesses explain trap doors under ground cellars etc in iu the house ot of defendant but none of them knew of any such subterranean retreats or whether or enous not they were supplied with dan dau aangier erous T 4 i 1 4 j man MANTRAPS MAN MAX TRAPS AND SPRING GUNS for the destruction of impertinent in trude ii mr V Bler bier bierbower bower made the opening speech in which he told the J jury ury thit that all it was necessary for him to do was wai to prove that defendant held autv out these women as his wives no matter whether he lived with them as wives or not the speaker simply held to the ruling of the courts and their definitions ot of cohabitation ile he said the prosecution rose cution charged that defendant rad ead had acknowledged all these women as his wives and they further charged that he had bad lived and cohabited with them as such from the date of their theli marriage to the present date according to the ahe denini defini definizio definitions tio ns of the court invy M kirkpatrick irk patrick esq made the first address for the defense in which he showed that from the remarks of the prosecution there had bad been no evi delce dence whatever to establish the guilt of the defendant this the prosecution must show before he could be convicted the indictment referred to the year 1884 and the jury had no authority to look beyond that time and it had been positively proved thaude fondant had made ahde the brick bluck HOUSE exclusively his home that he had never lived or slept in any of tho thoo other houses nor with any other wo woman man than minnie snow as als bis wite wife counsel then previewed the tes tImoney of several witnesses and ref refer referred erred red fed to toa ainu number aber of gatherings and reunions that had taken place in brigham city where larga largo numbers of peo people le assembled for the purpose 0 of celebrating c e ei birthdays etc ac at which the families of defendant were present I 1 but it had bad not been shown jn in evide ovide acet hat that he sat gat at the same table tabie or occupied the same seat with either of them counsel then read the third section of the edmunds law under mr bir k snow now bow was arraign arraigned eJ and showed that his lis client had not in id any sense violated that law dm dut inz ins the time charged for the ahe definition of the word cohabitation was not given by the supreme court of utah until june 1883 1885 but the defendant was charged with offending pt against this third section of the law during 1884 1 the court at this point interrupted counsel and intimated that he was ar guing quing and instructing the jury on the construction ruction of the law and that if he continued to do 00 so tiie the court would instruct the ju lury jury ry TO PAY NO ATTENTION to 0 o what counsel ald aid said on that subject counsel argued that the defendant and his wives were united by a bond an and dunion union that were indissoluble Indis sol soi uble able hey e were anns nus hus marrie married by a higher 1 er law aw tha than that of man t their air union was was seale sealed by the finger of god there was a sy sympathy pathy and affection existing between t een the father and his children and their mothers that no law could sever ile he was bound to provide for all their necessities their comforts education etc and for these purposes he had the right to visit them at the homes which he had secured f for or them this he be had done but he had never lived with any of them except one i as AA his wives during the time charged inalle in the complaint if the jury therefore were nvere to bring ina lna in a v verdict of guilty it would be to make the law tive live in this tills case defendant had done nothing more wore in his relations with his wives and children during the year seal issa than his obligations made it im operative pera tive upon him to do the address of mr kirkpatrick was eloquent replete with sound law logic and argument and tough lough tto to convince any jury that the defendant was t NOT GUILTY AS CHARGED 11 the speech occupied about thirty minutes and was listened to with profound almost breathless attention by nearly all present all of whom beeme seemed deeply impressed counsel believed the jury would acquit the defendant at 2 pm m uon non hon P F S richards addressed the jury for the de defense feuse lie he said that thit bis his client might have been a polygamist he might have acknowledged that all these thes e women were his wives he might mi lit have lived with them as such from the of january to december slat 1884 but this had i rot not been proved and these facts must be proved before he could be convicted of unlawful cohabitation under the edmunds law no one aftem attempted eted to deny that THEY WERE HIS 1118 WIVES WIVES but that thai he be had not lived with them as a husband lives with his wives had been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt in fact it had been proved that he had bad never visited any of them except once during the year 1884 and that visit was to see his gick bick daughter who had met with a severe accident coh Coi counsel insel showed that the evidence in this respect was complete and I 1 in aref refutable mutable it had bad not been shown in evidence that the defend defendant ant aut had at anytime any time and in anyway any way or manner held out to the public during the time charged these women as his wives except dil All minnie nuie nute with whom he had lived as his wife exclusively counsel reminded the jury that there never sas vas was a grander time or opportunity than the present for them to prove thim themselves selves true men and do an act of j justice eto to the defendant at the bar and ano let the present forum be not only a temple of justice but a temple tempie ten ae 1 I 1 of refuse to his client yli the e speech of mr nir richards though not lengthy was forcible able ant aal 4 energetic and elicited the attention and intense interest of the large audience that thronged thron ged the courtroom court room 1 mr air V Bler bier bierbower bower made the thie clodin closing speech in which he claimed that instead of the defendant living within the law he had studiously endeavored to evade the law counsel vas vas there on behalf ot of the government to vindicate and establish a principle and when that principle was established he would not hurt a hair of head but he wished the defendant and all others similarly situated to comeback come back within the law some of his remarks were calculated to convince the jury that they ought to CONVICT THE NT on a principle of public publia policy and no not t because he was guilty a as s charged in the indictment reference was made to the great I 1 influence n ot of the defendant because of his prominent position in the mormon church which was objected to oy dy the defense de lense the court reminded the counsel that they were not there to settle the mormon problem that no man could bete ylie that question but that the object of f the trial was to establish the guilt or innocence of the defendant 1 bierbower said there were hundreds of married cormons mormons Mor Alor mons who were trying to come within provision the of thelah the law but they were not the ones onea who were wanted when however a prominent one vas was found one who was W i NEAR THE till THRONE and ind who was vad inthe 11 law helas he was the rn mad anthey they thet were after such were the men who wh 0 were wanted and such was mr air snow add arid the evia evla evidence ence in his case was strong enough to convict a dozen men 4 at 20 minutes past 3 lim aim pm the court charged charge dAhe the jury la which he instructed thern thein tit fit if they during ah he 1 the defendant L nd had lived with or cohabited with the named in from the I 1 of January to the of december or at any period between those dates they must tind rind him guilty or if f from roin the evidence they found that he be had cohabited with any auy two of them during the periods named they must lind find him guilty in order to convict they must fini nini beyond a reasonable rea doubt they must accept the law as interpreted b by the court and not as by the bounsy counsel the court added a new anew feature in h his Is charge in this instance he said sald if the jury found that the defendant had a legal wife at present living and if it he supported u ift arted and provided for her and he held heid her r out ut as then lived with another as his wi wife lethey they must tind fled him guilty the jury were absent about ten minutes when they returned to the courtroom court room and rendered a VERDICT OF or GUILTY as charged in the indictment T the lie ile jury were unanimous in their decision at 20 minutes to 5 p m another jury were called to try lorenzo snow on the third or ds legated e charge of unlawful cocab cohabitation I 1 tation from july 1883 to december 1833 WEBER |