| Show THE AMERICAN AM p FORK RAID HOW THE SPOTTER DUNCAN REPAYS KINDNESS As stated bated in last evenings issue the deputies made an early raid upon on american fork yesterday mor morning mig I 1 shortly after 5 three of them with the spotter wm win duncan as a guide presented themselves at the residence of brother wm win Wag wagstaff staffs aroused that gentleman from his slumbers and placed him under arrest on a charge of violating the provisions of the edmunds law by having more than one wile As an illustration of the great interest felt for him by the representatives of the american government alias the fee hunting crusaders deputy vandercook informed him that lie be and his bis companions had bad trav traveled eleo all the way from salt lake city durant during the night specially to wait upon him im brother wagstaff was no doubt greatly impressed by this manifestation of solicitude and condescension on their part and considered it quite disinterested es especially when he learned that he and hr his wife and a poor old blind lady named hannah DU worth who had occupied a portion of his house and shared his generous bounty for a number of years were to be required to accompany them to salt lake city into another judicial district for examination before commissioner mckay notwithstanding there is a U S commissioner and grand jury also in session bession at provo only a short distance away from brother Wag staffs place the gang went to the residence of brother wm E R webb where they arrested him on a similar charge and subpoenaed his wife martha and his sons george H and ernest and proceeded thence to the wagstaff farm half a mile out of town where they subpoenaed a lady named isabella adamson to whom theal the ace Is rented and whom they accuse accused 0 of f being the wife of the proprietor and questioned as to whether slid she had bad not lived with him as such while this was going on another squad of deputies visited the houses of john P kelly and john durrant arrested them on similar charges and subpoenaed as witnesses against e each h man five persons making a force of twenty in all whom they returned to this city with a goodly gist grist for the mckay mill into which t they ey were ushered immediately after their arrival the accused persons waived an examination and were bound over to await the action of the grand lury jury of the first district court the bondsmen being james and henry chipman and robert Kip and the sum in each case being 1500 the witnesses were also placed under bonds in the sum of each to appear the grand jury in provo on saturday next the alleged second wife of wm win R webb a certain jane goode not being in attendance deputy vandercook was questioned as to the reason and declared that he had visited her house and failed ailed to get beet admittance but that he had bad seen he he at thre tare window and read the subpoena to her a statement by the way which is denied by other parties but brother webb and a friend I 1 named oldfield proffered ewed to go ser security purity for her appearance before the grand ju jury and their bond was accepted amdi the spotter duncan is a person who has given the municipal authorities of am american erlean fork trouble for some time past by b we selling liquor without a license etc he some time since drew draw a deadly weapon on the city mashal there for which he was fined by bv an alderman and took an appeal to the first district court judge powers scored him heavily for his general meanness on passing sentence and required him to doubtless pay ay a line fine of 50 the penalty being doubtless lighter than it otherwise would have been because of bishop bromley who happened to be present in court I 1 appealing for mercy for him parties in american fork sub bribed money to pay the fine and he was released and entered into the a spotting otting business with disposition the 3 of a fiend the first man he betrayed samuel wagstaff being one who thad specially at the time of a recent death in his family on seeing I 1 ng duncan with the deputies brother wagstaff wago taff asked if he was now being used as a spotter and learning that such was the case he said well mr duncan when you have another child the die just call upon me and I 1 will be friend you vou 19 |
