Show MORE LAW LAWLESS SS WORK F FOB 0 R FEES NOT less than twenty persons we are informed were brought to this city by the officers in the latest raid at american fork what for only four persons were arrested the rest were i brought here as witnesses american fork Is lain in the first judicial district there are at least lour U S commissioners in that district one of them is at provo not more than fifteen miles from americal Ameri Amer icax cai fork yet all these people were brought into the third judicial district a distance of thirty five miles why are defendants and witnesses of often ten having nothing to do with the case brought from one district into another anoche r where the cases cannot be tried Is it not to play lay into t the e hands an 0 of t the e fee ee fiend en mckay akay and make for the cers at the expense of tae united states government how much does the marshal make on these unlawful ul and unnecessary hauls from a distance this is something that should be looked into it is after the fashion of the kentucky way of doing business as disclosed in the th evidence against eli H murray when U S marshal in that state rt it L is all wrong and a fraud upon lipon the treasury it is ia also an imposition upon the people officers have no BO right to bring them from their homes in another district to favor a rapacious official and maka lat fees for themselves the law la w requires that a defendant charged with an indictable misdemeanor shall be taken before a magistrate in the county in which he is arrested re ted I 1 w who 0 must a admit t t the e defendant efe ant to bail ail berti certifying yin g t the e fact on the warrant an and t the e 0 officer must then discharge the defendant efen t from arrest and del deliver ver the warrant arrant and undertaking of ball bail to the clerk of the court at which the defendant is required to appear the principle governing this matter is that the defendant when arrested must be taken before the nearest magistrate and in the county in which he is arrested there has to be a change inaugurated inmany in many respects if the law istone is to be enforced it must be enforced legally or there will be trouble let the people be informed as to their rights let th the e leading men in the several settlements post themselves and obtain legal advice on the rights of defendants and witnesses and then take pains to make the people acquainted with them the country is being overrun with ruffians who have remained unmolested in their depredations so much and so long that they seem to think they can do just as they please let no one resist the law but there is no law or commandment of earth or heaven which requires anen men and women to submit to these illegal and unjustifiable raids which are made to spread terror and dismay disturb business and dra drag people from their homes to distant places for the profit and emolument of insatiate fee fiends and to swell their ill gotten gains |