Show TRE THE JENSEN CASE FAILING TO OBTAIN sufficient EVI DENCE THE prosecutions HIRED MEN FURNISH TESTIMONY TO ORDER the case of the united states vs andrew jensen charged with living with wit h J 0 hanns jensen and anna andersen as his bis wives from may 1 IM 1883 to april 1 IM 1886 was tried in the third district court today to day before the following jury T W whitely S S maxwell aaron 8 sullivan ul livau C E brim D 0 murphy henry carrigan Carr ifan L goldberg E A whittaker F edward dward roche boche cornelius hunt W E bleaney Bl enney W V F Ga fairish irish mr dickson asked whether mr jeas beasen n would testify but was answered that in this case the defendant could not furnish the evidence johanna jensen was called and testified that she was the lawf lawful ua difo of the defendant she married him 14 years ago he then had bad no other wife to mr dickson I 1 know johanna P r jensen that is my name anna andersen jensen was called but bat was not present mr jensen husen testified that since may 1 1883 she ban lived in mill creek with her husband she had children bt by defendant the youngest six months 0 old d I 1 know anna andersen jensen I 1 have known her eight years she has bas never lived in the same fame house bouse with me she had not lived next door during all ail of the last seven years she may have come there six years ago aeo I 1 own the place I 1 live on and also where anna andersen lives I 1 did not testily before the grand jury that my husband owns it the defendant di did not give the pace place to me he never owned owne it I 1 never rented to anna andersen I 1 can see the house if I 1 look there is no house between that aul and mine there has been a fence but there Is none now they are both on the same side of toe road anna andersen has two children one five years and the other four years old those are all alii I 1 know ol of I 1 saw her three or four weeks ago I 1 remember being subpoenaed to go before the commissioner D er I 1 saw her a couple of weeks before then she was called anna andersen I 1 know her as anna andersen not as jensen jenseni you added the name jensen I 1 thought you on meant anna andersen I 1 have ayot no t beard beard tier her called anna jensen or mrs j jensen I 1 call her anna I 1 am not related to h her e r her chil j dren do not call we me aunt they have been at my house I 1 do not know whether my husband was there at the time or not I 1 do not remember hav ing seen him in their t b ei r presence p re sence never heard beard them call hi him in fat facher h er do dont know anything of anna ann andersen Ander sens affairs airs I 1 have not seen the defendant in her house I 1 may have seen him about that house but do not know I 1 think I 1 have seen him no one told me to say 1 I dont know to every question my husband has lived with me when ne lie has been home all the time he was often up in mill creek canon I 1 do not know where anna anderson or her children are I 1 saw her children on the morning the officers beame but their mother was not there minnie re petersen was called and testified I 1 live ilive at mill creek I 1 know defendant know his bis ilife bohanna johanna So hanna do not know anna andersen may have seen her I 1 have seen her children I 1 do not know their family name never heard them called jensen george B bailey was sworn and said I 1 live in mill creek know defendant fen dant do not visit him do not know anna andersen I 1 have seen her atthe at the meetinghouse meeting house buthot but not in company with defendant she never nevera visits my house do not know her children I 1 am pretty well acquainted quain ted have not heard that she was married have seen children with her but do not know whose they were never saw a child in her arms have seer seen her in company with several persons deputy marshal tom F smith was called he said I 1 served subpoenaed subpoena es in this case on the ath of april I 1 arrested the defendant I 1 conversed about his wives he asked to have his second wife released because she was wag sick ick and it would injure her to bring her to town he said he would plead guilty he said her child was only a week old I 1 went to the second cifes house but could not get in the defendant went with me and the woman and baby were gone mrs jensen went to bring her back but could not mr jensen was greatly worried deputy deau ty i pranks franks was with us the action was a topic of conversation all the way to town and he wanted to plead guilty to mr sheeks 1 I do not consider it I 1 is my business to collect testimony I 1 never caution defendants against speaking he speaks the english language pretty well this cod conversation was in his yard and in the second cifes house mrs jensen was there mr franks heard the conversation I 1 this afternoon 0 D hendrickson was sworn he said I 1 live at MUL mill creek kno know withe the defendant know abbit hilj wife johanna have seen anna ander j sen anna andersen is reputed to be bej the defendants wife the people gen 14 brally say so d this evidence was objected to b by overa y th the defense and the objection was over ruled by the court 1 cross examined I 1 have heard qui quite I 1 te a number of people say so perhaps half a dozen E A franks te testified stifled I 1 am a deputy united states marshal I 1 served sub on two witnesses in the jensen case one an aged lady and one who claimed to be mrs airs jeus jensen en could not say whether the latter was the same who testified here today to day I 1 heard jensen say flay his second wife had a child two weeks old and was not notable able to go out the witnesses I 1 served did not appear before the commissioner I 1 hearm hea roMr jensen say his second wife went over the hill in a northeast direction from whre I 1 lived I 1 arrested mr jensen heard him say his wife was in delicate health he did not say first or second I 1 heard beard jensen say the aitu witness es 8 was not necessary as he intended to plead guilty cross exact examined ned I 1 saw annie andersen saw no child but hea heard r d C one ine crying and should judge it was i q quite alt 6 young the prosecution rested their case s mrs caroline ericksen was called callec for the defense she said I 1 know annie andersen I 1 saw sair her in salt lake less than two weeks ago she has not got a yount child cross examined I 1 am rs slightly lightly acquainted quain ted with annie andersen she had bad no young child when I 1 saw her on the street in salt lake city mr klokson did you think fromi from her appearance abt W she was about to have ft child witness I 1 could not tell mr dickson you think she was witness maybe she was I 1 dont know mr dickson Is that what you yon thought witness yes sir niels D jensen testified I 1 know annie andersen saw her three weeks ago ahe has not had a child within the last six months cross examined I 1 live in mill creek I 1 saw her in salt lake on first bouti souti south street just bowed bo wed to her dont know homshe how she was dres dressed sedi I 1 have never been at her house I 1 never biever heard of her having a child I 1 have seen her very often and would have known it if she had bad the defense rested their case and the jury began the case was unfinished when we went to press FROM MONDAYS DASY MAY 3 primary conference the primary conference of davis county will be held in the centreville Cen treville meeting house bouse next saturday may ath commencing at 10 a am in earlier closing the proprietors of barber shops in this city 29 in number have agreed to close their places of business at 8 pm commencing this evening this rule does not include saturday nights and evenings before holidays an octogenarian this morning we received a friendly call from rather father greaves of provo he is still as actively interested as ever in the production and manufacture of utah silk two weeks ago last saturday he was 80 years old and is yet hale bale and hearty dismissed about two years jears ago one willard crawford of idaho was put out of the theatte by officer wilcken for creating a disturbance and afterward brought suit against the officer and others for damages the suit was dismissed in the third district court this morning at plaintiffs cost broken limb on saturday afternoon an aged lady Mra jenstrom LU residing in the W ward ard was getting on to a table for the purpose ot of abiu fixing a g some window curtains bhea s she h e slipped and ana fell breaking her limb above the knee considering the advanced age of the unfortunate lady th the injury is serious she received surgical attention strike bound A private oelele gram sent from council bluffs at am yesterday by elder E T woolley says the company immigrants wui will leave here this evening at A all wel A later dispatch dated laramie W wyoming a in may 3rd ard says we we are strike bound and expect to remain here all night perhaps longer laramie to is not the most pleasant place lace in 14 the world for a company of immigrants migrants to be detained at and we tr trust st they will not have to wait there long change of firm on saturday judge adge robert harkness of the firm of lie bennett tt harkness kirkpatrick retired from the partnership co hereto tore lore existing and will take a rest from his legal labors mr harkness has been known for the last ten years as one of the ablest members of the salt lake bar mr wm win M bradley his nephew who has been in theoffice the office about four years succeeds to the A firm rm which is now known as bennett kirkpatrick bradley artillery battery B has beenau been on parade yesterday andio and today to day and its evolutions have attracted considerable sid erable attention A number of shots blank ones of coursed course were fired each day from the first level flateau plateau reached on ascending the ench bench towards fort douglas the guns uns being aimed towards the city alithe and the men showed by the manner in which they handled the guns that they had been well drilled the clear ringing voice of tae officer in command commana command was also conspicuous being distinctly heard at a long distance even above the notes of the bugle A foundling about 9 last evening the attention of mrs robert kobert daft who lives on fifth south street east was attracted by a noise at th the door of her residence and on going to see what was the matter she discovered a girl irl baby five or six weeks old which 1 ead d been bee left there by some one the infant was taken in an and a cared for and up to the present no clue has been found to indicate who are the childs parents time was in the history of salt lake city when such occurrences were unheard of but the civilization of the age seems to be fairly upon us the jensen case on saturday shortly before 4 p in the case of the of the united states vs andrew jensen of mill creek charged with living with with two wives was given to the jury after being out about half bait an hour the jurors returned and asked to hear part oi of the testimony over again but this was refused and they again retired and brought in a verdict of guilty mr moyle Moy lefor for the defendant asked that sentence be deferred to june but district attorney dickson objected and the matter was laid over until today d a this mornine the court fixed fix ed monday day may as the date of passing judgment I 1 death of father judd in 12 another bother martof part of the paper W lw to amo tice of the death of father thomas A judd at the ripe age of 84 years he was an old member of the church having 1 been baptized in 1836 at westport ontario canada he came to this thia territory in 1849 and was therefore one of its pioneers although he be did not reach here wita with the original band of 1847 he was greatly respected on account of his sterling qualities u es be being ng a fa faithful ahful latter day saint aint onest honest and unobtrusive he has n not 0 t figured conspicuously in public a affairs airs more ore perhaps on account of his odest modest and retiring disposition than from any other cause MIS bis wife whom he has now gone to join died on the of february 1880 he had five children one of whom W E R judd well known in this region departed this lite life on the of august of last year two sons and two daughters remain he also leaves 41 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren n he was a veritable pai patriarch his bis living posterity numbering nearly one hundred the extortion case the trial of attorney theodore burmester came up in the third district court to today day mr burmester having been indicted lor for I 1 extortion the facts in the case have heretofore been kept comparatively quiet and this morning after the jury had deen em paneled the counsel for the defense asked that all of the witnesses except the one under examination be excluded from the court room they f urther further requested that as the evidence to be introduced would reveal so much obscenity and indecency as to be entirely unfit for the ears of those not compelled to listen to it the public also be excluded and the court so ordered the offense charged against mr burmester and the circumstances con necked therewith are in brief as follows some time since mr bissel foreman of the salt lake brewery became the father of an illegitimate child the mothers name being mary kraut the girl demanded money for the support of 61 the child and mrs bissel paid her the kraut girl was not satisfied with this and afterward called for more mr burmester was notified and in december last had int interviews reviews with the girl in which she claims that under threats of bringing suit of some kind against her burmester obtained a return of of the amount which he ap appropriated pro ri abed to his bis own use burmester laim claims s that all the money he got was as attorneys fees the result of the trial had not been made known when we went to press an unsavory case of complaints in the justices court this morning against mrs mra lizzle lizzie thurgood wife of george thurgood butcher brought to light circumstances of a most disgusting character stripped of the vilest features of the case the occurrence briefly stated is as follows on oil thursday a girl named lizzle lizzie bo boyd d was invited to mrs churgo Thur goods 0 Y Is house and when she arrived there was accused by mrs T of being Thur goods second wife this was denied but the girl was kept lock locked edin in a room for about nine hours and was cruelly beaten and abused by mrs thurgood district attorney dickson and attorney van horn were sent for and mr yan van horn came and saw the girl who was finally permitted to go home in the meantime mrs thurgood had bad gone agone to chadds store on first south street and taken a number of letters etc belonging to the girl on saturday afternoon the boyd girl was arrested as a witness in a bigamy case against mr thurgood and released on bonds between 2 and 8 3 on sunday morning it is stated assistant Dis district trIci attorney lewis and a fellow named austin endeavored to anduce the boyd boy mryt az girl ir 1 to leave and not prosecute mrs hurwood hur good promising that if she did so the other suit would not be pressed re sed the parties connected with thes the affair are non mormons cormons and some of them are of most unsavory reputation the case was set for hearing at 4 pm today to day burglars nabbed about 11 clock on saturday man maa watson was going goffig his round sand when entering the west end of the alley south of the contributor building suddenly came upon three men mein two of them were standing a few feet distant with their backs towai d him while the third had started south southward wara down the alley when he discovered mr watson and returned mr watson demanded of the men what their business was and seized the one nearest him the other two made their way quickly out of the alley and separated on the street the watchman then discovered a quantity of goods and realizing that a burglary burg burglary larr had been |