| Show T A VILLAIN SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS confinement IN THE penitentiary IN THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT OGDEN utah jan 9 1886 editor deseret news there WAS not much business before the court courtin in this city today to day etwas it was opened in the usual manner after which the case of the people vs H T B gray a resident onwillard of lW Willard illard box elder F county iwas called TUB T defendant was indicted and ud charged with obtaining drugs which were administered to geneva hubbard Hui Rul bard last june with the intention of producing A miscarriage the victim of this felons lust last is his stepdaughter step daughter with whom he be has had bad criminal relations for a period it four years past she is is now only 16 years bof of age and weak pale and emaciated as the result of her confinement the fruits of their criminal intercourse ter tere course ourse mr george J marsh was appointed to defend the prisoner and V bier bieri i bower esq prosecuted the young girl as the complaining complain ing witness was placed on the stand the facts developed through her testimony were revolting g sickening and too to ili for details I 1 and caused a thrill of horror to run through the minds of the audience which filled the court room the witness stated that she was kept in constant pon stant fear by the defendant who threatened HER LIVE LIFE if she revealed the facts of their criminality to her mother and when the facts of her pregnancy became patent he tried to add to his adulterous sins extracts from letters written to his wife the girls mother were read in which the cb cowardly wretch stated that it was the girl who made the first advances to him foor years ago thus it was she who first tempted him but bat he denied her life or procuring the medicines for the purposes before named but claimed that they were for other purposes these statements the defendant made on the witness stand the case did not occupy any areat areat length of time yet too much lor for the GOOD OF OB THE PUBLIC MORALS at the close of the witness examination the casenas cas ewas submitted the court charged the jury who retired but in a few minutes again entered the he t court courtroom room and returned a verdict of guilli GUILTY i as charged in the indictment the criminal was sentenced to be imprisoned in the ibbe penitentiary lor jor a term of ten years the court adjourned till jan 16 lath th and the juries jurie s are elcus excused ed until the ath day of february the grand jury made a report condemning the present hall of justice as being an unfit temple in chica to hold the federal courts for this judicial district |
