Show A PARK CITY LUMINARY THE park city record often contains absurd ravings against the majority of the people of utah but as its influence and circulation are practically insignia 1 geantit Acan dean tit is permitted to air itself in imitation of ranker journalistic weeds of larger growth and flap itself in the mountain wind unnoticed in a recent issue it makes matesan mak esan an assertion in its customary spirit of reckless and ignorant mendacity which we pay a little attention to lest a few individuals of the ithe desperate class may be led by its errors into the commission of flagrant cr crime inae under the false impression that ithe laws lawa of utah I 1 furnish arnish no penalty for ac it eppeards that a half drunken miner named john angove assaulted an invalid and bedridden bed ridden lady III fifty ty years of age during her husbands temporary absence but the lady raised such an outcry that he decamped camped de without effecting his evil purpose then the i husband W C gregg returned and was informed of the outrage he gave information to the police having been deterred by his wife from summary vengeance the fellow was arrested on the charge of assault with intent to do bodily harm barm and placed under bonds of 1000 the record explains this mild charge by the wonderful information that there is no law in this territory punishing the adf awful ul cri crime me of rape I 1 and that the absence of such a la law w as is well known Is due to the s shameful misdoings mis doings of the mormon legislature if the writer of that rubbish will call upon pon anybody in park city who possesses a copy of the compiled laws of utah arid and turn to page and he will see what a donkey he has made of himself in trying to explain something he knows nothing about he will find and that the punishment provided for the awful crime is imprisonment f for or not inot less than five years also by looking at page he will find that an attempt to commit the crime is punishable by imprisonment fop not less than one year nor more than ten years we do not expect that tie he will alave ilave have manhood enough to acknowledge his error or apologize for his senseless attack upon the mormon legislature but this notice will suffice to let the few people who may have been deceived on this point by the records becard Be cord understand the facts in the case anu and learn what a legal light twinkles in the upper atmosphere of the park |