Show THE TELE DEAN CASE mr D ickson places an informer on the witness kland the trial of joseph H dean charged chang ed with unlawful cohabitation continued in the third district court yesterday afternoon after the went to press mrs agatha ridges bulges further testified in answer to interrogatories by district attorney dickson 1 I coulp know where my daughter florence his has been nor where she now is do not think I 1 have heard beard from her since june do not ta she has a child she was not in deli delicate date health in june was wan perfectly er healthy when she left in february eb she did not state where was going nor how long she would be gone I 1 did not inquire never asked defendant if he had bad married my daughter heard it from current rumor ramor when florence lived jived at his house she never previously lett left home without saying where she was wag going goin I 1 to ar ai went to logan to get her endowments that has no connection with marriage she went to deans for the purpose of af dressmaking to mr dickson it is not a fact in our church that a young woman must have her endowments i before she is married but she cant ba married in the temple without having had them mrs adelaide wood testified florence florece ridges is my half sister kister she was at my house last january the defendant brought her there in a buggy she staid about two months she eke had a room the parlor fitted up for her mr dean came there about once a week dont know where he stop stopped ned I 1 have left them in her room when I 1 went to bed and have foahd him in the house next morning he ae I 1 has never been there sluane juliette wood testified Aed that the defendant had stopped ati at mr Mry atwoods Woods house bouse all night on ote one occasion when she and florence aa we a there aral marriages leae celebrated 11 ilithe 10 jogan d temple I 1 I 1 I 1 rr mrs Adel adelad adelaide ld wood being recalled testified that she had bad seener seen mr dean and florence pai parting ting had not seen him kiss her court then adjourned to 19 10 a m to da day this morning mrs agatha P ridges rt was recalled and aid my dauer daughter came hame from thede the depot pot when she returned from om logan I 1 do not know knew who came with her mr dean was la in my house in ift 1885 be came several times but not before florence went to log logan an he was as there four or five days ago he e cl came once whop when florence was there here 1 in february lasij he was not nat there in bunc junc une veer my dami daughters liters reputation la is rood good to mr fallins ake defendant tn in february lasts last called at my house when florence was there to mr dickson he accompanied her to his bis housein hou house seIt it was about 9 p V m mr dickson appeared to be slightly worried over something but after some delay issued a subpoena for john C young who was callecod called callec kd and testified I 1 know the defendant I 1 saw him at logan in june 18 1885 it was on the lath he was at the railway station in campany with a young lady 1 I was foodwin lo talking with goodwin odwin defendant assisted the lady out oat of a hack with her bundles be saw me and went around to the back of the car the lady seemed nonplussed nonplus sed at seeing me at ter berthe the train started the defendant came into the same car where the lady was seated lie he seemed to avoid recognizing co izing her mr rawlins objected to this testimony mony as haying having no b earing bearing on oa the case he was willing for the witness to testify to sets acts but not to his ewa WA conclusions th obelon ob econ was overruled u 0 J witness to mr dicksoh I 1 closely obbo ved the conduct of the defendant and called my cifes attention to it the lady looked at him but he be did not bot seem to notice her she was about 17 or 18 over medium height blonde complexion would weigh about th re she had ad a dirk dark mole on one side ot her neck large lareu brown eyes they came down to ogden where they got on the utah central train on reaching salt lake he carried hr her bm bandies idles and they both got into a conveyance and drove off to the north to mr raelius I 1 did not recognize the lady do not know florence ridges a num number ber of people got ot on the train at logan nobody else attracted caf W attention there here were others in the hack but I 1 do not know who they were tb lady bad three bundles or sand nand satchels did not say they had baa bundles because they had a particular significance they all seemed to beleal to the lady the lady became nonplussed nonplus sed when the defendant dropped the satchels and walked rapidly away neither of them said an anything met thing I 1 think he saw me that is the effect my presence has on people as I 1 was wail on an the staff ot the tribune I 1 have known the defendant since he was a city councilor I 1 watch anything else I 1 understood in logan that thursday was a marry ing dagand the lady seemed under mr deans dean a care I 1 had an idea it was a case of polygamy and watched it closely the defendant did not get away from me in the car he assisted the lady at ogden she able may nave have looked at me on the train I 1 did not avoid her e buttock but took A a close description of her ir it was fun for me my wife was enjo enjoying it ng the fun too the car wash was pretty well ailed some gentlemen were talking to mr dean she did not speak to or smile ut at him but seemed seamed to be e watching him I 1 lest track of him momentarily at the salt lake depot but soon got sight eight of him again the defendant did not sit alongside 01 the lady but may have done so when I 1 did not bouce him I 1 iwas was out of the car for about half an hour I 1 do not hot remember seeing you yeu to mr rawlins Baw lins on the car I 1 was at logan only once last year ye I 1 am m ure sure it was in june ji ine on the lith gr i I 1 think ik I 1 remember you were on the train george C wood who had been brought in from the he be is serving a sentence for polygamy was called and testified I 1 am acquainted with defendant he was at my house a number of times from jan I 1 to april ap ril 1 1986 he never slept with me I 1 chave have conversed with him on the doctrine of pol polygamy 11 11 my I 1 do not know whether he be said he believed in the doctrine or not 1 believe aitto it to be right I 1 enow it I 1 d do 0 not remember what he knol sal said mr dickson did he differ from your views objected to by defense objection overruled witness to mr ar dickson I 1 dont k know D ow and I 1 dont care mr dickson but we do ce care witness well D 1 dont I 1 think we did agree on some things mr dickson dickeron announced that the prosecution rested their case the defense stated that they had no testimony to offer mr dickson addressed the jury he said that the evidence was entirely circumstantial cum where the ithe alleged plural wife ivas was not present it vms AS impossible to find a witness to the marriage while the evidence was circumstantial he be believed it was sufficient to con vict as it showed that thai the defend defendant adt and florence 1 lorenee ridges kidger were in lo 10 logan an together toger her er in june ift 1885 the defendant paid attention to florence whick which indi bated that it was a case of if plural marriage 1 I think oink too highly of the defendant to believe it is a case of adul adultery tely the worst I 1 have to say flay of him except this offense of polygamy is that he has sat bat and listened to the testimony given iven in court 8 U r in ia refer reference nee to his conduct conduct and that 4 t of a lady for lor whom he has a ml 1 ing of affection mr hawlins followed for the defense he argued that if the ibe circum stauts evidence could be reconciled aith sieb the he innocence of the defendant he must be acquitted the prosecution should bould make out oat their case beyond a reasonable doubt the statute under which the prosecution was brought was construed to mean the ostentation of the polygamous household there was no evidence of a marriage in the case the defendant and Flor florence lence ridges had bebenin been in login logan at the same time and both for legitimate purposes john 0 young saw the defendant assist a lady out of a hack and being in the th babit of ef discoloring coloring dis facts had concluded it w was a bigamy he was so greatly Int interested that he be took an aa accurate description of the lady kept a close watch on her actions and came and told it in court mrs dean was called on the stand and had been tortured by the district attorney until she was willing to acquiesce in anything he said to escape the torture her evidence vi dence n notwithstanding tending the badgering she had been beeR subjected to bore the semblance of truth regardless of the she fact that it might or r might not send her husband to the penitentiary but that evidence evid evi deRce ecce disclosed nothing to indicate that we toe defendant had bad committed any offense the attentions tent ions tile tee defendant had shown to florence ridges had no ostentation tenta of the marriage relation it rather indicated that he intended to marry her and showed that if the event had been consummated it was ir ia all 11 pi liability ability earl early lia in april about th um floeence Floi ence bidgus 4 gas I 1 donot do not wonder at the anxiety of mr bir dickson and his bis deputies to find the lady I 1 du au not nol mean to make any iu in a of wrong I 1 know of the strict and unapproachable virtue of the district Attorn attorney and his gallant deputy marshals the speaker concluded by showing the lury jury that the charge in the indictment bad not been sustained by the proof within the period indicated whatever whai ever might be said of et any other time the court then took recess guptil 2 p ap F pp in S richards followed mr rawlins bawling thia afternoon in an argument for the defense he H called the attention of the jurors to ie the fact that they were not called to render reader a verdict at the request of the attorney for the bovet bovein n went ment but to act as arbiters and decide whether or not the defendant was guilty of the offense charged he did not ask for mercy but that his bis client should receive justice at their hands bands deonly he only asked that they weigh the evidence without prejudice and give I 1 av e their verdict accordingly the defendant defendant had thrown around him bythe law the presumption of innocence which was sometimes disregarded by juries and unless that r resumption presumption was overcome by the evidence it should stand in considering si the question the jury were confined to the period named inobe in the indictment jan 1 to april 1 1886 for the proof of cohabitation two elements had to be proven that the parties were married and that they lived together As to living wether together there was no proof of that during us the period named all the evidence showed was that the defendant visited florence ridges if this circumstance could be reconciled with the innocence of the defendant the verdict should be not net guilty so bo far as the actual marriage was concerned or even the claim of ma arlage there was no evidence to show anything of the kand the fact that they were in logan where marria marriages e are solemnized was not convince convincing af proof to a reasonable man that a marriage had bad been consummated in this cluss class of cases eases the theory of the prosecution was that if a man p paid aid attention to a woman he was guilty or when circumstances required if he avoided her he was guilty anything to secure conviction aft er the district attorney had bad badgered abused and annoyed a witness he would come before the jury aud ask them to believe only that which was unfavorable to the defendant and disregard all else the evidence taken all together made no case against the defendant and he should shadid be acquitted with this lack lack of proof the district attorney with h the sympathy and generosity of t a shylock demanded his pound of flesh and asked a conviction because the end justified the means the jury ought to be just to the defendant and not permit themselves to be swayed or governed by prejudice the claim that unless the defendant was found guilty the law would be without vitality was an argument unworthy the representative of the government all the defendant wanted all he asked was that the jury give a verdict fairly honestly and impartially according to the law and the evidence district At attorney tormey dickson made the closing argument for the prosecution he expended some time in making thrusts at mr rawlins in return for that gent lemans ironical remarks in refe reference to the prosecutor mr dickson said he be wanted those who assailed the district attorney to have some foundation for their action he had bad been as gentlemanly as was possible in his treatment of witnesses he was riot dot discouraged iu in performing the tb duties of bis office he endeavored to be vigilant in seeing that no guilty man escaped the penalty of the violation of the law if tae e defendant was innocent he did not want him convicted but h he el believed him guilty and expected the jury to find a verdict in accord with that idea at 4 p m when the news went to ta press no verdict had been rendered |