| Show THE SECOND DISTRICT COURT A NUMBER OP OF VICTIMS SENTENCED BEAVER utah territory september 26 1886 editor deseret news at the opening of court today to day the court house was densely packed with betat spectators ors maria case was postponed for the term R maeser for libel was sentenced to pay a a fine a of and costs William Robinson 1 was lindic indicted ted a year ago for polygamy and cohabitation but the prose prosecution cation coul could d not find and important witnesses robinson plead guilty to cohabitation and the indictment for polygamy y was waived he was sentenced to tour four months in the utah penitentiary and fined and costs george hales thomas scofield and james jame a farrar were each sentenced to four months and and costs budwick two convictions sentenced to tour four months and and costalow cos costs talor for each the judge courteously asked the brethren it if they intended to keep the law in future but they respectfully declined to make any promises they will start at pm for for the pen with gleason and cudebee in charge B JONES AND OW ON TRIAL FOR ALL GED AT BRIBERY THE WORK of GETTING A JURY the case of the united states vs 1 V jones jnes and P F M Tres was set set for trial in the Third District court yesterday the offense charged against them is that they attempted to bribe deputy marshal BA E A franks to give information of the intended arrest of parties accused ot of polygamy po 9 am and unlawful tu I 1 cohabitation that t t the e latter escape an order had bad been granted by judge zane that tha could have the privilege ot of bonsu consulting biting with his attorney and co defend ant an yesterday the united states marshal al allow lowthe the consul tation except in ln presence of an officer so last evening mr mir brown forthe defense asked the court for moreed more explicit licit instructions to the marshal chese these were given and when the attorney asked that Tre sedr r might goto go to his bis office the judge remarked that they did not want any more such trouble as they had had to get the custody of just what was meant by this remark would be difficult to understand der stand in view of the fact that when went away last spring it was his bis bondsmen and defendant codefendant co and not the officers that had been to any trouble in the matter when the case came up today to day mr brown demanded a separate trial for as a matter of 0 right under the territorial statute the prosecution opposed the separate trial and the application was denied by the court A demurrer to the indictment against mr jones was made and overruled overrated both defend defendants a its then than pleaded not guilty I 1 I 1 mr brown renewed his application for a separate trial for the defendants and requested that if this were denied the case be continued until monday mr dickson opposed both requests which were refused by the court the following jurors were called R W crane wells dark clark thoss davis charles Sh tells edward berry fra I 1 I 1 L osborne Op berne bowman cannou cannon wm mcray joseph foreman J M harvey and george george had formed an unqualified opi opinion niola and was elcus excused ed wm mcray was disqualified by having baving been on the grandeur grand jury jur which found the indictment it J M harvey bowman cannon R W crine crane and wells wells dark clark were excused for cache cause joseph foreman was challenged on oa the ground that he was not a taxpayer challenge denied by the prosecution mr fureman stated that he had not paid taxes tor for a number of years but owned some household furniture the challenge was overruled and an exception ce tion taken ar mr brown elicited from foreman that he was on the grand jury nry which considered the case cabe he was challenged by the defense for having formed an unqualified opinion and was excused joseph foster J B wilson R BP P martin 8 C pancake albert fischer george morrison and james winchester were called all of these but geo morrison had an unqualified opinion and were excused the next called were 1 I C underhill george mullett louis bamberger alfred thompson E M by non ann M dusseldorf I 1 C underhill was excused on account of III health alfred mf red thompson george M J dusseldorf and E B M bynon were excused louis Bam bamberger berrer was challenged by the defense challenge denied bythe by the prosecution overruled defense renewed the challenge for actual 1 bias 1 overruled A special open venire was issued for 20 jurors returnable at Sp pm maud and court took tok a recess |
