Show THOMAS LEK LEE ACQUITTED HIS WIVES LIVED IN DIFFERENT territories I 1 the case of the united states vs thomas lee of tooele thoele county w was tried in the third district court today this case presented at least one ona now new feature in that one of the defendants fend ants aa wives has lived in idaho for the past juu akre ee e years and the other in 1 utah y 0 k defend defendant atit pleaded not 9 guilty toilie iffie indictment which contained three counts char charging glug cohabitation with his wives harriet 7 and primrose lee A jury was paneled impaneled im tor for the case mrs primrose loe lee testified my fall name is primrose shields lee I 1 am marrita married to the defendant since sept nept IM I 1 have li vedIn in tooele thoele county wha my husband mrs harriet lee was married to him before I 1 was she ahe is is baill living her home is in beaver cation carion of utah territory she moved from utah three and a naif half years ago her son thomas W lives in in tooele thoele she has eight other children to mr richards rrie lee does not live in utah w thomas W lee testified the defendant and harriet lee are my mv parents mother lives in beaver cadion idaho she moved there in july 1883 she has had made two visits to utah faience she left I 1 did not see her at tooele thoele I 1 was at sandy bandy bait Salt lake county fitere I 1 saw her tuat was in in the of 1885 1 I thinh it was alter after the list of july luly when she left my house she taid isaid she was going in to beaver baver calion her li ernext next visit was on july 30 1886 she came to the defense objected to testimony relating to a period subsequent to th the last ast dale daLein m the indictment objection overruled witness to fo mr dickson she then beni went to tohei to tomy my house next day da she went to my brothers bro therb she stayed sta ed four days thit I 1 know of my hattier was in the grantsville Grants ville ceelina house and at my sisters bisters at the same twe time mother was chete froba the latter pla place culie he went home and mother stayed at I 1 uy my sisters si stera at Bate sille to mr richards Bichai dh mother and her t two vo children canneto came to Bates lesville balesville Ba ville and stayed with my sister fibber father had not seen the children fur for two years he was at my sisters and did not know we were coming coining father and I 1 went away together he gave each of the two boys a pocketknife he and mi my mother had hadria no private interview it ft was a gene they were not together al ac in grantsville Grants ville though yi in the same building in lo 10 yo mr dickson mother is 50 years old she has had bad 14 children the youngest eight years old fathe fathel rhad had been told that the boys were at bates batea vil leand went to see them father raver told me why mother went to idaho win H cassidy testified fled I 1 ad am acquainted quain fainted ted with defendant have seen his 9 is wife harriet that was waa over three baj s g ao ago do not know of her being in rocele tooele since E H rodebach said saidi sadi I live in mill precinct tooele thoele county ara am slightly acquainted with harriet lee she used to live in tooele thoele I 1 have been at her house have not seen her there during 11 the last four years mrs primrose lee was recal recalled ailed and I 1 last saw her in july 1886 did not see her in 1885 1 I dont remember selo seine her from froin the time sire shoe left utah antu last july I 1 heard of her being back once before she did not come to my house mrs primrose davis te testified stifled the defendant I 1 is my father mrs primrose lee lisov jis mv mother salmis saw Mis harriet lee last july I 1 had not seen her for six years prior to that I 1 nm i john lee said the defendant and mrs primrose lee au my I 1 arents trents I 1 aa saw mrs harriet lee last july had not seen her for three or lour aur years before then dr dickson asked that the jury be instructed to render a vertrea vero of not guilty which was done dene aud the defendant was dischar discharged ged |