Show PROVO POINTS DOINGS OF THE DISTRICT COURT couitt MRS JONES discharged THE OTHERS CONViCT OD mon on wednesday the case of the people vs van vaa ausdal accused ot of assault upon one savory of San santaquin utah county an old man of three beare aud and ten was taken bip the testimony showed that a crowd of boys had assembled at his bis place a barn where the old gentleman had bad cider on tap the boys had become somewhat intoxicated and threw cider in saverys Sa vorys face and after the old gettleman geat zeat leman had bad barred them from coming again the defendant with others undertook to break open the barn door and in doing so cut through it with an ax into the old gent lemans hand which way was holding ane door that the offense was committed on the of february last and upon indictment found by the grand jury toe the defendant was arraigned on the charge the jury was charged thursday morning at 9 a m and shortly after the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty T the lie jury rp returned tur bed at 10 last ni night g iu I 1 tile the case 8 of U S v hardy resisting 6 itin gand and obstructing a U S officer wha a VERDICT of GUILTY the same day the casu caso of the U S vs jas jag W loveless indictment for unlawful cohabitation was called at am A jury was im paneled mrs jas W loveless was called and asked by the defense to be sworn upon her vow voir dire on account that she could not be called without the defendants fend ants request being the first and lawful wife defense stated to the court that he wished that this testimony of mrs loveless be for t the be court and not as evio evidence ence granted the witness testified that she was the wife of defendant married in 1847 at council bluffs mr kr loveless was a single man at that luat time have continued to ave with him ever since as his wife and do so at the present time she was asked by the prosecuting attorney if her husband hubband bud any other wives objected tu to by t dijt tv ad e tense that testimony had bad hotl 0 O tp e u the issue she sha had alread alrea dyl 4 tipon ned fled that he herb her husband us band had bad n no other wives at the time she married and now she could not be sworn as a witness without her own and her husbands conse consent qt as the district attorney was seeking evidence for the p purpose 1 of the case in a preliminary examination the court SUSTAINED THE OBJECTION that she was not a compe competent witness to be sworn in the case mary brereton Bre seton loveless Love Jess was called lived in provo 30 years know knew defendant he was her husband and had bad been for 30 years I 1 know a person called josephine loveless loveles did not know when bhe last saw ver her think it was two weeks apo ago on the 8 treet street auw w matilda Lo loveless she is his fi girat t wife Jo josephine bephine was his third wife ob to what is the reputation of josephine josephides Jose phines being defendants wife objected to and overruled Matilda lives livet in the second ward I 1 live 0 in the tarm farm matilda has 10 or 11 children known as loveless children I 1 have au la children and josephine has 8 defendant had bad um noc lived with witness for the last two years does your husband believe in or ib ia he a member of tile the church of latter day saints does he believe io in polygamy m objected to by the defense defence mt mr hiles the district attorney was asked his bid culpo purpose 8 e of the question by the court lie he stated that it was to show the defendant had bad a disposition to live in polygamy etc the QUESTION WAS WITHDRAWN examination by the defense the witness was married to defendant in 1855 thought ne he was married to jo in 1859 what do you mean by the reputation tation of he ir r being defendants ants wife that it was known and understood by others othen in the family 11 state the reputation of yourself and josephine in the family as defendants wife slue since latho the e passage odthe of the ed edmunds ads n bill 1 I dont nt know anything 0 ut her then you base it upon t act a that they marrie xi severa several years ears ago yes sir air her fier youngest gest child was one year old the next was tour W newel knight was was called lived oia OB provo prove latuch bench was a son in law of the defendant my wife is a daughter of matilda do you know M mary ary brition loveless she is re reputed u ed to be his wife witness stated state that hat he was not familiar with their a airs in the last elahi years are you a member of the church of latter day saints no sir I 1 am not I 1 I 1 mrs Dalquist called knew nothing about the defendants was a swede and could not understand mue much h had ocen been in this country three years james oray gray called lived in provo knew defendant about 26 45 years knew josephine caldwell believed she was waa related ao the defendant loveless by reputation was his third wife ha had seen en them only in passing their place at the farm once or twice a year lived jived five or six blocks away frum from defend ant thought he MADE HIS HOME j at matilda loveless his first wife I 1 did nut not know much about in the I 1 I 1 last tour years john leetham called had bad lived in I 1 30 years knew defendant also matilda mary aud and josephine lovel loveless matildaa Mat ildas reputation was as his first wife mary as the second and josephine the third the children went by the name ol of loveless based his understanding der standing on the fact that they had bad been reported to be his wives tor lor a number of years the case cabe w 40 submitted by the prosecution ec ution at 2 pm john durrast Dur rasit of american fork was arraigned on a charge of unlawful count plia plea not guilty wm win K R webb of american fork charged with unlawful cohabitation two counts plead not guilty arguments to the jury in tle the case of bishop loveless were opened by the prosecution after the arguments the charge was given to the jury which retired at they r r returned e t U arned in a few hours houis with a I 1 verdict 1 ral I 1 t 1 of f g guilty 1111 t Y the time tim e for sentence aen tence in th the e kirkwood case was set for oct lith the case of the U 8 vs jones julia jones of provo for resisting a united states officer was taken up the district attorney considered the julia jones case NOT VERY aggravated and asked a dismissal which was granted the case ot the people etc vs dewit C watts impleader implead eA wita john watts indicted for grand larceny was taken up the district attorney moved the court that 8 B R thurmal taurman he be associated with him in the case belha vini examined the witnesses before the committing magistrate mr johnson objected to mr thurman coming into the case as it would be employing private counsel to assist the prosecuting attorney the objection was overruled and an order was entered that mr thurman be associated with the prosecution in the case A jury was paneled impaneled im on friday the case was in progress and likely to last a day or so there are several counts for cattle steal ing |