Show E A IRELAND IN THE COURT v URTHER FURTHER TRIALS AND convictions LANGTON ACQUITTED ON ONE CHARGE the first case tried in the third dis bilet court today to day was that of of west jordan for cohabitation with wih maria goff and marinda P goff as his wives from feb 1 1883 to dec 31 1883 the following jurors were sworn W M perry ferry J C conklin W E smedley ceorge e or e tar bull V F BL Bel benna lils J james me berry er u George tait rait W H I 1 teall ton 11 elmer ahll gideon 3 ide turn KaIl 11 N A se Sc rittner the defendant hyrum goff was sworn and tes testified tided that the ladies named in the indictment were his wives in 1883 and lived with him in that relation tion A verdict of guilty was wac given by the jury and the two iwo other olber against mr goff continued for the term sentence was fixed for march ad the case of the united states vs WM j JENKINS was as then taken up and in the goff case wore were retained there were but two indictments in this instance and the one selected charged the del defendant with living with his wives nellie jenkins and ellen naylor jenkins from feb 1 1883 to dec 31 win jmj J jenkins was sworn and testified that the ladies named were his bis wives and had lived with himas such the usual verdict of guilty was returned by the jury and the remaining indictment cont continued aued tle the sentence in this case will also be passed on march ad next ext came the case of ISAAC LANGTON against whom there were two indictments charging the iame same offense with emily langton and phoebe lindsay lancon lan Lang tonas con as nis wives from feb to dec 81 1883 1 the jury in the two preceding cases were retained in the box and sworn the indictment was then r read ad and newhard wah h had reined in ih the marshals until sent for was sworn as a witness she testified testified that she had known defendant nearly two years he be lived in the ward know mra mr s langton and another lady who a same house him call both ladies mrs langton langon the first wile wife had six children the youngest one and a half years old the second wife had a child about the same age witness had been a neighbor to de defendant fen dant moved away over a year ago the child of the second wife was then about four months old had heard defendant call all the children his there was only one room and two beds to in the houde bouse a partition was afterwards put in cross examined lived near defendant four or five months did not k know now when she moved there it sinthe wa summer moved away before christmus christmas this was lu in 1884 lived with her father and brother phoebe lindsay was not living there when she left she was sometimes away for two or three weeks she went to sanpete San pete phoebe was mrs Laag tons sister never talked with defendant heard beard him call both women mrs langton the defendant and women were to in the house bouse quarreling they quarreled quare led because defendant liked the fir fira farst A better than the second witness was in the yard did not see eithel of the parties par lies only overheard the con conid not see either of them never heard defendant say phoebe lil lindsay was his second wife heard quarreling several times never saw the parties partie b at any time could not remember what was said defendant only said mrs langton once was never introduced to phoebe lindsay nor heard beard anyone called by that name she was mr langgons Lang tons sister and the children called her aunt her child was not born while witness lived as neighbor this was iu in 1884 witness did not live therein there in ISM 1883 the children told witness the difference between the ages of the infants never heard beard defendant speak of phoebe linday nor saw defendant al ai the house she visited witness now aved iu in thu the leih ward hul had liv d din in the ath ath and ad wards and at Pay fron slaying 1 from a month to a year came fr 0 pittsburgh pa ila tira carve to s sail a lan lake three years aw never saw defendant in did not remember rein ember aheu sli sh wv ai vii v 1 i i to nair mr mc lun lan 11 tons i redirect re he direct monad mo cd away jut just befort christmas pow boobie 1 e Lili lintl asals art chili abild was waa born bedfor o she moved tb heard quarreling often saw baw going to and iron the house never saw any ally oth r nian man there ther e vis defendants defend uniti house lawice nis his eldest child was about eleven years old ithe family to which this witness belongs is evidently oneto one to be avoided as scandal bongers mongers and gos sips of the worst kind it has been developed 4 that their testimony has been almost if not entirely based on rumor and for mischief makers in a neighborhood and false sweaters swear ers they evidently take the prize over everything that has yet appeared 1 wm win T knapton was called he had known defendant about a year and a half 5 he lived I 1 in a the ward witness never lived near him hia had been to defendants fend ants house about a year ago was working with defendant they had a contract together visited the house but bu butonne tonce once knew mrs langton thought there were six children the eldest was named janie and was about 10 years of age heard her call defendant father defendant called his bis wife by her given name the second child isaac was about Tor ayears 8 years old the the next was named Brig brigham hain did not give his ag age e before the grand jury there were two rooms in langton langgons Lang tons j house about twelve feet squarely did nut not remember seeing any beds there had been there several times imes did not notice the number of beds there saw mr and mrs langton there saw miss lindsay there once in 1885 mr langton was not present when witness was introduced to miss lindsay defendent called her phoebe never saw miss lindsay with a child I 1 kinhei arms could not say how old she was did not say to the grand jury she was 24 years she might be 20 or 30 never heard defendant say how tany many wives he had had seen miss lindsay a few times she was at witness last barch march she did not have a child with her at any time when he saw her cross examined first became acquainted quain ted with defendant in october 1884 had not been bean at his house before then redirect re direct had not seen miss lin lindsay d with a child ila in her arms that he remembered she might have taken up one ot of mrs hang Lang langgons tons children the child called mrs langton La mamma 11 several times heard several of the children call dependant deien defendant dant father and mrs langton mother conrad newham was next brought from the marshals office and sworn he knew defendant defend aut was his neighbor a couple of months in 1884 did not know defendant before then had seen mrs langton and aad another lady there heard people say they were defendants wives the second wife had a child three months old bold when witness moved there defendant had weld said to him it was a good thing to have two wives cross examination miss lindsay went away a couple of times the first time she stayed away a long longtime time the second time it was a couple of weeks at said abraham Abra iam isaac jacob jesus and others had two wives defendant did not say he himself had two wives his eldest daughter had told witness a man da named wed asper said so and others said so witness had seen phoebe lindsay was never in langgons Lang tons house bouse had talked to defendant once he did dia not say pnoebe lindsay was his wile wife had known defendant a couple of years pars phoebe was his cifes sister had seen all three going to meeting in the evening thought they were his wives thought Pho abes abels child was defendants fend ants because witness never saw another man there defendants defendant ls daughter said phoebes phoebea Pho ebes child was her half sister court took a recess until 2 pm this afternoon mrs nobles was called and sworn she lived in the ward had lived there about 12 years knew mr air langton by sight was not acquainted with mrs lang toll tob mrs noyce called lived in the wai waid d knew defendant by sight lived about half a block from him did not know him by sight in 1883 win noyce had haa known defendant about 18 months to speak to him did not know him in 1883 did not inow know mrs langton on norPh nor phoebe cebe lindsay marnie mamie carney lived in the ward had bad lived there about five anve years knew the defendant he be had lived at his present home about a year ear and half did not know w where K ere he lived prior to that time mr dickson asked that the jury be instructed ted to bring in a verdict of not guilty and a verdict to that effect was rendered the case was then taken u up on the indictment tor for 1884 all of M the jurors except james owens ewens J J greenwald and F 11 1 1 briois were challenged and and a i special venire returnable on friday at UP a in issued for the the follo following whig dames 39 robert binnie 56 walter J le clevi JL evi i III ai U I 1 at beaver 41 jolin john 45 get geo Y Wall wallace nee 77 mos it jones 47 jos epli jones Tones I 1 12 kobert waiters W I 1 alvert V it 7 i S if conley con lev 24 20 win evans ls 14 lolli Wa gavillan villan 51 jacob jaeth leiber levinberg Le viberg w 0 1 I t andrichen end richen jus jas V U ali owa MO mckean geo Cul cullen leia T aa wm win irvine 86 Us dalph AM alff 74 john A eckman 42 lows C shaw 59 george mullett george G hardy geo A bergen 67 07 A E H clarke 57 abraham hanauer Hana ncr 37 27 A H kelley H A frazer thos M stringer s geo T H hicks i david ke keith th E P ci dark ark james T lie kesoli |