Show A NOTABLE CASE on jane in the second district court at beaver judgment was pronounced upon a number of brethren for unlawful cohabitation under the edmunds act among the victims was a veteran named william carter of st george southern utah this respected citizen has lived out what is termed the allotted age of man being on the shady side of seventy he is a pioneer of the great west having arrived in this valley with the brave band who first entered it and were the original settlers more than this he was tile the first man that ran a plow into the soil et at this inter mountain region it 1 is 8 thirty years since this gentleman geat leman married a wife five years ear previous to the passage of any taw law falast against polygamy he was convicted under the recent law that rendered his bis status criminal ashe as he recognized the woman he ha had a married thirty years before and cared for her and her children for the bestowal of this recognition and care the merciful judge boreman gave william carter the full penalty of the law six months imprisonment and a fine oe and costs it is difficult to understand which of the aggravated features of this case caused judge foreman boreman to te withhold the slightest scintillation pt leniency perhaps it was the advanced age of the victim As he has according to the order of nature but a short time to live at farthest his honor probably thought it goulabe would be eminently proper that he should spend halt half a year of it in prison and have a portion of his substance necessary to support him in his declining years seized this might not however be the reason and those who scan the case may have veto to tall fall back upon another no t man wh which haht might probably be IOU found 1 id in hi the e fa tact that t father ateer carter is one 0 of tb that t courageous band who opened up this region to settlement and development and was the man to deliver the initial stroke or OF all in the cultivation of its soil and in its redemption f from rom sterility thus making it possible for mr boreman to exist in this section it if neither nor both of the foregoing fore reasons are tenable 1 ii may be asked whether the severity of the august associate justice justic ewas was excited by the ancient character of the case its conditions having been established thirty years since and twenty four yes years rs before the status of brother carter was rendered criminal by spec specific itic enactment the marital association being of such long standing and its results so deeply grounded it may be that the judge jude was wrathful because this veteran pioneer declined to tear them all up ny by the roots and scatter them instanter tho edmunds law is on the statute books and those who are charged with its administration bave no alternative but bat to t enforce it but in contemplating this case and others ethers that resemble it if any person should say that this great government ever intended such an inhuman grinding process as th that at involved in tilts this case to be applied we would unhesitatingly I 1 express the opinion that he was gu glifty aty i of a conspicuous inexactitude while we use the parliamentary term applicable to a falsifier because we would avoid even the shadow of an appearance of vula the intent is to te cover the whole ground within the scope of any other more popular term applicable to the circumstance from this may be imagined imaKi ned the nature of the opinion in which the perpetrator of W a piece 4 ece of unwarrantable cruelty maa justly FI atly in our opinion be held in cases such as this when men if they can be properly dignified by such a designation misrepresent the government by perverting its intent the government should be duly informed of their conduct the perpetration of such judicial acts are all the more aggravated in view of the tact fact that the government has stamped in a number of ir stances such inhumanity to man with the seal of its disapproval |