Show bishop HAMILTONS examination at 6 saturday may 3 three deputy marshals raided the residence of bishop james C hamilton of mill creek and placed him under arrest he is accused of unlawful cohabitation and his examination was set for 1030 a m before commissioner greenman mr critchlow prosecuted and mr moyle appeared fur for the defendant who entered a plea of not guilty mrs belle white hamilton was the first witness called she testified 1 I live at mrs Ha hamilton house I 1 have lived there two years axce except t w when e I 1 was teaching school at taylorsville Taylors lo reville ville mrs hamiltons Hamilto ull hus husband d is dead I 1 was married to bishop hamilton june his ther cifes name to is isabell Isab eol I 1 have one child three years old mr hamilton does not come to visit me he lias been to see mrs hamilton who is his mother he may have been at her house lately but I 1 do not know of it as I 1 have been at he has not been there to see fee me I 1 do not know how often he calls on its his other mother I 1 have been at tier house the past two weeks and have fiot seen lim there I 1 have been up to his bis cifes house several times sewing I 1 have never stayed overnight athis at his house bouse I 1 have had no divorce from him nor has mrs isabel hamilton that I 1 know of 1 I came home from school on fridays FrIday sand and stayed over sunday went to meeting sometimes and saw the bishop there mrs isabel hamiltons youngest child is about six weeks old I 1 went to mrs hamiltons the defendants deFend anVe mother when the defendant came out of prison he be provides for me he has not stayed there overnight miss priscilla hamilton te testified stifled the defendant is my brother have known mrs belle hamilton as long as I 1 can remember she lives at mothers house I 1 albo aho live there the defendant does not come to the hauae every week he was there this morning the last time he was there before was five or six weeks ago when I 1 was sick I 1 have known of belle being in town but never saw aw i her and the bishop together when the bishop came to mothers this bornt morning nf he was in the custody of the marshals marsha a parley hamilton te testified stifled 1 I am the defendants son my mothers name is isabel I 1 know belle white hamilton when father came out of prison she went to grandmothers to live before then she lived at fathers she was there this morning with the deputies she has been there several days sew sewing ling and took dinner with the family father did not take tier her home one of us boys would go we never asked about it she would request one of us to go and we did so that is all there is about it father never made any objection miss ellen hamilton sister of the last witness testified stifled te mrs belle white hamilton IMS bas been at mothers three days the past week sewing she took dinner there last sunday and then went to meeting mr critchlow wanted the defendant held because he be had biad a plural wife and because she lived at the house boose of the defendants mother she had bad been up to his house sew ing and had taken meals there rhe fhe boys also drove her about in her buggy when she desired to go anywhere mr moyle said if this defendant was given the ordinary treatment of accused persons he would be immediately discharged from custody here the proposition was to adjudge him guilty because he had been arrested he wanted to see this case divested of prejudice against a class there was bof a particle of evidence against dimand it was not shown that any offense had been committed they had bad not lived together and the court should not say the defendant was to be presumed to be guilty whenever charged with an offense mr critchlow thought that mrs hamilton could have got somebody else to sewing for herand her and the plural wife had bad no need to go there to get dinner such acts must presume that there was an arrangement with the defendant commissioner greenman did as the assistant district attorney required and ordered the defendant mid held to await the action of the grand jury mr critchlow made the unusual demand that the bonds of mrs belle white hamilton he placed as large as that of the defendant 1000 at least leash mr moyle said such a request was preposterous and thought the bond suggested by the commissioner was unreasonably high mr critchlow Critch luw said witnesses in these cases usually kept out of the way mr moyle said that the statement was not correct as it was only in rare instances where witnesses in this class of oases cases forfeited their ball bail out of hundreds of cases there bad been only two tr or three the commissioner fixed the wit nessa ball bail at and that of the defendant at 1600 1500 which wasa given the witnesses were ordered to apgear before the grand jury on i i tuesday next may 6 at 10 am |