| Show edmunds law prosecutions wednesday oct a defendant named anderson ot camas summit county john C lambert of woodland and john jones of beech creek in the same county were all arraigned before commissioner greenman on charges of unlawful cohabitation the rhe last named was unable to proc procure ure bail in time to avoid spending the night in prison and was lodged in the penitentiary each of the other two was accompanied by an alleged plural wife and all ail four were placed ander bonds which were promptly furnished the arrest and detention of tae these defendants and witnesses is due to a raid made through summit county by deputy marshals doyle dyer and weber who brought them to this city the case of the united states vs james butler unlawful cohabitation was called and a jury emean aled varian and zane prosecuted the case and king and appeared for the defense mrs butler the first wife testified that she had bad been married to the defendant 21 years she was not willing to testify and was excused mrs jane butler the alleged plural wife testified that the previous witness was her mother and she was the wife of the defendant she was married when sixteen years of age and was the mother of three children her mother was living with the defendant as his wife at the time tho witness was married to her she expected soon to become a mother the defendant wap wa the father of her children she lived at spring lake utah county and had lived with the defendant up to a month ago david butler testified that the defendant fondant was his bis uncle the general repute was that the defendant had bad lived with jane W and jane butler as his wives the rhe case was submitted to the jury without argument they red re turned a verdict of guilty butler stated that he had no home and he be care where he went he was sent to the penitentiary for dix aix months thursday oct irth G J thomas gate gale keeper of the temple block was arrested on a charge of u bulaw ful cohabitation on friday october the examination was held before commissioner greenman up to the close of our report the testimony for the prosecution was very thin mrs hannah C blair testified I 1 know the defendant my daughter amy has lived with him and has had bad children by him she has only one child eight years old she is 16 in logan now I 1 think she was at home three weeks ago I 1 live next door to her have seen the defendant there evenings have seen him there one evening only within the last three years think he came to get his clothes they wash for him there I 1 suppose he be has a wife besides my daughter dont know where he lodges nave have under stood that he has lodged in various places my daughter has lost two children if living the youngest would have been two years old last august mrs piercy defendants daughter testified the defendant is my father he parted from my mother when I 1 was an infant be lives alone in rooms in the lion house I 1 know emily adams the reputed plural wife of my father I 1 last saw her about two years ago spent a few days at her house never saw my father there I 1 know the legal wife of my father he does not live with her she has three eb children ildron he married her in 1881 her youngest child is live five months old my fathers first wife never neve r came to this country I 1 never knew her cross examined she is dead she died 1 in 1878 phebe adams testified I 1 am the daughter of mrs blair toe the second mrs thomas is my sister she has baa been I 1 living i vi ng at her home I 1 in u th the e first ward visited her frequently she i moved to logan in august the first mrs thomas lived in one part of the house and my sister in the other about four weeks ago I 1 saw defendant at the house did not see him in the house saw him there once before this summer these are the only times I 1 have seen him there since shwe 1889 1869 when the house was built my sister lived in the sugar how house ward in 1888 mrs mary jones thomas was placed upon the stand she testified to the effect that she was the second wife the defendent defendant had ever had that his bis first wife died in england in 1878 and that she was married to hint him in 1881 when he bad no living wife anti and that he was the father of the babe which was aged five months john M zane who appeared for the prosecution held that not only cohabitation but adultery had been proved the defendant was bound over on the charge name nahne in the complaint which was adlaw cohabitation in the sum ot ol 1500 the bonds were readily obtained |
