Show GRAND JURY REPORT DOES IT LOOK UE LIKE A DOCTORED DOCUMENT honorable C 8 zane judge of the third district court territory of utah sir the grand jury iury of said court for the april term 1886 the consideration of all business before it bogs begs leave to submit to your honor the following i we have examined 52 united states cases and 46 territorial cases we have found indictments ii in a 46 united states cases and in 16 te territorial ari cases these indictments are forthe tor the following I 1 crimes P polygamy 9 amy and unlawful ul cohabit cohabitation attoul two cases unlawful al cohabitation 48 passing counterfeit money moisey IL 1 case burglary 5 cases larceny and other cases 11 cases we ignored bills as f follows six c cases ases crimes w of tile the united states slates and 30 80 cases where crimes were charged under the territorial Terni orial statutes included in these territorial cases were 14 cases against defendants charged with the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors on the lords day the principal witnesses in these cases were two men named ross boss and moore who were employed by the city marshal ot of salt lake city and police officer salmon in M may y last to visit the saloons of salt lake cita on sundays and procure evidence against ane keepers bar tenders etc by purchasing liquors by the glass and bottle wherever it could be procured these men were f furnished urnis hed with funds by the city marshal and as compensation for their labors were promised by that officer 20 per cent of the flues fines paid into court when defendants were convicted it being within the personal and official knowledge of several members of the te grand jury that the witness ross boss is an unrepentant and unmitigated swin swi lder nIder and liar that he i has served at least lease one sentence in jail for obtaining money under false falge pretenses and admitted to the grand jury that he had baen guilty of at least 25 like offenses inthis in this city during the past live years that not less than eight members of this grand jury had been personally swindled by him that the city marshal and police were aware of most facts when they hired him that moore was much the same kind of witness as ross boss we could readily understand that if indictments were presented based upon the tso ot of such abandoned witnesses this jury would merit the opprobrium of their law abiding fellow citizens it is with much reluctance that we feel obliged to call the attention ot of the court to a remarkable fact in connection with michot the testimony given before us witnesses in ordinary territorial rit orial cases have no difficulty in recalling and stating the facts promptly and but when called in the examinations for crimes against the united states their failure of memory is phenomenal in tile former cases the witnesses know the facts very positively in tile the latter they only know what they think im material but as to material facts atie r memories fail in the most unblushing manner the examination of hundreds of witnesses justifies us as io in this declaration and the conclusion is obvious A committee of the grand jury has visited the penitential y ana its report indicates dukat that institution is well managed in view of its very crowded condition the jury learns with pleasure th that atthe the buil building cling of a new penitentiary is imminent but 13 pending ending that strongly ithac a portion oz ot the present sent long lOne term cou con viccy be forwarded to some other penitentiary for confinement we also consider it highly important that prisoners trial should be separated from convicts we attach lieselo the affidavit of john L ross ROBS in the liquor cases rr ro berred to in conclusion the grand jury wishes to thank the court and its officers the courtesy and patience winch havid been exercised towards it A foreman SALT LAKE CITY utah august ruh im 1880 AFFIDAVIT OF 01 L ROSS BOSS TERRITORY oli av UTAH 7 county bounty ot 01 salt like lake ss john jobu L rass being first duly dilly sworn says upon uis oath some four months ago alf alfred red solo moo of salt lake city asked aske 4 mein me in a quiet way ix it I 1 oula N work for the city subsequently about the stil or oth ot of may he asked ue lue tile JS awe question again aga saying say ing I 1 should be well paid lor my ber services vices lie he aid said s I 1 was to be a detective for the city to go to saloons on sunday alq and nuu out what they were doing there I 1 cou rented to work as suggested with the understanding that I 1 was simply to report what was going on not to be a witness against the men inen detected z n nl I 1 I 1 was overcome with surprise when they br light me in as a witness against lutcs ru t 5 Nys irom understanding now that I 1 am to be a witness a against some twenty others against whom I 1 have given information of that character I 1 propose to draw out of the thin aning 9 entirely and it regret solomon has given meso farin small sums about 48 and was to pay me and my partner moore boore VO 20 each tor for every case reported at the city hall the bargain way ads that we were to so go to the saloons and if no one was drinking we were to invite anyone who might be present and if there was no one there to ourselves the plot was as I 1 understand to entrap and andare the saloon men so that they could be controlled or failing in that thai crushed by the municipal authorities police officer salmon and J HM oyle prosecuting attorney terney at knew of the ob T the he former spoke to me several times in an encouraging way before arrangements were concluded and the latter atter afterwards wards now and then asked me how we were getting on how many we wi had pulled etc as if anxious to gu go ou oil with the work when I 1 learned that I 1 was to induce men to violate the law in order that they might be prosecuted and was to become a witness against them I 1 determined ter mined at once to abandon the business which I 1 now do the aim was to obtain money by ter prizing or izing the liquor dealers aud and inducing them to compromise for cash this was doberin the case of tufts with whom officer salmon offered to settle for ippu W I 1 regard the whole thing I 1 as a dirty diny cowardly piece of work and will have no more to db with it I 1 make these statements under oath freely and voluntarily without reward or the hope of reward I 1 have not been solicited by anyone to do this nor have any suggestions been made to me so to do my object is to repair as far as I 1 cauthe can the injury that has been done by reason of the conspiracy spoken of and to t do ustice justice to the saloon men many of whom were my friends in time of 0 need I 1 JOHNL boax L ross boss subscribed and sworn to before me this ath day of july 1886 ISEAL EDWARD MICHAELIS notary public the following fel lowing supplemental report was also made in the district court for the ahe third judicial district territory of utah april term 1886 to the honorable charles 8 zane judge judee of said court the grand jury respectfully report that hat they have ignored bills as follows united states vs woiday WW IDay polygamy united united states vs W L nauen nallen unlawful cohabitation united states vs james carrie unlawful cohabit cohabitation atton athe the people peaple vs michael thomas dawson george lawrence james regney hegney hillstead junes james ruey james peacock ewing fallon isaac woolf ben tp fc ringer J C harvey tufts hill and joseph marriatt Mer selling liquor on sunday ahe abe people vs larceny A AY T reynolds M H morgan battery abraham benedict rape H V martin subornation etc taylor beach and Hogan burgh burglary iry and petit larceny S i 0 L potter assault geo F adkins embezzlement john doe housebreaking break ln john W groesbeck misdemeanor CHAS A TEWKSBURY foreman the were then dase discharged barged URD AY IS DAMY DAILY AUG 14 ir the board of J 1 ers 1 completed the th e counting d ik fi 0 j I 1 this afternoon and took ap aj i abw iv county protest th goodill u 1 p 0 sing the board have bear ar work promptly and ad 0 to the satisfaction of ens at t baggage the follow 10 langins g to persons who C W last COM company of im stations named and aw roM Iob application there by the Ogden utah central one assessed As essed to C charlotte har lotte kopp A utah northern one I 1 bolea ifal aj addressed to karen sophia ateon an today to dardr day dr hamilton id 3 4 surgical oper operation atlon at the eal hotel aftel on a boy named a from idaho about a ago 1 he received an injury atlo land ad gangrene set in making y to amputate the leg mi mid I 1 y en the knee an and I 1 ankle the is now pre progressing gessing favor ir maligned ened in the third district 0 virtlo L day F A wyman was ar aon on an indictment found f by the rry of the february term for bement ent the defendant is alith ith having on jan 19 IM 1886 fitly and feloniously 4 aich he had collected as the or the singer manufacturing ay A plea of not guilty was W V ich and wm Riley entered loot ot guilty to an indictment house housebreaking breaking alleged to ibn n committed an on murch march 31 breaking into a union pacific calcutta this morning we ased ed to meet dr george H aho ho arrived from calcutta lea is a few days ago it will be fed d that he paid a visit to ut two years since this 48 come COE ne to stay and cast his bis the latter day saints he me e in advance of his bis family u probably be here before long lone aghas has made preparations to rem he has not yet decided le e will locate wherever he ie he be will enter upon the a profession profess lon as physician and a d in a which he has had ha a long ble able experience in india he 0 i in n the meantime to visit his arho ho resides in beaver city am welcome to utah ig well refrigerator lio are fortunate fort iWate enough to ing wells will be pleaded to that gat their value can be increased by the use of d S water in a a invention for this pur ur n exhibition at david james IS ie neatly made so that it may id in the rouse or near the aich it can be easily attached is aso so arranged that the cold continually dually fid flows wo through coils dg used sed as shelves upon which the milk meat butter etc pt cool the temperature pera ture is regular gular in fact there can be itkor E in this regard the of the daily expense of ice uch eh lower cost price it dif 1 the ice ice refrigerator it has tested and gives en action and can be cheerfully arted dedas as a great boon to those wing win wells w Is it may be made ze e irom rom that suitable for b to one with capacity dairy while in point of deit is everlasting david bo 0 will receive orders for it ross of this city is the in bithe ahe ingenious contrivance W tee e suspended this morn morny bep andersen a non mor imor this city was arraigned cl orl on bent charging him wita poleg unlawful glawf ul cohabitation with a one woman as his wives it bed d that on january 1 1883 he lara hatgis that on april 1 lp the c otner wife was linnig liviu gb e ane e hiramine Hi goodmanson Wood manson m the last date to july 1 unlawfully cohabited wito wita ite te and HiriL Hi mina woodman lt pleaded not guilty artly aly afterward changed it ally a and ud said he de make a statement which bilows six years ago he mar ra Harris he lived with her va and then went wen tto to montana tor r a month when hen he rea had skipped the coun ww to canada four years p married hattie white and lag with her three or four at to fix a home in the country when bin he came calne back she re ve with him or to let him forchi orra she signed a divorce which was drawn up by ouris the defendant sup A belf if free and married miss ion n he came from deni years ago and could read the ato questions quest igns by the court in int stated seated it was his b p otey obey theat the jaws adv A against t polygamy tie e would not d the law had he under e had no means and worked kiai X at IH geskou of f mr dickson Di ekson ten gabi w suspended pus s ended with the in ii the e defendant efen dant that if he ept butare he would be al wed jatee but if not judgment on him kai I 1 More Crusade work A number of those under bonds to await the grand jurys action were notified t to 0 be bein in the third district court today to day to plead to the indictments indictment foung ader against ainest them chem the number of counts crowded into each indictment un under the segregating process shows the feeding of bitter persecution that actuated the members of the late grand burr and those chose whose tools they are charles M bergstrom residing in the eleventh ward was first caved caled and listened to au an indictment charging him wilh living with his wives J alia L h bergita bergstrom om minme bergstrom bei astrom and anna otimay bergstrom contrary ant to the provisions of the edmunds law the three years past are divided into five periods with one COL bornt at to each making the maximum maxim in yin in this case if a conviction 6 aho ho uld be had of two and a half years th defendent de entered a plea of not guilty john tateos tate of tooele thoele pleaded not n ot gepty cao a four count indictment each count covers a period of tour four mo its and he be is charged with living with his wives ann tite tate and emily ore gre en tate against richard Wax warburton burton of too ele there was out one count in the indie diament ai anent ament charging cohabitation with his wives emily warburton and martha warburton wa War barton he pleaded dot bot guilty jmes dunn of toodie was ar rate ned on a three taree count indictment alleging that he hart had lived with his wives jean Frazer Dunn Dinn and jessie Young yon ng dunn Duria plea not guilty jonas lindberg of tofile tooele also pleaded not guilty to a three count indict let meat charging cohabitation with may mai y Li odberg g and anna Jonas jonasson sOll litberg Lin aberg as his wives adrew hansen of west jord jordan an listened to the reading of a an indictment containing ahr three e counts an and d changing him with living with his wives caroline carolina hansen and betsey J hansen flip his plea was not guilty carl Cari jensen of west cesi jordan pleaded not guilty to a five count indictment which alleged cohabitation with his wives betsey jensen and anna jacob sen J jensen ensen win felstead rel stead aged nearly three score and ten of the first ward of t this his city was arraigned on an indict 1 ment cli charging aring polygamy and unlawful cohabitation with anna erika felstead Pel stead and anna christina felstead as his wives the offense of polygamy was alleged alle ced to have been committed commit oct 2 1883 while the defendant had a legal wife eunice watson felstead living and he entered a plea of guilty to both counts in the indictment and will receive sentence 0 monday september bail lia la these cases was fixed in sums varying from 1600 to 2500 three of the defendants had not obtained bail up to the time we went to press |