Show THE LATEST VICTIM THE extreme bitterness and questionable methods by which the prosecution against adallas t county collector NV N V jones has hap been conducted form another demonstration of the fact that no I 1 mormon need expect justice or fairness in the third judicial district of this territory tle whole business is thoroughly discreditable to the officials engaged in it the trial developed the fact that although the defendant was indicted for bribing a united states deputy marshal tile the individual put forward as erving in that capacity was not a b bona ona de officer that he be informed the defendant he be held no such position bosi tion when he be conversed with win him on the subject that the endeavor which was made to constitute him a deputy marshal while the negotiations were in progress was not f fully successful sf ua because he never gave a bond to the marshal that he a 4 ceased isome time before to be a I 1 ail if ff that therefore mr jones neither gave or offered a bribe to a united zes officer and did not perform the act ace named in the indictment A jury was selected against him composed of anti cormons mormons Mor mons 11 contrary to the spirit and letter of the poland law which congress passed to govern the of juries in it was not in any sena aa impartial jury it was like other juries picked out when mormons cormons Mor mons are oft trial placed in the box to convict the district attorney who prosecuted and the marshal who helped to get up the case were both engaged in a dirty scheme to entrap the tae defendant having entered into a plot to make the chief witness a deputy unknown to mr jones that the latter might be inveigled into the commission of an act that would not have been criminal but for that piece of deception it was made clear that whatever the status of the so called deputy might have been the defendant was unconscious that the man was an officer but had bad been led by him to believe to the contrary on being convicted after such a prosecution by such conspirators and before such a jury and giving cogent reasons by counsel why he be should have a new trial that was not only denied him but he was refused ball bail pending an appeal to the supreme court of the territory and hustled oft off to the peul pent tertiary teut tent iary to set seive VC a sentence of three cearo for an offe tice winch which the tat evidence demonstrated ne did not commit that is the tat way the people of utah are being instructed to respect the itie law aud and the courts outside ut the out rages on law jaw justice and co chmillon millon sense that have attended the prosecutions for polygamy proceedings against maimona Mo MOI imona LOons nave been conducted in such a spirit of hatred and vengeance because of their religion that the whole administration of the lae criminal law in this Distri uL nab kas been brought into public contempt mr air jones is ib the colie coli cier ecter ol 01 maxs for salt bait lake county lie he is personally responsible in law lor for the whole amount of the tax bull bail pending his hid appeal would have been a simple act of justice and at aa well weli a matter of policy it would have done no vio violence leuce to the law or to expediency ney it would have given the attendant deien dant time to the lae end of ids aid term to discharge ilia his duty as a public official it il on appeal it ue found thai taut the court orre at as alleged in the rulings or that tae me verdict was as and generally believed contrary to the evidence adduced mr air jones will have been unjustly punished and the lae tact fact will be undeniable that he has been made the lae victim of a judicial ouE outrage rage lie he was ably and all that was right und and proper was done to secure his rigans belore before the law but in vain lie he is v man of well known integrity an efficient public ser servant vast an honorable and upright citizen but he it is a Mor mormon tuo and aad tried to serve his friends in what lie he believed to be a lawful way both of these are crimes in the eyes of the un unscrupulous scrupulous crusaders against tile the people ot 01 utah and N V junes jones is one more inure sufferer a prey to we the vindictive and insatiable malice that has disgraced the latest assault upon the people of this territory |