Show THE 91 GENTILE polygamist hawthorner HAW TRYAL TRIAL OF THE prosecuting WITNESS the case of the united states vs I 1 henry 11 hawthorne indicted for polygamy 1 g abny was called 11 d in the third district 90 court urt today to day ahe the witnesses examined in ed before the grand jury ury were john F wood jewett P francis cassie J currie mary J warn wm win mckay and maria newell J R mc bride and barlow ferguson were counsel for the defense the work of getting a jury took considerable sid erable time those nunnally nu fin anally accepted ca ted were wm 0 dunbar jr S C pancake james W campbell chas B durst M dusseldorf Dussel dort T TG G M smith albert fiscner fischer C aa M brown R W crane joseph Fo foreman remau J M harvey those excused for having formed an opinion ominio tou touching cli I 1 a g t the h e gai guilt I 1 t or innocence ot of the defendant we were re E kahn J T little T carter it ft P martin alfred thomson olan john M young and william mcrae L C karrick would give the plaintiff the benefit of any doubt this was deemed sufficient to iree free him from jury duty mr fischer hai had express expressed eci an opinion but thought he could be impart Wiand and was accepted against the objection ot of defendants fend lend ants counsel win mcqueen when asked as to how much evidence lie he would require answered if it could be bbown LO 10 me that a man had two wives I 1 would convict him mr me mcbride bride would you require less evidence than in in any other class of cases mr mi mcqueen if one good reliable witness swore to it I 1 I 1 would convict him sure suie mr mcbride but suppose two good reliable witnesses swore to the contrary mr mcqueen well I 1 wouldn woul believe them I 1 would convict him court you are excused when the jury panel was completed the indictment was read lead charging henry H liaw hawthorne thorne with having married on july 9 1885 at ac maidstone kent england mary buckley and subsequently suo while the said wife was living married mary jane warn thus committing polygamy tiie the date of the latter marriage is au auguet gust 24 jewett jewelp 11 fancis Jb 1 rancis was the first witness he testified lied I 1 live in salt bait lake city cit have known defendant tour four months first met him in salt lake lakey he lodged with metco me two months prior to his marriage in august I 1 heard him make a statement about his wife in england objected to by mr air mcbride objection overruled witness to mr dickson he told we me he married mary buckley in maidstone and left her in hartford Harti ord connecticut with his sister when ne lie cause came west I 1 do not remember member le the date he be said he had married her he rAce received ived three letters from her I 1 heard him read part of two of them he said they were from his darling wife he said she was in delicate health and he was anxious about her he afterwards told me she had gone home to her father ti till 11 he could get money to make her a home he got a letter after he got to england I 1 inea mary jane warn I 1 introduced the d defendant defend to her these conversations were both before and after the introduction he stated that he married mary J warn because his wife had gone to england and he wanted A WIFE WITH MONEY the other wile wife had none but the present had considerable witness to mr mcbride I 1 have been in utah fifteen years have been at silver reef beaver and other places cam efrom white pine nevada have been at tintic gintic alta east canon and elsewhere in utah have also been in montana was engaged in mining I 1 have been sick the last season got acquainted with defendant in front of the methodist about two months before he was arrested arif ested I 1 do not consider I 1 caused his arrest I 1 had bad mighty little to do with it the defendant and I 1 had no difficulty have got 0 feeling against bieu only I 1 thought o b he teat treated d his wife in england improperly I 1 worked with him putting up washing fluid in the house where jerry gibson gibbons Gib sons Is office is I 1 had heard of him and introduced myself to him he came to room with me a couple of weeks after I 1 told him of a project I 1 had it was to exhibit a panorama never tried to interest himself in selling coal lands for me I 1 spoke to him of it the show business did not go nor did the coal lands the most moat we did together was mixing washing fluids I 1 worked at various jobs one was putting a roof on mis warns house the deien defendant dant was MAKING SOFT SOAP ETC while we were working together he read to me voluntarily a letter from his bis wife he told me her name was mary buckler Buckley but he called her mattie ahad I 1 had received n a letter aletter from my wife and we were talking when I 1 testified before the grand jury I 1 do not know whether I 1 mentioned mention td cd the name mary buckley Buc bley I 1 cant say whether I 1 told the commissioner I 1 did not know defendants fend ants first cifes name I 1 received a letter from maidstone I 1 wrote to his wife first I 1 have interested myself S in the case never had a difficulty with defendant I 1 told him he did wrong I 1 never proposed marriage to maryj mary J warn I 1 I 1 tried to promote a marriage between her and hugh turner ot of idaho never wanted her to marry in my nephew mr wood I 1 may have told her that if my nephew did not marry her I 1 would but it was in a joke the ca cause e of this prosecution defendant was because defendant ant married mrs warn thus INTE interfering WITH MY NEPHEW mr M wood said lie he was engaged to mrs warn wain I 1 told wood 1 I would go with him I 1 think the de ought to have peen indicted I 1 knew mrs warn had property and money I 1 was not to receive auy any benefit if she married my nephew no money was to 0 be given to me I 1 interested te myself ysela because the wife la in england was wronged v hen I 1 told mrs warn I 1 would marry her if my nephew did not she may have said I 1 had a wife I 1 do not remember saying my mv wife had deserted me she has been a away W ay a year I 1 never told def defendant enfant I 1 EXPECTED TO GET 1000 by mrs warns marriage to my nephew I 1 spoke to hawthorne Haw about mOne ter the marriage he promised continued on paye 72 6 to raise 1000 and afterwards said he was so dazed with being married that lie he could not talk business subsequently I 1 told him that if he be raised the money I 1 would pay him back tills this was seven or eight days after the marriage negotiations not lations were pending when he was arrested I 1 did not go for himas him as boonas soon as 1 foaud out that I 1 could not get money I 1 introduced my nephew john F wood to the commissioner I 1 then wrote to mrs hawthorne in england directed it komrs to mrs mattie hawthorne maidstone england it was not directed to a man I 1 have not tried to get money from the present mrs hawthorne to stop this prosecution I 1 heard of a person going to her gitil a letter but it was riot by my direction it was my letter and was taken before 1 I saw it do not know who took it I 1 conversed with mrs curry at the commissioners commission ers office I 1 may have said the defendant and his wife would be glad to PAY ME HUSH MONEY but do not recollect it my inter interest est in this case is ig not prompted ba b a desire to compel these parties to pay me money the court then took a recess until 2 9 p m when J H anderson testified that defendant admitted having a wife in Vil england gland and that he had married wife because an attorney mcknight said he was free because she bid bad deserted him mrs mary J hawthorne testified on august I 1 was married to the defendant b mr mcknight I 1 did not know defendant had a wile living he said he had had a wife but sue was dead my name was mrs mra warn this testimony was objected to and the objection overruled cassie J curry testified that she lived at mrs warns alter mrs warn was married to the defendant witness heard a conversation between mr hawthorne and mr mcknight mr mcbride objected to any confidential communications made to an attorney as a legal adviser mr dickson said mcknight was not an attorney witness to mr dickson they were talking to mg me mcknight said if one of the parties CROSSED THE OCEAN that would separate a husband and wife defendant had said his wife had crossed the ocean witness to mr mcbride D defend ant said mcknight told him he w was a s all right as his wife had bad left the country and he could marry again again it was which which and teother between me and mcknight as to who talked most hawthorne did not say much this was after his arrest commissioner mckay te testified stilled he spoke of his former wife both before and alter after the examination he said his former wife was living in england said her name was mary buckley he married her july 9 at kent england and she was at her fathers father home married mrs W warn irn because he S supposed ased he had a right to marry bemuse because his wife had deserted him and gone to england to mr mcbride anis was while he be was waiting for bail some of these statements were made in answer to my questions he said A ORMER FORMER B WIFE rebecca Whitlock whom he married in cleveland in 1862 had died in memphis in 1873 he had married another subsequently I 1 made a memorandum of the statements for the information of the district attorney I 1 heard the dal name in e mary buckley after the examination the same day he referred to her as being alive th though 11 he did not particularly particular ly say so he said she was in en england land and that lie he had been married to her the prosecution rested their case with this witness the defense recalled mr mckay who said trie defendant said his wife mary buckley had gone golle to england because she had no means in this country she bad a child she went back last summer and went to her folks tie did not say she was living or dead the tenor ot ol the converset conver conversation sat on was that she was living but that was not specially stated watson Goo goodrich goodgion drion CD of the Post postoffice office was called and testified li it takes 15 to 18 days usually for a letter to come from en england land D W cencia bench te testified stifled I 1 am a bailiff in this court came to the territory in in 1867 met jewett B francis in 1876 or 1877 1 I do not know his reputation among the neighbors thi the defense rested and the ar arguments were made to the jury by 91 mr dickson for the prosecution and ferguson Eer guson and mcbride for the defense no verdict had been reached aher we went to press FROM fridays DAILY NOV 19 convicted last evening evenin the jury in the case of the united states vs henry H hawthorne the gentile tried for polygamy returned a verdict of guilty as charged against the defendant jdant sentence is to be passed on tuesday the hillst court notes proceedings in hi the third district court to today day jay des mines de lexington vs alex aiex mayberry on trial before the court J W rands bands et al vs edward brain ten days further time allowed both parties to file stater statement neut called rome Home Elder bulard done of al tee tae salt lake stake academy wes was called to his home iu in spanish fork yesterday by the news of the severe and as I 1 is supposed fatal illness of his bis mo he received three telegrams within two hours urging him to to come home and announcing that his mother was not expected to live professor maeser will take charge of recitations until brother done returns to his bis post quickly organized on monday lasi the stilt salt lake stake slake academy wa organized and the pupils were enrolled en rolled on the following day the program pro gramme ine of recitations was completely car carried fed out with as ad much smoothness as if tile the school had been organized for weeks a thing which prof maeser says he never saw before under similar circumstances cum stances A highly satisfactory condition has prevailed in the school during the entire week wa wants n ts work A man who recently arrived in ulab is desirous of finding employment in the city of glasgow where lie he formerly tor merly lived he was engaged in a warehouse as cloth folder and dresser and packer of goods he would not be particular about the character of the tha work however as he is strong active and capable and would be a t L handy haudy person about a warehouse ile he is thoroughly reliable any persac ar or firm desiring his services can hear of him at this office I 1 I 1 information AVau wanted ted it Is iside aa sired to know the whereabouts ellse alofs or any of her chil children drell who deml emigrated rated to utah in 1866 from the city of Sans krona sweden she was a widow with four children three borsand boys and one girl the oldest boys name was nels the children can learn of soui something ething greatly to their advantage in by writing to nitis nit ni Is petterson Pe no 72 estiva Norve gatan Sans Smas krona sweden europe or to mrs nellie wedge panacea lincoln county nevada married a gypsey sheriff turner of provo was in town yesterday ile he was in search of a girl who it was al lebed had been decoyed decayed from her home by a gypsey ane girl was found with a baud of in the brust brush 1 near ta tailors loras mill and was taken back ane sherill sheriff she however exhibited a marriage license showing that she was the wife of the all alleged aged abductor tile the affair is complicated it is alleged that the man has another wife with four children he denies however that this woman and he ever married the girl and the gypsey were married in a the early part of the present mouth month in salt lake city ogden oder herald I 1 that trial we vye are in receipt of the following from froin one who was present and watched closely the tribune attempts to disguise the fact that the jury in tile the staley murray case were biased and prejudiced here is the case murray gentile was in default had bad confessed everything alleged in the plaintiffs complaint and id they were instructed by the court to assess his damages if they found fouad any ag against him the court also instructed the tury jury if they believed that the other defendants acted on this affidavit and process issued they should tind find for them nw now what did aid the jury do db did they assess asses s damages against murray that were practically confessed if not why not and why did they want to assess a small fine on justice it if not because of bias or prejudice lee or both le ie think bias and prejudice accounts for their conduct complaint regarding garding Ke the mat s A reliable correspondent writes to us an emphatic complaint regarding the manipulation of tile the mails destined for certain points in southern utah tile the people he be says feel indignant about the matter he states th atthe mail matter which leaves salt lake city on friday morn morning arrives at richfield sevier COIN 1111 t 5 pm saturday there it lies until 9 am monday hours when it leaves for marys vale where it arrives at 3 p in inthe same day it lies at marysvale Marys vale until wednesday at 9 a am m another 40 hours and then starts ier for hillsdale where it is held 12 hours and then proceeds to kanab where it arrives on thursday evening thus a week Is consumed in the transit of a letter from salt lake city to kasab the mail route for circle valley heads at hillsdale but by an absurd schedule is required to leave that point 8 hours belore the mail from the north arrives there As the main rout through hillsdale south louthis sou this is a the people of circle vallo valley y are thus seriously and unnecessarily inconvenienced the proper course to be pursued to have the foregoing evils remedied is to have a statement of the facts pre prepared embodying recommendations prepared 4 0 fared the schedule changes which are desired i and forward the same to the department at washington I 1 surely ure such fauch a nonsensical arrangement of arr arrivals r 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