| Show OGDEN department OGDEN CITY november 22 1886 a SINCE this department was last heard from the has made a successful ul business tour in the interest of the DESERET NEWS in a number ot the cities and villages in this northern section of the country on my return home the storm clouds angry and threatening on sunday they broke resulting in a furious snow fall to the depth of about one f foot the dose was repeated with a fierce north wind at night and continued until this mornine morn inc inz which resulted inthe suspension of all outdoor public works and much other labor I 1 from a gentleman who was a south bound passenger on the utah northern railroad and who was my guest laba evening that two accidents occurred on that line on sunday a short distance south of calls fort in the morning when the north bound freight train reached that locality a number of cattle were on the track and could not be soared scared off neither could the eng engine ine be r reversed e with sufficient force to stop it before it reached the bovines who were run into and four or five of them so terribly ri bly maimed that they would eit either herd die ie of their injuries or would have to be killed and when tho the south bound passenger in iu theaven the evening wk reached the same locality it met with a 4 similar cassaty casu aty and ran into a number of live stock with similar result as that of the freight train in the morning altogether some ten animals were thus fatally injured the storm was raging and the wind was blowing at the time of each of the occurrences which may have prevented those in III charge of the trains from seeing the animals on the track in time to prevent the accidents no person on the trains was hurt THE DISTRICT COURT being anses in session I 1 dropped in and made a few notes of the days doings scon after he opening of the court elder james may of calls fort box elder county was arraigned on the charge of unlawful cohabitation extending over a period of one and a half years from january 1 1884 to june 30 the indictment contained five counts george chandler of ogden city was also alao arraigned on a similar charge his bis time lime being two years both these defendants fend ants took the statutory time to plead jl the remainder of the day was nearly all occupied in the case of mrs susan parry which has become ot of almost absorbing sor bing g interest for some time past she is charged with committing perjury buryin in february last when she was summoned before the grand jury when that body of inquisitors inqui were investigating a charge of unlawful cohabits tion against elder joseph parry during the morning session the defendant underwent a very severo severe and tedious cross examination by the prosecution during which she by the operation both physically and mentally and with difficulty was prevented from swooning I 1 among the witnesses who appeared for the defense were thomas D dee W G child lorin farr james L dee jose joseph h A west ben E rich M recliner Rec liter these these witnesses all testified flea among other thines that they bad been acquainted with the defendant for many y jars ars during which time she had r orne a rep reputation for truth and veracity amelia wright testified that she sha had heard witness tell her father on ahe day she appeared before the grand jury that she had made a mistake in relation to the ape age of her child which sue said was three years old when in fact it was wag not owr over two years old joseph josepher wright Wr ait father of the defendant w tes testified that his daughter had bad told him hain she handmade had wade made the mistake above alluded to in regard to the age of her youngest child IN THIS THE AFTERNOON ogden hiles esq addressed the jury for the prosecution prose e ec ution lie he argued that notwithstanding the statements of the deafen dant that she was confused and confounded through nervous excitement while in the grand jury room and that in consequence she made a mistake in stating the age of the youngest child she had not told the truth he said paid thet e avas a conspiracy between herself and her daughter mrs birs eldridge that they had bud entered into an agreement aud and in consequence they had both told the same story in relation to the childs age the attorney said the defend defendant anta BOW 0 W makes a an avoidance ce that is she confesses the fact with a view to avoid the consequences he labored hard to impress the jury with the idea or fact that mrs parry had bad not not been and could not be mistaken but that she had told a deliberate liberate 6 untruth and although he professed profound sympathy for the lady he told the jury they must convict her JAMES N esq eso delivered a brief but impressive speech for the defense he argued that the grand jury before whom sParry Mr was euln boned to testify in this case was not a competent tribunal that it was not legally that the foreman was wag not authorized to administer an oath to witness that that body of in qui was not legally constituted and that the required number of jurors 12 was wag not present at the time the inquisition was held and although mr beerbower Beir bower h bad ad testified on the stand that be b e was satisfied that twelve jurors were present on OLI this oc casion casi onit it was only presumption with him and ad his testimony was wai insufficient to be depended on his knowledge of the number of persons present at that time was not definite and he had bad stated that they were going in and out of the jury room all the time the inquiry was bel being prosecuted counsel then said tho the defendant eten dant was honest sincero sincere and truthful in all her statements that she had manifested no desire to misrepresent matters and that she bad simply committed mistakes which she desired to correct after a brief rejoinder from the prosecutor tor in which he said the record of the coart would show that the grand jury was a legal body and that the foreman thereof had bad taken the oath auth and was authorized to swear witnesses judge henderson Hender aoa then charged the lury jury and instructed them in their duties in making up their verdict in this case he reminded them that the defendant was charged with the crime of perjury in giving false evidence before vie the grand jury who were authorized and were investigating a charge of unlawful cohabitation against joseph parry on february 1886 he charged charge ti them that the said granda ury were duly a uly arid and legally constituted and the foreman thereof was duly authorized to administer the oata to the defendant and that it was believed that her evidence was material or even vital to procure the indictment against and to convict joseph parry of unlawful III cohabitation he f urther further charged them that it was not lelent for them to find that the testimony she gave before the grand jury was false but that she made such statements with wilful corrupt and malicious intention knowingly to mislead the said graah grand j jury ary in their investigations of the charge against parry after clearly defining what constituted a reasonable doubt 1 he charged them if they were sa satisfied be yona a reasonable doubt that defendant was guilty they should so find bat but it linot not it is absolutely necessary that she should be acquitted the charge chaice was one of the clearest and ablest to which we have listened in any court of justice at it pm the jury retired to consider their verdict lAtter lAfter being out two hours they again came into court with a verdict of agu guilty alty 11 the time for passing judgment is set for monday next at the close of this case timothy parkinson was arraigned on the usual charge lie he pleaded guilty as soon as the indictment wis was read to him and and wanted his sentence passed upon hi him m at once he said he had got to go to the pen 1 avid and A ae might just as well go now as at any other time the court advised him to take a little time to consider the matter lif if it was only until tomorrow to morrow to which the defendant consented and left the room mr V beerbower Beir bower gasthen wa appointed assistant prosecuting attorney tor for the first district court and proceeded at 0 once nee to examine j juror brors as to their statutory qualifications V to try the case of the united states vs lorin parr after which the court adjourned till a in tuesday QUONG DAN LUNG an olive colored son of the celestial cil estial empire was arrested on the ath of sept last charged with keeping a gambling house in this city lie he was arraigned in the i justices ices court tried and convicted ile he took an appeal to the district court and on saturday the case came up for hearing A jury was and the case was tried mr mra white while appeared for the prosecution and mr A H nelson for the defense james M brown and robert chambers police off officers leers and city marshal ballantyne were 1 sworn and testified to making the tha arrest at the time specified and to finding in the house of defendant a table covered with gambling gain bli in articles etc 0 dejl dan lung a acknowledged 1 ed that on od the date named a number of bis big countrymen were in his house and w were ere playing a name game lust just for pastime and not tor for stakes no bets bete being made by either party on the affair after hearing the testimony and brief remarks by the counsel the verdict of the jury was not guilty RUMORS have been prevalent here that mr C W hemenway Hem euway was shortly to assume the editorial charge of a diminutive concern in this city and which is devoted to the propagation of aati I mormonism mr Hem hemenway euway contradicts this assertion and says he has neither beep been offered nor has he accepted any situation since lils his liberation from ail ile he says cewill he will be engaged for some weeks yet in ina in his book and preparing bittor it for publication li TODAY TO DAY the writer saw mr forces forbes who keeps a second baud band establish ment on fifth street lie wore a puzzled look on his big face it was subsequently accounted for by the fact that he no found among the second hand articles in his store what turned out to be a stick of giant powder mistaking it for a bar of iron be was abelt to convert it into a chicci lian dle when he was iwarney by a friend ot of the danger of the operation and thus escaped probably iro abla bable destruction by the explosion of the combustible agent the reports of recent arrests is that of elder john martin of west weber ile he has been absent abroad tor for a considerable time but recently returned and fell into the hands of the marshals he is held to answer when wanted on the usual charge of violating the edmunds law i J THE SNOW continues up to the ti time me of closing this communication and aird it is still bitterly cold it is feared by many weather prophets that winter has come 0 me to stay |
