Show OGDEN department DISTRICT COURT proceedings THIS MORNING CDe dece cember aber 21 the case of abraham chadwick was called when mr C C richards moved to quash the indictment on the ground that the name of one of the witnesses J C son of M chadwick was not entered at the foot of the document motion argued and left la in abeyance THE case of the united states vs P A nielson was taken takei rup up the indictment chang him with tampering with the united states mailin mail maili in fraudulently taking from the post office a letter belonging to another person and opening it mr ogden hiles prosecuted and mr W C hall defended A jury was paneled impaneled im the rhe defendant had previously pleaded not guilty 10 the first witness called was john he lived at logan has known defendant since the first of june 1885 on the of july im 1885 witness was acquainted with frank foote an assayer in salt lake city in july the defendant sent a specimen of ore to hi him in to be assayed assi assa ed lie he also sent him a letter enclosing money to pay for the assay defendants wife wrote the letter by his dictation and he signed it he requested mr foote to return the letter to the writer this was on or about the of july the letter was exhibited to the jury and shown bown to the witness who said he identified it as the letter be had bad sent to mr foote he f urther further stated that about the or of the same mouth P A nielson called and his bis wife into his hotel in logan saying to them 1 I have something to show you they went with him into the parlor when defendant defer dant took from his pocket two letters and presented one to witness saying what do you think of that witness was wag surprised to recognize the letter he had sent bent to foote after looking at the contents he asked neilson how came there to be two receipts on that assay he had sent but one to the assayer as saver neilson said he defendant I 1 opened the letter und and put in three more dollars the witness had already enclosed one dollar for the assay he also asked defendant how it was that mr foote 4 iwed three dollars when he never charged witness but one Ober laDder did not say what the response to this query was he said he never gave defendant any authority to open his bis mail at any time on cross examina tion said he formerly resided in iowa he had bad lived in cache county only about two years witness defendant ind and a man named each had bad interests in in a mine it was called the cache county mine he had spoken to about the assay and said he would snow show it himbur at the same time told that neilson did intend to tell about it but aa S easen was in tei ested wades thought it only right that he should know enow about it witness intimated that the value odthe of the assay had been raised by defendant and that he had bad not told of it but be found it out some two weeks after witness showed the assay tol who aid taid t it was wab two high the assay was again handed to witness who pointing to several items said it was dot his writing it had bad been tampered with MRS ISABELLA OBE KLANDER wife of the arst witness was called and deposed to writing a letter which her E husband us band signed that it was sent to mr foote of salt lake city with a sample of ore that the sample assay and the letter were shown to them both by neilson at his hotel she corroborated tae statements of her husband in the main but being shown the assay said she did not think the figures in the certificate had been altered since she first saw them she said she heard defendant f tell her b husband they must not say anything aay tiling of the value named in the certificate Mr Foote was in california and could not tie be obtained as a witness for the prosecution L was called for the defense lie he said he knew both the complainant nant and the defendant he was interested te in the mine with them had bad furnished provisions and other supplies for the mine he then commenced to relate a conversation which took place between himself and the defendant mr hiles objected to this and after a long debate ithe the judge said he might proceed the conversation related to an assay of some of the or ore 90 of f abe he mine which witness thought was too 0 hi high gh A dispute arose between them and they separated in anger and subsequently threatened to kill witness with a knife in laan answer to counsel said the reputation of where he lived was a ba bad d one he fui ther stated der had during the conversation acknowledged to witness that he and some one else had fixed the assay that is they had altered the value as given by the assayer assay er the examination consumed the morning session and was resumed at 2 pm ISAAC BARNES bannes of logan testified that he be had bad known for some length of time and he has a bad reparation which in logan was a matter of public notoriety he also con firmed the evidence of in relation to the certificate of ef acsay assay JON jolin KIMBALL and several others examined but nothing material wat war eti elicited cited from the defendant was wafa sworn and shown en cn nellore and the assayers 1 ale te it container contained and which was dated july 1855 he said he had never biever seen either of them before today he knew Ober iander but did not abany at any time trec eive any aay mail at the post office addressed to him and he be denied that he showed the assayers aayers as certificate as alleged to complainant and his bis wife the remainder of his bis statement was in corroboration of the evidence of and anck witnesses relations with Ober iander as in mining operations and which are of no special interest I 1 amo TURNER NER of Logan was examined and nd testified that Ober iander showed him the certificate of assay in question fuestion soon after he had received it the 1 he one which had bad been introduced in court was shown to turner and was N as identified by him as the one shown him by Ober iander he subsequently met who also told him they had received a high assay from some of the ores in their wine mine Ober lauder was recalled and said he once spoke to nielsen about the assay about six weeks after he discovered it was untrue I 1 this closed the testimony on both sider side counsel for and against addressed the jury for their clients until nearly six p in but this almost terribly terray tedious case which had dragged dragg edits its sluggish slow length along through the entire day was not finished it had b lepome pome irksome to every one and the C court ourt adjourned till ten friday morning the tae judge said he would then charge the jury and give the case bothem to them THE SCARLET FEVER has been prevalent in ogden oden tor some weeks beeks past and caused much alarm among some af pf of our citizens the cases were dum erous and some of them were of a malignant type but it is cause for agrati gratitude that only one case proved fatal one new case was developed on Wednesday and was promptly quarantined ANDREW KING an englishman and jens H anderson Ac derson a native of denmark were made citizens of the united states |