| Show 1 ALL THE CHARGES DISMISSED 7 1 president angus M cannon 1 V leased from rom bonds f lie witness parsons Is 1 held 14 because of his expressions when drunk drank BUTIS RELEASED this morning president angus M cannon appeared before commissioner mcka to hear bear the batters lat decision in tile application of mr dickson to hold bold him aim on the char charge of unlawful ua cohabitation the district Vi district strict Att attorney okney didiot not appear and when the ane commissioner proceeded without him it was lit at once apparent that the defendant would be clis charged commissioner mckay informed the defendant that he be had bad a little matter to settle before taking up the case marshal dyer deputies pratt and cannon and the witness robert parsons were called into the toom room and the commissioner opened the exercises as follows mr par am very machof tile the impression that c YOU in your testimony here when asked by mr dickson certain questions about this conversation you had with the theof of alcera dc erh and 1 L want to investigate it I 1 think it is nay my duty ditty to do it and whether it be perjury or not Is immaterial to me U S marshal F FB 4 dyer was then sworn and testified I 1 had bad a conversation conven ven gation W with ith parsons in the commissioners Commissi onera office of lice I 1 last friday morning in relation to the cannon case it was prompted by parsons saying something to a deputy he be was invited invite I to td come to my office at 2 p m he saidee knew enough to send mr candon to the penitentiary lor for a longtime ne he knew of the pr prejudice that existed among the scope heeland be erand was afraid of it unless lie be could got gee enough money for his testimony to enable him to leave the country his family were in poor circumstance cincu balances st and he wanted to relieve them I 1 told him Nie could not pay for testimony but said to him if you call MAKE MAKR YOURSELF USEFUL IN HUNTING 11 WITNESSES WITNESS ESt and in finding people that we want we can pay you for your time but you should tell the truth for nothing commissioner mckay also told him to tell the whole truth and he be said he would he then went on to say that he had seen mr cannon in ineyl bed with miss bliss hugha highes s alithe hospital on one occasion ho he saw through the open door at other times he peeped through the window and saw them he did this out of curiosity he also said he be could find others who could give evidence when he came to my office he be said that anna olsen a laundry girl at the hospital could clotild tell something she had been to bingham then back to salt lake and he be thought she had bad gone adne to bingham again he also said mattie hughes was vias stopping at the house of a man named gorringe Gorn and trat that is what prompted the raid or sear search ch at that mans house the gitnes parsons in reply to the commissioners questions said 1 I do not remember the conversation with mr dyer through being hurt several times I 1 am affected in the bead aad when I 1 drink whisky I 1 am not responsible tor for what I 1 say commissioner have you ever been beeb in an insane asyl asylum lum parsons continuing no sir I 1 dont remember the conversation with any of the men I 1 remember seeing mr dyer but know who he was waa if I 1 had bad not been drinking dnn bina I 1 would have remembered what I 1 said isaid 1 I TOLD YOU THE UNDER OATH day before yester yesterday day the 1 conversation alle alleged ed with mr dyer is untrue f I 1 dont know whether I 1 said what tie he states or not it true anyway any way marshal dyer 1 I should say lie he was not under the influence of liquor he seems in about the same condition now i that he was then deputy pratt testified I 1 mrs parsons she said what we were after it washer was her son robert jrobert we wanted but he WOULD NOT TESTIFY ueless PAID he knew enough to 0 o send mr cannon to the penitentiary I 1 saw aw roberti robert he told me he wanted money but I 1 told him I 1 could givy give him aim nothing lie he might see the Mat marshal he said he knew enough lenough to send mr cannon to prison ne he was then in whitte mores hotels hotel I 1 left him to come up town he was in as sober a condition as be is now BOW witness parsons to the commissioner I 1 do not know what was said to mr pratt as 1 had been drinking when lie he came to me I 1 am sober kober now deputy C cannon te testified stifled I 1 heard beard tile the conversation as related by mr pratt pa parsons I 1 esons said he would tell the truth if there was anything in it lie he was as sober as 1 afe is now mr parsons yo you a cant tell that deputy cannon you acted the fame earne mr amr parsons you see me drinking and you dont know this closed this branch of the proceedings ce lor for the time being the commissioner then took up the cannon case mr richar richards Kic hards suggested that the charge on which mr dickson asked that the defendant be held had already been IGNORED BY THE giand GRAND JURY on similar testimony to that riven given on the present occasion and the circumstances were such that no nd magistrate would bind over on the evidence the commissioner then paid eaid that he had conducted the case before the grand j jury u ry on the I 1 former ormer occasion and had determined that he be would not hold the defendant now unless there was more against him than developed at that time the testimony then was quite full clara C cannon who was absent at the time of the examination was before the grand jury it was in evidence then that there was no change in the relations of the defendant and his bis wives and that clara was living in the same house bouse as amanda until just before the defendant came out of the penitentiary in fact she was provided movis deg when subpoenaed tu to a house bouse provi provided by the defendants son george al ai cannon THE indictment WAS NOT FOUND because of lack ol of evidence 1 but because two of the wives said t tiey they would not live with the defendant again he could not hold on that testimony but some of the witnesses had bad so changed it as to be infamous however Howe vCr as nothing new or additional b had ad bew been developed at the examination the def defendant enfant would be disc discharged barged on all the charges against him the parsons case was then taken up again and tile the commissioner said be e would like to hear bear 8 shocks eks an and richards on the question wh whether er witness it parsons was IN CONTEMPT a he thought it apparent that there had bad been falsification in one instance it was not perjury but on one of the occasions either before or at the investigation vesti gation the witness had bad falsified it I 1 was clear that it came within the purview of the statute I 1 am disposed to punish him richards and sheeks said that they knew nothing ot of parsons as aa he be was war a witness lor for tile prosecution they were willing to give their opinions at the request of the commissioner but not ab counsel for witness as th they e y had bad not been employed in that capacity commissioner mckay then ordered that the witness robert parsons be taken into custody pending further investigation vesti gation the absurdity of the contempt ae aa causation cusa tion is apparent when it is remembered that parsons was subpoenaed just after he had bad been in W Whitte bit temores morea saloon and when he was under the influence of liquor and that he be came almost direct to mr mckay mckays office while in that condition taking another drink of whisky on the way to brace him up 11 quee once in the presence of the commissioner and marshal his garrulous propensities were given lull sway in spinning a cock and bull story to not unwilling or uninterested hearers this afternoon mr brown was employed as counsel by the witness parsons anti ana quickly secured his bis melease from the contempt proceedings it must he grat gratifying dying to the government to know that the expense in the fiasco flasco just lust ended will probably not dot fall far short of quite in an expensive wild goose chase |
