| Show A MEETING AT TOOELE TWO BOYS THEY ADMIT THEIR GUILT last lag evening two boys about 16 years of axe age were brought in from tooele thoele city on the charge of disturbing a methodist meeting they were orrin skelton and frank lingberg mr robert skelton appeared for the me defendants when the accused were brought before commissioner mckay mr skelton asked for a change of venue on the ground that the boys desired a trial where the alleged offense was comit s bitted that the city government of tooele thoele was able to act la in the case and that there was a justice before whom they might have been taken in tooele thoele the commissioner stated that there therb was no provision in the statute fora for a change of venue from a united states commissioner to a j justice ustice of the peace in any event if there was the reasons advanced were not sufficient for a change the complaint was made under a Terri territorial territory tor lal law he would preter prefer that these cases be tried by a j justice us of et atthe peace peace but as long as the defendants were brought before him he be had no choice but to look into the matter mr skelton said he be thought it was altogether out of place and uncalled for that the local authorities should thus be ignored it was a question that ought to be tested wether they should be jumped J u aped over here SL a distance of forty miles to lo answer for a petty off offense rise that thant which their own city all authority cholity was con competent detent to deal H however however he would Is titer enter a plea of guilty tor for the ac aused as he be didiot wish to screen them though he thought they were not guilty of everything alleged in the complaint indecent language profanity etc Mr Varlan for the prosecution add spid said he be wanted to hear the testimony rey rev mra was called and said that on wednesday evening of last week the methodists were hoano holdi nef their weekly prayer meeting when they were disturbed by noises outside as is ot of 15 or 20 voices shod ting throwing dirt against the door groaning at the crevi ces crying amen he had deot wm win Birr airrington ington out to 10 see who the boys were t mr barrington tes testified titled that h he meeting had bad been seriously disturbed the singing and prea preaching ing could hardly be heard he had s seen en tile the two defendants fend ants throwing sand against the door there were a good many other boys but he only knew these two and one named martin I 1 goo geo pickett said lie he had heard part of the disturbance it was made by a large arge crowd of wye boys odthe of the age of fu 1 teen years year and had merely heard the general cries thought bought the boys were in tun fun think they were making fun of the services but laughing and talking among themselves wm win hammond said he afta aft in the ibe crowd that night during the time of the whole service the boys were talking and slinging gravel ground around on oil the porch of the house where the To meeting eiting viba being held the defendants the oldest in the browd mr davidson Dav ldson said he was on the ia inside of the meeting th house and had bad been greatly annoyed by the theories cries et amen which came irom under the door had heard no profanity deputy scott testified tes tided that be was in the house bouse aad said the noise of the cries outside etc bad drowned the preachers voice disturbances of this tind kind bad been frequent for years past without any action having been taken about it ithe be could not say that these two boys boya had ever been concerned in the trouble before and knew nothing against their character mr gillilan Gi lillan was recalled and la in reply to mr skelton said he be had bad com plagued to the late city marshal peter clay but nothing had bad been done about it mr skelton asked him if he be bad ever complained to the present I incumbent bent mr bevans bald sa id mr Gilf ign no and ill tell you why one of the most shameful acts that ever trans trains aired in any civilized country took place lace on friday last and again on sunday ny last they broke brog e down all our benches and your our city marshal sat among them in all his dignity and never offered to interfere the reason 1 mr skelton stated that mars lial clays denied that any aby complaint bad ad ever been made to him notwithstanding mr gillilano Gilli lans assertion be also als 0 offered an affidavit of marshal bevan taj that no complaint had been midi made mr varian inquired of the rev gillilan whether it was true that the house bouse of his predecessor had bee been a cove covered rea with filth once ho he sa said id yes in 1882 but nothing was ever done about it 11 he further said that he was acting andar the advice of the united states marshal who had bad told him the next time auy ady of the these se disturbances occurred to get gel their names flames and report to him which was what he had done he said be had known nothing against the character of the two boys in question up to this tim time d he had merely caused the a arrest r of the first that could be identified Commis commissioner mckay said there had been so much complaint compliant about this sort of thing out at tooele thoele that he thought it ought to be looked into and it ali the city government where it occurred with the city marshal were content to sit by without doing anything about it they complain it if the matter master was brought before someone some one else 50 or 60 miles distant the boys were placed under bonds to aalt walt the action of the grand jury the extreme penalty which th the law fixes ajr for the offense hadged chaigen is six months imprisonment and a fine of W 0 |
