Show PROVO POINTS FIRST DISTRICT COURT PROVO april 11 in the first district court thit morn jag wm yates was arraigned on OB a char charge a of unlawful ul cohabitation and pleaded not guilty the case was set lor for next term of court as the judge said we would have no time to try any more of that class of 91 cases this term the case of the people vs reuben A mcbride was resumed the witnesses with esses forthe for the prosecution testified substantially that on the lath of march 1886 at fillmore oliver H speed was shot by reuben A As mcbride n near ear maroof Mr Roofs in yard that mr mcbride went ont oat of the gate and aad met mr speed coming down th the e a sidewalk adew a ak that mab mcbride ri de ba had a conversation with his bon and said 1 I will wilk settle fettle that and len then asked askea spead what he had done to hi son at the same lame time reaching round around drawing a pistol speed aaker him to wait a minute and he would explain McBride then ku knocked oc ked him on the head bead with his pistol they clinched and mcbride bad his pistol in his bis left haud baud and shot speed in the left side near the breast and then got his bis pistol in his bis right hand and shot bilm in the right side mr roof came out and they took mcbride off mcbride said take me off ive k killed hied the s of ef a b and am glad of it I 1 would kill aidy any man who would slap a boy of mine 11 speed was token into the house and therel ther ewas was fire in his hi clothes cloth efi mr jackson put it out speed died about three ahr hours alter after he was shot quite a number ot 0 defendants in unlawful Is awful cohabitation cases are to be sentenced and taken to tk the epen pen to morrow louis steen convicted of murder la in the second degree was at 2 p in m today sentenced by ithe the court for theca the T murder of homer J stone defendant was 19 years of age his is parents died while lie he was oung and nd he lived with his rela relatives for a while ile the ngot got dissatisfied and shifted ter fer himself had led a wandering life had bebenin beba in almost every territory dry and had bad led a frontier life the court felt that it if it were not tor for tho the recommendation of the jury tor for mercy he would give the full penalty of the law as the provocation was very little he had received kind treatment by the court aud a recommend for mercy you will go to the pent penitentiary it en ti ary for a number of years gna and owing to the condition of affairs you may make the time less by good conduct and be better OR off the next ten years AR a that place than you have in your wandering life 71 the sentence was wag chati he be confined in the penitentiary tor for and during the period of ten years the murder caie case ct cf joe young an indian boy follows the mcbride case cage provo april 12 sentences in unlawful cohabitation cases don car carlos los snow jbf provo in view of the fact that the government had bad not been put to expense in these cases sentenced to six months and 00 J T arrowsmith provo six months and john P bellej american fork judge dusenberry Dasen berry appealed to the court lor for suspension af sen sentence tenee in view of the age of 0 the defendant and that he has bas not lived in the relation of unlawful cohabitation only as the court construes it for ten yeara past but had bad not publicly renounced the relation he supported his children the defendant said he had made solemn covenants before god and man and would not promise now to 0 obey the law the case was as postponed lor for consideration john gibbs of lehi lebi six months and edwin Lehl had bad withdrawn a former plea the caw came had been set for trIa Laud the government put to some more expense and thi the defendant was a man of means six antha and sud bishop george D shell of fork was preparing prepare ing for trial but finally pleaded guilty tite tae court understood that he was a prominent man hian and one of the kind that led to this condition el ef things and he was wa a man of means sentenced to six koont hs and costs sanford banford fuller of months and luclus lucius whiting of Spring springville ville six months and 50 the defendants then took their departure for their new home within the raud mud wall in the afternoon the testimony la in all in in the me bride case for the prosecution and the defense vas opened by judge mcbride mcbryde this p in judge mcbride held that the crime was not murder as charged but it anything manslaughter that the defendant Wis mcbride ride had always led an honorable life that he and his father before him haa bad made their home in millard county that he has bas been always respected and held offices of et various kinds had bad boen been justice of the peace selectman and 99 atthe the atme of the homicide was county attorney and he had a pistol in his bis pocket tuat day as a public officer fearing that trouble might ensue as he was acting as a police officer of the towa of Fil lillanore lanore that he be started home telling his boy to ko go home and do his chores he be met speed and son speed had su an an angry eye was enraged and said what have you been doing my boap boy mr si speed p ee 91 said none of benr r b business u s e S you old son of a b and it you dont like lit you can have some someer of the same and then jumped at mcbride who had been an invalid for some time and was weak and this Y young on powerful ow erf ul man closed IQ in on him c I 1 e pulled out his bis pistol and in t e agle lit it was discharged twice a and nd a as soon as aa he got speeds hand hana off the pistol he threw it away and the struggle continued and all that mcbride did was iu self defense and when our evidence is in we will ifil asic for an acquittal 0 |