Show A COURT INCIDENT THAT was a striking scene in the first district court at ogden on saturday when joseph poole was called for arraignment ment on indictment lor for unlawful ul cohabitation the unfortunate gentleman was ill invalid lor for three years but mr ogden hiles the prosecutor although cognizant of that fact opposed the request of the counsel for the defendant that the case be con insisted that arc cricri ardy ards enter a plea for him the reply of that gentleman was a anti and seemed to enable mr hiles to get a glimpse of the inhumanity of his position the defendants tat t attorney torney announced with alacrity that he was ready to enter a plea for far his client and aad if lt would save the unfortunate patient pursued by the rigors of the law he would be willing to go to the penitentiary 1 in his stead this was no buncombe but of a generous impulse from a sympathetic heart it was a brief statement but bloke a volume A more pathetic speech was never made before a legal tribunal it had bad the one touch of nature which makes all the world kin it appeared to reach the heart of the court who forthwith ordered the case to go over for the term and seemingly touched the remote susceptibility of mr hiles who intimated from an afterthought after thought from his first positions position that had bad the case been conducted to a close he probably would have requested dismissal under suspension of sentence this ig 14 but one little incident connected with the anti mormon crusade among thousands in which the pathetic element has existed some of the heartless prosecutions have not only resulted in imprisonment sickness sorrow and impoverishment but have nave even caused the clammy hand of death to fall upon indirect victims of a cruel and mistaken policy toward a voitby woi thy people |