| Show trial of wm S muir mair the trial of wm S muir mair of bountiful ticul davis cottney Cott nty was held hela in the third district feurt this afternoon mr peters prosecuting and mr darke defending after the im paneling of the jury mrs jane S muir was called as a witness she stated that she was the defendants legal wife and aad declined to testify she was excused mrs lucy darke muir testified that she was married to the defendant june 7 1862 and that for several years he had lived with her exclusively mrs elizabeth staples muir testified that tor for several years the defendant had not lived with or visited her she was married to him in june 1865 deputy marshal pratt testified that about two weeks ago he had talked witt with the defendant who had said that he be did not intend to fight the case but wanted it postponed lie he said he intended to plead guilty deputy franks corroborated mr pratts testimony the defense called mr muir in his bis own behalf he testified I 1 had always made up my mind to plead guilty tor for the reason that a man who did so went to the pen pea 17 and those ano no pleaded not guilty went there too so it made no difference I 1 have not lived with any other wife but lucy for eight or ten years I 1 ceased because of the hubbub about the laws I 1 divided all the property between tween n my wives to mr peters the hubbub was in ia the courts under the poland law there was quite an uproar at the time I 1 lived with lucy because she was the only one who had young children to care for at this point it became necessary to w wake ate up one of the jurors who had fallen into a profound slumber witness continuing I 1 had made up my mind to go to the pea I 1 was not guilty but under the rulings of the court I 1 had no hope I 1 etian changed ged my mind when you refused to postpone my mv case this closed the eW evidence lence and mr peters asked the jury to return a verdict of guilty mr darke argued that the defendant should be acquitted as he had only lived with one wife during durans the time named in the indictment in his argument mr darke referred to the contradict contradictory orv rulings of the courts on the definition of unlawful cohabitation and was called to order by judge zane who informed infer med him that such reference was improper etwas it was atter alter three ol click this afternoon when the case was given to the jury who had bad not arrived at a conclusion when the NEWS went to press |
