Show AN ALLEGED ASSAULT between 10 and 11 am on saturday the dinst deputy bennett arrested ell eli dunham now of this place but late of mount pleasant on a charge of unlawful cohabitation the deputy rode up to him on the street on horseback and demanded him kostop to stop using very bad language dunham stopped and asked the officer for his authority to arrest him he replied all right dunham insisted that he show his papers the deputy pulled dunham from his wagon when a scuffle ensued the deputy then struck dunham with his revolver on the head making two ugly wounds some borne one went for a doctor to dress h his Is wounds but before he arrived bennett hurried his prisoner off to commissioner johnson of spring city one of the persons present a woman washed dunhams wounds the best she could this act was done in open daylight by an officer of the law does the law not say that the officer shall read to the person the papers that in zia his hands for his arrest are we not drifting back from law ind and government to barbarism Is government riot t this Is a case of disturbing the peace and the party liable to arrest for the same where in all this republic bublic would this be allowed except exempt E in n utah JOHN H STOTT MORONI CITY alty sanpete county utah june 24 1889 |