Southern Censor | 1898-01-14 | Page 1

u we? a' Richfield Sevier Co No 39 Utah January I5th 1898 $150 A Year 'u' -- 1 TO BEIBN SCHOOL AND Mitt J & TEMPT TO SEND A LITTLE WAIF TO Mu E HOJPFMANN B tiib Lawyer and Notary Refoum School AT' Tiiey are SEVEBLY REPRIMANDED BY JUDGE la all the Courts Statj JVill practice JENNINGS atd Federal McCabty Some gbajjd words by nis Honor Office Ence Block ! RICHFIELD UTAH G T Bean VsruelRnpp RAPP and BEAN When the District Court opened ast Monday morning Lila Stevens who has been living with J B Jen Dings’ famll y was brought up as a can didate for the Reform School Stewart T‘ Lawyers define Will practice In all the State and Fodral jand CplliitLwere appointed to The little girl originally came pourts and United States Land Office her Messers Bapp and Bean are able and ex- from Garfield county aind was accused perienced lawyers In nil probate land water of several bad actions The case was mining and crlmtnal litigation The evi Will attend all sessions of court In the called up at sundry times Sixth Judicial District and adjaceut counties donee didn’t justify sending her to the ®f Southern Utah Reform School she had no home to pffice in Andorton Building 1 Richfield Utah JOSEPH ECKEBSLEY Attorney at Law County Attorney for Wayne County UTAH LOA which she could go and the Court de elded to allow some family to have her if one that would have her could be found The child seems somewhat dull but has rather a lcok of goodness than of evil on her face In delivering his finding of facts and udgement of the case his honor said: In the case of the State of Utah vs Lila Stevens now pending on motion made by defendant’s counsel to dismiss the case on the grounds the evidence is not sufficient to authorize the court to commit the defendant to the industrial sbhool The court in this case preforms the functions both of a jury and of a court It not ofily passes upon the law of the case but ncccessarily has to decide as to weight of the evidence the credibility of the witnesses and the facts in the case The proceeding has brought to light some very remarkable circumstances The evidence itself presents a remarkable case an unsual case if the defendant is guilty The testimony goes to show if it is to be believed that this little girl is a natural born and con firmed liar— as stated by one of the witnesses “the truth is not in her” She would lie on the most trivial occasions when there was no call for it That being the case I say that It is a remarkable case The evidence in this case shows if it U to jte believed Ihat sbe has committed an infamous crime and during ail of hercafeerptf here is any circumstance that she has been comfronted with where she would resort to her natural inclination to falsify this would be the time But the evidence shows that for the first time during her whole edrber and knowing that the doors of the reform school would open to receive and then close against her she for once and for the first time spoke the truth if the evidence in this case is to be believed Now there is this conclusion to be drawn and that is: thei testimony ai to the girl being a natural confirmed liar is either false or thv testimony of e court can that confession is no conclusion arrive at As sugother gested by the court if I she was that kind of a girl and waso lost to all self respect' and so vom of pride that she would falisfy (fabricate and evade on the most trifocal occasions tbe court bas the rigty to conclude that in this matter sfi having been repeatedly threatened with the Reform School if she difb’t reform and tht Jf W MANSFIELD Lawyer Notary Public THURBER Utah i oI J Stewart C W Collins STEWART and COLLINS Attorneys at Law RICHFIELD UTAH 0 H HERBERT DR Physician and Surgeon r at Pioneer Drug Store Office j i RICHFIELD 1 1 mj iu g 1!AH DR M B SHIPP Physician and Surgeon 4 Office A and residence at the Kentucky House Monbob : s Utah DR E SMITH Dentist Andertou Building UTAH RICHFIELD MRS N H ST JOHN Midwifery and General Cart of the Sick RICHFIELD UTAH ANNIE M NELSON Midwife and Nurse MRS After a yoar’s absence for study I am a my place ready to resume my practice Elsinoiim Utah HOMET2 McCARTY false-J-tb- do better that on thitVjccassion when she had committed jlhis apt which amounts to criminality' she would not sit down there (in thepresence of Mr and Mrs Jennings in heir home that night) and in a dellbt 'ate unhesitat- ing manner and fo’tbe first time speak the truth and t ill all that had U S Deputy What lull say passing transpired SURVEYOR by the inconsisteuciffi of the testiand NOTARY PUBLIC mony that if the evkpnce Is trpe as related by the witness herein this MONROE UTAH little child has been tQe victim of two infamous outrages tj e committed person ttt other against her character Ancl hat is the evidence? Mrs Jennini testified in part “One evening after iad sent her out to milk the cow she gone for two 1 Je or hours PROPRIETOR that altogeth- something K WRIGHT cr toe long and so I ent out to see what had become of r and I found r her in the buggy si and I saw else wit there suppos-coubut I body First Class In Every Way cd that there was si there with her though and I ed her about it and she told me st s about it and REASONABLE TFRJIS I knew she wasn’t ling me the truth about it” Mrs Jennings no reason for was any one believing that RiCnFlELD UTAn mineral The Wri?M Hmse j no-e- g with the defendant in the buggy slice 9Q’S'JUROBS nor did she give any reason as to why she knew or thought she knew that the child was telli ng a falsehood The At Tins TERM OF COURT JURV COMMl child’s presence In that buggy shec ssioners Jensen and Rex selected THE FOLLOWING JURORS might be accounted for on many grounds that would not reflect disc red It on her part and unless there Is some evidence lathe contrary the presump- Aurora 6 Harding Samuel tion is that Bh was not there for an IIoldawayGeaT As to the balance immoral pufpesw Larsen John of the testimony it simply amounts Lewis Besson to tbe girl’s own statement: she was Madsen Peter H therein that buggy yard— had gone Stevens William H for of there the purpose milking the cow she afterwords related to the Aunabella 7 Abbott James S first witness who testified (Mr Jen Gardner Benjamin nings) as to what had transpired 8he G1 eaves Herbert said that she had had these illicit reHanchett Byron lations referret to by the witness with Kay Samuel some boy She said that he forcec Lisonbee W W wa her that it against her will Now Staker Joseph if that be true jindthe Court is justified in belieYlng'tliat she spoke the Burrvllle 2 Burr Henry W truth if she made any confession at all Hatch William because her circumstances and surMcMillan John B were she such would that roundings BloniquistTO' WT r not have confessed to some act that Central 3 1 BolltboJ M Ivie would be crlminial on her part so according to her own statements she was forced True she made no outcry or complaint but we must bear in mind 14 according to the evidence of these Elsinore F D Christensen was looked witnesses that she upon Christensen Peter in that household with feelings of Hermanscn Christian such as a person' would feel R W Herring toward an obnoxious and loathsome Carl L Hutchings no one had who she had reptile feelings Jensen C J of affections for her she had no one to Jensen J C go to and she might have hesitated Knudsen Christian tAnd the fact that she says she didn’t Hotter August know the boy that fact of itsself is at Larson P It most conclusive that she must have Nielsen Thomas been forced because girls of that age Osilund Jonas to do not submit acts of familiarity 8 C Peterson ulessthey are acquainted with the D W Woodard uparty It is uhnatural to suppose that 1 the Court dosen’t venture to Bay that as a matter of fact she dtdas the Court must not only consider that part of the testimony that is unfavorable tyo the'cbiM but must consider that part tyhal Jsjfavorable as well and from' the fact It ’was a stranger never saw him before did’nt know who hi Ilelleson Niels Johnson Peter Peterson Christian Peterson P C Powell CW RiCkenback Rudolph ‘ Sorensen William Joseph 14 conclusive to was it is almost Baker O T the court that is anything of the kind Charlesworth George took place it was against her will As Cooley M 0 suggested by the court a little girl 12 Dorrity F M years of age does not submit to these Gilbert Thomas advances by total strangers I do not Hyatt W E think that hum an nature in one so Leavitt youog falls so low That being the Levin J H case instead of hunting down the perMackey Samuel Sr petrator who has outraged the person McDonald D of this defenseless fatherless motherMiller V R less child proceedings are instituted Parker J A to send her not to the slate prison Robison Charles but to a place so far as her character Ross Jcdin concerned that and future are Lapish Joseph is just as bad I say that of the two Madsen Jonas outrages perpetrated against this girl Nielsen Amil ie commencement of this prosecuPhiiligs J W tion is the most responsieblo By the Rasmussen N C two outrages 1 mean the one that is Sorensen Joseph directed against tbe person and don roe 21 the other is directed against her charBertelsen J D acter It ii some thing she never can Bohman A W live down no matter where she may go Christiansen G A if these facts this scandal is made Codings David known and human experience teaches Goold F B us that it will undoubtelly follow lier Harris M L If there is any case that would justify Hodges John civil proceedings for defamation of Jensen J II character that has ever been called to Johnson J A my attention I think this Is one At Jonps Walter this tine I will state that the prosecuLarsop Ole ting attorney (Martin L Brown) In Lowe R A perfect faireness to the child has Lundgreen Peter made the statement that ho is decidMagleby Orson ed of the opinion that the evidence Nf iison Christopher in this case is not sufficient to put tlie Simousen Christian child upon her defeDse and went so Smith Geo A far as to Intimate that he deemed unSorensen Abraham der the circumstance In his opinion It Thueson Niels 0 would be harsh and cruel to do so the Winget Alphonzo motion to dismiss the case is granted Yergensen Yergen defenwhile the I will say now that 9 Redmond dant may be a homeless waif there is Anderson Andrew a law that provides for the keeping of Brinbalt George indigent persons and I will not for Christensen Edward the sake of sheltering her from the McKenna John elements and giving her something to Nielsen Charles cat I 'Will not send her the reform Peterson Erastus school Peterson Ole Peterson Thomas Sorensen J B Editor Meteor calls Marshal Ram- Richfield 31 is Beal G A say a thief A character ussasin Brother Meeter worse than a thief Bean M -- Alma'-’-Nielse- Snyder n F W Thompson Peter Wilkinson Joseph Young R D Anderson H 8 Barnard’John Jr Chrlstofferson Lars Colby Joseph Crane J T Evans W H Ileibert Charles Hugentobler Joseph Humphrey T G Salina 17 f r IvieCbas A Jacobs Louis Vermillion 4 ' Gledhill Thomas Gbttfredffoto Jacbh Holman Issad L Nebeker Samuel THE PRINTING PRESS Speaking of the power and use of the press as an agent tor good Rev T DeWitt Talmage says: “I believe the consecrated printing press is the chief agency under God to save the world In Ezekiel’s prophecy the Angel of God supposed to be Christ appears with an hung at his side And' I have no doubt the will have an important part In tbe day of judgment Those who have used it well to receive eternal plaudit and those who mfssused is to receive condemnation— Ram’s noro Ink-hor- n Ink-hor-n n JE L S -- ce she would fck the first time therefor Goosberry Simpers T W she net knowing the hoy a stranger (jlenwoodd she says that she was forced Bell F H Now if she made this confession and Fairbanks C M n Jensen Amil B Jensen L P ‘‘ Jensen Morten Lawson Andrew Morrison J‘ B Mount 8 F Nebcker Don C Nielsen Aughst Jr Nielsen Magrnfo Ogden William Orrock W C B Peterson Andreas Peterson E C Peterson J M Poulson Poul Rasmussen A P u- - Greenwood William Grey Samuel R Hawley Asa R Rapleye Ezra T i Christensen John Christensen Mads Christiansen Soren ' Ence A J Ilansen L P n Jaj innrLj J l SUMMONS lY THE DISTRICT COURT SEVIER COUNTY STATEor t t UTAH it CHRISTIAN HERMANSEN— plaintiff 'l’" VS HARRIETT E HOOPPEB and IRUMMONH MARY HANSEN defendants' The State of Utah to the said defendants! You are hereby summon sd to appear within twenty days after the service of this summons upon you if served within the coukly in which this action Is broughi otherwise within thirty days after service and defead the above entitled action and la case of your failure so to q Judgement w(ll be rendered against you according to the demand of tho Complaint heroin now on file with the clerk of said court J First Pub Jan I B Jennings Pa(iitl(I's Attorney For Sale In TConroe Two city lots (east half of block i n southeast part of city brick house on north Ona nine-rooot H2 acres farming landtmilo from town Good water right with all assess ments taxes and dues fully paid up- - For farther particulars enquire of Homer McCarty Monroe Utah