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Show THE GARTER CASE. The ''General" Sentenced To Five Days Imprisonment AND A FINE OE 100.00. Nowell, Lowery. Gregory and Day are Also Fined Fiftefn of the Defendants Are Imprisoned Only, and the Ott er Seven are Set Free. Salt Lake, May 18. Special to The Dispatch. There have been few issues in the Utah courts that have attracted at-tracted so much attention or been fol lowed so attentively and with so much earnestness and intereet by court, counsel clients and spectators as has the proceedings against "General" Carter and other commonweal leaders in Judge Merritt's court, this city, which began on Tuesday morning last. Carter was followed right up to the doorway of disorder and then disip-peared. disip-peared. .Nowell confessed his guilt as did Gregory and Day, while Lowery, overcome, he says, by some irresiatable magnet, down the track, followed to learn that violence was to achieve success suc-cess upon the ruins of failure. Smith has been identified beyond doubt as the industrial who brandished the bludgeon over the beads of the officers and Keene as the man who directed the work from the engine's cab at Provo. Attorneys Iloutz, Warner and Miller each made able . pleas for the defense, and Attorneys Attor-neys Van Cott and Marshall argued the case for the prosecution. The judge took the matter under advisement ad-visement until this morning. this morning there was an immense crowd at fl e Dooly building at the opening of the Third District court anxious to hear Col. Merritt's decision which was, in substance, as follower A!l these defendants are tmiHv nf contempt charred, but not all are deserving of equal punishment as some were led astray by force of ex iru'le. Carter is chiefly responsible for this offense. Nowell, Dy, and Gregory were leaders in the seizure of the train. Smith and Van Buekirk were especially violent in resisting officers of this com e and deriding law. All these deserve greater punishment than the others. SENTENCES. Carter eot five days imprisonment and $!00 fine. Newell got five days and $25.00 fine Lowerv, Gregory and Day each got five days and $10.00. Croutch, Rhodes, Covington, Van Buskirk, Morrow and ten others got five da s imprisonment only. All for contempt. The remaining defendants were discharged. dis-charged. CARTER GOES TO JAIL. Much sympathy is manifested here for Carter. He with the others were ' taken to tb poaitonti.. tt; noon. |