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Show HAGUE ARRAIGNED Also C. II. Hacket aud John W. Smith. ENDERS AGAIN IN JAIL. The Sevier County Cattle Thlevet Each Get Sentenced to Two Tears in the Penitentiary A Tangled up Estate in Court, Tbe First DiBtxict court opened this morning with unusual push and vino. ! Arthur Brown was there with more than his usual amount of brusque energy en-ergy and acrimony; and besides there was much important work to be done, and it was done hurriedly. The members of the bar, court officers of-ficers and attaches, spectators and all were surprised to see sitting within the railing no less a personage than Alma Hague, republican legislator, and ex-cashier ex-cashier of the .Nephi bank about whom bo much has been said of late in the public prints. Immediately after opening preliminaries prelimi-naries Mr, Hague's attorney, Arthur Brown, jumped to his feet and said: ' May it please your honor, we Jearn j ' by the public pies that there has been an indictment found by the grand jury of this district against Mr. Alma Hague. We are here for arraignment." The court was not pleated that such matters should get in the papers before be-fore warrants were issued and served. Prosecuting Attorney J udd stated that he was not ready as yet to proceed, and deBiied that Mr. Hague be brought into court for arraignment at a later date, at 6iicli time as the people through their officers shall designat. However, after argument Mr. Hague was called up betore the clerk and the indictment was read to nim. During Dur-ing the reading of the document Mr. llague twisted a partly burned ;cigar I nurvmiolc ahmit in Ilia finfTBrs. frowmd lieavily but withal looked firmly out of ibis large eyes at his accusere the I officers of the court. All eyes were rapon him, but of this he seamed entirely entire-ly unconscious'. The iudictment charges embezzlement embezzle-ment of large sums of money at different differ-ent time between the dates of February Febru-ary 1st, 1891 and January 31et, 1S94, aggregating in all the sum of at least $20,01)0. Arthur Brown demanded a bill of particulars otherwise aa itemized statement of the amounts alleged to iiave been embezzled before plea was entered. This lead to furthurargumeat resulting result-ing in the court making an order that Mr. llague appear to plead on Monday morning March 12th at 10 o'clock and that the prosecution prepare a bill ol particulars within ten days after a wntten demand for the same has been made by the defendant's counsel. Bail for this case wa3 fixed at $10,000, Rxl-ney Rxl-ney fcwasey and Geo. C. W hi more will become sureties. The $15,000 bail bocd given in Sait Lake is still in effect, us there are other cases against Mr. Hague pending before the grand jury. Borne are brought under the laws of the United States and some under the laws of the territory. One of the latter was ignored yesterday. ENDERS IN JAIL AGAIN. The next arraignment was that of W. II. Enders. The last indictment found to which Mr. Enders' attorney, M. M. Warner, offered r.o objection, chargesEnders with the fraudulent destruction des-truction of property insured. He pleaded plead-ed not guilty and owing to the fact that he is unable to give bonds, at the request re-quest of his attorney, trial was set for Tuesday, March 13th. THE WESTWATEB LIFE TAKEKB. C. H, Hallet and John Wm. Smith, of Weetwater, with whom Dispatch readers are now more or less acquainted, acquain-ted, were next brought before Clerk 1'eery for arraignment. The Indict ment charges them both with murder an the first degree for the killing of lloyal Grant on Sunday morning, February Feb-ruary 25th. Attorneys Geo. feuther land and D. D. Houtz appear for Smith and Hallet. Tbe defendants entered a plea of not guilty and bail was fixed at 110.000 for each defendant which, it is understood, they will be able to get. A TANGLED UP ESTATE. Attorney D. D. Houtz applied for a receiver in the estate of Wm. D. jdoulton deceased. Tbe property involved in-volved in this estate is located m Heber city, and tne case has been haDgiDg fire in the probate court ot Wasatcb county for the past ten yt&ra in a very unsatisfactory and unsettled condition. Mr. Houtz has set himself in earnest to theUekcf untangling all the legal know and is in a fair way now to have the estate carried tbioug h and taken out of the courts successfully and satisfactorily satis-factorily to all parties. THE CATTLE THIKVES. Tbe cases against Alex. Oglevie and Clavton Gannett for stealing cattle in Sevier xucty have come to a very eu cessful and satisfactory termination in favor of the people and agaiust the cattle cat-tle thieves. There were two carloads of cattle taken by these men out of Sevier county laBt fall. Many of the animals in the first car, and the ma-I ma-I jority of those in tbe second car were . stolen. It seemed that direct evidence was hard to get, but Proscuting Attorney At-torney S. It. Thurman with an eye Eingled to the faithful performance of his duty, prosecuted the case yesterday against Ogleyie most ably, cooly and calmly, although bitterly aud stubbornly stub-bornly opposed at every turn, and at every possible point by the attorney for the defense. Oglevie was convicted and this afternoon sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Gannett phaded guilty and was also sentenced to two years. The twain will be taken to Salt Lake by an officer Ihis evening. |