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Show The Grand Jury Ignores a Number of Cases. John Steele.of Coshen, Found Cuilty of Fornication With Martha Jensen. The Jorgensen Unlawful Cohabitation Co-habitation Case Occupies the Courts' Attention. On Wednesday afternoon, on the reassembling re-assembling of court, Samuel Mulberry, wh the day before pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree for the killing of Ileber Fullmer, was brought before the bar for sentence. Judge Blackburn then inquired of the prisoner whether he had anything to say why the sentence of the Court should not be pronounced upon him for the crime to which he had pleaded guilty, but Mulberry made no response, except to look at his counsel. Attorney Attor-ney George Sutherland replied to the Court that he desired to make a state ment of the case from the defendant's xtamlpoint. The day the killing had occurred Mulberry had come down the canyon to Clear Creek early in the morning, bringing with him his gun, as he thought he might come across game on the road down. Arriving at the town lie commenced drinking and kept it up. lie remembered shooting at a mark and drinking out of a bottle, but did not lemember the killing. While he appeared to be steady on his feet it was clear that his reason was gone. There was no deliberation or premeditation. After the killing Mulberry Mul-berry had wandered into the mountains moun-tains and slept out all night and then gone straight into the camp of the murdered man's brother, where he was lirst apprised of the terrible deed he had committed. lie then gave himself up immediately, and since his confinement had behaved excellently well. He would have the d-fendant sworn and examined if the 0 turt or the District Attorney desired it. District Attorney Variau said he thought it x, as a verv clo.-e !have of murder in the lirst degree. Mulberry . was a dangerous mail, and there was no telling but it turned looseto mo. row-that row-that his evil passions would not master him and whisky turn him into a wild beast. He thought a man with such homicidal tendencies ought to be con-lined. con-lined. The Court said that vhil ivhhky was so easily gotteu, and there was no way to close the whisky shops, it was clearly dangerous for s;ich men as Mulberry to be at larg?. Thy must be shut up. Tiie killing was a b:u al one. The defendant was doing a pro- -K--a--OT,-w.idivn. He was boi.j iue f man-sorrv Uiat be had to contine nun I but the Court had a duty to perform. The sentence of the Court would bt that the defendant be confined in the penitentiary for twenty years at hard U At the conclusion of the proceedings Mulberrv's face brightened perceptibly, percepti-bly, the" sentence being evidently as favorable to him as be could possibly have had hope to expect. He was taken to the penitentiary on the 4:-o northbound train the same afternoon. TIirRSDAY. Court convened at 10 o'clock. G E. Harrison was arrainged and pltad not guilty to the charge of unlawful unlaw-ful cohabitation. DuboK the defendant in the shoot-in shoot-in affrav, was found guilty and stated that be was ready for sentence. His j Honor imposed a line of S200.00 and h The case el V ,J0UTe V with felony, was called. J. . Judd 1 appealed lor the defense, while U fc. ! Vanan represented the People. Mr. J u'ld argued a demurrer to the I - complaint, which was overruled. I On motion of counsel on each side, I the case was continued until Tuesday I " The Jorgensen unlawful cohahita- I tion case was then taken up. I Christene Jorgenson was the hrsi 1 witness. Am married; my husband is 1 j anies Jorgensen; reside at fountain I Green; have lived there several years. 1 Francis Tilby: 1 am the wife of i defendant; between October, 18So, and September, 1888, lived at Moroni; have a f lmilv of children, the defendant is their father; the oldest child is 13 years and the youngest 6 3 ears; my husband has not lived with me lor six years; alter his return from a mission 1 went to the reception; did not see him alone while there. His other wife goes by the name of Hannah Seilson; I go by the name of Francis Filby. To Kina: Ha ve home and property of my own; It was transferred to me by Mr. Jorgensen, before he 1 left on i,iS mission; 1 support myself; there ! "as an areement entered into be- Iweenlhe and myself, whereby we were to keep the law; hare not recognized recog-nized him as my husband since this agreement was entered into. Yuriun: "Was you married to him for tune and eternity? ' ,.orrni-(i Objected to. Objection o en uled, and the witness answered "yes Hannah Neilson took the stand. 1 live at Fountain Green; married JOi-gensen JOi-gensen seven Years ago; w ben separated 1 went to bait Lake, liAe no family nw; had one child; it diea. I support myself, and hive my own home. . iho MariaOlsen was sworn when the Court took a recess until 1 :30. I AFTEKXOON. I Maria Olsen testiQed. Married the 1 defendant ten years ago; since I&80 I have lived apart from h:m; have two I children, the youngest is six years ot J ace-Was at he reception tendered J 01- I censen after his return from a mission; I have not been near him since; suppoii 1 I myself and believe I am free to marry J agGlUW. Iverv stated that he knew 1 the defendant, and the women al- I lesred to be his wives; reme mbered his going Jon a mission in 1885; since his return have not seen him with any - of his wives. Miss Jorgensen: Am defendants I daughter; he resides at my mother s house; the other women named as his wives' visit us occasionally; they are . not now spoken of, or known as his J wives. ! I i This closed the evidence and Mr. King asked that the judge instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, which was done, and the defendant was discharge 1. FRIDAY. The grand jury entered court and reported live indictments, and the following fol-lowing cases ignored: John Diilion, assault; Henry Cole, assault; John Quarnberg, unlawful cohabitation; illiam Kay, grand larceny, John W.. Hill, unlawful cohabitation, and I Henry Erickson, larceny. The case of John S. Steele, fornication, fornica-tion, was then called. King prosecuted prose-cuted and Dudley defended. Martha Jensen took the stand: I reside at Goshen; live with my parents; am 19 years of age; am unmarried; know John Steele; he has lived in Goshen ever since 1 was 13 years of age; don't believe he is married; told ! me he had been married twice, but had been divorced from both women; was engaged to him in July last; began keeping company with him May; my mother objected to me keeping company com-pany with him; while going with him, had no other escort; am now in the family way; Steele is the father of the child unborn; our intimate relation began in July and lasted for a month; called on me very frequently during August; we were to be married in July, but some trouble occurred between his former wives which prevented the marriage; mar-riage; I told Steele the condition I was in; in reply said he'd get work and then marry me; he tried to persuade me to take some oil of tansv; this was about January 1st. Mr. Steele came to our house and stated it was a tough case for both of us. I then asked him to marry me, and he said that death would be more acceptable. I then asked him for support. Said he'd await developments. He came again and tried to compromise; told him the only way that he could do it was to marry me. He still refused. He had another lady with him, from some other town, whom he said he'd married in July. Mrs. Jensen: Am mother of Martha; Steele was at my house three times in July; my daughter was there; one night he brought her home from a party I objected to my daughter going with him; 1 first noticed my daughter in th-family th-family way on 2Vv Year's dav. Sent for Mr. Steele and he state.) that 110; h-ing h-ing was the matter with her. Told him I knew there was someihing tii-matter tii-matter with her and mv daughter asked him why he did not keep his word and marry her; he refused and stated that the child was all right and that it was not yet time to think of support. lis came .after that for the purpose of compromising, but mv daughter stated that nothing could be done unless ho married h r. To Dudley: Never Saw mv daughter daugh-ter and Steele togeiher alone;" lie sioo.i outside the hous: with hr one evening, about 12 o'clock, altera al-tera dance; I heard his voice; I told my daughter not to go with Imu any more, and when she weiit..(W'f,ltSeTt at Jensen's house when Steele , was there, and heard him say to Mai ha. 'What is the story you are cftting upon me, Martha?" Heard Martha tell him it was no story, but the tnuh. II 13 testimony corroborated that ot the other witness. Mr. Jensen, brother of Martha, testified tes-tified to the same conversation whicu took place between Steele and Martha, lie (Steele) called to hx matters up and stated that he was married. On investigation I found out he wasn t married, but would be ere loug. V young boy stated he had seen Steele and Martha out together on one occasion, last August. Win. Daniels, testified to seeing Steele coming from Jensen's house, cross-lots; saw him jump on his horse and ride away; it was seven months a.'o;was not positive about it being S Join Steele, the defendant,then took the stand and testified: Have lived in ;, t oC nitrht. vears old: Goshen since 1 was eigne eai um, know Martha Jensen; was in Untie in July, about the 30th; stayed eight days, hunting horses. Called at Martha's house in July to see MaiMa s brother; have not been to see Martha since I was accused of this act; was first accused of the act on New 1 ear s Day was called to Jensen s house; 1 started for there and met Gardener, who told me the accusation; I went to the house and saw Martha; she was fixed up nicer tnan usual; she accuse I me of the crime; I denied it; never walked with her or had intimate relation re-lation with her. Told her I'd give fc0 tn tell the truilty one. Two of Steele's brothers testinea and corroborated their brother's testimony. testi-mony. The Court then took recess uutii2o,clojk. AFTERNOON. The Steel fornication case occupied most of the afternoon session, being submitted to the jury at 4 o'clock. William Howard was arraigned on the charge of unlawful cohabitation. He took until morning to enter a plea. J L Osborn, of Sanpete county, was admitted to citizenship. The case of John C Sharp, ft a - vs. L. Nelson was dismissed on motion mo-tion of Jacob Johnson. SATURDAY. The jury 111 the eaee of the United States vs. John Steele, of Goshen, charged with fornication, returned a verdict of cuilty He was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs. The grand jurv reported two indictments, in-dictments, and ignored the following: j Jacob Burgser. unlawful cohabitation; cohabi-tation; II II Jacobs, grand larcenv; Morgan Moore, grand larceny; Geo. G. Whitmore et al. riot. The petty jurors were excused until Monday at 10 o'clock. John Chew was arraigne 1 on a - - lwtnmr o n ,1 ,lenfl charge of grand larceny and peaueu not guilty. , iM Adjournment was take a until Mon- day morning at 10 o'clock. |