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Show BROADBENT WINS His Case Against the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Irrigation Co. THE HARTLEY RAPE CASE Details of it are Most Pitiful and Shock- in I? Two Bojg From Sanpete Accused of Grand Larceny Wile of ex-Postmaster Porter Wants a Divorce Other Hatter. Hat-ter. . j Hearing of the James T. Broadbent vs. Brooklyn Irrigation & Canal company com-pany water suit was concluded in the First District court yesterday and Judge King announced his decision in part, granting the plaintiff injunction against defendants prohibiting them from carrying water in the canal running run-ning on the north side of the Broad-bent Broad-bent land at a greater depth than eleven inches. This morning the judge announced his decision as to the damage dam-age features of the case, awarding plaintiff $50.00 damages and assessing costs of court, including reporter's fee and cost of plaintiff's witnesaee against defendants. The appealed damage case of the K. G. W. vs. W. F. Young of Fairy lew, tor allowing water from irrigating ditches to flow againBt the railroad track embankment, em-bankment, was called and tried before a juiy. The jury returned a verdict, no cause of action, the same as the loner court had determined. Amon Hansen, of Fountain Green, Sanpete county, late of Norway, was admitted to citizenship. James Simmonsen, aged seventeen, and Peter Hansen, aged twenty, were arraigned on a charge of grand lar-cency. lar-cency. The boya are accused of stealing steal-ing a buggy from James Harvey and a horse from C. P. Nielsen, both of .Moroni. .Mo-roni. A. E. Veatch was appointed to defend tbem. A plea of not guilty waa entered and hearing waa set lor March 7fo. The case against Erastus Cbriaten-sen Cbriaten-sen of Manti accused of fornication with Rosella Anderson also of Manti was dismissed. The parties haye married since the commission of the offense. Rebecca Porter of Fairview Sanpete county, wife of ex-Postmaster Porter who is now serying a term in the penitentiary pen-itentiary for embezzlement has brought suit for divorce, Sam A. King is her attorney. Her husband's conviction of crime is grounds upon which she asks for divorce and custody of three minor children. THE HARTLEY CASE, After hearing a demurrer and the transaction of somt other preliminary matters this morning, a jury was called to hear the case against George Hartley accused of rape. The courtroom court-room was cleared of all spectators at the suggestion of the prosecution and by the special request of defendant. defend-ant. Some of the most revolting tesi-mony tesi-mony was offered in the case. Sa revolting re-volting was it that all of the jurors hearing the case were compelled to hang their heads in yery shame for the beastliness of the offense, and some of thm urav-haired fathers of familiA among them were seen to wipe away " fiom their eyes silent tears that forced their way to the surface, so pitiful were Borne of the detaile. Hartley is an aged man and father of a respected family. The girl is a bright miss, ten years old. Pearl Houtz by name, who kept her awful secret from May 25th last until lately, and now is so horrified over the affair that she cannot even think of it without crying so much affected is she that it was hard to get the evidence from her, or to get her to speak, bat the story she told was a very straight one. The theory of the defense is that the girl has been tampered with and made to believe it was criminal for Mr. Hartley to take her into the back room of the building in which he waa running a jeweler's business in Spring-yille Spring-yille and show her some "beautiful flowers, which Hartlt-y claims and insists in-sists Is all that ne did. Up to the time of going to preBS the jury has not returned with a yerdict. |