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Show DISTRICT COURT. No Evidence to Coayict La brum of Incest. PORTER IS "SENTENCED To Eighteen Months and to Pay a Fine -A Kobbery Case ia on Which Sevelopea Some of the Peculiar Practices Inaulsr-ed Inaulsr-ed in Near Da Chesne. ! An error was nade ia this column yesterday in that it was stated that Thomas Lubrum of Crow.Creek,Uictah cuuuty had been convicted once of incest in-cest and punished for the offense. There were two indictments agaiit him, he bung accused of being tie father of both of his daghter Nettie a children. Ttie 6 yeir.old child is still living, the vounger one died in Provo on Monday of this week. Thomas La-brum La-brum is now a fre6 man. tie has no: been convicted on either count. During Dur-ing the progress of the trial, immediately immedi-ately after the prosecution rested, Attorney At-torney Iloutz of the defense aro e and moved for a nonsuit on the grounds of insufficient evidence to convict. con-vict. The prosecution did not resist the motion and it was allowed. Both indictments against Mr. Labrum were set aside on this Bhowing, as the same evidence was expected to be sufficibnt to convict on both indictments. The prosecution was able to prove that the giri and her father had slept in the same room together, bat not in the some bed. She admitted on the stand that ehe had been very free with her person, having had intercourse promiscuously promis-cuously with ttrangers and acquaintancesAll acquaint-ancesAll denied strenuously that a-y improper relations had occurred be-ween be-ween the girl and her father. POKTER SENTENCED. Samuel Porter, the Fairvi w postmaster post-master convicted of embezzlement, was caUed up for sentence Porter wa9 much affected lie explained to the judge that he had done nothing wrong intentiona'.lv, and that hi3 books were wrong only bocauee ne did not know how to .step iLeiu. Judge Judd ex plained that it was not a question oi ability ia keeping books, out of crime, appropriating to his own use money the property of the govenment, and he thought the oifense merited a substantial sub-stantial sentence. Judge Smith said that if there ever had been manifest in all the doings of the defendant an intent, in-tent, a desire to pay back any money that Le mip.ht b short he- was not aware of it, had there been he would be more inclined to be lenient. A sentence sen-tence of eighteen months in the penitentiary peni-tentiary and to pay a fine of $146.68, the amount embezzled, was imposed. SHORT ORDERS. John W. Tuttle has entered suit against Anna Marks and VVoolf Marks for the possession of certain ground in Eureka or $1,150 00. its value and for $25.00 per mouth as rent of the land Biuee June, 1892. A suit, Chamberlain Medicine company com-pany vb. Mons Petereon, appealed by the defense from the justice's court at Moab, was dismissed. In the caEe, Moland Moore & Co. vs. Mons Peterson, appealed, papers were returned to the lower court with instructions in-structions to enforce the judgment. THIS MORNING, The case on trial is the People vs. George Hughes, accused of robbery. VY M. .N ichols is a iong lanky fellow who has been in the saloon and gambling gambl-ing business in many places in many states, particularly Wyoming, but who originally hails lrom Texas. At present lie is running a Saloon and gambling house on what is called "the strip" in Uintah county, three miies east of Fort Da Chesne. On croBs examination, ex-amination, asked by Sam A. King if his gambling house is licensed he replied, re-plied, "Well, they come over there regularly and fine me. I give up the stuff and they let me run." Asked if he is not running a house- of ill-fame he replied, " W eil Hughes has as much to do with that as I have. May Gold- ing came out there and set up a boarding board-ing house, and he boards with her. ' Prom the evidence it seems that she does the cocking in Nichols Baloon." .Nichols alleges that Hughes who is a gambler by profession, on the evening of August 13th last came int o his Baloon Ba-loon and sat down to & game of Mexican Mexi-can monte. He won $32.00 and then stood up at the bar and had several drinks. Then he sat down at another table aC which the same game wbb Le-?ng Le-?ng played and "went broke." Aftar that he wanted to borrow money of Nicholson his horse, saddle, blanket and pistol which he did at two diff er-; ent times, getting in ail $65.00.Bari.e went out to another house and played, presumably he lost for sometime some-time between the hours of 1 and 3 o'clock in the morning of the 14th he came back into Nichols' saloon and pointing hie gun at one of the Mexicans Mexi-cans waited ctf what Bilver there was on the table and put it into his pocket. Then he pointed the gun at Nichols End Nichols not being ready to die gave him up ftiU.OO in gold he had on j his person and then Kent into another room and gave him $15.00 more Soine corroborative evidence as the' taking of the mcney was introduced by ihe prosecution. During the taking of this evidence it developed that Hughes took $53.00 from the table, but Prosecuting Prose-cuting Attorney Judd stated to the court and jury that be would not ask for conviction on that count which charges the offense of taking the mon. y that was lying upon the table. The defense represented that at the time, Hughes was very drunk, and was buncoed out of some $175.00 and simply took back what waB his own. Hughes testified that he lost in the afternoon some $75.00 and in the evening $80.00 or more of his own aoney and $35.00 that be bor- rowed. He was very drunk and In such condition that tiiey could easily cheat him. After losiDg his money he was very mad as well as drunk and simply went back into the house and demanded back his money. He had his pistol in his hand. He took the money from the table and Nichols placed $60 00 in gold on the bar. Another An-other man took that $60.00. The jury found Hughes guilty. Daniel Biglow of VVallsburg was sentenced to rlfty days in the penitentiary peni-tentiary for unlawful cohabitation. The case on trial is against Ed. Barkdall of Cron Creek, 4 Millard county, accused of fornication with Eliza Ann Liltlewood of Meadow. |