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Show DISTRICT COURT. The Millard County Mine Salters Sentenced. AN INSEST CASE ON TBIAL Testimony of the Most Revolting: Kind Is Offered-The Defendant Ha Been Convicted Con-victed once of the Same Offense Other Business of Court. The jury in the Porter embezzlement embezzle-ment case returned into court last night at 10 o'clock with a verdict of jmilty as charged, placinz the sum of money embezzled at $146.68. This eives Mr, Forter the benefit of the amount of which he claims to hav been robbed. His books are quite badly mixed up, but it seems that as nearly as can be ascertained they lack th9 eum of $146.68 necessary to balance them. The idea is of course that Mr. Porter appropriated that sum to his own use. He, it will be remembered, claimed to have paid out money on several money orders and failed to give himself credit, that all money roceived by him was entered on the books while all money paid out by him wa3 not entered en-tered on the books. However, it was proven that the man was badly given to drink at the time and was spending money freely and recklessly and attending at-tending to his :postoffice business yery loosely. The first business taken up this morning was a motion for a new trial in the mine salting case against Peter Greehhalgh, Alex and Nephi Jennings. It witl ? --imbrjU-.tbat one Goff -ffaB trie4a.SSth these defendants ana Jacquitted. The Jennings boys and Greenhalgh were convicted of obtaining the sum of $3,000.00 under false pretenses from Almon Robinson of Fillmore by sel-selling sel-selling to him an interest in a mine in the Detroit Mining district upon the representation that certain gold ore which aesayed $55,000.00 came from the mine, when in tact the particular specimen which was assayed was purchased pur-chased from a lady living in Leyan, Juab county, who had several very rich specimens in her possession. A new trial was granted Alex. Jennings, but the motion was denied as to the other defendants. They were called up for sentence. Peter Greenhalgh Green-halgh denied his guilt emphatically to the judge and pleaded hard for leni ency. He was sentenced to three months in thd Millard county jail and to pay a tine of $200.00. Nephi Jennings Jen-nings was sentenced to four months and to pay a fine of $200.00. The case on trial is one. the particulars particu-lars of which are entirely unfit for publication. pub-lication. Thomas Labrum of Crow Creek. Uintah county, who has served a term in the penitentiary, having been convicted of being the father of his daughter Nettie's child, which was born on December 12, 1891, when .Nettie .Net-tie was but sixteen years old. On September 28th last Nettie gave birth to another child. That child died in Provo yesterday. Old man Labrum is acensgd of being this child's father also, and it is for this alleged crime he 13 beicg tried. Netti? swears that one James Gallaway whom she met at Fort Du Chesne is the father of her first child. She testifies that she had intercourse with bo many men (all strangers to her) last year that she does not know who is the father of her second child. OTHER BUSINESS. A motion for a new trial of the case against Mat Dun, convicted of assault with a deadly weapon (a pair of sheep shears) upon Jerry Patnode at Warm Creek in Millard county was this morning morn-ing overruled and December 1, 1894,set for sentence. The unlawful cohabitation case, TT. 8. vp. Don C. Snow, was continued for the term. In hree ca3e brought by the Span ish Fork Co-op. against William and Alma IJales the plaintiff was given leave to file amended complaints and the defendants given the statutory time in which to answer. In the case of George Q. Cannon et al. trustees, vs. A. A. Noon, on motion ot defendant the injunction was dissolved dis-solved absolutely. It is this injunction injunc-tion that has delayed the taking up of the rails of the Provo street railway and laying them on the Mercur road. |