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Show A ciiniinal case was tiled In the .Justice's couitatSmlthtleld vvlieicin the state of Utah was plaintiff and Joseph Hansen defendant. The charge was adultery. The case was dismissed owing to no corioboiatlvc evidence being given to suppoit the statement made by the woman Implicated in the dlsieputable affair. The decision of the comt was in accordance with law and the evidence adduced. It is stated stat-ed that most of the people in Smith-Held Smith-Held believed the woman's statement as given in comt, which uasci (initiating (initiat-ing against thu defendant. This case and others, It is ropoited, have been running for tears. The Rki'uiilicax does' not deslie to exaggerate matteis of this kind, bur it is a well known fact that considerable immoial piac-ticc piac-ticc is indulged in in this count), and until the llagrant cases are checked, inoialswill not greatly impiove. It need not be stated whose duty it Is to look after these matteis. It is un-doubtcdlj un-doubtcdlj somebody's duty, and those pcisous who are clothed witli the authority au-thority should be unceasing in their efforts until a check is put to this kind of woik. It is a dilllcult matter to soeuie evidence in such cases, but It can and should be secured and when secured it should not be smothered. In Justice to the people whom the officers of-ficers serve, these matters should te-ceivc te-ceivc alittle inoie attention by way of securing the nccesssary evidence to make a few of these cases cany w hen the) came to tilal |