Show that adultery oase case three times now has that unsavory adultery case against axel M thompson been aired in courtl first in the justices justice court at deseret De soret before joshua bennett sitting as com committing witting magistrate who hound bound thompson over to the district court ift r r 1 i i where the close case WAS tried at the october term ai re resulting in ill a 4 verdict of guilty of tile the er cariie he h e of bf adultery d motion for it a now new trial was feledi filed angud sub submit 1 ted an and di denied e nied an appeal was taken to the duprel no four our and upon some teo technical lin ical point ili in the courts charge to tin the jury the case wits was re referred ferrod bick back to bo be retried and at this present term of court the history of the case wits was reproduced 1 result ing ilig ill in it a disa disagreement greeni nt by tile jury a and tid consequently no ver diet it was by no means mi an easy matter to decide aud and we believe the jury juryman jurymen inen were perfectly con ious in positions wk tak on whether it was for or against the defendant the eVid evidence ellue wits was quite conflicting on oil a 11 number ber of it points all and tile evidence in the last trial wits was not quite the same saine as that at the foi former iner trial that a crime has been committed there can be no lio doubt from the filet fact that here is t a a with it a young child of uncertain paternity born out of wedlock but that fact it is evid evidence otice of her guilt does not mabb him guilty we will not assume the prerogative roga f the jury and pass judgement jud gement or express in an opinion lon asla as to the guilt or oe in innocence the accused but one filet fact is ident iden fc that while no legal pen alty lias has been imposed on either parry party they have both been ov by judgement jud gement and alfi punishment ish ment merit and somo of the inno cent are suffering as w well ell as the guilty ones before this brou trou trouble ble came to mr Ili thompson ompson ho was an all hon hoi ored citizen a krosp prosperous erous well todo to io do business man ilian and as far as we can learn a happy bus 1119 9 band and father the head of a happy lionie home an and family lo 10 of f it a lovely wife and children but mercy what it a clia change igel I 1 broken up finan financially bially his business ruined liis his name bantered about aboul as that of an aa i immoral ili inora person happiness fled from his home under a continuous cloud of suspicion Is not 1101 that punishment ish ment Is not that judge ment how much I 1 more or what else is needed to fill a cup of bitterness and what about the unfortunate young girl her guilt is beyond doubt in ili her tender years in that period of it a girls gins life when that mysterious emo f v tion which comes coines with puberty proclaim its pre presence senco anc and 1 by v hypnotic sli smiles jiles is 11 lured red into the torrid add malarial atmosphere of the clio libertine slie she bus hax s an uneven battle liis his und lier her own passions jis combined and slie she falls then comes hor her punish punishment ment pier her condition is i 9 i observed uncharitable judge an af pf 1 ment is is pronounced u upon P her S tags by a merciless public tier her il legitimate child with emeji uncertain tail paternity is born slie she takes j the witness stand under mider tife the gaze of court officers jury it and ii d spectators and co confesses liaos es her shame haine and explains her ber fall she id hi no langej a member of tier her former circle of young poo peo pie the hiie present is a state of 1 l 11 humiliation u tn ilia tion her futudo futuro i is s 4 S i i cheerless f to tho the question Is she not its as liable under the laws as the man mail we say yes butia but if it were left to us to pronounce utice sen sell tence upon her we wo would say ja as did the great nazareno nazarene go gb thy way and sin no more |