| Show CON i ELLYS CASE another polygamy trial in fit the third district court at salt lake city in which inquisitorial fild indecency mucy beaches reaches the pinnacle in the trial of john connelly of salt lake city arraigned ba before ore the bar of the third district court for bigamy a jury was obtained on thursday forenoon after the duill had ben been grinding for a whole day the jury consists of the following american citizen citizens thomas sappington george W richmond at W dayi dayis J JJ J farrell A L har Hardin dicig ff john adams si J R nichols L A cu cummings min ings james T clasby christopher diehl C E wallin vallin john snell after the indictment had bad been read to the jury by the clerk and the plea of not guilty stated the ta king of testimony commenced I 1 the first witness called being thomas golightly Goligh lly whose deposition the demerel De serel news summarizes as follows I 1 have known the defendant twelve years e I 1 know kisow an art elizabeth golightly y ars a widow my fathers narve was richard and my mothers isabel golightly G 0 elizabeth was my fathers wife at one time my father lias has been dead thirteen years I 1 have heard defendant say about twelve years ago that elizabeth was his wife I 1 have seen them to theether toe ether at the old homestead they appeared to be husband I 1 and aid wife have seen them out inc with a child a little eirl girl abe was called by the tile children aioley connelly 1 Y obi objected joed to butas but as the jury heard it the last ast statement was generously waived by mr dickson have havel heard icard the tile little girl rail call defendant pa and speak of elizabeth as her mother have hay known anna Gal gallifant lafant two years or more have seen her and de fondant out together riding have been seen a child with them it was over a year old have never heard defendant say anything about anna gallifant Gal lafant or heard anyone else in 11 his is presence that I 1 can remember I 1 may have said said something myself have seen anna gallarane Gal Gall lafant arant at defendants etore apparently parent ly living there the renever never heard the tile defendant defendant or anna in liis his presence bay ray anything about the tile parentage of the chi child ald have seen it in defendants arms and in her arms the witness wag was asked to identify anna Gal gallafent Galla lafaut funt in the courtroom and pointed her out outa cross examined by mr sheeks of the counsel for the defense I 1 first saw connelly at the vo light ly homestead have seen him film there perhaps halfa balfa dozen or ora a dozen times elizabeth moved away from there last spring have seen connelly cat ini ing there one night perhaps it was christmas or 01 new year years saw him there at breakfast once it was at the old globe bakery about a year after my father died that I 1 asked the defendant if ho lie had married elizabeth defendant got anery angry because I 1 intimated hat that lie had married a woman old enough to be his mother afterwards defendant admitted he lie had find married her tier but reluctantly I 1 I 1 have seen anna gallarane Gal Gall lafant arant at defendants store four or flye five times within two years I 1 inferred that she IN lived ed there and it was so reported my inference I 1 n was drawn from seeing her there that number of times have seen a woman there a hiim number er of times as I 1 passed the window heard a snickering and knew the defendants whisper adynne would who had i ever heard him I 1 was perhaps forty fret feet away I 1 cant bay hay that I 1 like the defendant I 1 dont like liis his style I 1 never have threatened to make it warm for him i 10 a this triai I 1 have the tile pame same dislike for him as for any man who dont act on the tile square I 1 dont consider any man a man at all who wont act squarely redirect I 1 never have spoken to the prosecution about tins this trial at all elizabeth golightly Goligh lly is about titia years oll that is why I 1 joked the d defendant fen about marrying hur her excused mark ark golightly son of richard and elizabeth lizabeth E golightly Goligh lly wan was the ilia next to testify I 1 16 years old my mother lives in a new bouso housu next to defendants store ilia I 1 have ve seen defendant there do not know whether the house is his or hers left the old hom homestead elstead about four or five months ago have seen john connelly there over two years ago he lie ate there most every day breakfast and dinner he commenced commenced taking liis his meals there a year or two after my father fattier died at my mothers table I 1 think connelly Connet lv ha haa said grace at llie tile table able I 1 have done dono the tile same saine cannot pay Fay that my ray mother has bits had a achild ell gilld since sinco my father died die d there was a child living there nam named ed mollie ie contiello Conti elly now living with rny my mot mother 1 ter in the new ew house the tile child is about eight ve ye araold a child was its born I 1 believe at the tile old lic never heard my illy mother fay ny it was hers have seen de go into her room hut but do not know that site waa wat there liere defendant told roe me yesterday to t keep cool coot and use mv judgment judg menton on tl 0 e witness stand and not perjure iny myself self I 1 have never asked the tile defendant or my mother whether they were ere mar r ried i yd have liae heard the child call thein father fattier and mother it was treated ai ui their child I 1 was about five years old when the tile defendant began corn com ins ing to lie the old homestead I 1 called him john have spoken of him as my stepfather but not in his presence objected to by defense and with dr drawn a n the be jury having swallowed it billj all I 1 feel el unfriendly towards the defendant it a due to liis ilia treatment and quarrels we have had my moth nth rr er haa hos protested whon ho lie punished me my lily M mother other has been generally of as elizabeth connel connelly y arken t there bere iere were three rooms occupied bocc oed by mot mother herat at tile old homestead two bedrooms and a ki kithen I 1 have op or ni when lien thare an ano ot ofha pip rooms tho defendant did id not sleep will the rally here ws was a bed in the kitchen kit clien at times mes I 1 believe I 1 have havo wen defendant tile h fame faine bed as my brother it was about the time I 1 think that the tile child was wits born I 1 may nave ww him in illy ni mothers bed I 1 cant eay say positively the court here took recess till 2 p m in at which time the examination of the witness mark golightly was resumed without developing more material evidence alary wife of richard golightly deceased next testified sh sho knew nothing of the birth odthe of the child said to be elizabeth dolight lys she was indifferent as to the outcome of this trial being neither leither hostile to nor in sympathy with the prosecution the next witness was mrs sarah gallifant Gal lafant mother of anna galla galin fant who stated that she believed her daughter anna was married to the defendant anna was 17 y eara old when she was married she was married in 1879 she further deposed as follows my daughter has had bad a child it ia fir nearly two years yearn old she did not tell me of her barriage luarria pe at the tile time the defendant has has v visited at my house before and since pince the tile marriage I 1 dont know that the file defendant e eer er stopped with my daughter evv over er knitht while she bile wasat aas at my house hous eShe she afterwards occupied rooms at the store mr air rawlins hero here objected to this evidence as being beino desia designed ned to prove unlawful cohabitation when tho the charge in the tile indictment was polygamy now that the proof ot of the marriage was within the reach of the prosecution circumstantial evidence d ence or evidence going to prove another offense ense was improper mr dickson claimed that they had the right to adduce additional evidence to that which would prove the marri marriage hgo directly and the court refused to sustain the objection made by the defense A very interesting witness was annie gallifant Gul Gal lafant whose testimony wo we give as published in the salt lake herald air mr dickson what is bour name miss gallifant Gal lafant annie Q are you married ayes A yes sir air I 1 Q to w horn whom A john connelly Q the defendant A yes sir air Q you were before tho the grand jury were you not T A yes sir sl r Z 11 Q yon have never been married 1 to any onn one else have you A no sir air Q do you remember the date you gave before the tile grand jury mr rawlins objected to these questions mr air dickson said if mr air rawlins would prepare tha tho questions he would put them mr air mr air rawlin retorted that he fie would prepare them at once mr air dickson said he lie would go ou on questioning in the tile meantime mr 1117 rawlins said he propose to bo be disposed of in ill that way the matter being left to tb the judge he said lee let the witness answer t the he ques tion ms gallifant Gal lafant the question asked me was were you married before april my answer was yes Q did vou oil not testify then that vou you married married him in the Endow endowment menti in 1882 A I 1 did not mr dickson took a long document from hi desk walked over to mr air E T sprague submitted it to that gentleman and then banded handed it to miss Gal lafaut mr rawlins raw una what is that paper we object to tier her being shown anything L if i n of that kind j mr 11 r dickson wc we propose to re rei i fresh lier her memory by showing showing her what she ter titled to before the grand rand J jt jury i I 1 miss gallifant Gal lafant they are not well enough written for any one to read I 1 laug laughter ahter mr air dickson took several minutes i to chow how the paper to the witness aud and then asked are you pre prepared red to say now that you did not tell 21 the grand jury your were lvere married in 1882 A Il hotly otly those minutes have been changed chan I 1 never said Raid the tile things put down awn chete Q when were 3 oil married A february Q where A in tile endowment house Q by whom AI A I 1 think it was daniel 11 II wells I 1 did lid not know him at the time but I 1 have since been told it was lie Q how old va were ere you on A seventeen and pat past Q now did you not state when aske asked I 1 first by bv the tile grand jury that you declined lec lined to tell when you were married tied objected tu to and overruled ruled A I 1 did Q what did you mean just now by saying that these minutes havo been chanced A because they arc are not aliat w hat I 1 eaid said at the tile lime time ar air kawlins Itaw lins here objected on oil ill alie e ground round that by law the proceedings afore before the tile grand jury were we r c secret overruled after argument Contin continued uett I 1 vas was born on the of tic october tober was 23 the lath of this mouth n waa fu I 1 17 7 w when hen married mr dickson then you could not liae lave been beep cailler ear I 1 ier than 1880 could vu Q when did lid you first cohabit with tho the defendant A applause I 1 decline to answer that question Q when did you commence cohabiting ha with him A I 1 decline to an answer siver applause App applause luse Q when was your our child born aon A on the thea jd of november 1882 1 I think thi this s was fiyo five daa davs after I 1 test ned rieti to the tile jury I 1 first d declined e to testify because I 1 had made 0 up tip my illy mind not to I 1 think the tile iele cele bration was three yea a and six ago something like that Q nov now I 1 will w III ask you alfain when w ben did you commence cohabiting with your husband A I 1 decline to answer Q why A because I 1 dont think its 0 a dedent question Q 1 it decent for a woman to 11 thabit with A it ilia may be e but it tig IQ not decent ro for r aw 0 to o ab ask W me a about novt it colla 0 boll how 11 after you commenced biting wit lh it your hind hindmand band was it i hat nu our r ch thild ild m waa A born aa A I 1 A al lung long took place which finally resulted in the prosecutions cut ions exe excusing using the witness sarah gallifant Oal Gal lafant was called but was not present ellen gallifant Gal lafant took the aland stand I 1 know tile defendant I 1 have always live lived dwhit mv my mother it ia ibur fi or bis defendant defenda co commenced me ri d paying attentions to my sister I 1 dont know how long lotif it was before I 1 testified before the grand jury that they married I 1 should think about three beirs years i I 1 heard my moth er or talking about the tile marriage that thatis is the way y I 1 found it out I 1 dont know h how I 1 long ng it was after her marria marri marriane ape ge that my sister went to connellys connellis Con nellys a store tore say it was a year cou say it was three months dont know sirs mrs gallifant Gal lafant was recalled and asked it she site could find the memorandum book in m which she had made an entry of the marriage mar r la date she said she would try T this he was at 4 and she was asked to take the street car make a search and return as quickly as possible she left the courtroom and a recess was taken at a quarter to five mrs galla taut faut return edthe cynosure of every eye the jury were brought in from their airing and court waa was aaen called to order contrary to the general expectation the prose cution resume I by re recalling callin ellen gallifant Gal lafant I 1 mr ar dackson read from bis his grand jury minutes dont dint thick it is three years year sago ago dont think it was two think it may have been one year he lie then asked the witness are not those your statements before the grand jury A I 1 dont think that they are swear if I 1 did eay say that I 1 was mistaken and worried az b the lawyer have not talked either with defendant my sister my mother or any one else about my evidence was never told that I 1 had better not come hero here airs mrs gallifant Gal lafant was then recalled d and amid a deep silence the old lady again took the th stand Q have you made search for that memorandum I 1 A yes sir but I 1 cant tand it it was an all old book and ma may y have been destroyed bernard bernari gallarane Gal Gall lafant arant wa wal then called I 1 am a brother to anniel gallifant Gal lafant have known the defendant ten or twelve years I 1 think my sister ceased to livo live at my mothers house in the foil foll of 79 or aprin spring of SO 80 say positively I 1 knew of her living away from home home before 1882 tit my aawar mother er told me of the marriage I 1 did not net like it much I 1 never spoke to the defendant abou tit thomas howarda I 1 am one of mr connellis connellys Con Coni nellys ellys bondsmen I 1 never spoke to him 11 im about his marriage not a word dont know annie gallifant Gal lafant eber case I 1 know john connelly Conn eHy I 1 live near him I 1 have never talked with him about his marriage marri ape I 1 know mr loder have had some s 0 me slight conversation with him about the case dont know that there wasa was a second marriage five had now arrived and mr dickeron that they tiley had several more witnesses whom they could not produce until morn ing il nn air adjournment was therefore taken and the jury were committed te d to the charge of two bailiff the latter being instructed to give them supper lodging and breakfast at thia juncture the judge and attorneys were presented a petition signed by all the jury asking for permission ebion to visit the broom brigade arni the tile judge said he lie think t h it was proper to allow them to visit a theatrical performance but being bein informed that the brigade was only a ball lie relented and the jury were marched off rejoicing |
