Show SALT LAKE A i craven the and aid alio law save nio from vi oni my iny friends Fr lends arom our correspondent ont E dutoit HL hiniard Hini ALD utah territory to v in all its judicial bastory bi story naver ba before fore witness witnessed eil such official offic ciul ird auf fronery fo fob onery nery depravity and imbecility as that exhibited by tho the supreme judges blunter 1 emerson and tise iu ift their judicial tion of the hopt case the fac bof the case arc twe familiar funn liar to the public and do not hot require repetition ills new counsel specially appointed by judge hunter novitiates at the 1 ar fl failed ailed to file their bill of exec eions and assignment of f errors within hii P I 1 the statutory time asked to amend the record which was dc denied and there being 0 nothing for the appellate co court 11 rt to consider the judgment of the tile lower court was of course affirmed APPEAL to the U S supreme court was an absolute right not to be infringed I 1 being secured by the act of congress known as the poland bill in the language following A writ of error from the supreme court of the tho united Sta states testo to the supreme court of tho the territory shall lie in criminal cases where the accused shall have been sentenced to tal punishment or convicted ted of bigamy or polygamy the decision odthe of the utah supreme court hail hall already been twice reversed by the ole court of last resort the first time on errors so gross and rulings so palpably wrong that he lie U S attorney torney general the prosecuting of cices u ces of f the government refused to make any argument in support of it and said eaid the decision of the utah court curt ought to be reversed Is it strange that these judges should dread to face another and third reversal of their decisions in tho the same cause THE TIIE TIME for hoats execution drew near nea r and his counsel importuned importuner the court for a stay of execution pending the appeal to the washington tribunal this was denied under that tho the court had no suc such I 1 I 1 power A application p ii ica dign was wasi nade to a jud bof goof tal alie e U S supreme court for a stay which of course d during the adjournment was refused acting 6 secretary binm hesitancy hei iancy to grant a re prie ye under the proper enough A second petition for the interposition of the utah court to prevent tho the execution pending the appeal mell mattho the fate fato odthe of tho first on the afternoon of tho the the execution being fix 1 cd ed for jhb the instance of U S district attorney dickson and by permission of the judges several attorneys appeared antho supreme court and EXPRESSED enrin 1 OPINIONS judges mcbride and kirkpatrick contended that the effect of a writ of error is to suspend the sentence or proceedings in tha case till the decision of the lower court can call bo be reviewed and that til at it would be a shocking shock ipg mockery ifju of justice tice to permit a man mail to be executed while his appeal was pending in i in an appe appellate to court ben checks and J L kaw lina lins agreed with mcbride and IC kirkpatrick irk patrick the latter being exceedingly anxious that tho the law lav and a maus life should be breser ved whether in vinegar or alee tile hoi lie he did not say pending b hid 8 1 1 I 1 n tt T t 1 I 1 appeal dist atty dickson abst dist atty varian and arthur brown esq questioned alic stay f of execution a aa a matter ot of r right carbt AT 8 the same bame evening the court met and through gli judge emerson delav 4 cred itself of an oral decision it in the matter which is at once the most inconsistent incoherent jum bloof le 0 O balaci dash over ever em fio crocian lin a Y boht in 1 this or r any other c I 1 in 1 t tho the learned judge jude stated th that at t their heir former decisions in this matter matt gr had been aed without ma m mature A tired de I 1 liberation ibe ration or examina examination tien of authorities admitted iho the importance of the tile case not only by reason of the gravity ity odthe of the of relise and the e effect odthe of the execution but all because there is no other territory errit ory i in which an is is given in this class of cases to the supreme court of tho the united states expressed the Courte Court worry of mind about the effect of a stay of execution asserted tho the determination of the court to adhere to ita its former decisions but 41 united unanimously in ill recommending doubtless out of respect for tho the many respectable members odthe of the bar extraordinary spectacle who des desired ireI to save tho the court from error in ill a case of such import importance anco to the Gov governor erncr that ho be GRANT A REPRIEVE how every fool can play upon the word 1 think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence and discourse grow commendable in only but parrots pa riots supreme contempt for the judges judge and disgust dis gust for their dastardly shuffling A alto to cay nothing of the boorin bjoring bo oring gr bungling I 1 language and manner of its preparation were the only feeling and sentiments expressed upon tho the announcement of their unanimous adhesion adhesion to their former decision even the many respectable members of the bar hung their heads for very gunj shame allame after ftera a tedious disjointed tirade of repetition and senseless garbage I 1 fuch as our notions of tho the rawa I 1 said before respect respect ablo la and loyal members of the bar f tho case decision without duo consider consideration apiou Is etc the imminent jurist attai attained Aed peroration of his eart with the following classic congratulation we think we have done lone what it ia is our duty to 10 lo do and it commends to our consciences how truly b by such subterfuge 0 such dull lull unfeeling f g barren ignorance is hall hood melted into courtesies valor into compliment and men are turned int into tongues cs and trim trial one too THE MEETING on the morning of tho called by sheriff turner father of the murdered boy was as untimely and ill advised as tho the action fiction got the judges true it was an all outburst of a certain grade of public senti ment but what lias has public sentiment to do with the execution of tho the sentence of thelah the meeting was at most but a thin demonstration of personal sympathy for mr 3 turner which could not alleviate ono one pang of the anguish angui sli that lias b rent his heart nor could tho the execution ot of the miscreant murderer of his son have recompensed his loss but might have had restored to sensibility the guilty wretch butcher Butch erand and villain bloody cannibal how sweet a plant have yon you untimely croppa crop pd you y have no children butcher if isyou you had the thought thou glit of them would have stirred up remorse GOVERNO REPRIEVE at the final moment was most opportune and the he t judges recommended meil ded it I 1 r for or this all thanks they dared not do what they recommended him to do they had bad not the manhood to reverse their own decision in a case of great imbor bauce confessedly rendered without deliberation or examination of authorities ties this somersault was the crowning feature of their duplicity and imbecility it was or was not an assumption of the responsibility as ns it might suit their purpose itis it is a dismissal odthe of the controversy bleeding in the more entangled by their hearing bearing but wo we think it commends itself thour to our consciences and thus I 1 clotho my naked villainy with old odd ends forth of holy writ and seem a saint when most I 1 play the devil americus SALT LAKE CITY june 17 |