Show CAPITAL CHAT dich sons dealings Loly gainy theatrical topics efrom our correspondent el EDITOR HERALD th the murder case of people va vs murphy has been the most absorbing topic of the week excepting perhaps the mats ter of coming amu amusements no verdict is rendered yet at this writing I 1 do not think the jury will agree as few would want to convict on such testimony as that furnished by the prosecution although thol some lome may be willing to do anat anything ing that MR DICKSON tells them this officer seems to think that everybody who is ao ac aused ought to bo be condemned because ho lie himself is convinced ortho guilt of the prisoner he never enters a case us as though he be felt it an unpleasant duty incumbent upon him as the officer for the people hut but as a well feed attorney working 9 for a client for a contingent corns coms sensation pensa tion he seems to think it his duty to get the party convicted anyhow and that the government his client will be the loser of some thousands unless he does so now I 1 believe I 1 have heard it somewhere expressed that a prisoner is to be presumed innocent UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY but this learned and logical luminary of the law always manipulates his ca cases caes es as though he were under the impression the a accused should prove brove himself innocent it is enough that you are accused now if f you aint guilty prove it I 1 of course the gentleman say BO so but he acts as though this were his idea and the foregone conclusion of law now mr murphy ma may v be a vile wicked murderer andi and I 1 am to think ho be is guilty but t seems to roe rne that the lofty view which an officer should take in pros cut ing for the people is one of FAIRNESS carefulness ind and even mercy to olie one who is IS com amatively arat ively in his power as the pubic prosecutor again he has got nto such a habit of having his own way in polygamy cases which both fudge judge and jury are overanxious overanxious over anxious anxious 0 o punish with imprisonment that ie seems to think they should bo be equally ready to hang banga a man at his suggestion but he lie should kemem er that while his juries are well re pared and some say packed or polygamy trials by excluding every juror who is likely to have he least sympathy for the imor mormon cause the juries for other cases consist largely of men who are NOT SERFS 0 o the ruling power of the lordly attorney nor of a class to be i intimidated by his manner or bulldozed y his blatant oratory the gens leman is s young and has much to earn if ever he be becomes a webster in the realm odthe of the law and if ie were to practise where tho the and the tho jury were not poeju laced in favor of his cause he be would hardly bo be the man to turn the scale of judicial action to his side of the argument THE MCKEE RANKIN TROUPE lid did not appear as advertised so ao cant tell ayou whether they are bad or indifferent wo we are ill looking forward performance of patience on mo monday ada evening we expect a treat prof krouse has fins devoted much care and skill to the preparation of tire the ilece I 1 and the voices under his bis control are among the bet best available in the city the opera is one of gilbert and sullivans and will dv convulse ulso with laughter while it charms with song THE WEATHER is as ad mild as Mar gettas ale and the roads are as soft ai asa ft referee subscriber by the by I 1 understand under stan hat that paper is defunct poor thing I 1 it t could not fiot live on sentiments and it had no other food apparently forty days on whisky was too much lor for it A comic paper er supported by ay iy solid diet will wil I 1 be in n order now I 1 understand the tickler is soon to enter the arena with an able staff no to connection with the R referee D in anya any shape hape whatever I 1 hope in ala fact t I 1 know this is the case it want to carry a corpse MR 13 n D YOUNG will go to ogden about tuesday next to arrange for a vocal school here there I 1 if he lie rece receives ives suitable encouragement coura gement from the citizens citizen of your prosperous bur burg the grand jury languishes languishes hes fur for want of cd witnesses and I 1 under stand funds it is reported there are no the new ad administration minis furni furnishing sUng any financial breeze to keep the pr prosecuting ship in motion perhaps we shall not bave have two polygamists for breakfast every morning now for a while WHAT A POLITICAL FARCE this ia is anyway I 1 hope that mr cleveland will wallsee see through the republican dodges and not jeopardize people and communities for simple political effect for instance her haq are men driven away by being hounded day and night who bavo have never taken a wife for ti twenty verity beare are these men to forsake and abandon those women taken yeara years ago la Is it in the interest inter cat of public policy for such men to bo be followed ar ars rested and i imprisoned r i and their families famili left ise destitute 1 for want of their support who can wonder at their secreting them 7 j 1 11 selves yet they are looked upon by the agents of the government as fugitives fugit ivea from justice why because they have treated these wives with fidelity and kindness supporting them as usual and providing for an and I 1 d educating their children I 1 know one man who was bound over and one of the questions asked by sir mr dickson was whether he ever fondled his little girl of some five yeara years or called her his bif child or took any notice of her in company what would such questions lead to Is it A CRIME TO BE KIND X D to your children must parents in ordera order to avoid prosecution under the edmunds law jaw resort to cruelty desertion and indignity in their family conduct yet if kindness were confessed conviction would follow and a jury would easily ba be found here among the class selected from to convict on a probability to imprison aprison for an opportunity and to condemn for a kind act by the as no aused to his eff offspring spring I 1 if god does not smite with his anger such hypocritical doina then he has changed ed from his former methods and pis hia dealings with wickedness in all ages DANTE SALT LAKE CITY feb 20 |