Show HE ILE COULD COAD FACE DEATH but would bather rather stay outside the in the third district court yesterday Yeat erday afternoon robert G sleater a printer of salt lake city entered a plea of guilty to an in char charging aging him with ful cohabits coh cohabitation abita to with mary 8 sleater and eliza hancock sleater from march 5 1884 to jan in reply to the question of the court whether he was ready for sentence een tence mr sleater said he bad had a statement to make following ie is bis his statement your honor in answering an answering jor for the first time in my life to a violation aaion of the laws of my country I 1 wish to state that I 1 have lived within the law from the time that I 1 was satisfied of its definition now over avei two years ago whatever ray my opinions may be as its to the justice of the law regarding unlawful cohabitation I 1 realize that it is my duty as a citizen citi zeri to bow before its mandates regardless of my opinions in doing this I 1 am ren dered unable to fulua ful III my obligations which yet to nie dro most sacred and I 1 regret that there is slaw that cornea comes between me and the relations I 1 solemnly established nearly twenty years yes rs ago the ties of affection that bound me roe to my wives and child ren were as d ear as life itself but those which bind me we to my country are dearer yet at shiloh at vicksburg at missionary Missid nary ridge and many other battle fields from july 1861 until the close of the war I 1 did not hesitate to offer my life for the union and the same sense makes me now yield to its statutes however great my affliction may way be 1 in doing doling eo so since realizing what the law really meant I 1 have obeyed ft it and intend in the future I 1 by the same means to maintain my integrity aa as a citizen ROBT G SLEATER A brief c conversation on between the court and the defendant followed in which it transpired that mr sleater slester married his second wife 1 in 1869 and that he intended to obey the law in the future end and had no means mean to pay a fine the court suspended eus sentence een tence |