Show f < > > l > A STUNNING DECISION Judge Znnc Decides That poIYAn mists arc Liable for Each and Every Offense Shortly after 1 oclock this forenoon the Grand Jury marched in line to the i I i Courtroom and took seats facing the I j Court Prosecuting Attorney Dickson in I behalf of the foreman addressed Judge I Zane and said that in the examination I of a case of unlawful cohabitation i I which the evidence tended to prove the practice of cohabitation with more than lone I woman for period of time the ques i I tion arose among the jurors as to whether more than one indictment for the speci fed period could be found The court instructed the jury that i any man cohabits with more than one I woman as his wife he establishes the crime of unlawful cohabitation which is punishable for a year month week or any period of time since the enactment of tho Edmunds law if the evidence would seem to warrant an indictment The jury returned considerably enlightened enlight-ened upon a new und broader field of action than has ever before been given in these special cases The ruling went like wildfire about the town and struck many persons WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING Who have left no easy means of escape with the possibility of getting 365 indictments indict-ments for each year of his plural mar rHHIp Prom several conversations on the street it has leaked out that an edict from the church commands that all plural wives be excommunicated excom-municated who testify against their saintly lords Yesterday Eliza Shafer and Elizabeth Starkey went to the Penitentiary Peni-tentiary for contempt in not answering questions propounded by the Grand Jury and another witness was heard to say that she would go to the bastile and die first before she would utter a word to convict her polygamous master Miss Starkey when subpoenaed was II I found living in a little cramped house where she worked at manual labor and slept at night on the floor She said upon tIn last arraignment before the Court that she never lived so well in her life as she did at the Penitentiary and had so Httleto do that she never before occupied occu-pied a carpeted room and was furnished with good food reading matter and with NOTHING TO DO BUT ENJOY nEHSKfl It Sewing and whiling tioi but 1 1K > she thought Cb J way the time and I family frt t a parley could look after the forp inlSri5f than she could and there I OJ she was glad to exchange places of abode Such thoughts from 1 young and deluded de-luded girl bring a feeling of sadness sad-ness and pity to the mind of every person in possession of a I Christian home Tho slight punishment dealt out to the defiant lawbreakers has been conformed to with more of the actions of a martyr or hero than as a correction cor-rection for crime I seems to be the intention of plural wives and polygamous lords to overstock the capacity of the palace on the Bench where a few months of quiet ease can be enjoyed along with three square meals a day an occasional trip to friends in town and the praise of many who consider them I martyrs and heroes |