| Show THEY ARE GUilTY The VerdIct of the Jury in the Case Against Jones and Treseder the Bribers The Man Who Was too Good to Enter a Saloon Convicted of a Felony Mr Varians Argument Upon the Merits of the Case At the time our cpurt report closed yesterday yes-terday afternoon Mr Varian had just be gnn to argue upon the merits of the case Mr Varian began by gently scoring Mr Brown for bringing Marshal Irelands name in the case in the way he had j I done and went on to call the attention I of the jury to the fact that it was Jones j I and Treseder who were on trial He J i pointed out the seriousness of the offense i which consisted of tampering with the I workings of the law He spoke of difficulties which the Marshal of tnis Territory iiau i u encounter I in dealing with a people who I would in no way acknowledge the law I i He said that it had been found almost impossible to enforce the law and showed I how this class of people everything in I their power to obstruct its workings He showed how the Mormon people had desired I de-sired to obtain someone who being I trusted by the Marshal would give them such information as would enable them to defeat the executions of the law He showed that the fact that Franks was connected with the Marshals office had been proof to these men that he was the man they wanted He reviewed the testi mony and showed that that part of it relating to the period after the appointment appoint-ment of Franks as a deputy was the criminal part and the part in which Jones had a part He then showed how the criminals had been backed by the Mormon Church and that it was for the Church that the information was to be obtained At this point it was decided to take an adjournment until evening at 730 THE EVENING SESSION At the evening session Mr Varian continued con-tinued his argument He again began with a fling at the counsel for the defense He told them how they had ignored certain cer-tain facts and brought out others in order to try to conceal the actual facts and said that the scheme was beneath being called a technicality He burned Mr Brown up for his implications against Mr Ireland and referred to the action of the prisoners as the greatest conspiracy and most infamous scheme that has ever been hatched on the face of the earth He wound up his speech by burning up the conspirators and the scheming church behind them in a manner truly admirable admir-able The Judge then charged the jury briefly ignoring Mr Browns numerous instructions and that body retired In less than ten minutes the jury re turned to the court room with a verdict of guilty against both defendants Mr Brown asked ten days time in which to file a bill of exceptions and this was allowed Court then adjourned until this morn ing |
