Show I FIRST DISTRICT COURT I Dean Postpoucit The Huiisackcr Case on Trial The Dean polygamy case and the co hab cases set for arraignment Wednesday Wednes-day morning were postponed until Monday Mon-day next L R Spencer of Portage applied for citizenship He did not exactly believe I in polygamy although he was an elder His hesitation and prevaricating led him into a ludicrous position He could not say what he would do hereafter as to polygamy po-lygamy Finally he promised to obey all the laws of his country He was admitted ad-mitted The case of the People y Louis Hun i saker was taken up Allen Hunsaker one of the defendants was sworn When Exum approached the house he witness wit-ness bring unarmed lay in a ditch with the field glass produced in his hands Though doublebarreled it was not loaded but when he called on Lxura to halt the sight of them made him cry Dont shoot Witness was not in the habit of carrying firearms There wero none about the house that day Ho did not use the threats testified to by the deputy marshals mar-shals Witness took safety in flight Crossexamined cause of his spying spy-ing was tho fear of officers coining as some one was liable to report him for having moro than one wife Ho fled every time a stranger came t the house Though the house was generally stocked with rifle shotgun and pistol there were no arms there on that occason Ho lived thereof there-of and on sleeping a hole in the ground about 200 yards from the house When he pointed the fieldglass at Exum and ordered him to halt he did not threaten to kill him Witness did not see Louis with or without a pistol He did not have occasion to run and hide now Simeon Hunsaker a son of Allan I was next sworn When the officers came his father went The Hunsaker boys had no firearms on that day and the conversation was such as harmless Hun sackers would use The deputy marshals did not tell who or what they were Crossexamined not set the do son s-on the officers Although he heard them say that his father was wanted he did not suspect that they were officers He took the horse to his father to get off on it from those men Why he did not want to see them his innocence knew not nor in what position Allan was when ho leveled lev-eled those terrible glasses How he I could swear that Allan was unarmed he I could not explain Did not recollect of ever having seen defendant with a gun or a pistol As to believing those men were officers he did not know He was the greatest knownothing that Prosecuting I Prose-cuting Attorney Hiles ever examined Court adjourned to 2 p m I AFTERNOON SESSION The audited and verified accounts of H I H Henderson cerk of the court to Marah 31st 1837 wero presented and filedThe The Hunsaker case was resumed Abraham Hunsaker the 17yearold son of Allan was sworn Ho corroborated Simeon topographically circumstantially and knownothingally He did not follow fol-low Steele to tho barn The firearms were at the sheep camp The only pistol about the place belonged to his moth r His father himself and his braJthecW rQ al s CrossexaminedHe went to the barn for fun of what kind ho knew not He caught the horse but why ho knew not Simeon caught it Witness satin sat-in the house nearly all the time the officers were there When they left his father returned Witness did not know that Steele and Exum were officers until they came again and arrested him Ho was very ignorant a to tho size and caliber of pistols He had shot once or I twice He did not know why his father went away His dont knows became monotonous Louis another know nothing 16year old Hunsaker was sworn The marshals did not make themselves nor their business busi-ness known He and his brothers were unarmed the arms being at the sheep camp Crossexamined seen Steele at the ranch once before to surest his father he guessed The next time Steele was there it was to get across He did not know him although he had seen him before Ho did not know wily his father wanted to get away on the horse nor that he wanted one but that he might want one what for he did not know Though Steele asked witness why his father Jid not surrender and that witness answered Because he cant get justice witness did not learn that Steele was an officer Allan junior was then sworn In October last he lived hear his fathers ranch on the Malad river Was at his fathers the day the marshals camels came-ls Susannah Hunsaker testified She did not know of any firearms being in or about the house on the day in question Remembered and then did not remembur having a conversation Illot converaton with the marshals on the day her husband hus-band was arrested She denied having shown to them a pistol which she said her husband had when he escaped from them J B McLennan was sworn He related lated how Mrs H pleaded for her husband hus-band not to be shot because he was unarmed un-armed she haying sent the pistol back to her brotherinlaw On searching the house the officers found concealed under beds two rifles and a shotgun all loaded Officer John Cudihee corroborated some of the foregoing Deputy I E Steele also corroborated The prosecution rested Allan Hunsaker recalled The pistol spoken of was one that was there when Constable Smith called Defendant corroborated cor-roborated this The defense rested The Court said that each defendant could only be convicted for participation in the one and the same transaction Attorney Hues addressed the jury for the prosecution in a short but forcible speech Judge Emerson made an ingenious defense de-fense based on the Hunsaker testimony The Court made a very fair charge and the jury retired OODEN May 12 1887 |