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Show POVERTY STRICKEN EX-CONVICTS Connelly and White Say They Are ..... Not Worth 20. District Attorney Dickson is determined to thoroughly test the ability of the j polygamist convicts to pay their fines and the costs of their cases. This morning John Connelly and Charles White were released on precisely the same grounds that those yesterday were liberated, viz. : After serving an additional month, in lieu of paying the fine and costs.' They were taken before Commissioner McKay and examined as to their financial standing. White has positively nothing except two wives, and it required very little effort on his part to assure the court of this fact. The Commissioner, however, was not inclined to accept Mr. Connelly's pleadings of poverty, and Mr. Dickson made it appear that indeed Connelly was able to pay. Connelly swore, however. that he did not own a dollar's worth of property of any kind, and that he had no means of meeting the obligation. It happens that Connelly, some two months previous to his being arrested last fall, had deeded his grocery store, bakery and all other possessions over to his families and left himself practically penniless. He assured a Democrat re-lorter re-lorter this afternoon that at the time he made the transfer he had no idea of being arrested, as he had concluded some months before that the courts had decided de-cided to let his marriage relations alone. Attorneys Sheeks & Rawlins and Le Grand Young were notified of Mr. Connelly's Con-nelly's predicament this afternoon, and it was the intention to prepare a writ of habeas corpus and havejit argued immediately. immedi-ately. There appeared to be no possibility, possi-bility, however, of saving Mr. Connelly from another night's confinement at the Pen, and at a late hour this afternoon he was very much of the opinion himself that he would be taken back. It is understood he will make no effort to raise the means in the event of the Court ruling that way. |
