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Show THREE MORE TO-DAY: . Ball; Poulson and Snell Convicted of . . the Usnal Charge. " This Time Eliza Shaefer Concludes to Tell It All. Which Saves Her From the Pen and Sends Up Her Polygamocs, Husband. ' , The Third District Court convened this morning with a large number of visitors present. " The first business disposed of was the sentencing of Robert Morris, who admitted his guilt on the charge of unlawful un-lawful cohabitation last week. He had nothing to say respecting his future con duct, and the Court sentenced him to pay a fine of $150 and costs and be imprisoned impris-oned for six months.. Mr. Morris took an affectionate leave of his family and friends in the hall, and was conveyed to the penitentiary a few hours later in charge of a deputy. S. F. Ball and James O. Poulson, the next unlawful cohabitation cases on the calendar, each took the witness stand in turn, at their own request, and admitted the charges set forth in the indictments. "Without any loss of time the jury passed in a verdict of guilty, and March 1st was named as- the .day for' pronouncing sentence sen-tence in both cases. - - .--. The vexed case of John Wv Snell was then called up, and the following jury impaneled; im-paneled; . "; ,; . N. A. Soribner, " Gideon Turnbull, . Bolivar Roberts, " F. H. Bemis, -Elmir Hill, - George Turnbull, ' W. H. Remington; W. E. Smedley, George Tait, J. O. Conklin, James Berry, . . W.M. Ferry. This is the case that came into such notoriety at a former term of court, when the alleged plural wife." Eliza Shaefer. was committed for contempt of court in refusing to answer some important questions. ques-tions. Mr. Snell was represented by Ben Sheeks and Le Grand Young. Mr. Shaefer, the father of Eliza, testified testi-fied as follows : I know the defendant ; have ' known him for perhaps . fifteen years; know where he lives, but have not visited hhn frequently. He had come to my house and asked me for my daughter, Eliza Shaefer, something like thirteen" years ago; he has not called on me since ; he had called on me and I on him a number of times previous to this, on business deals. I did not give my consent for him to marry my daughter, and we sent her to Farmington, thinking to place her beyond the reach of the defendant. de-fendant. - She remained there some time, I can'f 'say how long; and afterwards came back to the city. Excused. John W. Snell, Jr. was next called. He testified: I am 19 years old, mv father is John W. Snell, and my mother is his first wife ; lived With my parents in 1883 it the Eighth ward ; my father kept a store; "know Eliza Shaefer; think she lived a quarter of a block north of our store in 1883; I went to that house occa sionally; had seen my father there occasionally occa-sionally during that year possibly once in two weeks ; do not remember seeing him there at meals nor before or after I business hours ; 'father lived with mother about half of each week; don't know where he took his other meals nor where lie slept when absent from our house. Mr. Dickson here asked the witness where his father slept and ate during 1884 when not staying with witness' mother, and the-defense the-defense objected. The witness was allowed al-lowed to stand aside. Eliza Shaefer was called: I am acquainted ac-quainted with John W. Snell;, have Known nim about fifteen years ; was living liv-ing in tho Nineteenth ward with my folks when I first met Snell. I "was about 14 years of age when I met him ; I was about 19 years old when I left my. father's house and moved then into a home procured by Mr. Snell. Don't remember meeting defendant there. Don't think anybody else lived in my house. Mr. Snell had also procured another house sometime afterwards for me, and still later another one. Do not know just how long I had lived in either. Moved some time afterwards again to a house with four or five rooms. Amjiot aware that anybody else lived in this house while I was there. I myself rented the next house to which I moved, and the one also which I have recently occupied, and have paid tha rent myselt from money received from Mr. Snell, in whose employ I have been for some years. This fast house is in the rear of Snell's I store and under the same rnnf r miI I him rent for the rooms. Defendant used to call on me when I lived in the Groes-beck Groes-beck house. Don't know how often he came nor how long he stayed. Don't remember that he staved all night at anv time. ... J Mr. Dickson herer pinned the witness to the point as to whether she knew the defendant had ever stayed with her all night. The answer was a persistent "I don't remember. Mr. Dickson This time when you went ' lIe endowment House, somethin" over twelve years ago, that you have spoken of, dia you not go to the Endowment Endow-ment House at that time for the purpose and with the intention of going through a marriage ceremony with the defendant; Eliza Shaefer I decline to answer the question. Mr. Dickson moved to have the witness committed for contempt and cited the extent ex-tent of the penalty presented for such offense. The judge asked the attorneys ucicuae ii uiey wisnea to say anything any-thing to the witness, and they requested that the lady be allowed till 2 o'clock to reconsider her answer, which the f!nnrt granted. " ' John W. Snell, Jr., was recalled:. My father had lived iirtte house'behlnd the store in 1884? I usually went to the store about 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning; at these times, when ' my father was not stopping at our house, I usually found father at the store when I went there in the morning, but on occasions when he was staying at mother's he was sometimes not down at the store until after I ot there. I have seen mv father take meals sometimes with Miss Shaefer; those meals were at different times, breakfast or dinner, or supper. I have seen books kept at ray father's store, but don't remember re-member having noticed what salary was allowed Miss Shaefer; I" saw mv father m Miss Shaefer's rooms perhaps once or twice a wee. In 1884 Miss Shaefer lived ' further down toward the former store ; did not have any particular object in visiting vis-iting the house. I don't remember taking any thing to Miss Shaefer from mv father" Had seen mvf.at.bpr nlonin t.Jo i " i but don't remember seeing him eat there ! nor ever come out of her bedroom ; I am not sure that I saw him eat meals in the house occupied previous to this last one. but think I did. Cross-examined Mv father was ab-I sent several months in 1883 ; don't know exactly how long. I think I saw him visit Miss Shaefer's house quite often during 1883. Don'tremember seeing any other parties eat with Miss Shaefer; possibly pos-sibly I have seen a Mr; Smith taking meals there once or twice. . . , -e ' Jackson It was George S Smith I saw eat at the house. He used 1 to work at the mines, and, came down town occastonally. Father left in the i summer when he went away, and returned re-turned in the fall." I saw my father eat meals in the house with Miss Shaefer during the early part of 1883 and also after he returned. Mrs. Mabel Smith: I am married; know defendant, Snell, and Eliza Shaefer is my sister; I was at her house in 1883 and had stopped over night sometimes; have seen defendant there and saw him take meals there both morning and evening; even-ing; I think Mr. Snell stayed there some times over night, because I had seen him there at night when I retired and in the morning also upon arising ; I also have seen him enter and emerge from her bedroom bed-room ; I did not sleep with my sister when Snell was there, but on occasions when he was absent I did. Cross-examined My sister lived on First East street in 1883 ; I was there two or three times a week, and the defendant was most always there when I called ; he was there during the summer of 1883 ; I remember distinctly, and had seen him there both before and after that; the house was the one next south of the one now occupied by Snell; she moved in during the winter. To Mr. Dickson : I don't remember exactly what time in the year 1883 he left home ; think he was away a month or two. I slept with my sister Eliza during dur-ing Snell's absence, but when he was there I always occupied another bed. I visited her in her former house prior to 1883, mostly about once , a week. Had seen Snell there also upon my retiring at I night and arising in the morning. When ! she moved from there she went into the house where she now lives. Excused. William Wood, the butcher, testified: I, know Mr. Snell; have known him for twenty years; am acquainted with his first wife and with Miss Shaefer. Mr. Snell had dealt with me during 1883; Miss Shaefer had bought meat there and Snell .had paid for it. The witness here described the nature of the transactions between himself and the defendant. Miss Shaefer had brought orders from Mr. Snell for meat like the first family had. Cross-examined.-Other persons brought orders of the same kind. Excused. Orson . Shaefer testified : I am a brother of Eliza Shaefer; h defendant for fifteen or twenty years. Was in Nevada when my sister left home ; I returned some two years after. Don't believe I ever referred to her as his wife, or heard Snell do so. Have visited my sister once or twice a year during the past four or five years. Don't know positively posi-tively where she had lived all the time ; have seen her taking meals with Eliza at her house, perhaps once or twice a year. Mrs. Smith was recalled : In conversation conversa-tion at my sister's house I have spoken of her as Snell's wife, and believe I once heard him speak of her as such. Cross-examined Remember seein g Mr. Snell introduce Eliza as his wife ; I think it was in J because it had taken place at the ho.v.e then occupied by my sister. I testified before Commissioner McKay in this case ; don't remember testifying tes-tifying that I had never heard Snell introduce in-troduce Eliza as his wife. Excused. J. J. Snell testified : I am a brother of the defendant ; have known Eliza Shaefer for ten or twelve -years; had not visited her house often, but had gone there with defendant, and had eaten there; did not know whether she sat at the table or waited on it; did .not know whether they were married. Do not remember hearing defendant speak of her as his wife; he usually called her Eliza. Excused. Court adjourned till 2 o'clock. At 2 o'clock Eliza Shaefer was again placed in the witness chair, and answered the question like a good girl.. She stated that she had been married to Snell in the Endowment House, and that he had lived with her as charged in the indictment. The jury were charged, and retired for a few minutes, bringing in a verdict of guilty. Mr. Snell will receive sentence j March 1st. |