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Show ! GATHERING THEM IX. j Rlessrs. Cowans, Sesoin and Foulger Foul-ger Found Guilty on the Usual j" Charge. ! The case of Hugh S. Gowans, of Tooele City, charged with unlawful cohabitation, was called up this morning in the Third District Court, and the empaneling of a jury was the first business accomplished, j The same farce of calling, examining and j excusing a number of jurors who had j already a dozen times avowed their belief be-lief in polygamy, was gone through with, and there were also two or three gentlemen gentle-men excused on account of their acquaintance ac-quaintance with the defendant, amongst whom were Bolivar Roberts and John M. Young. After examining . some thirty persons the necessary twelve were obtained ob-tained and took the oath administered by the clerk. The plea of not guilty which j had been entered last term wag at the re-j re-j quest of the defendant withdrawn and j that of guilty substituted, after which j Mr. Gowans requested to be permitted to j testify. On taking the stand he acknow-I acknow-I ledged that Betsy Gowans and Elizabeth Brownhead Gowans were his wives and that he had lived with them during the term specified in the indictment. No further evidence was taken and no arguments argu-ments offered, and the judge submitted his usual brief charge tq the jury, the latter returning an immediate verdict of guilty. After the jury was discharged, Mr. Dickson announced that the other two cases against Mr. Gowans would be I continued for the term. Le Grande Young, Gowans'. attorney, stated to the Court that, if agreeable, the 29th inst. would be preferred as the date for sent ence, and the Court so ruled. The case of Henry Grow, indicted for a similar offense was next called, but quite a wait ensued before the proceeding attorney at-torney was ready to proceed, and then it was discovered that Beveralimportantwit-nesses Beveralimportantwit-nesses were absent, and the case was therefore continued till 2 o'clock this afternoon. af-ternoon. Joseph H. Sesoin, indicted for unlawful cohabitation, was next brought forward for trial. Mr. Dickson stated that the notes taken before the Grand Jury in this case last November, while he was at Provo, had been lost, and it would therefore there-fore be necessary to have a jury. A great deal of amusement was created bv Joseph Jo-seph Sesoin, Sr., coming forward i'n response re-sponse to his name being called, in error. The old gentleman excited a round of laughter when he first made his appearance, appear-ance, and his comical deportment would have convulsed the spectators had it not been for the emphatic protestation of the Court. He was not the man, and was excused. The defendant stated that he was too poor to employ counsel, and the Court appointed J. L. Rawlings and Le Grand Young to defend the case. At the suggestion of Mr. Young the clerk called only odd numbers for jurors, in order that progress might be facilitated. Andrew Poulson, Sr., was sworn as the first witness, but was found to be useless without an interpreter, and was allowed to stand aside for the present. Andrew Poulson, Jr., testified: I live at Sandy. Know the defendant; he resides re-sides at West Jordan. Also know Hannah Han-nah Sesoin ; she had two children ; I have seen them frequently a boy and a girl. I have three sisters Anne, Lilya and Engred. My sister Engred lives at Union Fort, and i3 married to Mr. Sesoins ; had been married about two months. She had lived with her father until within the last two or three months, and her oldest child was seven years old. Counsel for the defense asked to have this testimony stricken out, as the indictment indict-ment charged the relations only between January 4, 1884, and June of that year. Overruled and exception taken. Witness continued : My sister and Sesoin's other wife, Hannah, were both living at the same house when the first child was born. I was. not present at that time. The second child was about 4 years old and my sister was living at the same place where this child was born, and also when the third was born. Cross-examined My sister was married mar-ried to Mr. Sesoins I 'don't know how long ago. They had lived together, which was generally taken as evidence of marriage. She and Sisoin had both told her they were married. Engred Poulson testified: I am the wife of Joseph H. Sesoin ; have four children chil-dren by him ; was living with him as his wife when my last child was born; lived in the same house with his other wife, Hannah. Cross-examined Had been married about eight , years; did not know who had married them nor where the ceremony was performed, only that it was in town. Excused. The case was submitted without argument, argu-ment, and the Judge briefly charged the jury, who gave an immediate verdict of guilty. Sesoins desired, under advice of his attorneys, to withdraw his plea of not guilty to the second indictment and plead guilty now, which was permitted, and Thursday, the 18th inst., set for receiving sentence. , Herbert J. Foulger's was the next case called. Mr. Foulger is bishop's counselor in the Twenty-first ward and is also superintendent of the Twentieth Ward Co-operative store. The indictment charges unlawful cohabitation with Elizabeth Eliza-beth Foulger and Charlotte Maria Foulger, Foul-ger, on the 1st day of December, 1882, and continuousty thereafter. A jury, made up exclusively of odd numbers, was secured without loss of time, and Mr. Foulger took the. witness stand. He stated that the parties named in the indictment in-dictment were his wives and that he had lived with them during the period stated as such. The usual charge followed and was succeeded suc-ceeded by the verdict of guilty, which the jury announced without leaving their i seats. The 26th inst. was named as the j day for passing sentence, and the court I adjourned till 2 p.m. I |