The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-01
MORM0NDOM.
A CLINCHER FOR THE SAINTS.
HAWKINS SENTENCED TO FIVE
YEARS IMPRISONMENT
AND A HEAVY FINE. .
REMARKS OF JUDGE Mex EAN-.
THE LAW TO BE VINDI-
GATED.
OTHER WARRANTS. OUT FOR
THE ARREST OF. THE
CRIMINALS.

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his son, J. A. Young, on a charge Of MUIR
! der, in having ordered the killing Of Rich
ard Yates. The indictments in these muir
der cases are understood 90 be founded on
the testimony Of Bill Hickman who was
once what is termed by the Gentiles,
f''. a DANTE, ..t...I
or secret agent ofthe Mormon authorities.
Yates visited the Mormon camp during
the rebellion Of 81, ostensibly TO sell pow
der. The Mormon, regarded him a. Il
spy, and some week, afterwards arrested
him and placed him in the custody Of
Hickman, nj Salt Lake. ID. Wells then
commanded the Mormon troops, and Ho-
sea Stout was, udge Hdvocate. On tho
way to Salt Lake they
KILLED YATES,
as he says, by orders from Brigham Young
and another and at the instigAtion Of Wells
and Stout. Hickman is also confined now at
Camp Douglas. He went with the officers
to Echo canon, and after pointing out the
spot where he had buried Yate. assisted
in disnterring the remains
Chief Justice Mexican this morning
passed sentence on Thomas Hawkins the
polygamist, as follows: '..lH
Thomas Hawkins ] am sorry for you,
very sorry. You may not think 20 now,
but shall try 10 make you think so by
the mercy which ! shall show YOU. You
came from England to this coutry with
the wife of your youth. For many years
you were kind husband and kind father
| at length, however, the
EVIL SPIRIT OF PoLYGAMY
tempted and possessed you Then hap
piness departed from your household, and
now, by the complaint of your faithful
wife and the verdict Of e. law-abiding jury,
| you stand atthi- bar a convicted criminal;
the law gives me large discretion in pass
| ing sentence upon you. j might both fine
and imprison you, or ! might fine you
only, or imprison; might imprison you
twenty years and fine YOU one thousand
| dolars | cannot imprisen you leo than
| three years. nor fine you less than three
hundred dollars. Ii is right the you should
| bc fined; among other reasons, to help de-
fray the expenses Of tntrc ng the laws;
but my experience has been such that,
were to fine you only, l am satisfied the
fine would be paid out of other funds than
yours, and thus you would go free, abso-
lutely free, from all punish
ment, and then those men who
MIsLED THE BEoPLE
would make YOU and thousands of others
believe that God had sent them only to
pay the fine, and that God had prevented
the court from sending you to prison, and
that by a miracle you had been rescued
from the authorities of the United States.
l must look to it that my judgment gives
no aid and comfort to such men; | must
look to j, that my judgment be not so se-
we're as to seem vindictive, and not so light
as to seem t. trife with justice. The COM
munity ought to begin TO learn that
GOD DOES NOT INTERPosE
to rescue criminals from the consequences
of their crimes, but on the contrary he so
orders the affairs of his universe that, soon
er or later, crime stands face to face with
justice and just as the Master says, will
say here and now, that whenever your good
behavior and the public good shall justify
me in doing SO, will gladly recommend
that you be pardoned.
THE JUDGMENT
of the court is that you be fined five hun
drcd dollars, and that you be imprisoned
at hard labor for the term of three years.
Contrary to all expectation there was
little or no excitement in the courtroom.
The attendance was large, but all main
taincd a proper decorum. The United
States marshal and deputies were fully
prepared for any emergency. A notice of
an appeal to the Supreme court was given
by the prisoners counsel.
Daniel III. Wells, mayor of the city,
Hosea A. Stout, formerly attorney general
of the Territory, and WIN. Belden, of
Kimballs hotel were arrested an hour
since by ,Uinted States Marshal Patrick,
upon the indictment of the grand jury,
which charged them with murder of Tom
Fitch. They made application to be ad-
mitted to bail, which will be heard on
Monday. The prisoners were placed in II
carriage and taken to Camp Douglas.
Slight excitement prevailed at the mar
shal's Office while the accused were there
waiting for conveyance to the camp
some policemen saying they should not go
to prison if they did net wish to go, and
one or two women calling out to the Off
GERS to take them if they dared, and they
would fight them with vengeance, &c.
The officers, however, were firm, aud
nothing serious happened The alleged
crime consists in the killing Richard Yates
and man named Buck several years ago.
A warrant was out TO-, the arrest of Orson
Hyde, one of the twelve apostles, on the
same charge, but he eludcd the deputies
who were sent after him. He was pur-
sued to the Southern Territory, A man
named Bennet was found murdered in the
State road, abort eight miles from the city
this morning, with four bullets in his
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