The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-11-02

MOrmOnIsm and POIyERny - COnVIc-
tiOn-Arrests-TrIaI dc.

saints is great. Polygamy has got into
the Courts, and has been pronounced, as
we have heretofore stated, illegal Haw-
klns was found guilty by the jury, and en-
the 2Sth ult., Chief Justice Mexican pro-
nounced sentence at Salt Lake as follows
Thomas Hawkins, I am sorry for you,
very sorry. You may not think so now,
but shall try to make you think so, by
mercy, which l shall show. You came
from England to this country with the
wife of your youth. For many years you
were kind husband, a kind father. At
| length, however, the evil spirit of poly
gamy tempted you and possessed you.
Then happiness departed from your house
hold and now, by the complaint of your
faithful wife and the verdict of law
abiding jury, you stand at this bar con-
victed criminal. The laws give me large
discretion in passing sentence upon you,
or might fine you only or imprison. l
might lmprlson you twenty years and fine
you one thousand dollars. 1 cannot i'm
prison you less than five years nor fine
you less than three thousand dollars. 1t
Is right that you should be fined, among
other reasons, to help defray enforcing the
laws, but my experience has been such
that were to fine you only, 1 am salts
ned the hne wo1ld be paid out of other
funds than yours and thus you would go
free, absolutely free from ali punishment;
and then those men who mlsled you and
many others, would believe that God had
sent the money to pay the fine; that God
had prevented the Court from sending you
to prison, and that by miracle you had
been rescued from the authorities of the
United States l must look to 1t that my
judgement gives no aid and comfort to
such men. I must look to it that my
Judgment be not so severe as to seem Wind
cltlve and not so light as to seem to tribe
with Justice This community ought to
begin to learn that God does not interpose
to rescue criminals from the consequences
of their crimes, but on the contrary that
He so orders the affairs of His universe
that, sooner or later, crime stands face to
face with justice; and, just as the Master
Will say here and now that whenever
your good behavior and the public good
shall justify me.ln doing so, l will gladly
recommend that you be pardoned.
The judgment of the Court is that you
be fined $500, and that you be imprisoned
at hard labor for the term of three years
The prisoners counsel gave notice of
appeal to the Supreme Court of the United
States. There was no excitement in the
court room.
Warrants are out for the arrest of Brig
ham Young and his son, ) A Young, on
q charge of murder, in having ordered the
killing of Richard Yates. The Indictment
on these murder cases is understood to be
founded on the testimony of Bill Hickman,
who was once what is termed by the Gent
lies a DANTE, or secret agent of the
Mormon authorities. Yates visited the
. Mormon camp during the rebellion of 81,
ostensibly to sell powder. The Mormons
regarded him as a spy, and some weeks
after arrested him, and placed him IN the
custody of Hickman, to be taken to Salt
Lake. d. Wells then commanded the
Mormon troops, and Hosea Stout was
Judge Advocate. On the way to Salt
Lake he killed Yates, as he says, by an
order from Brigham Young and Joseph A,
and at the instigation Of Wells and Stout
Hickman is also confined now at Camp
Douglass. He went with the officers to
Echo Canon, and after pointing out the
spot where he had buried Yates, was ar
rested In disinterrng the remains.
Daniel 81. Wells, Mayor of the city, and
Hosea A. Stout, formerly Attorney Cen
eral of the Territory, w Belden Kimbal
and Hobart, or Harty Cancn, were arrest
ed on q warrant, served by U. S. Marshal
Patrick upon an indictment of the grand
, jury charging them with murder. The
prisoners were placed in a carriage and
conveyed to Camp Douglass. A slight
excitement prevailed at the MarshaPs of
fee while the accused were there waiting
for conveyance to the camp, some police
men saying they should not go to prison,
if they did not wish to go and one or two
women calling out to take them if they
dared. They would fight them with a
vengeance. The officers, however, were
firm, and nothing serious happened. The
alleged crime consists in the killing OF
, Richard Yates, and man named Buck,
several years ago.
A warrant was out for the arrest Of
: Orsen Held, one of the Twelve Apostles,
: on some charge, but he eluded the depu-
ties who were sent to arrest him He was
pursued to the Southern territory 1t is
; thought he has gone to Arizona or Mexico
| The late arrests, however, have created
: marked depression in the Mormon com
mumty
A man named Bennett, was found rnur-
| dered on the State road few miles frcm
J the city, on the 29th. Bullets were found
2 in his body.
| On the 29th. Hundreds of people, prin-
cipally Mormons, visited Camp Douglass
on Wednesday, to see Mayor Wells aR6
I the other prisoners. Gen. Morrow gave
. the visitors unrestricted access to theil
! fisnds, and by his courteous remarks anc
manners inspired a much better feeling
q than might have been expected under the
circumstances. The arrested parties are
I quartered IN comfortable, well furnished
cottage, and seem quite cheerful. A guarC
of soldiers march to and fro on the out
side.
Elder George @ Cannon arrived on tn,
T. 29th from San Francisco, and preached II
d the afternoon in the large Tabernacle te
an audience numbering at least ten thou
r sand. His mind had suddenly undergone
> a remarkable change, for be counseled hi
hearers to abstain from any act of violence
: and to submit to the law God woulC
: protect them and deliver them from thei
e prosecutors. The crusade against them
he said, would only strengthen and giorif,
. them in the end. Their Church could no
S be overturned. Their faith was the in
k splration of the Divine Spirit, and woulc
endure forever.
Elder Pratt was not so conservative
He did not want any whining Judge t.
J say to him as he did to Hawkins, ~ an
IS sorry for you" He wanted no sympathy
3, from any Federal official He was read,
If to go to jail for twenty years, but did no
want pity from such a source He pre-
y dicted that God would totally overthrow
the present prosecutors of the Mormo
is people.
s, THE bolt of Judge Chester r. Mott i
g Wyandot county did not defeat the Dem
Ie ocratic county ticket as Critchfeld's bol
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