Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-01
/ Putting MOrmon Leaders Through.

SALT LAKE, October 2S.-Chief
Justice Mexican, this morning, passed
sentence on Thomas Hawkins, the
polygamist, as follows:
Thomas Hawkins, / am sorry for
you; very sorry. You may not think
so now, but Ishall try to make you
think so, by the mercy which I shall
show you. You came from England
to this country, with the wife of your
youth. For many years you were
acting as a husband and kind father.
At length, however, the evil spirit
tempted and possessed you. Then,
happiness departed from your house,
and home, and now, by the complaint
OF your faithful wife and the verdict
of a law abiding jury, you stand at
this bar a convicted criminal. The
law gives me a large discretion in pas
sing sentence on you. I might both
fine and imprison, or 1 might fine
you only or ifnprison. L might i'm
prison you for twenty years or fine
you M thousand dollars. 1 can't
imprison you less than three years,
nor fine you less than three hundred
dollars. 1t is right that you should
be fined among the rebels to help de-
fray the expenses of enforcing the
laws; but my experience in Utah has
been such, that were 1 to fine you
only, I am satisfied the fine would be
paid out of other funds than yours,
and that you would 90 free absolute
ly free from all punishment and
then those men who misied the peo-
pie would make you and thousands of
others believe that God had sent the
money to pay the fine that God had
prevented the court from sending you
to Jail that by a miracle you have
been released from the authorities of
the United States.
I must look to it that my Judgment
shall not give aid and comfort to such
men. 1 must look to itthat my iudg-
ment be not so sever as to seem vim
dictive, and not so light as to seem to
trihe with justice. This community
ought to begin TO learn that God does
not interpOse to excuse criminals from
the consequences of theircrimes +; but
that on the contrary, he so orders the
affairs OF his universe, that sooner or
later crime stands face to face with
justice. I will say here and now,
that whenever your good behavior
and the public good shall Justify me
in doing so, I 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 three years.
Contrary to all exceptions, there
was little or no excitement in the
court room. The attendance was
large, but generally all maintained a
a proper decorum. The United States
marshal and deputies were fully pre-
pared for any emergency. Notice Of
an appeal to the Supreme Court was
given by prisoners counsel.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Daniel II. Wells, Mayor of the CITY:
Hosea Stout, formerly ATTORNEY Gen
eral of the territory, and William
Belden, of KimbalIs Hotel, in Part
ley Cannon, we're arrested by United
States Marshal Patrick, upon an in
dictment of the grand jury. charging
the i with murder. Tom Fitch made
application to admit them to bail.
which application will be heard on
Monday forenoon. The prisoners
were placed in q carriage and taken
to Camp Douglass. A slight excite
ment prevailed at the marshal's office
while the accused were waiting for a
conveyance to the camp, some police
men saying that they should not go
TO prison if they did not wish to 60,
and one or two women calling out to
the officers to take them ifthey dared:
they would fight them with a ven
geance, &c. The officers, however.
were firm, and nothing serious hap
Dened. The alleged crime consists in
the killing of Richard Yates and a
man named Buck, several years ago..
A warrant was out for the arrest of
Orson Hyde, one. of the twelve apos-
ties, upon the same charge, but he
eluded the deputies who YER sent to
arrest him. he was pursued to the
Southern part of the Territory.
A man named Bennett was found
murdered on the State road, about
eight miles from the city, this morn
ing. -Four bullets were in his body.
THIRD DISPATCH.
Warrants are out for the arrest of
Brigham Young and his son, Joseph
Young, on the charge of murder. in
having ordered the killing of Richard
Yates. The indictments on all these
murder cases are understood TO be
founded on the testimony of Bill
Hickman, who was once what is
termed by the Gentiles a DANTE, or
secret agent Of the Mormon authori-
ties. Yates visited the Mormon camp
during the rebellion of 1857, %ostensi-
bly, to sell powder. The Mormons
regarded him as a spy, and some
weeks afterwards arrested him, and
placed him in the custody of Hick-
man, 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
they killed Yates, as he says, by or
ders from BrIgam Young and Joseph
Young, and at the instigation of Wells
and Stout. Hickman also is now
confined at Camp Douglass. He went
with the officers to Echo Canon, and
after pointing out the spot where he
had buried Yates, assisted in disin-
terring the body.
. FOURTH DISPATCH.
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