Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-16
LEX EST SCRlPTA.
A Lucid, Learned and Latter-day Saint
Exposition OF the Law Of
Criminal Libel.
Now Comes Charles w. Hemenway,
Editor of the Ogden "IIerald,"
and Demurs.
He Meant TO Praise the Chief Justice,
But to the Wicked His Praise
Was as DamnatiOn.

nat 20 tbo yy;oloJ uio proiso
p"' W '"e "l0"e" ms
Was as Damnati0n
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The public have manifested some in
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is lengthy editorial explaining the law
| nj libel The article itself is n libel on
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the law ltseli. we VIII endeaVor 10 MAXI
a few extracts to show the DRIFT oil tne
argument This is a part of the article
| upon which the Indictment is found.
"Lewdness, then Murder. Scarcely nau
the news OF the decision Oh Ohlef Justice
Zane lmeaning nm, the oharles .. zane III
the Vandercook hdoeds corpus case Deen
disseminated last saturday, Wnen the tele-
graph announced tnat announcer deputy
united states Marshai Ill Gtah, named ooi-
I'm, had surrendered hlmselt on the charge
OF murdering Joseph w. McMurrin, IN SAT-
Lake City, about seven O'clock p. m. OF tne
same day. fqll account IT., OF the foul aeea
Inc charge OF lewdness against deputy
MARSHAL ,anaercook mas Just been success
tuliy evhoeu through the agency OF red
efai Judge lmeanlng nm, the saia Oharles
.. lahel IN such way tnat u became ,al r s,
onably evident to nti-Mormon villains that
Pernlt no atroclty SohInIVteo ny IN anu
mormon TO pc speedlly ana conuignly pun,
isheo according TO the ueniahos Oh JUSTICE
Following this came those expost;ons
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as 10 tne law ana tne 1actS
Now tbe fret ,hree words of tbe obove
| axtroct fron, tbo oiiooa5 i;haions ort;cia Nod
| saIf' a,;danti,, ~, rosaranna ~ .ha ,,ortb,,
Chief Just;ce The newt sentence commend
;ng With the word aScopcalv,, and ending
,r;t,, ,Ia ,a.5 WJa,,, oo,toi,, ,,oth; =, $500,
| ;ts fona thot oorIa ,o ao,str,a5 ns t,di;,,l
| ayan disrosnectf,,i Of HE Uonor tho Cbiaf
Tust;oa M tho fniio,,;pa, so ,te IL
mon tbo face tbereof hIarseless Then
comes the sentence averring that: 1.-The
eMharge OF iewaness preferred "a: AGAINST Deputy
f,,di a t han JUST ueen Tas
eral judge" and this sentence neither di-
rectly nor by implication charges corruption
upon any one, nor is there in it any intima-
ton That IN acting as the agency through
which Deputy undertook evaded in
vestigation, His Honor. acted otherwise
than in his best Judgment accord
ing to the law OF which INCL! he was the
its mandates. If-as the balance of the last
sentence seems to aver.the alleged evasion
OF Vandercook through the agency of
Federal Judge, acting honorably and fairly,
presumably-for no other sort OF action is
aiieged-caused amt Mormon villains" to
think 1t reasonably evident that 1.-THE aver
age Federal Justice would allow no atroclty
committed by an anti-Mormon to be
speedily and condignly punished according
TO law" the fault self-evldently lay
IN the law IN Its admission OF q. technical
| m.
or indirect in this fact to reflect in the least
upon the lmpartlaiity, honor and integrity
OF the Chlef justice IN administering the
law honestly according to the best OF his
knowledge and ability. inc last portion OF
the last sentence in the above alleged libel
Gus article upon Its face shows nothing even
dlsresPecttul much less lbelous of the said
Chief Justice, Charles s. Zane.
Then comas como mora avcarnts from,
tho ;nd;otno,t fnI,n Wi I,'. tI.;s I'm
wy t.''"ei''' io''o"eu ny 'his ooh'-
heht'
The statement which tbedefendant 10 Nor.
CHARGED with nublishino libelonsiv L. the
first of this nara oronb IL. 9Tn Soturj"v
forenoon last, Chief Justice Zane rendered
n crooked decision. screenino Dennty Initial
States Marshal Vandercook from even LEGAL
investigation on the CHARGE Of Iewd and
lasciyious Conduct Nov. self.evidentiv
this meant NOTHING more than tha}
the Chief Jnstice honestly and
fairly probably. or os far ma We
knew. rendered n crooked decisiop-tbat ia
TO saw. n decision thot did not hear stra;gh1
upon or adiudioate the charge of Iewd md
lasciyious Conduct nendino eoeinst Denntv
Vandercook, and that the technicajitv III tbs
law under which the Chief Justice rendered
his nronerIv crooked dnc;s;on not hoa,.;,,t,
aiinectiy upon OF reaching straightly the ad-
screened the Deputy in question from fur
Their legal investigation of the accusations
against him, by the penal code denomi-
mated ''lewd and lascivious conduct,
libelous article GOES on to saw u" that ,sst;% uu
lated by the aid which was thus extended
(by the law and not by the Chief Justice) to
the alleged offender, and probably neryed by
prospect OF Ike immunity, Deputy United
tce is aiItess3 Wbers I'M; tbe n HieI Ghs
here? Now the last portion of the last SEN
AYERS nor insjnuates Gnytina ht ase
can say or assure us that the Chief Justice
10 G io w because IL was impossible for us
is guitless?" Guilticss Of what? entities itIlSs
of nothing but of being the innocent agency
! in tbn lauol ,f