The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-23
THE NEW GRAND JURY.
The Usual Material and the Usual
Charge for the War on
MOrmOns.


The first business on the assembling
of court yesterday morning was the i'm
paneling of grand jury, and Judg-
Zane directed that fifteen of the names
of the twenty men who had been sub
p@naed be called by the clerk. The
names of the following were read off.
and each one took his place in the box ::
John Human, c. P. Mason, B. B.
VanDeusen, Palmer De Long, Charles
Read, Herman Bamberger, Geo. Davis,
VIM. McRae, +. o. Horn, w. P. Rowe.
U. P. Miles, (absent) Geo. Husler, Chas.
Sickler, Harvey Hardy, II. T. Duke
and Sol. Slegel. All were at once ex.
amlned by Mr.. Varian. and all being
acceptable, both as to citizenship and
non-Mormonism, were passed and
sworn in. After a moments deIibera
ton the Judge asked Mr.. Chas. Read
(Drobably the most pronounced ami
Mormon in the box) to act as foreman.
and that gentleman took the oath O.
office.
Judge Zane then charged the grand
jury IN substance as follows: Gentle
men of the grand jury, it is your duty
to inquire into all public offenses com
mitted in this district; You should
exercise proper caution, in order that
you may not be imposed upon by
witnesses actuated by improper motives.
Any such witnesses | should be in
clined to doubt, or not TO receive their
testimony at all. You should regard
closely those witnesses who YOU NAV
think are actuated by malice. fear or
affection towards the person whose
conduct you are investigating. The
crimes you are called on to look into
are numerous. l will not attempt to
enumerate them. You have no dlscre-
ton, except to investigate all the evil
dence, and when the evidence is sufff
cent, YOU must indict. There are GER
tain offenses, to which I wol / | cali
your particular attention. One is po-
lygamy. l do this, because i. is
common crime, and it is
practiced under the claim that it is
right, Notwithstanding the law against
1t. Another crime is that of unlawful
cohabitation, which consists in associ-
ating with two or more women in the
act OF marriage. 1t is not necessary to
show that sexual intercourse has taken
place, that they occupy the same bed,
or that the man resided with the women
all the time. 1t doesn't affect the mat
ter in the least that these crimes are
practiced under the belief that they are
right. There is one other crime to
which l wish to call your attention,
gentlemen of the jury. and that is the
| keeping OF houses of ilI-fame. or the re-
sorting thereto for the purposes of
iewCnesS. These houses are places
where CRIME is Matched; where people
lnUTfn6 RI fr1vrIora -, -
passions; where a man is placed below
the level OF a brute. Henee laws are
made to suppress all these indulgences
IN sexual vice, against prostitution and
polygamy, and those laws / may say
have lifted the world to the glorious
height where it stands today. You
should lndict men for these crimes.
no matter how high or how low
these men may be. You should
not allow motives of fear to enter into
your calculations; if there is one of YOU
who fears that his duty as a grand
juror will bring his property or his
business into some danger, who is afraid
to do his duty in consequence, let him
speak now and will discharge him. II
you are 'assailed by any man, under
such circumstances as would lead you
to believe that your life is threatened or
great bodily harm is intended you.
say shoot him down. Be careful how
you do this, however; be careful that
you are within the law. But the law re-
quires you to protect yourselves, and
you should do it.
The Grand Jurors were then con-
ducted to their room. where they
organized, and then at once took an ad-
journment.