The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-07
Num- CHAMPION
u,,. latest From Judge Foreman
Ihe and His Tribunal.
BEAyER, March Sd, 1884.

REAVER, MATCH OH 4OO1.
70 the Editor Of THE HERALD: ).
1o. august tribunal, yclept, the
Thas 1ndioial District Court, convened
se'onu form for the March term of court
IN a .Tonday. That polygamy-struck
lasl lluoI Jacob S. Foreman, occupied
ndl. Hasition SO long and ably filed by
the Twisg. It is needless to say that
Juago over-fond anticipations of the
the I nj southern Utah in relation to
pvOP. and the course he would pur-
BOrelIaann he resumed his place as dis
sue WI ;5dge have been fully realized.
tricg tba Grand Jurors had passed the
A1lel orJeaI of examination and been ac-
fer! nv the court, they were treated
eeplsuo Of the choicest lingual pro
to Gn ans in the shape of a judges
daeloHif that has been heard in a court
eaa!Ss stice since the days of the i'm
OF u IaAeries. If there. is one thing
moLoI HAN another in which Foreman
moiH # is certainly in charging a
9c+and Jury. He, in fact, exhausts nm
calf as We'll d. IHO
Effort. In il, bitter ~lnyectlye, coarse
eil1sions and malicious and spitetul
saafsTences against the people OF Utah
Tic aS nsed without stint, and left the
imnreSsion upon the disgusted nearer
4bdFt fbe fellow occupying and disgraclng
tbs indicial bench had indeed earned
lis well-known cognomen OF the
nnr2barger." by which he is generally
Known among members of the bar.
Al was to be expected the Grand Jury
ms nretty well Invested in its makeup,
W I'll inrors who would acknowledge the
sii@btest allegiance, belief or sympathy
n what IS known as Mormonlsm, and
aitbough six of the inquisitorial body
are known as ''eVen numbered" men.
vet the entire fifteen are to all intents
and purposes, an out-and-out radical
Gentle Grand Jury. The following Is
q list OF the Grand Jurors: Victor
Gram. David Frazer, A. w. Mowry,
Aaron Assay, Henry Jolly, John ii.
Brown. VIM. Tucker, A. w. Morton,
Rem Mackal, WI. Haynes, Daniel Dacy,
Frank Dewey, John Mowers, G. w.
Byram and William English. Accept
ing the number of Grand Jury witness
ElODWidS l1dI appear W nav ~
issued, it y would certainly seem that the
number of local cases to be considered
under the Edmunds law was very large,
fori seems as if fully one-third Of the
men, women and children in
the town have been summoned to
appear before the inquisitorial body
Something like half-a-dozen deputy
marshals are busy at work among the
people. subpoeaning witnesses, going in
some cases, right into the schoolhouses
to serve papers upon the little children,
whose fathers were supposed to be poly
gamists. 1t is rumored upon what
would seem to bepretty good authority,
that spoilers" are being paid or rather
promised $50, for every case in which
they can produce evidence enough to
obtain an indictmentfor "lasciV-cohab."
OF polygamy. 1t goes without saying
the amount and character of evidence
required is remarkably small, hence
spoilers" are said to be numerous.
There are a couple OF alleged thieves
in our county jail awaiting the pleasure
OF the Grand Jury, and when that body
was finally completed to the satisfaction
Of the Court. on Monday, those two
prisoners we're considerably broughtup
by order of the Judge to face the Grand
Jury, and to see if they had any objec-
ton to any n or more of the jurors
then present sitting upon these several
cases. Would that have been permitted
had the accused been members Of the
Mormon church? We opine not. Con
Sistency thou art truly a jewel"
especially in Judge Boreman's court.
The underground railway is doing a
fEll business in the counties south of
Beaver. XIMENEs.