Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-12-07
IN THE FIRST DISTRICT.
General JottIngs From the junction
city.

The court room to-day contained fair
attendance OF attorneys and a good sized
audience, anticipating interesting devel-
opments.
Richard Fry and John Marriott were
called before the bar to plead to indict
ments found against them by the Grand
Jury for the violation OF the Edmunds
law. They failed to respond to the cour-
teous invitation and warrants were issued
for their appearance in court
The case against d. p. Tarpey, John
Brooks and Thomas Davis, charged with
having unlawfully nterfered with prop
erty belonging to l.. B. Adams and w.
N. Shilling Of Box Elder County, was
called up, the two first named appearing.
ID. p. Carpey announced that he would
carry on his own defense and "try to
show up a conspiracy which had been
Matched up for years." etc. The gentle
man showed his teeth with ierocious de-
termination, intimating that he was go
ing to elevate the temperature for some
people, mentioning the affair OF Ii. House
of Corinne. The case was set for Satur-
day. An order was issued to cause Mr..
House to appear and enter further plea
on previous indictment charging him
with having records in the office OF the
Justsce OF the Peace in Corinne.
Then was called up another case OF the
many which form the celebrated and
muchly mixed-up legal drama OF Box
Elder county. 1t was the case OF the
People VS.. VIM. Johnson, indicted for
grand larceny, committed in 1884, to the
detriment OF Adams and Schilling.
Judge Emerson and G.. J. Marsh APP
peared for the defense, and Ogden Hies
for the prosecution.
An expectant crowd was present at
half past four, after the recess, to hear
the Judge pronounce sentence upon VIM.
Geddes, OF Plain City, convicted last
week OF unlawful cohabition upon four
counts. His Honor expressed his deter
mination TO pass sentence on the count
reaching from July LIST to December 3lst,
1884. The prisoner at the bar claimed
he had, after the passage ofthe Edmunds
law, tried honestly to make an effort "to
put his house in order" with the under
standing he had OF the law OF his adopted
land, for which he protested great love.
He had understood that under the law a
polygamist was permitted to provide for
his plural families, even by visiting them
to give instructions to the children, etc.
He had never shirked or hidden up to
escape the officers OF the law. He had
raised an honorable family temperate,
honest, and Industrious. Geddes made
a regular elders harangue about love OF
the Constitution and its institutions, but
he was sorry that the people of Utah were
50 badly misunderstood and abused.
He'd rather lay down his life than re-
nounce the faith. Ten of his little chill
dren under Is years OF age had beer
clinging to him that morning; for them
he felt sorry, not for his old bones. But
Judge Henderson corrected his errone-
Gus views as to going behind the provi-
sions and intentions OF the law. 1t was
not question OF religious belief, but OF
open and overt actions contrary to the
laws OF the country. Geddes' crime was
in having held up before the eyes of thu
world the appearance OF relationship pro
hibited by the law. The Judge failed tC
see why the prisoner should refuse tC
promise to obey the laws in the future
while asserting that he had obeyed then
in the long past. In most sympathetic
language the Judge tried to make an i'm
preston upon Geddes, but he wa
"solid." The sentence was six months
: imprisonment and 500 fine. Adjourned
, , till 10 n. IN. Tuesday.
{ A HARD CASE.
, Peter Miller, culprit who has bee
: figuring in local and Federal courts, an,
who was up before Judge Henderson tc
, day, appears to be hard case. He
said to be a member OF gang Of rough
and toughs who followed in the wake G
the circus that travelled through Ogde
last July. First, he and his pals, none c
whom have been overtaken by the SLOW
5 but none the less sure arm OF Justice
$ committed bold burglary in Salt LAX
9 City, invading a residence whose occu
5 pants had left for the summer vacation
/. They then followed up to Ogden, break
1 ing into the shooting gallery OF Browning
: on the east side OF Main street, on tn
t night OF the Goth OF July, abstracting
number OF pistols.
The gang of burglars took flight north
= ward, but were finally tracked, and Pete
was caught, after the combination ha
= perpetrated-so it is alleged-an aggra
3 waited case OF grand larceny. Sheriff q
r h. Belknap, of Weber county, took
5 prominent part in Miller's capture. TIL
5 latter has since his arrest enjoyed tn
, Inequalities OF the Penitentiary, awaitin
trial on both the Ogden and Logan depre
dations He appears to be disposed t
plead guilty to one charge, so as to shiel
himself from the impending penalty c
the other. A protracted sojourn unde
Uncle Sans protective wing is starin
: into his face with the motto OF Dante
i "All hope abandon, ii you enter here"
7. c. McChesney, a former resident c
this city, where he made (and still has
many friends, is now located ut Glenwoo
Springs, Colorado, where he is employee
on the Midland railroad. He sends wor
that it takes them one-haIi the week t
get iirewood to keep them warm tn
l other half.
Some unprincipled scoundrel CON
mitted dastardly acts OF malicious wanda
ism, the other night, on the west side c
Main street, between Fourth and FIT
streets, by cutting nearly all the plat
{ glass fronts with a sharp instrument
most likely diamond, to such a lengt
{ and depth as to cause an apprehensiO
, that with violent jars or sudden change
of temperature there may be caused
loss OF many hundreds Of dollars.
lsadOTe Marks and f. J. kiesel hav
returned from business trips in tn
, | northern country.
Patsey Haly, the sheep king, has com
down again from his northern ranch.
Mr.. John Broom, the proprietor Of tn
finest hotel in the Great Lalt Lake basin
left for yOur town this morning