Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-23
HAMLET H. HAWTHORNE
He Makes Statement, Promises to
Obey, and Begs the Mercy OF
the Court.
Mr.. Dickson Makes a "Pi" Of the
Statement, and Shows Hamlet
to be an ImpOstOr.
The Court Considers Everything and
Sentences Him to F0ur Years
in the Pen and 800 Fine.

The Third District Court was crowded
this afternoon for the first time in many
days, the excitement being the sentence
OF Hawthorne, recently convicted OF an
aggravated case of polygamy
Shortly after the opening OF court
Hawthorne entered, accompanied by a
deputy, and looked around this room in
his usual lynx-like manner. When his
case was called, Judge Mcbride, his at
torney, arose and said that his client
had prepared
A STATEMENT.
Which he desired to have read to the
Court, before the pronouncing OF judg-
ment upon him. He begins by saying
that he was married in July, 1885, to one
Mary Buckley, in Maidstone, England.
I'm the fall Of that year they came to the
United States and settled in Connecticut.
Business calling him west, he left Mary
in a comfortable home and came
westward, arriving in this city
in March of the present year.
Soon after his arrival here he became
acquainted with Jewett B. Francis (the
principal witness against HIM and
through Francis he became acquainted
with Mcknight. All three were inter
ested in
THE PANORAMA PROJECT
and they thus became intimate. After
he had been here some time, he got Il
letter from his wife saying that she was
going back to England. He was much
hurt by this, but at last decided to resign
himself to his fate. He consulted
Mcknight, and the latter said that the
fact that Mrs. ii. had returned to Eng
land freed him from all obligations.
As regards his former wife being enciPnte
or ever having given birth to a child, he
did not believe word OF it, as she was
over As years of age when he married
her. When he heard that Francis had
an eye on the widow Tor his nephew, the
defendant decided to have
A FINGER IN THE PIE,
And he began paying his addresses tc
Mrs. Warne. But, before marrying
her, he again consulted Mcknight
and the latter again assured
him that he was free. He admits hav'
ing married Mrs. Warne on the date
charged. He now believes that Nc
Knight gave him the advice just to ge
his fees, and states that the barrister has
tried to get $25 marriage fee out OF the
widow since the wedding. The defend
ant says he has been called u GENTLE
Mormon, and goes on to say that ht
heard Mormon Elder preach
in England and became interested
in the religion. After arriving here his
interest in Mormonism increased with
striking simultaneousness with his inter
est in the widow and he was finally
BAPTIZED INTO THE CHURCH.
He says that he holds two honorable dis
charges from the army after having
served his country in the late rebellion
and that he holds an honorable commits
sion as Government bank not
detective He then goes on il
a sad strain to relate tina
he is advancing in years, suffering iron
rheumatism, neuralgia and numerou
other disorders, very modestly forgetting
to refer to his overdose OF matrimony.
IN CONCLUSION,
He says that he has been misguided an,
that his crime was committed innocentl,
and after asking for suspension G
sentence or such other clemency a
the Court may see fit to grant
he winds up by saying, 81 promise to b
good citizen as | have been in the pas
so far as | know my duty"
MIR. DICKSON
Then arose, and the general impres3io
seemed to be that he would recommen
suspension OF sentence, but as soon a
he began to speak this idea was dispelled
He said in substance: | don't know tina
| am called upon to say anything agains
this mans petition, but | will state tina
since the trial certain matters have com
to my knowledge which lead me to be
lieve that
THIS DEFENDANT is AN IMPOsToR.
| have seen letter from prominen
barrister living at Maidstone, saying tina
his wife is personally acquainted witt
Hawthornes first wife. This lady say
that Mrs. Hawthorne was in delcat
Sndition when she left the United States
that she had written to defendant tim
and again for assistance; and tina
it was only after she was driver
to despair that she returned t
her fathers home. Mr.. Dickso
went on to say that he had seen cop
OF the marriage certificate now in Mar
Buckeyes possession and that in tina
Hawthorne had represented himself t.
be doctor OF medicine. Since he cam,
here nothing has been heard OF his pro
fession as an NJ. D., and this seems onl,
another proof of his being an impostor.
IT IS SCARCELY CREDIBLE,
Said Mr.. Dickson, that man OF Haw