The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-29
rHE CASE AGAINST CURTIS.
MOyle and Ntxwell at 1t Again =
qhe Result.

Young Arthur Curtis, who was ar
rested some days ago, charged with
assault and battery upon Hong Hop,
was arraigned before Judge Piper
yesterday for trial. He had previously
plead not guilty, and would have been
compelled to face the music earlier had
1t not been for the facS that the officers
were expecting to capture the rest OF
the gang, who had been implicated in
the affair. Hong Hop appeared in
court in a rather badly demoralized
condition, his head still being in
bandages, which covered up half-a-
dozen well-developed and brilliantly
colored moss -agates. His evidence,
given through an interpreter, was to
the effect that he was passing a gang of
Young hOodlmmS, Wien he was set upon
and stoned by several of them. while
one, young bootbjaCk, hit him on the
head with his kit. He said he had been
III bed four days, under the care of a
| Chinese doctor, and even now was so
sick as to be unable to set up except for
few minutes at time. His evidence
in the case was all that the prOsecu-
ton had to offer, and they closed their
case.
In response TO the query. whether the
defense had any thing 10 offer, General
Maxwell, who appeared for the Outh,
gathered his rambling thoughts To-
gether for a feY seconds and finally
s, i'd
Here, Arthur, I'll trust you-y GU
take tn stand!"
Arthur was sworn, and told his
story. He SAID that he was along with
crowd of young boys, when the
Chinaman appeared, and one of them
said: Here's ChiLauan-Iet's be Al
the s. OF a b.; they then attacke
the Monaghan, and oeat him as the
Chinaman says. However, the boy said
that he had nothing 10 DO with beating
the Chinaman; that he simply struck
AT him with his fist.
At the close of the boys statement,
Moyle attempted to cross-examine him,
when Maxwell made an insolent gesture
towards him, saying, Hold on, there -
Some hot and furious words followed.
Moyle referring to his brother lawyer
las an old soak, VINO had no business
in the court room. He was tired, he
said. of having to submit to the insults
of the General, and thought that the
least that should be required of him
was that be should be sober, if he ap-
peared before the court at all.
Officer Salmon was then sworn in re-
buttal of the boys testimony, and said
that Curtis had admitted to him that
be had struck the Chinaman, but only
with his fist.
In his eros examination Maxwell
asked: ESQ
You are Marshal of the city, be-
ieve-are-you-not2
Salmon-No, sir; Mr. Solomon is
Marshal-my name is Salmon; | am
merely an officer.
Maxwell = Oh = yes - I-see - yes.
That's all.
Moyle then made his argument. He
said be thought the boy should be pun
ished, that he should receive the full
penalty 7ef-the laWy He had, of course,
denied that he had STRUCK the Chinss
man, but that he had SO struck him
was evident from his admissions 10 the
officer who made the arrest. He
thought Curtis was a bad boy who
should be taught that q Chiuamau
had some rights that hood lums were
expected. to respect.
Mr.. Maxwell said counsel had
talked-louder than be had. II know
-are-are bad boys; my bad boy
is caught. but have -. All there is
to it, have you proven enough to put
him in jail2 lit is the story Of-of
the boy against the Mon-Mongolian |
think the boy has admitted being
guilty of the assault, you are the-the
Your court with your power
have not mean that all
the Mormon hood mean the
Gentle crowd. 1 suppose they were
all bad bOys-but l would not give a
continental d. sixteenth part of a
cent for boy who was net bad when he
was young. understand the venom not
IF the court, but of the prosecutor. He
got me in jail once, but he cannot do it
again.
After considerable more of this kind
of stuff, the General fell gracefully back
into his seat.
The Judge said he thought there was
evidence enough to show the boy guilty
as charged. Cinnamon were as much
entitled to the protection of the law as
any other people. They were inOfensive
and usually minded their own business.
What to do with the boy, however, was
the question. There was but two things
to do when the defendant had been
found guilty--to punish as the law pro-
vides or suspend sentence during good
behavior. The boy had been before the
court sew eral times before, and sentence
had been suspended in his case, once
or twice
Maxwell-No, your honor, it was
another boy-Milton Curtis.
The Judge-Well, / will not pro-
nounce sentence until O'Clock Friday,
and in the meantime will look the
case up.
ALLEGED ATTEMPTED RAPE.