Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-20


j. M. Harvey, Joseph Foreman,
William McCree, Mills Clark,
| Thomas Davis, Charles Shield,
James McGregor, NJ. Klopenstein,
j. W. Crane, Edward Berry,
Frank Mclaughlin, j. l.. Osborne.
This being disposed of, the Judge an
nounced that the first case set for trial
was that of
RICHARD WARRINGTON,
Charged with unlawful cohabitation, one
count. The defendant had evidently been
well coached and, taking his seat be-
tween Richards and Moyle, he got
through with his part in frst-class style,
without being prompted.
The clerk announced that Warburton
had already entered a plea OF not guilty
and Mr.. Richards stated that the defend
ant desired to withdraw the plea.
The Judge allowed the plea to be with
drawn and asked defendant what he
wished to say TO the charge now.
Defendant answered, 81 plead guilty,
sir"
The Court-Pll give you chance to
say whether or not you intend to obey
the law in the future, so that | may
Judge how to fix the sentence.
Defendant-With all due respect to
your honor, the future will have to take
care of itself.
Defendant then stated that he had
nothing more to say and that he was
ready for sentence.
The Court-Mr Warburton, you will
be sentenced to serve a term of six
months in the Utah Penitentiary and to
pay fine OF $500 and costs, and you will
stand committed until the fine and costs
are paid.
Warburton left the courtroom accom-
panied by Deputy Smith and followed
by his numerous wives and children
while
JAMES DUNN
Came forward and took the chair. Dunn
had already entered plea of not guilty.
to the three counts of the indictment and
at the signal from Manager Richards, he
stood up and said that he, pleaded
guilty"
The Court-You have already entered
plea OF not guilty.
Prompter Moyle-You want to with
draw that plea.
Defendant-I want to withdraw that
plea.
Prompter Moyle-You now want to
enter plea OF guilty.
Defendant now want to enter plea
OF guilty.
Manager Richards asked that sentence
be set for Thursday next at o'clock,
and, there being no objection, the Court
granted the request.
ANDREW HANSEN,
Who, as his name indicates. is Danish,
came forward to answer to a three-count
charge OF U. G. Hansen did not know
his part at all well, so that Mr.. Richards
was kept busy telling him when to stand
up and when to sit down, while Mr.
Moyle had all he could do to make the
man say the right thing in the right
place. Before the scenery had been
properly shifted, Hansen popped up and
said: 81 plead guilty"
Prompter Moyle-You desire to with
draw your plea OF not guilty?
Defendant-I desire to withdraw my
plea OF not guilty.
The Court-The plea is forgiven.
Defendant Whispering to Mr.. MOyle)
What do | do now2
Prompter Moyle-You desire to enter
plea OF guilty?
Defendant desire to enter plea of
guilty.
The Comt-Are you ready for sentence
now?
The defendant looked bewildered, and
before he could say yes, Mr.. Richards
asked that the judgment be suspended
until Monday next at 2 o'clock, and the
request was granted.
JONAS LINDBERG
Was then called. He, like the two pre-
Ceding defendants, had already pleaded
not guilty to a thTee-cOunt U. G. indict-
ment. By strict observation of those who
had gone before, he had managed to see
how the thing was done, and so got
through without much prompting. He
was allowed to withdraw his former plea
and to enter one OF guilty
At the request of the manager, the
judgment was suspended until Up. m.
THE NEW IDEA.
1t will be seen by the above sketch OF
this mornings proceedings, that new
idea has been injected into the heads of
the managers OF the defensive side of the
co-hab war, and investigation shows that
Prosecuting-Attorney Dickson was the
injector.
1t will be remembered that during all
last winter it was the custom Of those
cohabs who had no show OF getting free
to plead not guilty, and then take the
stand against themselves, and bring
about self-conviCtion. Great capital was
made out OF this by the Church organs,
and it used to add new laurels to the
martyrs" crown One idea they seemed
to have in pleading not guilty was that by
thus doing they made no admission of
the validity OF the law, and they seemed
10 think that such a non-admission OF
validity was a most perfect proof of in
validity. 1t was seldom in days gone by
that one of them did plead guilty,
but in the few cases on record the
plea was usually accompanied by
qualification to the effect that
only according to the Interpretation
put upon the law" were they guilty. See
ing this thing going on for 50 long, Mr.