The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-30

acquitted. BY his questions, the
Court tracked him to Michigan and
into courts there; ascertaiEed that he
had gone by the name of Spencer,
Spence, George Malcome am one or
two others and finally called nm up to
examine a photograph OF himself.
The prisoner identified the picture.
and after listening to a pretty severe
lecture. was sentenced 10 eight We ars
IN the Pc itentisry.
TIE CoURT then proceeded to impauel
jury in the case OF the United States
against John Bergen charged with Po-
lygamy.
After nine jurors were secured the
defense moved 10 quaSh the indictment
on the ground that il was not hled 10
open court.
The motion was over-uled and the
jury box filed.
MAKIA BERGEN vas called. she testi-
fed: Am married to Gefendant; know
Matilda Luudstadt; first saw her on the
street in Salt Lake; she came to my
house after that TO see Annie Black:
saw her several times at my house (;
went 10 Logan last April with my hus-
band; had been thinking of going 10 Lo-
gan before l went; had been talking
about il for over a year: my husband
had been thinking of going with me {;
about a month or less before We went
to Logan we had talked about it; went
from nv house on a Sunday to my hus-
bands shop on Second South Street;
Matilda Lundstedt came in after l got
to the shop; knew she was going 10
Logan with us: had learned it q few
DAYS before from Annie Black; she
came to the shop with Annie Black.
Odd you not testify before Com
missioner Mckay that you did not
know until Matilda Lundstedt went out
OF the shop to get in the hack that she
was going to Logan with you? Is this
not q fact that you did not knoTG
A.-Eo, il is not fact.
Q.-Didn't you testify before the Com
missioner that Matilda Lundstedt went
to the shop alone2
A.-No, sir. Matilda Lundstedt went
to Logan to perform work for her dead
relations. Witness here became some
what confused and said that Annie
Black had given her the information.
and later that she had not told her
When we got TO Logan we stopped at a
private house do not know whose
house il was. Bergen. Matilda and my
self slept in the house.
Q.-Where did you sleep7
Am a bed We slept in the same
room. We all went to the temple in
Logan every day during the week until
Saturday, when we returned to Salt
Lake; Matilda accompanied MS to Salt
Lake, and went to my home for supper
she stayed until about $50 O'Clock.
when she went away; Bergen left the
house with her, and did not come back
that night; / was in several rooms In
the Temple in Logan; Matilda and
Bergen were with me all the time
every moment.
To Mr.. Rawlins-Was never married
to defendant but once; that was IN "a
defendant had two other wives
Augusta Neiber and Anna BuTgesen-
Here Mr.. Dickson asked for sub
pnna for Judge Elias Smith, instructinl
MIN 10 bring with him all the papers IL
the divorce case of Augusta Neiber VS.
John Bergen.
Some controversy was gotten up her
about how the witness knew tina
Augusta was Bergen's wife. All witnes
knew about 1t was what she had hearS
defendant say.
Continuing, witness said: Anna Der
gen had the reputation of being de
| PENDANTS wife; he had boy about j
years old. The prosecution moved U
have the testimony on this poin
stricken from the record, on the groun'
that il was incompetent, and the ques
ton was being argued when the maj
left.