The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-29
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KERSHAw ESCAPES.
He is Declared Not Guilty of I'm
lawful Capitalization.

usual hour yesterday morning. some
uninteresting civil cases were temporar-
lily disposed of.
Call the witnesses in the case of the
United States against Kershaw," said
the Court. The Jury was then called as
follows: A. IL. Lawrence. Charles Mel
son. William Clark. P Rank, George
Burrows. John Wheeler. A. O. Smith,
1. Marks, John Huss, J. Boyle. II. T..
Snyder and Z. b. Hopkins.
Mr.. Wheeler, Mr. Smith and Mr.. Sny-
der were excused oy the defense. J. b
Shorter. Charles Harris and q. P. Jen-
nings were called TO ill the pauel. Mr.
Jennings was excused for having an
opinion. and Charles c. Brown was
called, but went down on his belief. J..
C. Armstrong took Mr.. Browns place.
The jury having been sworn, listened to
the reading Of the indictment charging
A. J. kerShaw with unlawful cOhabits-
tiOn during the year 1883
3. MALAS was the first witness
Live in the city: know the de-
PENDANT; his wife Is Sarah Kershaw; ;
do not know OF his ha ing more than
one wife. Mr.. Hiles began 10 ask the
witness concerning the reputation of
defendant as 10 having a'plurality Of
wives
The Court instructed Mr.. Hiles to
ask II witness knew the ladies' named in
the indictment and then to ask con-
Corning the relationship OF the ladies TO
Mr.. kerShaw. This line was adopted
but nothing coald be learned from wit
ness. The witness could not remember
what evidence be gave before the Grand
Jury. / have done little Job work for
Mr.. Kershaw in his shop since four
or five years ago. Mr.. Kershaw left
Ogden in March. 1855; do not know
where he went, did not see him In Og-
den or ann other place in 1855; saw him
next about two weeks ago; do not re-
member having seen him since before
March, 1885; was employed rs Mr.. ker-
shaw's agent; made reports TO Sarah
| KeTShaw. The witness was questioned
as TO what he had heard concerning
Rose Wooton's children. Judge VIII
liams objected to heaTsay evidence.
| The Court said il is repute that
settles the matter. The witness stated
| that he saw kershaw in August,
1885; il was at Weber; did not see Rose
Wooten there.
w. z. Jones was called. Know A. J.
Kershaw; DO not know where Rose
Wooten lives now, nor where she lived
a year ago; knew where she lived three
years ago; have seen defendant in COM
pany with Rose and with Mary Rams.
den; he treated Rose as q wife; this was
about three years ago. Mary lived in
this city wheA | knew her as his wife I;
saw defendant at Mary's hous in Feb
ruary, 1856; the occasion was the severe
illness of Mary's mother. Witness
went after defendant at requestof Mary.
He always addressed her as Mrs. ker-
shaw; she always answered to that
I name.
G oss-examination-T old lady was
very sick; think she died the next
day: 30 not think kershaw stayed at
the house to exceed half an hour.
Kate WoOten was next called Know
/ the defendant; know Rose WoOten;
she is my sister; think she IS
married TO Mr.. Kershaw; she has
sustained thst relation four or five
years. DO not know where she lives
now. Mrs. Sarah Kershaw brought
letters to US from Rose. but We did not
know where she was.
After the cross examination Mr..
I Hiles asked the witness II she has ever
heard read from papers. any instruc-
I tons as u how witnesses should testify
in such cases as this. Upon being
answered IN the negative the witness
was excused.
Another witness was about to be
called, when one OF the jurors reminded
the court that he was getting hungry.
The Juror SAYS he i getting hungry.
We Will ts.ke n recess unul , o'clock"
.T0p
The trial was resumed and after
handing some instructions TO the court,
Mr.. Hiles recalled W =. James. About
the only new point that was brought
out was tnat Mary Ramsden bad a
little boy about two years old.
Mrs. Sarah kerShaw was called. Know
the defendant; have been married To
him for p years: he lived at my house
at the time; he wenuaway in March,
1855.
Mrs. John Clark was the next witness
called. She testified: Know the de-
fsndant: he is my brother-in-law,
suppose: Rose Wooton is my sister:
have not seen her for about year and
q half: Rose was up at Kershaw's
about two months ago. do not know
how long she remained; never saw her
there but the once; DO not know where
she is now. l
Cross-examined-Mr. Kershaw was
not az Mrs. Kershaw's when saw Rose
there; die not see Rose at all during
1885.
J. w. Browning, Jr.. was then called.
Know the defendant; know Rose Woo
ton; among a limited number of the
community she is reputed TO be the wife
OF Mr.. Kershaw: saw Rose last two or
three weeks ago last Sunday. had not
seen her before that since September,
1884; she was then at her house: know
Mary Emma Ramsden: couldn't say
what relationship she sustains TO de-
fendant: have heard her called his
wife.
Bert Wooton was the next witness. He
was a willing witness, but did not seem
to know anything. He had worked for
kershaw; Rose Wooton is his sister:
she had children, but could not u tell
who was the father Of those children;
il was a matter OF Indifference to him
as to who was their father; one Of the
children Is called Rose KershaT. He
afterwards testified that he had
h-ofherss rerard for his sf.fnrl DIN the