The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-16
THE SECOND DISTRICT.
The Recent Struggle for a
Grand Jury.
NON-MORMONS AND THE OATH.
The Strange Gaze of Miss WoIfenden
Peculiar Ant1cs OF Two
n. D's-The Result.
ION-MORMONS AND THE OATH.

four days diligent search on the partiof
deputy marshsls, to obtain fifteen suit
able jurors to fill the panel of the grand
jury of the present term of the Second
District Court. The difficulties were as
usual, the frank admission on the part
OF many of the talesmen that they dared
to be members of the Mormon Church i;
and on the part of almost as many 9TH
ers, that though they were non-Mor-
mons, they could not conscientiously
swallow that verbose monstrosity COM
monty known as the Edmund 's-Tucker
test oath" His Honor, Judge Bore
man, got quite indignant during one
period in the examination of some I'M
willing jurorical candidates who hap
pened to beof non Mormon complexion,
and In somewhat scathing terms scolded
them for their refusal to take the OBJ
noXious oath. The Judge denounced
the "depIayed' state of society, which,
he alleges, was the prime cause of the
refusal of nou-Mormons to subscribe to
the test oath; that a similar status of
society haa proved the downfall of
other governments and would have pro-
duced q similar catastrophe in this
country were it not that few good,
law abiding citizens placed themselves
in the breach and assisted to uphold
the law. On the fourth day of court,
Assistant District Attorney Zane an
nounced that the grand jury was at last
complete and acceptable and the Judge
thereupon gave the jury charge of the
usual nature, defining its duties and
obligations, and dilatlng upon them IN
g lucid, plain, and lawyer-like manner.
Toward the last, however, he warmed
up with his subject and said in, effect,
that majority of the people Of this
Territory mad shielded crimes, but he
was glad to say that this majority had
begun to weaken, and if grand juries
would but do their whole duty, would
eventually succumb and then we would
see the people of Utah enioying(O a
state of civilization similar to that of
other sections of the Union. Following
are the names of the grand jurors: W.
Sawyer, (foreman), E. S. Sawyer,
Henry Bowen, a. J. Moore, 7. E.
Stenson, n. Vsnvliet, E. W. Thomp-
son, Jr., d. Anderson, E. G. Matth-
ews, y. S. Carver. Orrin Pufter, James
Veater, A. belong. H. LOSER, and
w. Mowers. On Wednesday the petit
Jury is to be called, and the trial term
begun. 1t is not thought that there
will be a great amount of court business
this term, though the "Deps' are act
lively securing the country for fresh
victims of the unlawful cohabitation
law.
Last Wednesday, Miss Maud VOL
fenden, highly esteemed young lady
OF this city, was suddenly stricken down
with q fatal attack OF heart disease.
She fingered partially unconscious for
several hours after the attack and then
her spirit winged its flight TO the Great
Beyond. The young lady had but
few days previously returned from the
B. Y. b cademy at Provo, whittier she
had gone to complete her education.
She was not quite eighteen years OF age
The obsequieS, which were very largely
attended, were held in the meeting
house in this city yesterday.
Apropos of the death Of the young
ladv lust referred to, las occurred an
incident OF which the end is said to be
mot Just yet" A physician was called
ir to attend the unfortunate young lady
duriLg her brief illness, and 1t seems
that in order to alleviate the pain, he
considered it expedient to administer
several hypodermic injections OF NOR
phine, the last injection being IN the
breast, and Immediately after the Civ
of which, the patient IS said to have
sank into kind OF stupor from which
it is alleged she never recovered. Some
two or three hours after death, the rel
a:iyes noticed that the body still re.
tanned a great deal of its life-like
warmth, and they thereupon called in
another doctor, who Immediately or
dered the placing of the body in warm
bath, and adopted other methods OF re-
suscitation, but all to no avail. Suisse
quently, or to be more precise, on Satu! =
day afternoon, this last physician hap
pening in conversation to allude to the
| incident, spoke in anything but COM
plimentary terms of the professional con.
duct of the other, VINO hearing of the
aspersions cast upon him, flew into a
violent rage and it is alleged threatened
that his detractor should take it back
before night or bite the dust" The
physician No. very naturally construed
this language as q threat against his
life, and Immediately went before Judge
Boreman in the District Court and
swore out warrant of arrest against
the threatener, and the latter is to an
swer before Judge Boreman at Il
O'Clock this (Mcnday) morning. While
the whole affair is probably little more
than Tempest in a Teapot" yet the
current talk about the matter, If i,
means anything at all, would seem t.
indicate that we have not heard thu
last OF it, although it is to be hoped
that Jud ge Boreman will be able to con
vince both gentlemen of the wrongful
ness of their &C urse. when the matte
comes before him this morning.
r. T.
BEAVER, March II, 1888.