The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14
me to present an illustration, for he says

me to present an illustration, for he says:
as there, in human form, that bears heart
A wretch, villain, lost 10 love ana truth,
That can, with studied sly, ensnaring art,
Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth!
Curse on his perlured arts, descending smooth,
Are honor, virtue. conscience. all exiled?
Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,
Points TO the parents fondling Ger their chlld:
Then paints the ruined maid, and their dlstrac-
ton wild:'
1t was into such a household as that that
| Frank Hall was introduced by Mrs. Hart.
| Who was the aggressor. Who made war
upon society! Who was it that broke this
casket of virtue. Was it the girl. Must
she bear this blame?
DID SHE SEEK HIM OUT,
did she beg him to come to her house,
did she plead with her father that he
might visit them. No. 1t was Hall him
SELF, and he came there, and ne warmed
himself by their hearthstone, and he
turned and he Bit the heart that nurtured
him.
Those are the facts in this case, and up
to this point l submit to you, that l have
stated nothing, but what is borne out by
the testimony, and have not stated it half
strong enough. We find him then in that
household. All, yes, and the prosecution
| brought out land l thank them Tor it) the
fact that that old father, in the love for his
daughter, asked and pleaded that she might
marry within the church, that she might
choose one of her own faith, and that she
should turn from this lnan-this false dis
sembler. How much better IL would have
been if that had been. How much better
for you would not have been sitting
here to-day, and this little girl
would not have been weeping her
little heart away by that table. My broth
| womb n haua bapn pOmna11e0 tn rPitl-
else this little woman as they have and to
torture her as they felt it was necessarily
order to present the case of the people.
Her parents gave her good advice; but you
know that the human heart is perverse,
and you know that the nature of woman
is such that the advice you give them as
! to whether they shall lay their affections
upon this altar, or lay them upon that altar
has the effect that they go to the one whom
they are advised to shun. And human
affection is q peculiar thing. We know
not from whence love comes. We pass
years, perhaps, without Cupid piercing our
heart with one of his arrows. And it may
be away along when the shades of life have
come, we meet some woman whom God
seems to have ordained as helpmeet for
us, who has been travelling different path
all that WHILE and then love comes; and
when love comes into the heart of woman,
reason seems to fly out of the windaw.
She met this man. She was charmed
with this man and referred him to her pa
rents. Does that indicate that she is a
woman of the world! When she said to
protector, and her father could see no
harm; he had been interested in this man
ne was a charming entertainer, and he
opened the door of his house. When the
father opens to the young man or to the
old man, or to the middle aged man, the
door of his castle, ana says, "You may
enter here and sit with mine daughter -
the man that
WILL BETRAY THAT TRUST
is unworthy to walk upright in the
image of the Almighty He went
in there as friend at his own solicitation
and then he began to work upon the feel
ings of this girl. For what purposes 1t is
said that he was married man at that
time. Did he seek this girl out in order
that he might marry her, that he nigh,
crown her with the name of wife? He tolC
her that he was divorced in the eyes of Goo
: and it was mere formality that he should
: be divorced in the eyes of man., She
: trusted him as woman has trusted mar
, from the time when Eve met Adam in the
garden.
So he came there. He played upon hel
: heart strings and they gave forth to hin
sweet music. He played upon her hear
strings and they responded with the tont
! !. of affection. He played upon her hear
= strings, until, as she said to you upon this
l witness stand, she gave him her very soul
The testimony in this case shows that tina
= little girl laid at the feet of that man hel
she had for the future. Was that not
priceless treasure, and would not the maj
. who had the honor of manhood in hi
breast, feel that he would defend tina
treasure with his very life? l care no
= how hardened he may have become. l car
l not whether the word libertine has beef
. branded upon his brow l may take lively
men upon whose brow has been BRANDED
, that terrible word and place them in
? jury box and under such circumstances a
!, are disclosed in this case, they would sa
u that one who entered the home of a maj
: who had treated him as a friend, an
u plucked from it the fairest and the sweet
est flower, and trampled it so ruthlessl
!, under his feet, earned the death that tn
!. Almighty
. HURLED DOWN UPON HIM
a with his thunderbolts. There is somethin
in the heart of man which tells me that.
There he went into that household in tha
, way into that happy household, and ther
= he went day after day, playing upon TIL
y girls affections as you would play upon tn
q strings of a harp, and finally, when he kne,
70 that she was his own and he knew that he
. love was his, he carried out his base pu
: poses.
> l will not detail to you what took plac
- that dreadful Saturday night. | will ne
8 picture that TO you here in words, becaus
u the testimony is altogether too fresh i
y your memories to require it, but | simpl
ask you this question, whether you believ
: the explanation that is made by the counst
70 for the prosecution, or whether you believ
=, the story of this little girl that is here tc
! day under such stress of circumstance
= What is there to cause you to disbelieve i
"a this girls story, except your own whims c
- the whimS Of tbs prosecution: And 20
are sworn to take this evidence as it ha
" been given mere from the witness stant
~ Is there anything improbable in it
e My brother argues that it is improl
u u able that this girl should faint, improbabl
- that she could lose her consciousness, an
- reasons, therefore, that this girl, to say
z her life has gone upon this witness stan
:. and testified to a jury something that wa
~ not true. Do you believeit. Do you be
- lieve it. Do you think that she would ad
~ perjury to her other troubles here! Go
~ in heaven hasn't this girl suffered,enougl
70 that she should still be tormented in TIL
y way, and charged with stating somethin
" TO her countrymen that was not true
p There is rot word to contradict her, an
buc 1dCO lLdb SuC oNOouO1 away anu ldlQLG
y proves the virtue and honesty of this VIC
~ man.
SHE HAD LOVED HIM.
And as she loved him he became
1T her everything that was manly an
is noble, and when he betrayed the il
,r stincts of an animal, then that girl fell 9
is from a heighth that is unreasonable: til
u world seemed to sink from her feet; tt
As insult was so great that unconsciousne.
lie came in tenderness and covered her as til
le robins covered the babes in the woods wit