The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-20
THE IDAHO COURTS.
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and Other
NOtables Rolled Into One.

BLAcKFooT, Idaho, June IS, 1S9o.-[Spec-
lal correspondence of TIE HERALD l.
Court is over at Blackfoot, but there are
more cases On the docket than there were
when co2rt convened. [ believe the terri
torial grand jury found thirty three true
bills and the United States grand jury 1873.
Some civil cases were settled, but | believe
not one was, tried Nearly all the cases
tried were Mormon cases.
desire 10 inform the public that we have
In idaho one of the most powerful young
lawyers that has ever figured on the
American continent in the person OF
Mr. Standrod, who is assistant pro-
scouting attorney for tbs United States
lie has not failed in any instance TO satisfy
the judge that it was his duty to instruct
the jury as requested by him! He had no
trouble TO get the court to permit him to
prove things that happened even in Utah
many years ago: to prove that defendant
was indicted for unlawful Capitalization
years ago on a trial for adultery, or that d
second wife of defendant married fifteen
or twenty years ago now lives in Idaho not
many miles from the defendant, on charge
OF adultery; and that is not the strang-
est part of the game, since Judge
berry is kind-hearted man, de-
slrous of enforcing the laws.
But the unaccouutable part of it is the ir-
reSlStlble force of the eloquence and argu-
ments before the Jury
| never heard of Patrick Henry spell
binding but one jury so as to give verde
IN direct opposition TO both law and testi
mony. (That was in the case of the clergy
against the people in the celebrated tobacco
case.) But Mr.. Standrod got away with
| cases nearly every day against law and ties
tlmony. Some men are convicted and sen
fenced without any testimony. In the last
polygamy case tried he told the jury that
they had so far done their duty well
that crime was abroad in the land and
it would not do TO turn the defendant
loose. That in all probability this would
be the last Mormon tried until we become a
state, and therefore the city would have
this verdict to look back to as one of the
proudest acts of our territorial career
Twill not ask more space in behalf of this
bright young man; but suffice it to say
that If he should be spared few years aid
blessed with health, Henry Clay, Daniel
| Webster, Felix Grundy and all other
great lawyers who now sleep will be
eclipsed by Standrod, if he can always
have as good a set of jurors.
Speaking of the jurors, remind me of the
manifest determination in officers, jurors
and witnesses to see that crime is dried
up in Idaho. Mr.. Wilson, the marshal
stated on oath that he instructed his depu
ties to pump all they could out OF the
prisoners. One man ordered into the jury
box from the bystanders by Mr.. Gorton
deputy marshal, said his name was
Breckenridge, from Teton basin, and that
| Gorton told him to be near in case any
jurors had to be called. This was a little
more than the judge could stand. and he
told Mr.. Breckenridge to stand aside
Then we have couple of Jack Mormons
viz: Sam Swanner and Jimmy Dye, who
are here every term of court as deputy
marshals. jurors and witnesses
Does any person now think we will not
be able to enforce the law against Nor
mons in Idaho, in territory or state!
A LOVER OF ONE WIFE.