Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-28
HORSE THIEVES In COURT.
Two Plead Guilty, and Two are
Tried.-Stabbing ARRAY. Etc.
DISTRICT COURT.

wilson aud Ernest Green wer,
called up before Judge Zane today
In these cas- there are eight indict
me'ls against the accused, all fol
stealing horses in a raid which be.
gan in Box Elder County about the
10th Of September last, ard took in
succession Weber, Morgan, Davis,
salt Lake and Tooele counties. The
first word Of the Operations of the
thieves was received in this city on
Sept. IL, by Sheriff Burt, of Salt Lake
County, with whom Sheriff De Ia
Mere, Of rooeie C5;..na,y, soon be-
cAna- associated in the hunt. The
Officers put a watch on Carter and
ms companions on the 18th, bat it
was the 18th before they could OBJ
tain sufficient grounds upon which
to proceed, and by that date the
thieves and a band OF horses were
well on their way to Nevada, going
via the barren stretch Of country
south and west Of TucelA In six
days however. after following the
trail for about $50 miles, the officers
came up with the gang At cecso.a,
Nevada, arrestinS them and secur-
ing 4 horses subsequently animals
10 TIE number of 40 were recovered.
The prisoners were brought in and
the grand jury indicted them.
Today Willard Carter, who
had previously pleaded not guilty,
stated that he desired 10 change his
plea. He then stood up and to Clerk
McMilian's inquiry, "What is your
plea 10 this indictment?o answered
On each Of the eight charges,
'SGuilty."
w. w. Wilson next came for
ward. He followed Carriers example
in five Of the Indictments, entering
a plea of guilty. To the ether three,
he said he knew the horses were
stolen, but had no hand in taking
then, aud pleaded not guilty.
The punishment for each offense !
is not less than one nor more than
ten years.
Mrs. Carter had evidently be- |
lieved that her husband could clear |
ami had protested that he ]
was innocent. This was shown /
later in the day, she |
was on the witness stand, and 1
festife'i that she understood 1
her husband had been hired by Dud- |
ley to go to his ranch, and she had 4
no idea that any stealing was being
engaged in. The effect Of her hus-
land's plea, when she ascertained
what il was, seemed TO be very severe
IN her.
After Carter and Wilson followed
he course they did, Green and Dud-
ey were put on trial on one of the
Indictments, charging them with
tealing two horses, the property OF
John w. Pitts. The witnesses called
we're J. w. Pitts, Farley Alfred,
Lee Reese, VIM. Smith. Sheriff a.
!. Burt, Sheriff De La Mere, Deputy
sheriff John Rydalch, Mrs. Carter
md Charles G. Brown. These wit
lesses rehearsed the proceedings
rom the time the officers first got
N their track, September Is, when
he gang gathered at the house
where Carter was living, in the
western part of the Fifteenth Ward,
III they were captured and brought
ack. The case was given to the
lry this afternoon, and in n short
ime 4 verdict Of guilty was re-
IFned. Upon this result being
rived at, Dudley and Green
hanged their minds about contes-
~ the matter further, and pleaded
uilty 10 the remaining seven indict-
tents.
The quartette will lie sentenced
i Monday afternoon.
COMMISSIONERS COURT.
In the investigation of the charge
+ petit larceny against VIM. Bray,
efore Commissioner Greenman, for ,
ealing a pair Of pants from a
ecOnd hand store, the evidence did
OF justify BTay's arrest, and he was
ischarged.
POLICE ITEMS.
F. +. Raymond is under arrest
II an assault and battery, alleged
, have been committed with a bill
ard cue.
Mike Murphy, for being drunk.
as given fifteen days in Jail by
ustice Laney today.
James O'Neil is under arrest on
charge of fighting.
Ep. Kelly, for being a common
was sent up for thirty
avs.
John Elliot. for engaging in a
ght and using profane and obscene
.nguage, was assessed $50.
Yesterday afternoon Tim Sulli-
an and John Mack, Of Eureka,
let on Main Street, and the latter
emanded $40, which he claimed
owed him on asbet. Sulli-
an at first declined to give him I
by money because he was drink (
~, but Mack commenced TO act i
ely, so he offered him the $40, but O
was refused and the men parted. +
thought the quarrel c
as ended, and was going !
ito the Walker House a
lort time afterwards, when Mack, d
no was standing near by, rushed +
/ him with knife in his hand and
abbed him i'm the back, below the
1T shoulder blade, and started to =
IN up the street. Marshal Young t
nj sam Halter, who witnessed the j
sSault, but did not know that a
nife had been used, at once started c
4 pursuit, aud Halter seized Mack, O
tho was overlaken in a saloon. Sui {
van was attended by DIR. Pinker- :
N, and was out on the streets r
gain last night. The hearing Of a
re charge of assault with a deadly {
'eapon, which was preferred against c
lack, was set for this afternoon, a
sfore Justice Laney. Pat Murphy, t
rank Murphy and DR.. Pinkerton, a
we'll as Marshal Young and Mr.. 4
aller are witnesses, and Mack's +,
sc VIII be considered by the grand 4
~.
PROBATE COURT.
Proceedings ia the Salt Lake II
1unty Probate Court yesterday: ?
In the matter Of the application of c
'illiams Jones to be adjudged the L
7ner Of lot ., block "a, plat Z, the a
Of the city attorney was .,
stained. n
Estate Of Sarah a. Eatchel, de- T
ased; order made fixing time and 7
ace to hear petition for order of G,
lie of real estate. q
Estate of William 5. Claws, de-
ased; bonds Of Annie ). Clays and +
lillian McQuinn, administrators, /,
the sum Of $4,000 each, APP b
owed. r,
Estate OF John Wilson, deceased: a,
Ter maize appointing Margaret q,
ilson administrative upon filing a nj
nj in the sum Of 800. is