Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-12-17

No attention WAS pald 70 him. iic ihu
not the appointment Of guard when
he made report against one OF the
guards who happened TO be relative
OF the matshni no regard was paid 10 w
aud when he gave an order, u was
countermanded by "thc man Uiesy."
Es-le Banks was sarcasucally uc'
soribed 10y tho district attorney ns tine
queen Of the daily satutnalia VINO
covered this model prison with glory.
II was she who was said TO have heaiu
the conversation between Guard othik,
prindle and Forkner concerning the
marshal, and Der assertions hereon
Mr.. NariAn branded as piece OF
unblushlng PERJURY. This woman wa,
perfnitted 10 20 upon the stand ana
cover her soul ali over with lies, TO
drug down the reputation and destroy
the character aud cTedibility not only
of A nnR Prindle and Maggie Forkncf,
hut Of Mfr. Stark also. N her testimony
had been true Mr.. Stark would have
stood branded In this community, at
the outset OF his bright career, ~
pcrured sooundred whom no honest
man could rocogn 40 as he walked by
him. There was reckless, an utter
aud fatal regard Tor men aud society
exhibited In this attack that was be-
You'd his comprehension. why, IN
Gud'a name, should a man VINO was
not connected with this affair, VINO
stood beyond rcpronch, be selected rs
ono VI those TO bp dragged down Into
iufamy and degradation with them III
the counter attack? He could
only account for u ON the
principle that the drowning man
clutched nj every straw. II would 20
on record for macy years yet To come
that this marshal, charged with In.
humanity depressing his female pris-
oners, set up "a defense which he knew
| TO be false, aud connected with II the
fair name and character NJ young
man who had stood hitherto above re.
prOach among HE fellows. When the
defense started In to attack the chafac-
ter Of Anna Prindle they sought TO do
80 through the guards and prisoners;
but II failed. Never was there such
total collapse NJ Ia that particular as
to Anna Prindle when the defense
took the mantle VI Eesio Banks aud at
tempted through crosr'cHaminailon 70
place II upon her Shoulder, But II
didn't Ut, 40 they threw that aside,
descended into the slume, and
brought forward that fellow Wolf
lukNoh-A tNAh w
prey, a rcnvenger In the community.
With the little information no had he
came into court OF Justice and under
took 10 drag down an unprotected and
helpless woman by attacking her char.
ncter. "Wolf''-thnt should DO his
name-knew nothing; be was simply
Mt the saloon kept by AIasiefsonfor ono
week-admltting his statement To be
true. Counsel knew not what this
MnstersOn mystery was. No man
could yet search n woman's heart aud
divine what was passing there, That
Miss Prindle was desperately attached
10 MHstersoB n man unworthy Of her
he doubted not; but that there were
criminal relations between them lie
denied. There was no proof Ia this
ca worth q moments consideration
that II was 90. "rhis fellow" (said
Mr.. Narian, referring 10 the witness
WOl1ugtonb "thls dirty dog who
comes from the slums, who has
no business, who has been
tried once for murder, who,
according TO his own confession, hBs
been arrested here aud held to answer
for an assault with intent 10 kill, who
comes from nowhere and Ia going mo-
where, who has no antecedontH, no
pride OF ancestry, and, God grant, no
hope OF pUeterity-he comes here ard
drags down woman whom he saw for
n week and knows nothing about, and
In cfoss.examination says that all he
knows OF her he heard from Schell and
IOwenstein." And they were mo-
boiys. Counsel for the defendant had
the audacity TO ask In this court room,
"Where Ia Masterson? Why Ia he not
hero?p Whereas they themselves had
him for hours In their office, upstairs,
In that building. "Was II for me 10
bring him hero2n asked MIR. Narisn
with sc0rn. No testimony had been
given 10 prove that Anna lrindle was
an unchaste woman; nobody knew any.
thing about II except ns II came from
the mouth OF the "Woll" Mastarson
himself denied IL 40 far rs he WIS
concerned. The question for the
commissioner % decide now was, sis
there probable cause to believe that
this man IL guilty Of the Otiense
cnargedG" ave are told" Continued
the prosecuting attorney '"that the
grand Jury has already determined this
subject. Has II? We propose 10 have
a grand jury selected by some other
person than the man Immediately in-
tcresied In the charge, and II an In
dictment should be- found, submit II In
the proper way. II will not do to un.
dertnko 10 say that case like thls-
with mass Of testimony supporting
the all he laughed at anu
Missed down In this community. No
man lives hero who Ia great and strong
enough TO stand up against II. Moth
ing but the clearest, the most search.
Ing investigation will satisfy the law.
IL Is not an ordinary ease; II Ii not
simple case OF the individual yio-
latlng the law. IL Is case, II II be
true, where n great official, a trusted
officer Of the greatest government on
the face OF tho globe has 20 far prosti-
tuted his Office and 40 far misused his
power ~ TO mistreat, and humiliate,
and oppress poor unfortunates conflded
to his care. IL Is something that this
community, and the world, ia inter.
ested In. Their voices must not he
stihed at the threshhold OF the invest.
CATION or the inquiry. They are feeble,
u IL true; you cannot hear them above
the ordinary winds that blow. They
are women's voices, but they speak L.
usas though our mothers anu our sisters
spoke. We owe 10 them more than 10
men-a tender regard and careful con.
slderalion, and We should he more
careful and more deliberate in
investigating complaints made by
these women than where men are
affected. l submit, without saying
what my conviction Is, that there Is
reasonable anu probable cause 10 send
TINS case 70 the grand jury. | submit
that u or MIR. CrltchlOw stood In the
position that this man now tluea "a,