The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-10
PR OVO.
THURSDAY, March TO- 1892
A DISGUSTING CASE.
Trial for Incest Under Aggraveting Circum
stances-Other Cases

Trial for Incest Under Aggraveting Circum
stances-Other Cases
c. r. Hall was arraigued yesterday
for grand larceny. He pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to eighteen months impris-
onment.
G. Rasmussen pleaded not guilty OF bur
glary, and E. E. Carfman was appointed TO
handle his case.
j. c. Forte and William Barnes were
made citizens. They are from Wasatch,
formerly from England.
The jury in the Rhoads fornication case
came into court and reported that they aid
not agree upon what had been the charge of
the court in relation to the time Of the
commission of the crime. They were in
structed and retired.
The jury could not agree, and they were
discharged. They stood against &.
The case of the People VS.. Gray, for SELL
ing liquor on Sunday, was continued Tor
the term.
The case of the People VS. Lee Gen, as
sault, was sci for March II.
The grand jury came into court and re-
ported having found no indictments, but
ignored the case against Brigham Nay.
They retired for further business.
The first case for tria was the People vs.
Frederick c. Symms. Mr.. Zane repre-
sented the prosecution and j. w. n. White
cotton, the defense.
The defendant is accused of rape, al
legged to have oeen committed on December
8, 1891. The girl in the case is twelve
years of age, and the daughter of the &C
cused.
Willie Symms gave strong evidence
against the defendant, which would lead
one to believe that ne was a tiend incarn-
ate. The boy was witness to the trans
action, and 1t was he who filed the COM
plant. The little fellow is scarcely fouc-
teen years OF age.
Gusta Symms, the victim of the outrage,
told a most SHOCKING pitiful story. The
wretch before the bar had threatened the
most hideous torture upon her if she ever
breathed word of his crime, and incident
ally remarked that he had attempted SINH
lar acts upon the person of her sister. The
court room was cleared during the progress
OF this case.
Peter Symms stated that the children
had told him similar stories.
! The defendant was put upon the stand.
/ He is fifty years OF age and testified that
! through lack of cloIhing the family all
slept in the same bed. He denied having
committed any wrong in the least degree
then or at any other time and never uttered
a threat against the children.
The witness made the admission that he
/ had left the state of Illinois because Of an
outrage upon his own daughter committed
| there resulting II an incestuous issue. The
lawyers then proceeded to make a few re-
marks 10 the jury.
Adjourned until , o'clock.
IN THE AFTERNOON.
F. G. Symms was sentenced for rape to
twenty years confinement in the peniten-
tiary.
The forfeiture OF bonds in the case
against Estella Pueblo was set aside
The case of the people vs.. John Burnett
and John Lugo, char ed with burglariz-
ing the house OF Samuel Stoker of goods
valued at $50. Samuel Stoker Officer
Williams, Marshal Brown, Mrs. Clark
Sheriff Fowler, Mrs. Stoker and Marshal
Williams, of Spanish Fork, appeared as
witnesses for the prosecution.
john Lewgo, one of the defendants, de
MED having stolen the goods, hut claimed
they had been given him by a man named
Johnson, and he had no knowledge of then
having been stolen.
John Burnett, the other defendant, tolC
a similar story.
After brief arguments the jury retired
for a few moments, returning with a YER
: dict of guilty against LewGo and no
guilty for Burnett. Lewgo received three
years in the penitentiary.
a Jury was empanuelled in the case oil
the People VS.. Lorenzo Otwood, charged
| with the larceny of two sheep last January
near Goshen. The defendant, with others
ordered drinks from saloon keeper nea1
this place, and being denied because the,
) had no money, they went out and nabbet
} two sheep, dressed them and barteret
them for whiskey. Attorney Warner rep
: resents the defense. The owner of tn
sheep stolen was George Carson, who ties ii
fed to having missed two muttous at tn
ume named in the Indictment; that tn
hides were found upon mis- wagon, but tn
flesh he never recovered. The case is still
on.
NOTES.
R. K Thomas came down from the CAPT
toll yesterday on business. He is lar ell
interested in Provo real estate.
Bert Ryan, who was brought over fror
Spanish Fork yesterday by Marshal vii
Jams. pleaded guilty in the police court I
petit larceny and got fifteen days in jail
The b. Y. academy will ward prizes Lo
night at its regular meeting of the Pedag'
GUM for those students most successful i
speaking pieces.
TIE regular academy ball takes place to
I morrow night at the opera house.
: A KANSAS MANS EXPERIENCE WIT