The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-31
ENCOURAGEMENT TO CRIME.

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bulence, when mobocracy is rampant
and crowds of disconnected men are or
ganizing into so-called armies, with
mock generals and other officers
with military titles leading them over
the country. menacing the public
peace, taking forcible possession of
trains, defying the civil authorities and
Ievying toll upon the real working peo-
pie, it is provoking that men of intelli-
gence who have the power to impress
the common mind, will pander to the
spirit of revolt and encourage the law
lessly inclined to keep up their sense
less agitation.
These remarks are suggested as
much as anything by some utterances
of the editor of the Tribune, as re-
ported in that paper. to the crowd of
impracticables that assembled in front
of the Office of that paper on Tuesday
night, in pursuance to an announce
ment on its bulletin board. He stated
that:
The men who were sent to the Peni-
tertiary for stealing a train were sent
there under a false charge, and were
indicted through wrong instructions
given the grand jury. They were ad-
vised by some one to plead guilty to
felony when they had committed only
a misdemeanor. No one ever supposed
they intended to sell the train when
they got to their journeys end.
The same misleading and wofully ig-
norant assertions have appeared edi-
torially in that paper. 1t has been
very difficult for its readers to deter
mine where it stood on this common
veal movement, for, one day it has
attacked the officers of the territory for
proceeding against the marching
masses, and the next has approved of
their course and urged everybody to
stand by them. It is easy, however,
to comprehend its latest attitude.
The accusation in the quotation we
have made reflects alike on the judge,
the jury and the defendants attorney
in the cases of the train stealers who
are in the penitentiary. 1t was calcu-
lated to further incense the body of
excited men who but a few days ago
talked of violence to release the i'm
prisoned wealers. But let us see what
the law is relating to their offense:
A felony is a crime which is or may
be punishable with death or by i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. A
misdemeanor is punishable by impris-
onment in the county jail not exceed
ing six months, or by fine in any
sum not exceeding three hundred dol
lars or by both.
Burglary is punishable by imprison-
ment in the penitentiary not less than
one nor more than ten years.
Every person who in the night time
forcibly breaks and enters, or without
force enters through any open door,
window, or other aperture, any house,
room, apartment or tenement or any
tent, vessel, water craft or railroad
car. with intent to commit larceny or
any felony is guilty of burglary.
The phrase night time means the pc
riod between sunset and sunrise.
Larceny is the felonious stealing
taking. carrying, leading or driving
away the personal property of an
other.
Larceny is divided into two de-
grees. the first of which is termed
grand larceny; the second petit lar
ceny.
When the property taken is of a
value exceeding fifty dollars the Of
fence is grand larceny.
Grand larceny is punishable by i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for not
less than one nor more than ten
years.
To verify the foregoing definitions we
refer to the Penal Code in the Compiled
Laws of Utah, Sections 2O86 to 21Os.
And while making these references we
viii quote one more provision of the
law, for the benefit of the agitators
who have been melting to the com
mission Of crime.
All persons concerned in the com