Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-14
The Sawyer Jury DlsagfssS After Be.
Ing Out All Night.
SENTENCES PASSED TODAY.
Attorney ?. q. Waite on Trial for Oh.
talnlng Money by False Pre-.
tensos-Civil Matters.

case, wipe OIL one or two other matters
that have been held over and receive
the flnal report Of the grand Jury,
which body are hopefully looking for.
ward 10 their discharge.
Judge Merritt had n light morning.
GOT OFF EASILY.
Harry Thompson and George Ham.
iltsn, the two young fellows who yes.
terday plead guilty to an indictment
charging Thorn with assaulting L. @.
Penn 90. with intent to commit rob.
berry, came up for sentence.
Each OF the defendants Is 10 yoap
old and neither has the appear.
ance Of the ordinary hold.
up. On the contrary, they are
both OF respectable exterior rhomp.
son stated, In reply to thu court, that his
parents feside at Terra Haute, Indiana,
where his father was employed aa
yardmabter. He left home last 90.
tOber and went TO Denver, whence he
came TO Ealt Lake. He did not realize
the seriousness Of the oiiense-ths
cause Of which was hia povufiy.strickon
CONFEDERATION he committed 10, and
this was the first time he had been IN
trouble.
Attorney J. NJ. Hamilton stated that
no wrote 10 the ueionuanps mother
ana from hnt received quite pathetic
letter In reply, IL appeared that rhom.
son had always conducted himself sOb-
erly ana honestly anu his mother was
very much surprised 10 learn Of his
resent trouble. His parents were In
very poor circumstances, tue father
being now out OF work, and during the
time young Thompson was at home no
nlwayBcOntfibutUd towards the family'a
support.
Judge HowAt said tina, the de.
PENDANTS used no violence upon Pen
rose, and under all the circumstances
hc thought the court might exercise
ltnlency.
Hamilton stated that he, too, was
driven 10 take part In the robbery
through extreme hunger. That was
all the excuse no had TO offer. He
came here from san Francisco, where
bis friends lived. This was his ffst
crime.
Attorney Hamilton told the court
that both defendants had worked for
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met In this city. He asked the court
tolnhict a light punishment.
Judge Battch said tho court was
Inclined to give the full penalty IN this
class Of cases, Tut under all the clToum.
,tanoth no passed sentence OF one year
only In the peniiontiary.
The hOld.up took place near the
knutsford hotel, but there appeared TO
have been none VI the usual aggTavAt.
ing features about II.
LYNCH PLEADS.
VIM. Lynch was agalnyarralgnod
aud now plead not guilty TO a charge
Of fornioatlon, alleged TO have been
committed with Edith Karen.
Attorney 4. T.. Armstrong inter.
posed demurrer, on the ground that
the indictment did not charge public
Ononse, hut this point having been
already rsleed In several similar cases
the court promptly overruled the same
and an exception was entered.
AND 80 DOES DuduAN.
Sim Duggan plead not guilty upon
being arfniguod on an indictment
charging adultery,
MKERSAN ACQUITTED.
Tho trial Of Hugh McKornan on n
charge Of committing iOrnioation with
Lena Carter was resumed. The
otiense was alleged ,oIhave taken place
Ut the Albany hotel on the night OF
October 22nd, the girl being n daughter
VI "GeneTap Carter.
After q brief consultRtlon-lesa than
aquartor OF an hour-the Jury returned
u verdict Of not guilty.
A JURY DIsAuRERs.
The case OF +. NJ. Sawyer, tried for
forlicati0n with l6.year old girl |
named Louisa Fowler, was given TO |
the jury At $3.50 yesterday afternoon,
and they struggled yaiuly TO reach "a
verdict throughout last night. Nothing |
having been heard from the Jury room |
up 10 llil6 this morning, Judge Bnrtch |
sent baiiin 10 bring them into court. |
rhoy were then asked whether they |
were likely TO agree. The foreman
answered mat he thought not.
Judge Barlch explained that tho |
present term was about to expire, anu
Us the defendant was IN custody II was
advisable that tbs jury should arrive at
a verdict II possible. Upon this Juror
arose anu said he thought that N |
they retired for few mo-
menls longer they might possibly
agree. The court therefore directed
that the luTOrs return 10 their room.
They did no End came Ia again ten
minutea later, when Ihe foreman
stated that an agreement was impot-
uhle.
Judge Bartoh therefore discharged
them.
the Jurors stood ton for conviction
and two for an Rcquitlal.
AN ATTORNEY ON TRIAL.
Frederick Garfield Waite, member
OF the Salt Lake BAR, was next placed
on trial on an indictment chatr.
ing him with having obtained |
tue sum OF SO by false protennts from
tho Western 5hoe & Dry Goods com.
pany on October .3cl OF the present
year.
Assistant District Attorney Richards
prosecuted; Attorney W. q. Reilly de-
Tended.
The first witness examined was Mr..
q, Johnson, manager OF the Western
Shoe q Dry Goods Go. OF this city. He
testihed that the defendant called az
that store about seven O'Clock on thf
evening In question and asked him 10
cash Gneckg for $40, stating
that he wanted to catch the early train
mex morning to Eureka, whence ho
was going on buainess, Knowing MI
Waite, and having bad dealings pre-
yiously with the law arm Of White