The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-23
PROVO CITY. MAY %. IS
MABRY INDICTED.

Yesterday the grand jury of Salt
Lake county returned into court an in
dictment for the crime Of adultery.
This is far better than was expected.
1t WAS thought and feared that the
grand jury, owing to the high social and
eceIeeiastical position of the culprit,
would condone, ignore or slur over the
case SO that the reverend and lecher
Gus recalcitrant might escape the per-
sonal inconvenience and disgrace of
court trial for one of the most dastardly
crimes man can commit. For one
we reioi3e that the grand jury has met
the case inpartlally and without pre-
judice one way or the other; has rele-
gated the matter TO the court for an
exhaustive trial and examination Of the
accused, who, if guilty, should be
punished as he would have been had
he been a hod-carrier or hack driver,
We have no sort of doubt Of the entire
g1ilt of this reverend viOlatOr of the
marriage Vows; of his obligations as a
minister, as Mason and as man.
The presence of the woman in his
room alone with q closed and locked
door is enough, and when petit jury
gets hold Of him we have not now the
slightest fear that he will escape
most c0ndign and fitting punishment.
The penitentiary for period of years
will jerk the impudel ce. deceit and
hypocrisy out of him pretty efectually
and it will amply protect any other
christian church from the infiction of
his presence in its pulpit. The First NJ.
E. church of Salt Lake should pull down
its pulpit and make bonfire of it in
the street in front of the building and
replace it by one made of uncontam-
mated lumber. This to show the
strength of their condemnation of the
man and the crime he has committed.
OF the guilty partner of his illict
joys we haVe nothing to say, only it
needed not Mabry's cowardly attack
upon her character, in his recent state
ment, to convince any one of her
unWorthineSs. No pure minded
sane woman would GO to the
private room of men not leei
husband, either once or forty times,
alone. But five had the fixing ot his
sentence we should add five years to it
to punish him for the eowardly attack
upon her character. He did not reflect
that if he had made it clear that she
was really an impure woman he was
but driving nails into bis own coffin
so much more wrong was it for him
TO be alone with her in his private
room at the church.
The arrsignment occurs Saturday
the 10Th. The time is not too short for
the preparation of an elaborate defense,
and the date indicates that plea of
guilty is not an Improbable one in this
case. The formal trial OCCURS in Sep
tember. For the sake of the church
whose cause he has polluted he should
plead guilty and bottle of morphine
should do the rest. Society has been
for many years too leniept upon this
class of offenders. Beecher never got
his deserts and while the lists of these
reverend Yiolators of the laws of
chastity are full of rather lllustrious
names, the record of their punishment
is very meagre. The time has now
come to change the policy of society
and the courts as well. Let criminals
of that order understand that they
must suffer, as a bar keeper or Billy
Lynch must suffer for such crimes as
these. That ultra respectability aggra-
Yates instead of mitigates crime, and
godliness, high church position, learn
Ing and eloquence are things which
make against the villain who wrongs
his own wife as well as the wife of an
other in this way. We shall put on
record the result Of the coming trial
and then dismiss for aye this thor
Oughly shocking case.
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