The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-02
WILL REACH
THE JURY TODAY
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his own to make a name and pose be-
fore the public as a great reformer.
In his unsuccessful attempt to satisfy
this ambition he stopped at nothing.
He had paid witnesses, paid hire
lings, whom he had brought from Chi
cago to testify in this and other cases.
He was responsible for the death of
Joseph NJ. Watson, a man whose good
name had not been furnished in life
time of over sixty years. until the
county attorney procured his indict-
ment, knowing that he was an inno-
cent man. The people know that
Joseph NJ. Watson was an honest man,
but the county attorney in his vaultiGg
ambition spares not the innocent. The
indictment broke the heart of Joseph
M Watson and he died under the dis
grace unjustly brought upon him by
the county attorney.
The county attorney, said counsel.
debauched the youth Flcessler at the
very outset of his career. A young
man 20 years of age, employed by the
firm of Andrews & Co, was induced to
become thief, to betray the trust re-
posed in him by his employers, to
steal letters belonging to them and
through all his future life he will bear
the brand of shame and infamy and
crime no one knows where he will
stop. He is a, sacrifice to the unholy
ambition of the prosecuting attorney.
The treatment of Hayken when he
was arrested here. forcibly taken to
chamber in the Dooly building and de-
tanned there for six hours against his
WILL kept in the sweat box with the
chief of police, the county attorney,
the United States marshal and other
minions of the law working on him ito
make him confess was a disgrace.
They refused to show him the war
rant on which he was arrested, re-
fused to let him see his attorney and
when his attorney, learning from other
sources that Hayken had been arrest
ed, tried to gain access to his client he
was refused and even after the chief
justice of the territory had order that
the prisoner be allowed to see his
counsel the county attorney and his
minions still refused and persisted in
their illegal acts until the doors of the
penitentiary were in sight. / hope,
said counsel, a time will come when we
shall have a chief of police who is not
a breaker of the law he is expected to
use his influence and the power of
his Office to make other people respect
These, said counsel, are a sample of
the methods employed by the county
attorney. Do the people Of Utah eX-
pect the public prosecutor to pursue
such methods in administering the af-
fairs of his office? Do they demand that
he corrupt young men and old men?
Do they demand that he shall break
the law when he thinks proper? Would
they sanction such methods as these
even in the prosecution of the vilest
criminals?
Counsel then went after Weary and
Colby, witnesses for the prosecution;
called them gutter snipes from Chi
cago and Denver and argued that their
testimony was altogether unreliable.
Judge Dey was followed by Judge
Henderson, who had just fairly gotten
started with what promises to be a
logical argument, when court adjourn
ed until $50 o'clock this morning.
Judge Henderson will then conclude
his address and County Attorney Whit
temore will make the closing argument
for the prosecution, so that the case
may reasonably be expected to reach
the jury by noon today.