The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-19
IS HELD FOR ASSAULT
Preliminary Hearing in the Case
OF Campbell.
FOR HIS CONDUCT TOWARD THE
CARNEY CHILD.
The Defendant Unable to Give
Bonds and Is Committed for
Trial.

The testimony of Josephine Carney, Or
son NJ. West and Park Patrolman Heath
/ sent Frank Campbell to the county Jail
yesterday. there to await the action of
the district court on the charge of as
sault with intent to commit rape on the
person of the prosecuting witness, a child
below the age of consent.
Campbell offered the lamest sort of an
apology for his treatment Of the Carney
girls in Liberty park. He told the court
that ne was the father of eight children,
and took no more liberty with the Carney
sisters than he might of done when fond
ling his own girls. In other respects he
| contradicted the testimony of the three
witnesses for the prosecution, whose EVIL
dence in. the main was so consistent that
Justice Wenger could not accept the plea
of Campbell and therefore eXacted for
his appearance in the district court bonds
of $780, In default of bonds, the prisoner
was committed.
The circumstances of CampbelIs at
tempt have all been told by The Herald
The evidence yesterday afternoon IN the
examination was therefore devoid of any
thing startling: in fact, the hearing was
unusually lacking in the sensation that
surrounds such a criminal action, the
only reprehensible thing about the entire
proceeding being the presence of ten
gray-haired men. who sat on the front
bench and simpered while little Josephine
Carney related her account, with tears in
her eyes. Only one young man sat in the
audience. and he quickly tired of the
thing, arising before the hearing was half
over and leaving the room.
Deputy County Attorney Ray Van Colt
prosecuted. A young Mr. Connors, a new
conner. was assigned by the court to pro-
tect the interests of Campbell, who again
appeared without counsel
Josephine Carney took the stand and
said enough to convince Justice Wenger
that Campbeirs intentions We're black. If
anything, the young witness shielded the
ha or
to draw out her statement. Mr.. Connors
tried to make it appear for his client
that his interest in the girls was of
fatherly type, mainly because Campbell
had brought children of his own into the
woriU On this line he succeeded in get
ting Josephine TO admit that Campbell
had been very kind and attentive to her
and had never said anything That was
Orson NJ. West is the assistant super
intendent of Liberty park. Some en-
ployee under his direction, had noticed
Campbell and the girls and reported his
suspicious to Mr.. West, who followed the
group and watched it from the upper
story of the old mill. He saw enough to
and nothing right Mr.. Connors could
not get the witness TO admit, on cross
examination that there was anything
fatherly in the caresses or Campbell. OF
ficer Heath closed the list of witnesses
for the state He saw what West had
seen. and repeated the substance of Jo-
sephine Carney's statement in the office
of Chief Paul.
In summing up the evidence and sup
porting his reason for holding the prison.
err the magistrate said that the surround
ings of the affair must be considered in
relation to whether an attempt had been
made and the intent was as important as
the actual violence. The appearances
were such that they confirmed the belief
that Campbell meant no good by taking
the girls to the park. If he was the
father of eight children. as represented,
that was no excuse for handling another
mans children as he had done.