The times., 1899-12-12
10 RESUME ROBERTS HEARING
The Special Committee to Again
Take Up the Case Today.

The Special Committee to Again
Take Up the Case Today.
At 10 o'clock this morning the special
committee appointed to investigate the
charge preferred against Representative
elect Brigham H. Roberts OF Utah viii
resume its sessions. Mr.. Roberts will be
on hand and give personal attention to the
proceedings. The committee adjourned
last Saturday without arranging any pro-
gramme for todays meeting. 1t is not
unlikely. however, that one or more Of the
Utah committee that came here TO press
the charges against Mr. Roberts win be
placed on the witness stand by Chairman
TayleT The committee is anxious to
learn from the witnesses just what there
is in the charges and whether it Will be
necessary to visit Utah, and it is believed
the committee viii make the trip.
4 number Of affdavits from citizens of
Utah respecting Mr.. Roberts polygamous
life have been received by the committee.
Some OF the affidayits contain serious
charges, and Mr.. Roberts Will insist on
his right to cross examine the makers Of
the afidavits
Among the afidayits on file is one from
former Judge Brandon, OF Utah, which
sets forth:
That Brigham H. Roberts, in the Third
Judicial District Court OF the Territory of
Utah, did, on April %. 1889. enter a plea Of
guilty 20 a charge Of unlawful cohabitatiou
with one Celia Dibble, sometimes called
Celia DibbIe Roberts. he then having Louisa
Smith RCbergs his lawful wife
'Afiaut further AYERS that his oupor-
tunitias for knowing the habit and repute
Of the relationship Of said Brigham II. Rob
erts arise from the fact that he lives in the
immediate neighborhood Of the homes of
said Louisa Smith Roberts and Celia DIbble
Roberts and that the formers father the
late President William B. Smith, is the de-
poEent's brother-iu-law.
That Celia Dibble had been recognized
in the community as the plural wife OF
Brigham II. Roberts before the said Brig
ham Il. Roberts pleaded guilty Of unlaw-
ful cohabiJati0n with her in 1888
That after the said Brigham II. Roberts
was released from the peuiteutisry. Celia
/ Dibble left her fathers home in the neigh
horing village Of Layton, and came to Cen
treville where she was visited often and
/ openly By Brigham II. Roberts
These visits were specially called to
this atlantis attention during the time that
said Brigham II. Roberts was sitting as a
. member Of the constitutional convention
! OF Utah, in 1895, about which time a child
I was born TO Celia Dibble sometimes called
/ Celia Dibble Roberts.
That it Is matter Of common repute in
/ the neighb0vh00d. and among the members
/ OF the family Of Louisa Smith Roberts and
! Celia Dibble Roberts and their relatives
/ that Brigham Il. Roberts is the father OF
/ six children Of Louisa Smith Roberts and
/ FIVE living children of Celia Dibble Rob-
/ erts.
That on August II. 1887. Celia DibbIe
Roberts became the mother Of twins. That
! these twins are, by common repute in the
/ neishborhood and in the family and with
/ the relatives of Celia Dibble Roberts, Lou
\ lisa Smith Roberts and Brigham H. Rob-
erts, the children OF the said Brigham II.
Roberts
That during the past eighteen months
J Brigham II. Roberts has frequently visited
/ and associated with both Louisa Smith
! Roberts and Celia Dibble Roberts in the
! habit aud repute OF marriage, and that de-
! p0nent personally knows that said Brig
! ham II. Roberts has during this period
| visited both said women. and that he is ac-
| knowledged by the children OF both as
their father"
In the House yesterday afternoon Mr..