The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-10
LAW AND COURTS
NOT RESPECTED
So Says President Howat to
State Bar Association.
NOTED MURDER RECALLED
APPEAL BY UNITED STATES
SENATORS TO PARDON BOARD.
ut HE PEOPLE do not respect the law:
they dc not respect the COURTS and

KIT HE PEOPLE do not respect the Ia w !:
they dc not respect the courts. and
the courts do not respect them
selves" was the assertion of President
Andrew Howat at the annual meeting OF
the State Bar Association Of Utah. which
was held in the federal court room last
Mr.. Howat made the principal address
OF the evening. and il was during the
course of his remarks that he alluded
TO the almost total Indifference of the
people of the state TO the fact that there
are laws on the statute books for their
protection aud safeguarding. lie said
that there " as great deal Of diSTeSpect
manifested towards the law and the
courts charged with its opera ton. but
he could scarcely hold the people rtspon-
the dignity OF the courts and did not
insist that proper respect should be man
Tested toward the positions they held
i have in mind. - said Mr.. Howat. 1.-The
case Of one Nick Haworth, who was ac-
cuSed a Few years ago of one of the
most cold-blOOded murders ever commit
ted in this state He was defended by
able counsel men of pronounce1 ability
The trial lasted for five weeks and there
was a large array of witnesses. The
jury was selected with the greatest of
care, and the prisoner had the benefit
of all the machinery of the court. COM
patible with the law, to prove his in
noceace, if such a thing could be done
No effort was spared to make it fair
trial in every sense Of the word The
jury brought in a verdict of guilty OF
murder in the first degree and though
ii had the right TO recommend that the
punishment could be melted ont Dy con-
filming the accused in the penitentiary for
life. II made no such recommendation,
and Haworth was sentenced to be exc
cutAd.
Appeal From Senator Dolliver.
a few days before the order of the
court was 70 have been carried into ef-
feet the board OF Dardons met and a
petition was submitted asking that the
ment. At the same time a newspaper
published a statement to the effect that
United states Senator Dolliver Of Iowa had
telegraphed Senator Smoot and Senator
fluence to have the sentence commuted
as requested in the petition. Such a re
quest was made to the board of par
dons.
Now / ask what right has any
person not a resident of the state TO
interfere in the execution of the law in
this state2 1t does not speak we'll for
the respect we owe the law and our ju-
dietary IL the machinery of the law IL
to be interfered with by person out
side the state. And. more than that,
that respect which we owe - law Is
materially lessened If men of prominence
within the borders of our state. who
know practically nothing of the case in
point. are permitted TO use their efforts
10 influence the Judgment of those whose
duty is clearly marked out In this pat-
tiCular case. as ] said before, the de-
PENDANT had every opportunity to prove
his innocence. IL such thing Was DOS
sble. All tho facilities of the court were
at his disposal. more than 6.0o0 typewrit-
ten pages Of testimony We're taken: the
jury was selected with especial care: n
WAS defended by able counsel; the trial
lasted five weeks. and when the case was
given TO the jury the charge of the
judge was thoroughly impartial Yet.
in the face of all this persons who were
not present in court during the trial.
and VINO. perhaps, were only acquainted
with the evidence as they CLEANED IL
through the c'.lumus OF tn cay "a oers
We're permitted, in compliance with the
relucs- Of the senator from Iowa ID
file MS telegram with their endorsement
in support of the petition for \ commU-
tatioB of the sentence of the Court. The
daily paper which first made public this
fact at the time that the case was be
fore the board OF pardOus added that in
all probability the petition would be