The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-21
COUNTY ATTORNEY !
APPEARS IN CASE
He Is Assisted by WaIdemar
Van Cott in Prosecution of
Margaret Smith.
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MR.. McC0RNICk'S JUDGMENT
Bishop Woodruff Tells of His
Visit TO the StOckade;
Case Continued.

The movement against the west side
stockade came to u head Thursday
morning. when the case of Margaret
Smith, arrested in the stockade to-
gcthcr with ten other women on May
II. on the authority of complaining
sworn to by Elias 5. Woodruff. Lon ].
Haddock, George @. Morris and L. J.
Eard!ey of the Betterment league, came
mp for trial in the court OF Stanley A
Hanks, justice Of the peace.
A woman was arrested on May IA
under n warrant bearing the name OF
Nellie Roc. At the county Jail sha
gave her name as Margaret Smith and
was released on furnishing 500 bond
When the name Of Margaret Smith was
called in the justice 5 court Thursday
morning, another Margaret Smith an
swcred the summons aud was said by
the four complaining witnesses not TO
be the one arrested on MAY IL Judge
Hanks declared the bond forfeited and
issued bench warrant for the original
Smith woman. The trial then proceed
ed without the defendant and at 5
o clock Thursday evening was con-
tinucd until 10 clock Friday morn
ing.
The attorneys for the state were
County Attorney Job P. Lyon and
Waldemer Van Colt. Those for the de-
fendant were Attorneys Samuel A.
King and Harry Robinson. The defense
demanded jury trial, and the follow
ing Jurors were chosen: w. S McCor-
nick, \. J. Sproles and A. o. Miller
The counsel for both sides agreed upon
jury of three
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In the examina tion of the jurors Mr..
Mccormick was asked:
Would the naring headlines OF the
Inter Mountain Republican. holding ND
Mr.. Lyon to eXecration. have any inhu-
ence on your mind for or against Mr.
Lyon, and consequently upon your ver-
diet in this casct''
Il should hope not, answered Mr..
Mccormick.
Attorney King demanded that the
witnesses be excluded from the court
room. which request was granted by
the court. The name of Margaret
Smith was called and answered by
tall. blonde woman. The witnesses
were called into the courtroom one by
one, but none could identify the woman
as the defendant. With The issuing OF
bench warrant for the defendant,
Margaret Smith, the court adjourned
n.
Andrew Smith made \ search for the
missing woman. When the word came
that she could not be found. the trial
WAS continued without the defendant,
by agreement of counsel for both sides.
Elias 5. Woodruff was the first wit
ness. lie said that he was the bishop
OF the Fourteenth ward and that he
had gone TO the stockade, together with
the other complaiuants. for the sole pur-
Of lsrI. ba 20 q.
out vice and not as bishop or q
member of the Mormon church nor as
a missionary of that church.
He said that he and his companions
had met previous TO their visit TO the
Siockade and decided upon the course
they would follow. and that be had
been engaged in similar Investigations.
which had led him into Commercial.
street and Victoria alley, for the past
two years, lie said that on other oc-
casions he had been solicited by women
of the demimonde and at such times
he had filed no complaints.
No Hoochi-Koochi.
''Friday night, May IL. l was in the.
stockade.' said he, land woman in
crib No. I'D called to me and asked ma
10 come into her room. I said TO her
that | did not know whether she were
going 10 dance the hoochi-koochi or
what she intended. She then told me
that she wanted TO sell herself to me
for one dollar
This testimony was stricken from
the court record on motion from At
torney King. for the reason that it .
did not bear upon the olfense cited IN
the complaint. Bishop Woodruff said
that soon after this he returned to the
same woman, IN company with three
men. when the woman again made like
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