The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-01
JOHN CONNELLY,
PLEASE STAND UP
Charles 5. Zane Said You We're
Unfit TO Be a Citi-
zen.
ARE YOU? ARE YOU
NOT A CONVICT? EH?l
Did You Poison Dogs? The PO-
lice Court of Salt Lake
Said You Did.

''Look out for that mani He's a
dog poisoner. He was SO convicted in
Salt Lake police court
''Look out for that man. He 5 an
cx-convict. The United States court of
Utah convicted him,
- Look ont for that man. - He WIS
acquitted Of charge Of bigamy, for
which he WAS indicted, because the ia
ther of the woman who is now a eandI-
date for county clerk on the church Re
publican ticket in Salt Lake county,
declared that perjured testimony ac
quilted him This Judge was Charles S.
Ianc.
Look out for That mani Ono year
after be WINS acquitted of the charge
Of higamy he pleaded guilty to unlaw
ful cohabitation with the woman of
whom he was acquitted, by periured
testimony. and was sentenced to the
pcnitctntiary by Charles S. Zane, then
Judge of the United States court in Salt
Lake City.
This man is John Connolly. who in n
signed statement declares that he lives
at SIT First avenue. He edits column
or two every day in the Herald Repub-
lican under the caption of Thousand
Dollars Il Day Party These stories
are absolutely false and malicious. and
are disproveG by the records and the
facts. and though the truth has been
printed repeatedly, he persists in his
lies. But he must have something 10
say Take the property on Third South
of which he prates in his Thousand.
Dollars Day Story in his personal
organ, the Herald Republican, on Mon
dav. This property is worth today $500
Il front foot In 1903. when his party
controlled the city. property west Of that
which he says he owned on Third South
street was offered to the First Meth.
odist church, then looking for loca
1ion, at S125 front foot, In 1907 and
1905 this property offered to the Meth
odist church, this. mark you, was under
American control of the city, was sold
for S@45 per front foot and a year later
twenty five feet was sold for $500 per
front foot. Real estate men now place
the value at least $500 per front foot
No wonder he kicks. No wonder he
denounces the American party. All
criminals do. He has TO walk the plank
when Americans are in control Or pay
the penalty. Therefore he kicks. Here
- lUG TGcOTu JOHN kOUQSllN IN IDc
courts of Utah. The only thing that is
lacking to bring him more in the lime
light is for him TO send signed state
ment attempting to DENY these facts to
i'he Tribune, which this paper will
print. or institute an action for libel
against Tho Tribune.
What Court Records Show.
la 1882 John Connolly was indicted
for bigamy, Anna Gallafant being the
woman in the case. The case was heard
in the United States court in Salt Lake.
commencing Wednesday morning, Oc
tober 30. 1854, and was concluded on
Friday, October 81, 1884 Here is the
address of Judge Charles S. Zane, be-
fore whom the case was tried, to the
jury:
Judge Zane's Address
Gentlemen OF the Jury: Counsel for the
prosecution state to the court that they
nave produced all the evidence OF which
they are advised. and which they have
been able TO find by dligent inquiry, and
they arc satisfied that 1t Is not sufficient
10 warrant a conviction. because II shows
that the offensc OF the marriage TO Anna
Gallafant, which was the last marriage,
took place more than three years before
tlie Indictment In this case was found
In that view OF counsel for the prosecu-
ton, The court concurs. There have been
good many circumstances tending TO
show THAI these witnesses. some OF them
~ least. have not stated frankly. candid