THE
TIlE CABs OF W HIL TOVEY
off the
lovey ot
Tuna
0 William H Tovey
Tu case ot
V
Twentieth Ward who was examined
N
Noror
Noryesterday before Commissioner Norcohabitacohabitol unlawful cohabit
rell on a
Is Que
tion
QueI
one that s naturally incites
isQue
isI
special comment
lent and sympathy The
defendant is a quiet industrious and
Not
respectable working man
be
longer ago than last August he
wass
from the penitenwai released frog
after serving a term of six
tiary alter
tiar
the same
saUle offense with which
ift now
be is
he
JW charged
tor the prosecution lnTha evidence for
The
Wit testimony given with
0own
folfol
was
fol
frankness
wall in substance as folHIi two
tw wives live on
lows Jgig
be
bis release from prison tie
lots Since his
had made his home exclusively with his
legal wife He had howeverr with more
or
ll
reN-
I
I
n ln
ln
I-
Uve
o-
r less
rovisited
the house
bouse
remaining
on evening
of his plural
probably at no time to tt
teed two hours The reasons for the
visits were to attend to one of h
tor
children who was sick for
dren ti
hia ch
children
weeks j to instruct his
convey
means 1
to
their lessons
their Support to carry water
b aa to be taken from a point some di
ba
ce from the premises and to 8sa
The reason given for n0
firewood
to the two last menti
items pertaining to the household W
hIS
had been
wife bad
plural
that bis
and Is compelled
from
use a crutch while none of the chi
dren are old enough to perform
The defendant had n
labors for tier
tabors
ber Tile
slept at the bouse
h
house of Li
only never slet
plural wife but had never ven taka meal there
What would necessarily be the
mon sense and consistent view ot
of
case like this and therefore the
consistency
and just one
ODe for con
sense are or ought to be
This
Thi WOJ
from law and t
necessarily be nest
oest ascertained
consideration of what would aha
01 tine
been tile
the course of
the defendant n
one further than he did in his
be gone
he
w
keep
to
law
la
torts
the
He
Re would have neglected the
the
nd allowe
allowed thehia childr
tion of his
childrenn and
to grow up as rank untrained
wberg
would as w
bera of society
as the
themselvess thus h a
suffered injury
Me would
He
have
fused to support teem
hem and tb
mother entailing suffering upon
or causing them
toem to oe
be a public buHe would have tailed
failed
den
perform manual labor
lanor connected
the household that could not be
bV a lame and
tended to by
odu-o
helpless woman and could net be dodo
by the children of tender
lender years
He elected to extend in thes
these part
ulars that assistance the refusal
have
been
which
would
woula
tender
trous to those who were
U a man with any res
it If
in thee premises under similar
stances were to refuse to bestow
necessary
course would
condemned in any moral
How
In existence Bow it can be
tae
the
within the spirit of
1
t
bold
hold
a
man
tho
thosee
grounds as
pears
almost
I
upon
adduced
itly bad
Commissioner Norrell
case indicating by
toe catlE
heart in the
expression that he
lie doubted
convictIOn would ensue If the
were held It would have been
with this condition ot
of the
01
ave give
given the def
of that official to have
dant the benefit of the doubt In
tn t
Instance the benignant rule In
respect was reversed
it
awarded to toe
the prosecution
If by any possible chance Comm
Norren should be mistaken
Norrell
biB view which conflicted wit
his
with
decision and indictment and cony
good case
woul be 8a0 stood
tion ensue it would
present for executive clemency
ef all the facts ri
clear statementt of
adminIstration has expressed
favor of the execution of the law wi
out vindictiveness the Chief Mag
having stated that he
be did
wish the Mormon people to have
o
opportunity
to say with show of
son that they were maliciously treaby the agents of the government
en