Alexandria Gazette

From Utah.
Salt Lake, Utah, Oct. 20.—The Court was occupied all day with the Hawkins adultery case. The cross examination of Mrs. Hawkins elicited nothing new. She testified that Hawkins gave no reason for taking other women for wives except that she had had her day and it was proper that he should have some one else. She said she had borne him seven children at the time he took another wife. The defense offered no testimony except to prove the marriage of Hawkins with his second and third wives. General Maxwell spoke for the prosecution assuming that the defense would rest upon plural marriages as a part of the Mormon religious faith; he argued that polygamy was a direct violation of both ecclesiastical and common law. Thomas Fitch concluded for the defense at a late hour. He contended that Hawkins living a Mormon had no intention of committing a crime and that intention was essential to conviction; that there was no law against polygamy when he took his second wife and that he could not be guilty of adultery because he was legally married to the woman according to the usages and customs of the Mormon Church. U. S. Attorney Baskin will sum up the evidence, after which the case will go to the jury. A number of additional arrests for lascivious cohabitation have been made.