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Show -26- In June, 1892 two u. s. Marshalls came and arrested me for unlawful eohalbitation. My wife, Louesa, and daughter, Clara, wer witnesses I had to appear before commission Thomas Mcconnel at Fort Duchesne and give bonds to appear in the district court at Provo on the 18th of Sept ember, 1892. I went out to Provo taking Louesa, Clara, Maggie and Lester and Vilate Louesa and Clara received 21.50 each for acting as witnesses. Brother Charley t ook them up to Huntsville to Louesa's mother. She stayed for about one month, then came back to Ashley with Oson Hall. · On the 19th of September, 1892 I was sentenced for three months imprisonment and cost of court which was about 80 dollars. I was taken to Salt Lake that evening and put in the penitentary on the hold over side. On the fi rst of October a new warden was put in. He had all that were on hold over side go ovar onto the convict. side and put on striped clothes. I was put in a cell with a man by the name of Sullivan. On the third of October Levi G. Taylor, who had married two of my coueins, was br,:iught to the peni tentary on a three months senctence. We got the warden to let us be int-he same cell together. I was out working on the farm every day except Sundays t o help get in the potatoes ancorn that had been raised on the penitentary ground. At four-thirty the gong was sounded and .all who were laboring on the farm had to go inside. One evening as those who were out were coming in, one of the trusty's had bought a goat and wagon for. a little boy that belonged to one of the farm hands. The trusty was trying to get the goat hitched to the wagon. He waia-: ttWill you please help me hitch the goat to the wagon?" I stopped and helped him for a few minutes and when I got up to the gate all the rest had gone in. The guard said, "Mr. Bingham, why can't you come in with the rest?" I told him why I had been detained. He said, "I want you to all come together." I thought to myself, 11that's what you're here for,---to wait for us." I wrote to my brother, Charley, at Provo to send me a Deseret Song Book. I then went to ]'rank Hadlock, who was a convict and asked him to make me a tuning f ork. Then I took the organ and filed it to the key of c. When my song book came I learned quite a number of songs. While practicing singing one eveing one of the convict men called me down and said, "You~d better be quiet. You're ma.king too much noise." While I was at the penitentiary I helped to unload two carloads of coal from the depot. Taylor wasn't very well and he stayed in the cell most of the time. I joined the choir and helped them sing in the chapel on Sunday. A few days before my tine was up the warden said to Taylor, "We'll have to separate you and Bingham." Taylor said,. "What for?" ·rhe warden said, "Young Bingham a nd you have too good of a time." Taylor said Bingham'• time would soon be up. The warden said, "Guess I won't bother to make the change." |
