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From Campus to Courtroom of permanently crippled feet as a result of wounds during the Battle of the Bulge; and Glen Barth, a bright youngster from North Dakota with whom we corresponded for many years. These were the ones we remember best.
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A case which offered John some unique challenges resulted from the Giles gang holding up a D & RGW train at Salt Lake. It took the name of the "Boiler Room" mail fraud because the group operated in that room. It was in this case that John employed the first use of ballistics in a U.S. Federal Court. John K. Giles was convicted and the case received enough notoriety at the time to be written up in the Saturday Evening Post. But the real genius in the trial occurred when on cross examination John got the defendant excited and, to the surprise of many (not John), the defendant's voice became extremely high pitched - thus, explaining the inconsistency of a "woman's voice" having been heard during the robbery. Undoubtedly, the most sensational cases John was involved with during his career as Assistant U.S. Attorney were those involving polygamous members of the Fundamentalist sect. These were widely publicized both locally and nationally during the 1943-44 period. John even received copies of articles printed overseas. In December, 1943, John had tried and secured a conviction under the M a m Act against a man and his wife, who had persuaded a fifteen-year-old girl to accept a polygamous relationship. He argued that transporting a woman in interstate commerce to live with her in polygamy was an "immoral purpose" under the Mann Act. Early in 1944, raids by Federal and State police resulted in the incarceration of "50 men and women in Utah, Idaho and Arizona." Again John invoked the Mann Act and the Lindbergh kidnapping law in bringing charges against these individuals purported to be polygamists. According to the article in Time,March 20, 1944, "Last week's polygamy crackdown was prompted by an appeal by Mormon leaders themselves." The article explained that "in the last few years the Mormons have expelled more than 200 men and women for polygamy." Similar articles appeared in many other publications.
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| Title | John S. Boyden: three score and ten in retrospect |
| Creator | Boyden, Orpha Amanda Sweeten |
| Subject | Boyden, John Sterling, 1906-1980; Democratic Party -- Utah; Coalville (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Life story of John S. Boyden, including his experiences in Coalville, Utah, law practice, participation in the Utah Democratic Party, family life, church involvement, and advocacy for Indians. |
| Source | Boyden |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | text |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College Press |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/boyden.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1144.cpd |
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