In This Issue

BishopDuane G.Hunt, theRev.Msgr.AlfredoF.Giovannoni,and othersat 1939 cornerstonelayingforSt.Anthony's Church,Helper. Photograph byMsgr.feromeC. Stoffel.

The "capacity for justice makes democracy possible," theologian Reinhold Niebuhr observed. Indeed, animated discussions of justice both as an abstract idea and as applied to endlessly varied situations define healthy democracies worldwide. The first article in this issue looks at an extraordinarily complicated turn-of-the-century murder case in Salt Lake City in which an innocent man, convicted and imprisoned for over three years, refused to participate in an escape while his guilty co-defendant saved a guard's life before bolting to temporary freedom. How justice eventually served both men makes an absorbing tale The next piece focuses on a forgotten 1867 murder trial in Iron County Here the defendant was a white man accused of murdering an Indian, a crime typically ignored by authorities in frontier times. Justice in this case decreed the sanctity of a Native American life.

The remaining articles examine the lives of three very different individuals who played a part on the stage of Utah history: photographer Charles R. Savage whose role in documenting the joining of the rails at Promontory has been largely overlooked; schoolteacher May Stapley whose brief diary provides delightful glimpses of rural social life in 1900; and the Rev. Msgr. Alfredo F. Giovannoni, a colorful and energetic priest whose long ministry helped to shape Utah's Catholic heritage. Recognizing this trio's contributions is a small but important part of achieving justice, or fair representation, in the historical record.