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Show BEFORE THE GRAND JUKI. Jones and Treseder, Detectives, Bound Over to Answer for Bribery. - Immediately upon the arrival of Treseder Trese-der from the Pen yesterday evening, Commissioner McKay" opened his court and the examination of N. V. Jones and Frank Treseder for bribery was begunl Le Grande Young appeared as counsel for Jones, and Arthur Brown, Esq., for Treseder." Both defendants , desired to waive examination, but Mr. Dickson insisted in-sisted on taking part of the testimony, and the hearing was proceeded with. The first witness called was Deputy Marshal Mar-shal Franks. He related the facts published pub-lished in Saturday's Democrat, and went somewhat more into details. His evidence evi-dence alone was sufficient to convict the pair of the crime charged. He testified that he was appointed a . Deputy United States Marshal on the 21st day of the present month and qualified before Judge Powers, between 5 and 6 o'clock of the evening of ' that day. Prior to that he had been in the employ of the United States as bailiff, detective and penitentiary peniten-tiary guard since the 6th of last May. In making his proposition, Treseder had said the Mormons would like to get information in-formation of any raids or arrests that were to be made and were willing to pay him $500 if necessary. Treseder told witness be nad been employed by the Mormon people peo-ple to get what information he could from the United States Marshal, Grand Jurors, etc., and that the money was unlimited. un-limited. He guaranteed Franks $100 per month, or more, if required, and from $10 to $20 extra pay for cases in which the deputy had unusual difficulty in gaining information. Witness provided the two rooms in order, to enable two or three persons per-sons to overhear the conversation. ' They met at the Gem saloon the following follow-ing evening ; witness had engaged a rear room from the barkeeper; he had then gone around on the outside with Deputy Smith and punched out some of the plastering plas-tering in the lath and plaster wall, sufficient suffi-cient to leave a small hole through which the proceedings within could be witnessed. wit-nessed. Treseder took witness to Jones, introduced him and informed Jones that the officer was ready- to accept the proposition. .- The latter persuaded them to return to the room in the saloon. Jones told him they desired to obtain such information as would enable them to defeat the Federal officials in any attempt to arrest for polygamy or unlawful un-lawful cohabitation. Franks would receive re-ceive $100 per month and $50 down. Jones inquired in regard to the arrest of the First Presidency and other prominent Mormons. The deputy replied that he was not aware that any immediates arrests ar-rests or raids were contemplated. The $50 was then paid witness, and Jones agreed to guarantee any money that might be agreed on. He thoucht SilOO per month a reasonable amount and willingly agreed to see that it was paid. Witness was to call on Jones and report at seven o'clock in the eveningat the office of the latter, and Jones wrote out his address for the convenience con-venience of the officer. (The card upon which this address was written was offered in evidence.) Treseder paid the money and wrote a receipt in his book, which witness signed. The party saw a couple of men standing near the corner of the building, whom witness recognized as Marshal Ireland and Deputy Smith. The cross-examination by Mr. Young related chiefly to Deputy Frank's previous history, and the attorney succeeded, by a series of the most persistent questions, in furnishing the court with a most complete and interesting biography of the witness. It showed that the officer had been engaged en-gaged in a greet deal of detective and police service in New Mexico, Arizona and California. He was at one time hoisting engineer at the Horn Silver mine. Marshal Ireland was called. His testimony testi-mony corroborated that of Franks. He and Captain Greenman had been in the room adjoining that occupied by Franks and Treseder in the Vallev House. Franks had told Treseder that'if he undertook un-dertook to give information in the interest inter-est of "this Mormon outfit" he wanted to know what he would get for it. Treseder Tre-seder said he had been in the employ of "the Mormon fraternity" for four months and had all of the Mormon people at his back. Whenever he got hold of any information in-formation he would go to the Mormons and they generally put up. Witness was On the OtltairiA nf flip mron in TrMh flxvr. met the next evening. Recognized the voices of Jones and Treseder; Jones talked mostly in a whisper, and Treseder talked low ; heard Jones say, "I shall want you to inform me in advance," and later heard him say something about the First Presidency. Heard Franks say he would accept their terms. Being asked why he did not respond to Frank's signal and come in and arrest the men, the witness said : "A few minutes before the signal was given I was resting on a box on the outside out-side with my ear to the knothole, when the door suddenly opened and a man came out. I was in a very uncomfortable position just then and got up and walked away. That was why I did not hear the signal to come in and arrest the men." A memorandum book, which had been taken from Treseder when arrested and in which Franks's receipt for the $50 had been written, was introduced in evidence. evi-dence. Mr. Young was compelled to leave for home on the 5 o'clock train and requested an adjournment until this morning. Mr. Dickson's presence was required in the Supreme Court at 10 o'clock and the case was set for 9 o'clock this morning. . The Commissioner's court announced itself in readiness to proceed with the examination, ex-amination, at a little after 9 o'clock this morning. Marshal Ireland was recalled I read the complaint to Treseder at the time I arrested him; he asked , what it meant and I told him it meant an attempt to bribe a United States official. To Mr. Brown I have not perhaps Stated every word of the conversation of Treseder and Franks at tbe Valley House ; heard him say to Franks that he had $5,000 and the Mormon Church to back him (Franks) for position of U. S. Marshal; did not hear all the conversation, conversa-tion, and perhaps had not remembered all I did hear; I appointed Franks a deputy dep-uty ; had previously used him in various ways; he had not held any appointed ofhee until the day after the meeting at the Valley House; he had qualified and taken the oath of office the day of the meeting at the Gem saloon- some nours previous to the meeting; it had been my intention for some time to appoint him a deputy; the consummation consumma-tion may have been hastened somewhat m order that he might have full power as a depr.ty United States marshal on the occasion of that meeting; the bribery affair af-fair had possibly been in my mind when I appointed him; had not previouslv lead him to expect such appointment ; he was previously employed by me at $75 per month; did not understand much, if anything, of what Treseder said at the rear of the Gem saloon; but saw them immediately after, talking together; heard them exchange some words; was not sure that it was Jones who spoke; had known Jones for six or seven vears, had conversed with him a number of times and could recognize his voice ; was five or six feet distant from the parties I - t . while they were in the rear of the saloon ; had noted down the conversation I heard there in ray note book ; made notes the next day at my home (the note book was here examined and the notes on both meetings passed in as evidence). At the saloon interview I heard Jones say "I shall expect you to inform me in advance," ad-vance," and the words "First Presidency" and "raids;" did not understand anything any-thing else, that I remember; had not been in the saloon mvself ; received from Deputy Smith the information about the arrangement. ' - " To Mr. Dickson I am sure that I had appointed Franks bailiff some weeks before be-fore this occurrence ;bailiffs were at times called upon to act somewhat in the capacity ca-pacity of a deputy in serving summons, etc. ' To Commissioner McKay Franks had for some weeks assisted in making arrests ar-rests and was known to the" public and spoken of as a deputy ; did not now remember re-member of any particular instance when Franks had served a paper of any kind. Mr. Davis, of the Gem saloon, was sworn I stay at the Gem saloon, but .was at the Theatre on the night of that meeting; know Deputy Franks slightly. Mr. Dickson announced that as he was required to attend to a case in the Supreme Su-preme Court, he would be obliged to rest the matter hero. In view of this he submitted sub-mitted the results of the examination as they are, without, the testimony of the remaining witnesses, and the case was referred to the Grand Jury. The witnesses wit-nesses were all subpoenaed to appear before be-fore that body and bail bonds (new ones) were made out for Jones. Arthur Brown, Treseder's attorney; applied to have the latter's bonds re-! duced, urging as a justifiable reason that the evidence so far had failed to seriously implicate the defendant. He thought, that if the bail were reduced to $3,000 it could be obtained to-day. Commissioner McKay granted the request, and Treseder and his attorney went in search of the necessary surities. Le Grande Young endeavored to obtain ob-tain a similar favor for Jones, citing the fact that none of the testimony had proven that Jones had been anything but a visitor with Treseder to the alleged meetings. He thought $5,000 would be ample bail, not but what his client could furnish the $10,000 or any amount, and Mr. Jones had not asked for a reduction ; but in justice to the facts, the., bond was exorbitant and should be made less. Mr. Dickson thought that the gentleman gentle-man had forgotten Deputy Frank's testimony, testi-mony, which established the fact that Jones had endorsed all that Treseder had done, and went so far as to guarantee the payments which had been promised Franks. He thought this, together with the fact that Jones was able to furnish "any amount" of bail required, justified the retention of the present bond, and Commissioner McKay so ruled it. The case will likely have an early examination ex-amination before the Grand Jury. ' |