Show = A BURLESQUE I f Hi Lannan Arrested for Forgery A TRUHIEDUr ACCUSATION Made br I FclloirIJbfral Will A ldri6I4 r < TELEGRAMS NOT QUESTIONED ROVED GENUINE llul Tlirr Dont Tunch he lnb Ihl1 Lllual Forgery n n geryl I Hi r Lannan arnvled for for Mr Lannan was at one time a butcher That busing a respect rpl able Later lie became the mdnage of > a newspaper That would also 110 ben a respectable occupation lest there been anything dent about the paper but there was not Mr Lannan has faults and they may O not a few He has fallings anti they may b many But no one who has any knowledge of his methods ever believed that his aults lay in the line of committing forgeries His rBptr 1a pulllshed begins letters madeup redhot addresses aud almost I not quite verythingclso ofa conteinptlblcna ureuutll was never intimated that IrLannou indulged in that style of dIrty work Vo do not believe him capable IfL i Is another person viw I capable of that kind of busies l n busi-es and I int the chief editor ithcr y Ho when bu Saturday night i > ecamo noised abroad that Mr simon had bccnarrtsted for forgery the question was not What less hefort111 but What new trick roe the Liberals up to noo 1 1 The trick came out in the farcical Investigation which was com icuced oil Saturday evening Deputies were rushing around for witnesses some of whom they found and some they did not find In one I nsvnnco where tire gentleman wanted as a witness did not happen to be at an office where a deputy called that deputy stamped around iL tm nrfai and acted in a way that as uncalled fur 1 ho bad only sent a itquest somebody whose nalnes it was not might have muted tire witness up and I Ji him Ion I-on haud at roriiu place convenient for the officer to reach him But tis deputy diJnt e fit to take thaI course I Well the examination conic on Mr Varian appearIng for tie prosecution prose-cution pid njarDJ e for Mr Ijaunan There was a complaint filed by one William Odis Who i it One of the Liberal outfit It charged Mr Lannan on oath ith having delivered t tire alt Lake lrt > uiic a err tolts ditch then and here false and forgeJ Then fol ywcd the opy of a telegram pub ishcd In Mr Lanuiud paper I refer to Sir Barton of Chicago Al abwer of no practice and little ItaJo named an men t1dlngJ I nO name 1 Iell of bad reputation one Chas Arnold miii one William lila Tilth U lib telegram which Mr Launan was accused by his compatriot com-patriot WmOcliS of having forged It ona evident from the exhibit I titus far nvido ntI rmet faiiierais anted lofchow there had been no briery connected with telegrams lens W A Pinkerton Chicago But note this joint The bogus fits bitch exposed by the press a liar lag exp received sttted tint iartou wes Indicted for icijury In Brtol Vnnsvlvnnla he v4 also Indicted Ih Chicago in iSIS for blackmail In This was published ill a Lbcralorgan I the Time but was not quoted In the complaint Wm Oclis was the first witness and testified received my information infor-mation from a certain portion of the alt Laku press 11 Evening NEWS anti Morning JeraW From those articlts I had reason to believe thit icdlsintchisrublUhcdln tho Triune rblthc dusc were fake I have no further knowledge concerning these this patches pthf Whitney testified am business manager of the Salt Lake feruM My attention has been drawn to tine ilfrpalches ln and con The Information I received was from others whom I hove no reason to doubt Reftrrlmr to the dispatch concernIng Jesse jB Barton Bar-ton 1 sow the telegram as fiht published pub-lished in the Time Next day It appeared differently In the Tribune I met Barton asked him about the dispatch both a appeared in theme the-me and Triune and he said he would have some information far me concerning them man I met him liter and he said he had received re-ceived dispatches and had given them t the NEWS and I could clip timenn from that paper To Mr VtstI first met Barton about a week ng but dont know of my own knowledge that he came her on any special purpose Mr Varian wanted t know theo the-o ec of this line of questioning and said it had no bearing on tine Co Mr tI wish to sliow that lib man was brought here for the urpose aiding In the election fins is to take away more than the purse I I influence the election and we have a right t know all the particulars in connection with it alnnIbal confine the exam nation to the question of the forged Icgram and an examination on J r otiner topics n1 I not proper WetI think is proper 8 long as I confine my questions t the point Iteecmsto moo t b very wrtlncnt to ascertain who Jesse B iartou II where became from and whaL he Is doing I 1 barely pos sible that the evidence may show tht there I a conspiracy on the liertidc 1 Tba cmml lonEr ruled that the i examination was proper Witness to Vestk have known Iartou a week or ten days I first became acquainted with him by t lug introduced either by It W Young or Frank W Jennings id tie Peoples headquarters 1 w not told why ho was here or what he was doing I met him three or fodr times afterwards anti talked within with-in conceruinggencral news for tlic paper T KIW the dIspatch in tire flmei and in the Tribune but tine Times h arranged the dispatch dis-patch r that the serious charge was male against Barton while the Tribunet was against Arnold I called at Bar tons room and he sail ho had ro calved a dlpJtc from Plnhcrtong agency claiming that no Kich die atch had leon fut I went to his room at night and be said ho had t iven the dispatch to the I 2Covs Mr Vet then asked for the uthorfhlp of ho Herald article Mr Moylo who n present iu the inteL of the witness said In the name of the Law I would ak thc court what right Mr West has t ask such a question in a proceeding against P 1 Lannan for forgery Mr Whitney sid he declined t rraUfythegovernors curiosityuulets grUIyeoemors croiy unlCs the court r Instructed him The commissioner said he was bound to anSwer Mr Whitney then said ho article was his Ow Mr Moyle I appears to me that tlrere i I some other object at the bottom of tills examination Were We-re investigating case against Mr < anuan but now the evidence i being taken ou matter that docs not apply to the case and I object to It I apf Varian The difference beaten be-aten Mr West and myself is that I have shaped this case and he I now shaping i to cult himself I rcssexamination object on the ground that it I not The commissioner ruled that the questioning could go on and this mnU nc line was kept up for some time the object being to show that Mr Barton had not sent any dispatches to Pinkerton nor received n1 replies pld The dispatch named In the complaint com-plaint audjine to Marshal Parsons regarding Kay written en regular Wcctern Union blanks flew Introduced Intro-duced a having been received from Chicago Neither of them was a copy of the bogus telegram Byron Groo testified lint he hat no knowledge of tire dispatches Wm B Brown Manager of tire Western Union Office in this city testified t the dispatches receive and sent at this office Ho testified under protest however rind after the commissioner l had made an or den that ho must produce copies oft of-t dispatches referred cpe While Mr Browri was ahnt a ten the copies Judge Powers testified e that be had telegraphed t Pinker Ion about the three persons named In the dispatch quoted in the com plaint and had received a reply which ho gave to Mr Lannan He mil also received a dispatch that Mr Pinkerton was not in Chicago and a letter signed W A Pinkerton Pinker-ton with the initial 1 after tin name Marshal Parsons citified tat some days ago lie hal received In response to 1 telegram cent by him ameSEage hay from Pinkerton about one Mr Brown here returned with the copies of telegrams asked for Her I a one pf them To Jr Ewing Chuayo llltj An alleged dispatch has been n celved her over the name of W A inkertoa SUUis tliet I was Indicted orpeijary In FenniTlvantt end for ilacknuU In CliioKr In 1S9 See inkcrton sod demand retnctlon and I no will not ana him at once for bfiuest damages I will send cost ant copy c supposed JESSE telcgramv l LmttO The others denied that such 1 tale gmam as that referred t in Mr Barons Bar-ons dispatch had ever been sen by Pinkerton These telegrams appeared ap-peared in Fridays XEWS pr bogus telegram published In is Iiibcral oran anti to which tine denials specially refer lis not produced among those which were received at the telegraph office Mr Penrose was wanted asa witness wit-ness but a ho bad not been FUb xinaed an adjournment was taken till 1 am ou Tuesday and Mr Caiman was rclua ed wjtbout bonds I will be seen that the force I b lug conducted on telegrams entirely ItTerent to the bogus dispatch pub ished in 1 Liberal organ for the iurroe of Injuring tire Peoples arty in tire campaign As before stated Arnold and the gang he U aid to be associated with arc unknown un-known t tire Peoples committee or heir employee Mr Ray I believed by the ° Liberals t be one of the many witnesses in the infamous registration train business hence the attempt to weaken his testimony testi-mony |