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Show Tho testimony so far adduced at tho preliminary hearing of those .charged with the skin bounty frauds Is not such as tends to clear tho defendants in the eyo3 of the public. While nothing has transpired to Indicate that ex-County Clerk James was a participant In the stealings or had a guilty knowledge of what was going on, the revelations show gross carelessness care-lessness on his part, especially In view of the fact that nearly a year ago and In connection with other mat-tors, mat-tors, he was warned by tho sheriff that the defendant, Davles, would bear close watching. Davles, however, was promoted to a chief deputyship in tho autumn, when the present county clerk, Mr. Eldredgo, practically severed sev-ered his connection with the office and It was after Mr. Eldrcdge left that tho frauds wero committed. Mr. James' advocacy of the Innocence of Davles, though they are brothers-in-law, Is 111 timed and does not look well, especially espe-cially to those who know that Jumos knows that Davles made a confession to tho sheriff. What with tho bounty frauds, the and frauds and tho Utah World's Fair frauds Utah is making a reputation. |