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Show Vol 1, Price SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 5, Iy02. No. 43. pointed and who refused to talk because he said his lawyer had told him not to.. Dooly1 himself may make good the shortage, because' he has to, because they have the dead, cinch on itJJ. hurt him Part Jm, 3.ut, This escapade ought to end n: P, 8 banking career in this town; 11 al8 to end his public career, an does, the people will heave .a Salt Lakes Bank Sensation. ing. He has brains and sense, but his employer, Dooly, turned his brains and sense in a wrong channel and to the ad-- 1 vantage 0f Dooly. Dooly has been mixed up in many questionable trans-" ltobertson on the charges actions both public and private: Paying Teller The ... of forgery and embezzlement. r.. He always had manipulations., to be much not been has bank of the standing fact that it is done, and he forced such of his employes impaired because of the and that as he desired to do his work. ' Robert- only a branch establishment sons part of it. was less 'objectionable the local institution is backed by the " opnqation of the week has been local banking " tho defalcations in the & Co. and the Wells-Farof house arrest of Assistant Cashier Duke and go 1 I I Ply 5ftt 1 Feat 81Sj rellf- - 11 ay 5 Cents a year ago when he was acting mayor he suspended Dooly as chairman of the board of public works for crookedness . in being interested with contractors who were doing work for the city. The suspension was done with the knowl- edge and approval of the then owner of the Tribune who knew that Buckle was right, but it wasnt many days be- - fore the paper deserted Buckle and went over to Doolys side. Then came the whitewash of Dooly by the .city council. He was cited to appear before the council to show why he should not be permanently .. removed from the chairmanship of the board of. public works. He juade spectacle and convicted himself out of his own mouth, but the members of the council with one or two exceptions, slave like, voted on Dooly's side, whitewashed him to the queens taste and acting Mayor Buckle was left practically standing alone. Councilman Robertson worked that piece of business for. Dooly. Pn his . . ! . Mayor Thompsons eyes or stiffen back bone, which has been lamentably weak where Dooly was concerned, ft ft The grip that this man Dooly has held on public, affairs in Salt Lake for is astounding. Hes in every 1 where there is a chance of mak unug other branches witn a capuaionpo,uw,-council and in public affairs with ing a dollar or a rake off. His gall is 000 behind it. Otherwise there would city which Dooly for mere lucre became con- - supreme and yethe is nothing but a "have been a run on the bank as the local nected. Many a fight he made against vulgar bluffer. He is the most people have lost confidence in the The crookedness, it ap- - his better nature both in and out of the oughly despised character in the city, ft ft of 8 council on behalf of his employer, and yet it is a matter of wonderment how pears has extended over a period at 7CU88 him to a .w Dooly controls the daily papers now or 9 years and people generally believe many a forlorn and worthless cause he j'HfvX61. his back get down on their even more the local manager either knew carried to victory. Had he been free thoroughly than he did then. him Ha T. what was going on for years or thathe hia of The conscience Tribunes reports of the present 101i0Wf the extremely resourceful and octopus like was grossly incompetent aind derelict would knew be he ke were sensation ?nd nght out his tentacles in the most business i poor emasculated things hav0 made an enviable reputation. I etches innisauiy, and to ortlnary all the with meat cut out. The Herald 1 directions and thedilem-of hewn this Neither grabs precaution! to a or for two showed some indepenone one who would and that day is comfortable for Mr. Dooly. The was soon but it be entlrel h044 dence, squelched. action of Mr. Dooly since the aflatr teSmec-- 1 eXpe-Cte-d is i ft ft came public has rrv,inCrwnrhia quainted with the inside, workings of fidence in him. It may be that the misfortune of this Mr. Doolys plans. In other words, they 4?4Ua5!! got to know too much, and instead of I He le merciless and unrelenting. young man Robertson will have . allowing the two became his mas- - Everybody remembers hoi he pursued wholesome effect upon tthrlPi.wranE.dofaii became beIn hi9 1 . - . i thor-manaem- ent. . fin-th- I I "Ped L mestSy I . i J64 pubheandhen complaints against them, leaving would not have beeS tolerated that to a stranger sent by bank the cit Qp in any re8pe(f. ofhee in San Francisco requires explan- - 6thep ble institution of any kind, for an hour, but they knew so much that Dooly The great misfortune in the life of darent discharge them. Alexander A. Robertson was his forming the acquaintance of and entering the employment of John E. Dooly. Robertson is a good fellow, a true and generous friend, and he remained a good fellow until more or less contaminated by the baneful influence of Dooly. Not- withstanding his association for years this despoiler of the widow and the orphan (see state court records), this man who has preyed on the public and ruined everybody upon whom he could C F' Q Isey He ly. Perhaps hi th futureT ann88. and no subter- - win attend more to his own and less to topped finally made life such a bur- - other peoples affairs. Because in fuges days den for the engineer that he had to re- - gone by Dooly has achieved an unen-usign. Kelseys only offense was that v fable reputation for waddling into he was faithful to tils duty and stead-- 1 he could find an entrance to. fastly s ood between Dooly and the city everyt,bing Was a franchise to be granted? there treasury. But Dooly got to the treasn ury through his partners, the contract- Mr. Dooly was there with advice. Was ors. The resignation of Kelsey cost there a contract pending? Mr. Dooly the city thousands and thousands of wa8 on hand with nodartogolodge but f on I I I post in ttie bank Saturday morning, the conclusion was quickly reached that dollars. there was something seriously wrong, ft ft H did111 tale Dooly long to reach that Dooly, too, for years has had almost conclusion, if he didnt know it long . absolute control of the daily press, before. The circumstances strongly gQW he common the herd of wor8 it, pointed to the suicide f the missing rep0rter8j 0f which the writer was one, teller and it would have been a great never g0t to know, but they all knew relief to some people, if Robertson ipom eXperience that they could get had carried out his evident intention to nothing in the papers which reflected least guilty of on Dooly. The articles had to be either his clutches, Robertson still retains end his HI been made the would have his original nobility of character and his the bunch, entirely eliminated or emasculated so blame rest. All the the for finer instincts, and that they carried nothing against Dooly , although he has scape goat fallen into disgrace, made a terribly would have been laid at his door and of strictures he however false Btep, and is called a it the bank would have had to put up m;ffht be deserving defaulter, while the same naners 110015 be the beginning of a new career ,! log8 Drobabiv iw,wu. When th with for him. He may yet live down his delight m roasting to a crisp poor great error and regain the confidence of his Dooly thought the missing teller was devii8 wbo were angels compared with fellows. When the news of his disap- - dead he became very anxious to find a matter of common knowl- pearance and probable suicide reached him. He offered a reward for his cap-- Dooly. Its fch Tribune espoused the the public, it that he had ture and conviction and 10 per cent. d& taaJ appeared of legions of friends, friends who were of the amount of such of the missing j cause City Engineer Kelsey at the not only recovered. be When as might genuinely sorry for him, but money beginning of his fight with Dooly be--1 were willing and eager to help him. Robertson, however, turned up alive ge h e wa8 absolutely right, but the His opponents in life whom he and well, Dooly didnt want him half public hadn't gone very far before the loujjlit with eo much bitterness, liked M badly as thought he did. He gbt lnm in I Mfe and were grieved at pulled down his offer of reward and paper basely deserted him, played The inside history of didnt make any accusation against him. colorless neutrality fors a while and Robertsons life since he became paying I He dare not. Neither dare he lodge a finally landed on Dooly side Presi-in Wells Fargo' & Co.s bank in complaint against Duke, the other man dent of the city council Buckle had a I tnin city would mako to Kelsey. About interesting read-- 1 to whom suspicion has been strongly similar experience I I I I I I W J recommendations! He has been uniformly successful too strange as it may seem. He has had bis arm into the public crib a good part tbe time Bince 1890 when the Gen-wi- th t18 fir8t obtained control of this city and county. Looking backward over the years which have passed, one no longer wonders why the Mormon peo-gpi fought so bitterly to keep in power, He has escaped criticism nearly all this time because he was able, through 801116 occut iofloence, to hypnotize the of the pr688 especially the ownS morning parers. Not a reporter who ever worked on the Tribune in the palmy old days, when Patrick Hannan was its autocrat, but Henry knows write anything displeasing to Dooly meant a dance on the carpet and possibly a dismissal. Not a reporter who ever toiled on The Herald but Jnowa that Dooly had old man Cham- bers under his thumb and it is no slan- der repeat lt of thegoodold fellow who is now under the sod, for perhaps he was not to blame. Occasionally he failed of dictating to The Herald on count of the stubborness of members of its staff, but the columns of Mr. Lan- et I 1 I ac-Jell- 1 er |