Show V TAtfS TO BE ll REIN TATEDI W E Pattisoa a Disbarred Attorney At-torney Asks ReAdmittance TWO DIVORCES GRANTED UXFOOD INSPECTOR KENDALL WANTS HIS SUCESSOR OUSTED Work on the Law and lotion Calendar Cal-endar Oscar Peterson Sues the City for JflOUOO Damages for Personal Per-sonal Injuries Judgments Entered En-tered Court Notes Attorney E W Tatlock presented a petition to Chief Justice Merritt praying pray-ing for the reinstatement of W E Pattison as a member of the bar The petition was signed by about forty members of the Salt Lake bar The attorneys acting for Pattison handed in a Separate petition They were E W Tatlock Arthur Brown and O W Powers and a third petition signed by nine of the Iowa contingent Pattison being a former resident of Iowa was handed in The petitioners certified that he was capable honest and of good moral character The circumstances which Jed to Pat tisons disbarment arose out of the trial of a secondhand goods dealer named Frank Miller at the February term of court 1893 on a charge of having hav-ing embezzled household furniture etc to the value of 1500 belonging to Pattison When Miller was called upon to stand up for sentence his attorneys Messrs Koenen and J M Hamilton intimated that they desired to argue a motion for a new trial To this the then assistant district attorney E B Stephens raised an objection on the ground that the motion was to be based upon affidavits impeaching Pat tisons testimony Eventually however how-ever Judge Zane allowed the affidavits to be lead It was then that a surprise was sprung The two damaging statements were those of one E Beyle and Attorney Koenen and went to show that Pat tison after Millers conviction had sought to compound the felony charged against Miller for the sum of 500 that he represented to the de fendants attorneys in the office of Mr Hamilton on the afternoon of FrI day February 24 that his influence with the court was very great and equally so with Governor Thomas that he had performed political services ser-vices for Judge Zane for which the 11111 > lC hH + n + t o Vb < HU v 1l1U i lU lual he Pattison had no wish to see Miller go to the pen First of all Patti SOlI asked 1000 but at length came down to 500 consenting to take one of Mil lets vans and teams as security until the defendant could pay the money He offered to give Attorney Koenen 150 as his share out of the 3500 When reminded that he was a little prema ture and that he had better wait until the motion for a new trial had been settled Pattison replied with a laugh there was no show for that as Judge Zane knew him and his standing too well On hearing this statement of facts Judge Zane ordered Mr Pattison to go upon the witness stand and the latter then admitted that Koenens affidavit was substantially true except as to his Pattisons claim of influence with the court the governor or any other person He offered he said to accept S500 to sign a petition for Millers pardon par-don but not for the purpose of compounding com-pounding a felony The court thereupon there-upon directed that the name of Patti son be stricken from the rolls remark ing that the bar must be kept pure An attempt was made the same day to induce Judge Zane to postpone def inite action until the charges could be thoroughly investigated His honor declined to reconsider his decision then however but stated that a mo tion to reinstate might be called up at some future time Attorney Tatlock thought a yeais punishment was sufficient and stated that Pattison had a wife and family wholly dependant upon him for sup port Since his disbarment Patterson had not attempted to violate the law 01 put himself in contempt by violating the orders of the court His honor Chief Justice Merrittt re quested that the papers be submitted to him and took the matter under advisement ad-visement |