Show SAKDERSOX ACQUITTED The Jury Sends the Old Man on Ills Way Rejoicing The case of Sander Sanderson the unsophisticated un-sophisticated and decrepit old man charged with forgery was resumed in the Third district court yesterday morning The facts in the case are substantially as follows On May 20 1890 Sanderson sold a certain piece of property to Thomas A Olsen who paid a portion of the purchase price in cash and gave two notes secured by a mortgage on the property for the balance In September of the same year Sander son borrowed some money from the Utah National bank and assigned the notes and mortgage Joseph M Stoutt the president presi-dent of the institution as collateral By April 1891 Olsen had contracted to re convey the property to Sanderson and as thero was a mortgage against it in favor of Sanderson the latter was required re-quired to pay taxes on both the property and the mortgage This according Sandersons evidence Sanderson then went to see the collector with reference to the matter and was advised ad-vised to cancel the mortgage which he did In January 1892 Olsen deeded tho property back to Sanderson and in January Janu-ary of the present year Sanderson conveyed con-veyed the same to a Mrs Anderson San derson alleged that he notified Mr Stoutt of the release ot the mortgage at the time while Stoutt avers that he never learned otit until the bank sued Sanderson on his notes In this particular the evidence was conflicting The case reached the jury shortly before be-fore 1 oclock yesterday afternoon and the verdict of acquittal was returned within fifteen minutes A False Pretense Charge Last night Henry Shaffer arrived here from Joseph city in Skull valley accompanied accom-panied by G W Ross and soon after reaching here the latter had Shaffer arrested ar-rested on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses Ross who is a wool grower states that Shaffer CaIne to him a few days ago and represented that man named Cummings had gotten away with some sheep belonging belong-ing to himself as well as a band of muttons mut-tons and a lot of wool belonging to Ross He represented that ho was short of money and sold Ross a team of horses which he had for 40 and then asked for a loan of 25 Ross accommodated him with the loan but suspecting by this timo that Shaffer did not come by tho team honestly held back the 40 and came on to Salt Lake with the man Offenders Before Goo In the police court yesterday Edmund Faveris charged with disturbing the peace and quiet of Franklin avenue forfeited for-feited 10 Julia Loomis was fined f 10 for advertising adver-tising her vocation The trial of W S Sharp charged with vagrancy was set for Monday Two drunks were assessed each Three f25 prostitutes and four who are inthe850 class were arrested by the police last night Ono Tear in the Pen Frank Johnson who was convicted of grand larceny on Friday came up before Judge Zane for sentence yesterday morning morn-ing His attorney called attention to the fact that the jury had recommended him to the mercy of the court and after the usual questions Juhnson was given one year in the penitentiary |