Show CASllh1II H llItb IS llEt His Bond Is Fixed in the Sum of 15000 BONDSMEN NOT SECURED He TTill Probably Be Placed in the Penitentiary Today Assistant District Attorney SXaginnis Slakes a Strong and Able Argument la the Case Tho Closing Testimony in the Preliminary Examination OGDEN U T July 12 Cashier Oscar E Hill of the defunct Commercial National Na-tional bank was this morning held to the grand jury in bonds ol 15000 by Commissioner Com-missioner Gideon Thus far ho has been unable to secure bondsmen and tomorrow to-morrow will be the last day granted to him by Marshal Exum In case the bondsmen are not up by tomorrow night he will bo initiated into the mysteries of he penitentiary It is said that a number num-ber ol prominent people have pledged themselves to see him through but they are very anxious to keep their names out of the papers Their little game will ba spoiled however and the public will get all their names which appear on the bond in case one is filed The hearing was continued at 10 oclock this morning and as on yesterday a large crowd ol attorneys and spectators were present Mrs Hill was likewise in attendance at-tendance and it was only through her show of good spirits that Hill managed to hold up during the progress ol the hearing On several occasions ho was ou the verge of going to pieces but his wiles cheering looks and words brought him back to his old time stolidity The only witnesses placed upon the stand were Cashier Pingreo ol the First National and Teller Taylor of the Commercial Com-mercial The books of the insolvent institution in-stitution were placed on evidence and from them Taylor read the balances for every day from May 13 to July 8 It became be-came evident that Hill had made glaring changes in balances the differences between the balances on the balance book and reports made by him to the directors in several instances being from ten to fourteen thousand dollars It was at this point that Hill came near breaking break-ing down He was extremely uncomfortable uncom-fortable during the reading ol the balances bal-ances Arguments were made for the prosecution prosecu-tion by Assistant District Attorney Ma ginnis and was an able effort In his argument ar-gument Captain Smith demanded the acquittal of his client claiming that no criminal case had been made out by the prosecution He declined to put any evidence but asserted the insolvency ol the bank was caused through unfortunate unfortu-nate loans of the cashier and not on account ac-count of his dishonesty The court took a different view of the case and held the defendant to the grand jury |