Salt Lake Herald | 1897-05-20 | Page 5 | Hicks Pleads Guilty

1 HICKS PLEADS GUILIY i And is Sent to the Penitentiary For Foul t Cl Months TO RECOVER INSURANCE I I KIESEL GOS SUITS TO COLLECT 32000 ON TRIAL I The Usual Three Cases Argued i the I Supreme Court and Taken Under Advisement One Important Appeal Ap-peal Touching the negotiability of Promissory Notes With an Attorneys At-torneys Fee Clause Business Transacted i the Third Dictric I Court W Sylvester Hicks alias Hyde who was indicted by the federal grand jury for using the mails for fraudulent purposes pur-poses in connection with the bogus loa and investment office he a running in Ogden was brought before Judge John A Marshal yesterday morning Hick changed his former plea of not guIlty to a plea o guilty He made a talk to the court teUlnir his honor that he simply acted n the ate of some other man who cstab li hed the swindling loan office and put Hicks there to manage the Oadea Branch Hicks said when he found out the true character of the business he went east for the pUre of setting money to pay back the amounts he had received from various ixwties for examining title deeds to property o whIch loans were asked And while i there for that purpose iie was arrested and brought bck He tried to impress upon the court that he acted innocentlj and that his intentions were god Judge Marshall after listening patiently pa-tiently r his story sentenced him to 14 penitentiary months imprisonment In the state