Show IATORNE B B1 HJONES I1 Charges Filed Against Him In the Federal Court D P TARPEY HIS ACCUSER I DE3IA1TOS IKTTESTIGATIOK AND THAT JONES BE DISBARRED I Perjury Surreptitiously Changing I I I Complaints Forgery Presenting I I 1 Palse Affidavits at the U S Land Office Obtaining money Under I False Pretenses Misappropriating Money and Other Acts Denoting Mora Turpitude Charged Charges were yesterday filed in the United States circuit court against Attorney I At-torney B H Jones of Brigham City by I D P Tarpey together with a petition for his disbarment The accused signed I the rpll of attorneys of the United States circuit and United States district dis-trict courts and has been practicing a a member of the bar on his stating that he was a member of the United States supreme court A copy of the charges was ordered sent to Mr Jones and he is required to answer within 20 days from the time he receives the copy The charges areas are-as follows The undersigned hereby respectfully calls the attention of the honorable court to the following charges which I wish to make against B H Jones sometimes known a B Howell Jones an attorney practicing before the honorable hon-orable court and I hereby charge the said Jones with dishonest and dishonorable dishon-orable practices in the following of his I profession in the courts of this state I The charges are made on information I and belief which information I believe to be true PERJURY ALLEGED FlrstI charge the said B H Jones with numerous perjuries committed by him in a certain case No 67 in the First judicial district court of this state held at Brigham City Utah In which R H Jones is plaintiff and the said B H Jones is the defendant The said perjuries will more particularly anopar and are the ones of record in the said case as will be shown by the files and transcript of testimony thereof there-of And in this matter I also charge upon information and belief that there is now in the hands of J M Coombs a justice of the peace of Brigham City Utah an information charging tile said B H Jones with 18 different charges of perjury and upon which no action has as yet been taken for what reason i am unable to state the said information informa-tion being fed by R H Jones the brother o the said B H Jones SURREPTITIOUSLY CHANGED COMPLAINTS SecondIn the case of H M Bow ring vs Lillie Bland in the First judicial judi-cial l district court of the state of Utah I charge upon information and belief that the said B H Jones filed his said complaint in the said case on March 29 1S97 and on the same day fed a Us pendens in the case Immediately upon filing the said Complaint he withdrew with-drew from the custody of the clerk and retained the same until about the latter I part of July ISO That when the said complaint was returned to the said clerk of the court said Jones had inserted I in-serted into said complaint a slip of paper pa-per which was not included in the orig bat complaint and in said slip of paper pa-per attempted to set up a cause of acton ac-ton upon a judgment had and obtained in the Second judicial district court for the state of Utah which said judgment J was not obtained In the said Second ju I j dicial district court until the month of July 1S97 all of which will appear by I the files in the said case of Bowring administrator vs Lillie Bland in the I Liie First district and the case of the Davis I Rankin Building Manufacturing company vs M L Ensign et aI in I the Second judicial district court of testate te-state of Utah FORGERY CHARGED I ThirdI also charge that the said B H Jones in case No 6 in the First judicial district court of the state of Utah entitled E A Box vs D P Tarpey et aI in which case the said I B H Jones as a basis of action in said case inserted in his complaint a certain purported assignment from one I I R K Wilson to E A Box the said assignment bearing upon Its lace the i jurat seal and signature of the said B H Jones alleging that the said R K Wilson had subscrlqed anti sworn j to the purported assignment before the i said B H Jones when in truth and in fact the said R K Wilson never did so FALSE AFFIDAVITS I FourthI charge the said B H Jones in his practice before the department of the interior in the United States land office with issuing stereotyped affidavits affida-vits setting out causes of continuances settng in cases particularly in the case of Nels R Peterson vs Ruth H Turner and in Adolph L Nichols vs Thomas H Priest In these cases B H Jones as notary public and attorney in the said cases issued affidavits in blank attached his jurat signatures and seal I thereto and forwarded the same to the United States land office in Salt Lake City Utah when in truth and in fact I Ciy parties thereto had never signed said affidavits and the contents thereof there-of were false in every particular OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE PRETENSES Fifth I charge the said B H Jones with procuring money from one John P Holmgren in the month of April 1897 the said money being obtained for an opinion in writing to be given the said Holmgren by the said B H Jones and Evans Rogers in relation to the title to a certain block of land in Bear River City Utah whereas in truth and in fact the said opinion has not ti > this day been given nor has said firm of Evans Rogers ever been consulted thereon MISAPPLIED MONEY Sixth I charge the said B H Jones with obtaining and retaining money from his clients in case of Josephson vs T in the United States land office aU 1 Lake City Utah in which case tl cabs sephson paid the said Jones certain mey to be applied by the said Tones ior the entry of certain cer-tain lands for the said Josephson when in truth and in fact the said Jones retained re-tained said money and never applied I it to the uses for which it was given MORE ALLEGED MISAPPROPRIATIONS MISAPPROPRIA-TIONS I Seventh charge the said Jones with rect Ing money from one Harry Jemmett Collision Box Elder county Utah said money to be applied by Jemmett in satisfac i Jones for the said Je11mett satsfac the lion of a certain judgment against said Jemmett when in truth and in fact tlc said Jones retained the said money and has not since repaid any of the same having given to Jemmett his note for the amount I respectfully ask your honorable I court to investigate the charges herein made and that if the same be proven I true the said B H Jones be forever disbarred from practice before this I court Very respectfully D P submitted TARPEY |