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Show WHAT IS THE JOtf? Hon. Moses Thatcher Held in $20 000 Bonds on a Charge of Subor-nttionof Subor-nttionof Perjury. On Frid.iy evening Hon. Moses Thatcher of Logan was brought to this city in the custody of a Deputy U. 3. Marshal having been arrested at his home on a charge of subornation suborna-tion of perjury. He was immediately Uktu before Commissioner Toohy, who held him in bonds of $5,000 for his appearance yesterday morning for examination. At the appointed time the defendant with his attorneys-Messrs. attorneys-Messrs. Williams, Young and Sheeka appeared before the Commissioner, and the investigation proceeded, J. W. Huston, Esq., U. S. Prosecuting Attorney for Idaho, representing the people. At the close of the examination examina-tion Mr. Thatcher was held in $20,-000 $20,-000 to iwait the action of the grand jury of the United States District 'ourtat Boise, Idaho. The bonds : were given, Messrs. Hezekiah Thatcher Thatch-er H P Vimhall rmd W. C. Rvdalch becoming sureties, and the defendant waa released. The whole transaction is a singular one, and smacks btrongly, if not of unwarranted persecution, of a desire to create a huge sensation without a foundation; and we are surprised that Judge Toohy should lend himself and his oflicial power in any such connection. The charge against Mr. Thatcher is simply this : It is alleged al-leged that ho suborned certain citizens of Franklin, Idaho named Biggs' Buttcrworth and Hansen to swear falsely in the entering of government lands; or, in other words, to swear that they enteral the land for their own use, when they were in reality entering it for the defendant. At the investigation yesterday there was not a scintilla of evidence to sustain tho oharge; and the only testimony that could be possibly construed into such a meaning, was that some time after the required proof of entry was completed, Mr. Thatcher purchased the land. In doing so ho paid a fair pric3 for it, doubtless 11 it was worth-So worth-So insiguificent was the evidence for the prosecution, and it came so far from throwing the dimmest shadow Of guilt u pou the defendant, that at Jits close it was geuerally thought by .those present, that Mr. Thatcher , ! would bo discharged. The defense i introduced no witnesses as to the J charge, as there was nothing to be j disproved nothing to confute. j The prosecution endeavored to ! prove that after the warrant for Mr. Thatcher's arrest was issued that gentleman gen-tleman had tried to avoid the officers, when it was notorious that Mr. T. was about this city on business two orj' three days ago, and has, as usual, 't attend td to his duties as superintend- '. ent of the Utah Northern ja'lroad, 1 The defense introduced but one wit- . ness, and he testified only to the fact ( ot Mr. Tnatchcr's not trying to evade the officers. ' Why Judge Toohy should fix the bond at $20,000 it will puzzle all but1, himself to understand, and we doubt 1 ; if he could give a peason for the act. 1 With Mr. Thatcher it makes little' difference whether the bond is $20,000 ' ; or ten times that amount. Whatever t surety was required would be given if the combined property of all that' gentleman's acquaintances were worth the sum; but there is a principle princi-ple involved. The alleged crime, even if it had been committed which no one believes is not of such a serious nature as to require any such bond from the ac-i cused. It might happen that some one whoao honor and honesty were not, so extensively recognized as are those qualities in Mr Thatcher, would be accused of a crime of the same grade as the one on which Mr. T. is held; and while this other party might be able to give a reasonable bond for his appearance for trial, he could not obtain sureties in such an unreasonable unreason-able amount, when the fixiug of the bonds at so laige a sum would be an equivalent to a commitment to prison. All of the circumstances of this prosecution indicate that thero is something behind what appears to the public cyo and understanding; and wn verily believe a disgraceful job of some kind is concocted and being executod. AA'bat that job is subsequent developments will reveal. |