Show REVS REV D A BROWN SHOWS LETTER Says He Was in Possession of Facts Before He Ques Questioned Questioned Judge Diehl HE DEFENDS HIS POSITION EPISTLE IS WRITTEN BY WIL WILLARD WILLARD LARD HANSON Rev Re D A Brown pastor or of the B Baptist church said seid that batore submitting the open quen lion tIon to Judge C B Diehl Diehi which Was published In TIle The J last st Tuesday he was in pos possession e sion of facts which he knew to be the true taken by Judge Diehl Diehi in the issuance of the he warrant For the purpose e of yin vin vindicating himself he h handed rhe Her Herald aid ald a copy of the letter Jetter written to him by Assistant County Count Attorney Willard Hanson which gives the substance of the conversation between Ue the two of officials officials on Saturday May 1 12 relative to the Issuance of the warrant Further than this Dr Brown said r 1 have nothing to add I think this letter Jotter will prove to the public that I Ia Iam a am m In no way a wIlful and malicious falsifier as was published in his an antner anser ser to my question The letter follows Salt SaIt Lake City Utah Ulab May Ie l l Rev D A Brown City De Dear r with your request t for the conversation or 01 substance thereof that occurred between Judge Diehl Diehi and myself relative to the l Issuance of a war warrant warrant rant to for your arrest I send you OU the fol following following lowing r I met Judge Diehi by appointment at athis athis his chambers on Saturday afternoon April 1 12 He showed me the complaint made by Mr on and stated that hE h did not CAre to Issue a warrant there thereon on but believed It was his duty under the statute to do no inasmuch as view of the Ja Iw being of the opinion that the judges of the city court had bed only the jurisdiction of justices or of the peace in criminal natters matters and therefore could not issue a warrant without the approval of the county attorney I told him that I had gone over the facts thAt I knew the circumstances of the case as I had bad prepared the complaints you swore to on which the alleged prize fighters were ere arrested and which apparently had form fonn formed ed the basis of the complaint against you and had refused Mr Ir Donaldson a corn com complaint plaint for your arrest that Mr Donald Donaldsons Donaldsons sons remedy was against the county at attorneys attorneys office to compel us to act in the matter and that he Diehl should not be brought into the matter Further that the c cases s against the alleged prize fight ers era were still pending in court and not until after those cases had bad been disposed of should 8 a complaint against you be en entertained Judge disagreed with my view In the matter and stated that if the men were proven guilty of prize prizefighting fighting that would be a defense e In the ease 55 against you for perjury perjur I told Judge DIeM Diehl that If you were arrested I would not prosecute the ca because I Iwas Iwas was satisfied that the case cane had no merit r that Mr Don Donaldson wished you arrested simply to g get t even with you for h having the prize fight stopped and that r I was of the opinion that after having gOne over all tile the facts and re refusing refusing fusing to issue a warrant arrant that the coun count county t ty attorneys office was entitled to some consideration in the matter and that I should ask to have the case dismissed if it was wa flied filed Ye We discussed the different phases of the case for more than an hour and when w we separated Judge DieM Diehl in Informed I formed me ins that he would not take any immediate Action but would decide some zomeS i S time t the e same me night wh whether or nS n he would approve the issuance of a warrant Yours very ery truly S WILLARD HANSON SOX Assistant County Attorney |