Show I EX MA R UNDER ARREST G asmann and Editor Taken Into Court Courton on Criminal Libel Charge VAIN PLEA TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY HALVER S WITNESS Special to The Herald Heral t Ogden March Mayor lInor Will William airi Glasmann and Frank Francis the of the were arrested toda today on a complaint sworn out by DIstrict Attorney George Hal Halverson Halverson verson charged with crimInal libel Both men were haled Into the police court and forced to put up bonds for their appearance notwithstanding appeal to the Ibe turned loose upon his own recognizance The arrest is the result of the publication publication cation of articles in the Glasmann papers pape against the district attorney during the th trial of the city councilmen on charges of collecting illegal fees from from the city Glasmann according to the articles whIch now appear to have been offensive to the district at attorney tor torney 1 y was ot of the opinion that Mr Halverson was killing kUling the town of Ogden on account of his crusade against the gambling and saloon ele element merit ment of 0 the city There has been much bad feeling between the plaintiff to the actions filed yesterday and the former city executive and both parties have been cited into court on divers charges At the present time there are also contempt proceedings pending in the district court against Glasmann and Francis as also agaInst again t the district attorney The court has already de decided that it has no jurisdiction in charges brought against Mr ron om The complaints filed yesterday were brought in the name of the State of U h The allegations set forth are In substance as follows Text of the Charge That on Feb 27 1906 tile Standard Publishing company William Glasmann and Frank Francis unla unlawfully wIck wIckedly wickedly edly and malicIously intending to in j re prejudice and disgrace George Halverson district attorney and to deprive him of his good name fame credit and reputatiOn and to bring him hii and his office into contempt scandal infamy and disgrace and to impeach his honesty integrity and vip vir virtue tue and intending thereby to expose hLin lic d OIl It t and ridicule did ili l and there u wickedly wick and b write and pUblish and cause and procure to be published a certain false scandalous malicious and defamatory libel con concerning concerning him in his official capacity in inthe inthe the enforcement of the law as district attorney and 1 particularly of and con concerning concerning his enforcement of the laws and ordinances of Ogden City relative to gambling and unlawful liquor traffic traffic fic and also in the prosecution and conduct of certain cases then pending in th the district court The cases of J D Skeen V vs Fred W Chambers and WIlliam Craig the lat latter ef case be being being ing on trial before the court and jury at the time The objectionable article cited in the complaint was in part as follows follow Objects To ToH H Halverson was told Ire he was killing the town He replied I dont d care Being a salaried officer why should he care waS never Continued on Page 2 OGDEN V VV V UNDER R ARREST Continued from Page 1 Intended to masquerade In the th role of ofa ofa a reformer His hatreds are too In Intense Intense tense for his 3 curly little head to hold anything In I addition to malice The second complaint has to do with an entirely different article published March 1 1906 and headed George Halverson to be removed from office Henry whose son was killed filed charges a agaInst the district attorney enumerating several serious violations of the law In permit permitting permitting ting criminals to escape prosecution He asks to have Halverson ousted from office is then quoted as ying I have felt ever since that Mr Hal Halverson Halverson verson was incompetent as a prosecuting prosecuting ting officer and when I 1 saw that he was charged with incompetence of fail failure failure ure to do his duty in other matters I thought It was time the man should be removed from office Had to Give Bonds When the warrants were placed in Inthe the thc hands of Sheriff Sebring he imme served the tho one on Francis Glasmann was not until later The two Prisoners were taken before JUdge J D Murphy where they were each held under a bond on the first complaint and permitted to go on their own recognizance on the second charge Adam Patterson and John Pingree signed bond and Glasmann together with John PIngree went on the bond for Francis After the bonds were executed the prisoners were released from custody The date of the preliminary hearing has not been set |