| Show LEGAL PERPLEXITY IN STATE REWARD Offer of for Hotel Blast Culprits Opens Neat Question GAME TO LIMIT POLICE NO NEARER CAPTURE THAN DAY OF EXPLOSION With the tho police no nearer nearer a solution of the Utah hotel explosion and the crop of amateur sleuths exceeding past rec records records records it was discovered last night that thata a part of the J 2500 reward at least Is involved In a legal tangle over which the acting governor C S a and the attorney general A B R Barnes are perplexed Acting Governor attention was called to the fact that the Governor or Governor could offer rewards only In felony cases cages whereas the explosion lis la is a misdemeanor under the statute He said he had been advised by Attorney Attorn y General Barnes teat mat the reward was proper The attorney general said that he had not looked up the law on the point In question but had merely advised with the acting governor regarding the form of ot the resolution offering reward THat reward goes said Mr gamely last night He added that If the state cant legally pay it he will dig up the money mone out of ot his own pocket The section relating to the power of the Governor to offer rewards is under Duties of Governor Chapter 1 Section 2403 2400 Page Revised Statutes of ot Utah 1907 8 S He may offer rewards not ex cx exceeding exceeding 1000 each payable out of the general fund for the apprehension of ot any convict who has escaped from the state prison or of any person who has com corn committed committed or Is charged with the commission of ot a felony Have Common Theory With numerous clews dews directing evidence toward a common theory the police and sheriffs office are almost positive that they are on the right track of ot the mis miscreants miscreants miscreants They seem to be so positive that their suspects committed the outrage that they have practically abandoned other theories They have been hard at work on the case and satisfied with evi evidence evidence evidence dence accumulated are waiting for the right opportunity to make arrests The heavy rewards that have been posted for the arrest and conviction of the men have been the means moans of flood floodIng floodIng Ing both the sheriffs office and police headquarters headquarter with information that Is con considered considered considered valuable The evidence however will be kept kepf under cover until the ar arrests arrests arrests rests are made mads Yet officials at police headquarters were quite willing to admit yesterday that the suspicion upon which they are at work worl seemed to be on the tongue of ot a majority maj of or the citizens In I i Salt Lake yesterday esterday For the sake of ot organized labor de declared declared dared District Attorney Fred C Loof Loofbourow Loofbourow yesterday every union in the city should urge each of at Its members to do everything in its power to ferret out the man or men who set off ot the ex cx explosive explosive plosive in Hotel Utah Monday morning A majority of the union men In this tills city have come to live here and they have homes and families and they are most welcome With the great ma majority majority majority of the people of this city I do donot donot donot not believe that the job was done by b bunion union men much less by the sanction of ot any labor organization From certain sources came the Information information mation mati on yesterday that Frank Fronk Wilson ar arrested arrested arrested rested with Ed Delaney for the previous attempt at blowing up the Hotel Utah with dynamite e was In the city and had hall been working on a railroad close to Salt I Lake Yesterday the police were unable to find any trace of Wilson in Salt Lake Laye or any reliable reli ble evidence that he had been in this city during recent date Chief Chef of Detectives George A Sheets is quite 1 positive that Wilson is in Denver DenverD D R H Osborne night watchman at the he I new hotel visited Chief Barlow for the second time yesterday afternoon Their conversation was of ot a very private na nature ture so private ih 11 fact that lieutenants guarded against anyone anone overhearing a single jingle word Wilkins Keeps Keep Place John C Wilkins assistant engineer of or orthe the American Bridge company who Is in I charge char e of the erection of ot steel for the I American Bridge company says that the tho i erection contract was taken away from Dick Jones for tor business reasons but buttie buthe buthe he tie does not care to go into detail He says that his company sought peace and quiet and did not want to create further comment or court further annoyance He scouted the theory that the tha explosion was intended to wreck a pile pUe of ot damaged steel and while he admitted some loose steel had been located at that corner cor of ot the hotel he said it was ivaa there to be used and had not been discarded Another black hand letter ietter directed against the employed In Salt Lake was received yesterday by the city recorder The warning Is on a postal card and directed to the city council but It probably proba ly will not reach there The T e enote note Tells the council that all of or the for foreign foreign foreign eign laborers are to be driven out of Salt Lake so that old men can get a job It winds up with the remark Wo We have made a start It Is believed this points to the explosion at the Utah hotel Mon Monday Monday day morning H |
