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Show 9 BLAZER IS HELD. The Eluelre Atlvitnturor finally I.aniU In the Consomme. The calendar in Judge Laney's court yesterday afternoon teemed with matters mat-ters of a sensational nature, the ca.o of tho people against Charles T. liia.cr coining up for ventillation. If there was any doubt before the inquisition as to the defendants peculations if, was all removed when tho prosecution got through with him and the court held him in the sum of $,'00iJ to await the action of the grand jury. President Stout recounted his exper ience with the fellow and demonstrated how he had neon lured into tho clutches of the conspirator. Among other artifices employed by lilazer was tho letter of recommendation. Tho whole affair become shadier as tho examination proceeded, the correspondence corres-pondence showing that under the business t;tk) of the Don Carlos Lumber company its satellites bad cleaned up about $ 10,000 in Omaha in a manner that enabled them to evade tho law, the following extract from a letter exposing the whole thing and betraying the absolute insolvency of a concern that advertised a paid up capital of J.)l),000. You told me a pretty big story about the exchange of the south Omaha lots for the ranch. I wish you to kindly send Mr. Steavens a sample of the beef that you raise on the ranch. Do you expect to plant any timber on tlio properly? I trust the stock you raise will bo of a little more desirable quality than the stock issued by the Don Carlos Lumber company. Mr. Pollock writes me that he is "powerful "pow-erful skurse" of meat in Missouri and you would do a friendly and kindly act by sending him a choice steer or two. Can you get "Maw" a job ou the ranch rounding up two-year-olds? Undaunted, counsel for tho defense demanded that tho case he dismissed. Recovering from the shock and invoicing invoic-ing the vant expanse of self-assurance before him tho court reviewed the evidence, evi-dence, to the manifest merriment of the lobby, and Hla.er foil over into the embrace em-brace of an ollieer who took him down to the county jail where as the guest of Joe Hurt ho will await tho attention of tho grand jurry. |