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Show BLAZER IS SET FEEE. i-h HIS TRIBULATIONS ENDED ON A MO- Q TION BY MR. VARIAN. i 4 The Gold Brick Sensation Revived and Hill's Bond TJeclared Forfeited The . Fitzgerald Rape Case The Hall Shooting Case on Tomorrow, Jj . Charlie Blazer's tropical tribulations are at an end, his name has been swept from its long standing position on the criminal calendar cal-endar and once more he has settled down to earn an honest living. He came into corirt-this corirt-this morning smiling and buoyant, a:adt United States Attorney Varian catching t ho eye of the court, called up the celebrated case in which Blazer had been convicted by a jury. A new trial had been granted on. the grounds of newly discovered evidence. The witnesses for the prosecution were fa Omaha, aud considerable expense would b incurred in getting them on the field of warfare, war-fare, w hile Mr. Varian was in doubt as to tl propriety of proceeding further anyway. President Stout of the bank had been sat'is-tied sat'is-tied with the restitution made by the defends ant, and in the face of all this it w as ak ?4 that the case, be dismissed. It was so ordered or-dered and Charlie Blazer w alked from t h court chamber a free man.. 1 County Court. Domi nick P. Benson appeared before tfie -court to answer to a subpoena issued Octofcn 5th. The witness admitted that he had received re-ceived notice three times to remove certain condemned material from the ground of th county poor farm, but had not dose so. Tta county attorney was present and asked Lr. Benson if he proposed to hold the counjy harmless for work already performed. Tl a witness replied that he did not. The clejlc was then instructed to notify Benson to siu pend work on the infirmary building until further notice. The franchise for the Salfair Beach rail- roan was submitted by me county a nor nay and wa,s received and filed. A sthlvment was presented by Ihe count y clerk of the amount of money expended on the Big Cottonwood canon road. The m- Fort showed $'.44.o0 on hand available for urther improvement out of the territoriiil appropriation of $2500. The report was nv. ceived and filed. A communication was read fromW. and J-Cooper J-Cooper in reference tostatejnentof taxesani the clerk was instructed to" notify them 1o , appear before the court at its next reguls.r meeting. ( The bill of A. F. Cummings for infirmary supplies was laid over until the next meeting. meet-ing. The application of the Purifier company to supply the county with certain goods mantu factured by it, was referred to G. W. Barteh, Koad supervisor C. T. Smoot appeared lir-fore lir-fore the court in reference to needed irji- . i proyements on district No. 21 and he was in r i btructed to make such improvements. It was ordered that John B. Fagg of East Mill creek and David Proctor of Union be notified that if they did not deliver the timber tim-ber bought of them June 15th before October Octo-ber 10th, their contract would be cancelled. v- A committee composed of Selectman Cahoon and Hardy was appointed to confjer with the Rapid Transit company in reference f I to lighting the county infirmary with eloc- trieify. 0 The following appropriations were mauV: V John Cahoon $S9, C. E. Allen $100, A. J. , i Burt $415.(55, Alex Maclean $211. Arthur I Brown $50. making a total of $S65.65. Thx appropriations forT891, to date, have been , $07,110.82. W, The court adjourned until October 9th 6nay 11 a. m. . ; con- f . The folA Brick t-SB c( Another chapter in this senseon wascS-istered wascS-istered this morning in the calling case against i Officer Hill of Provo. Fbj ' man Hill was indicted by the grand JurH a party to the! torture which old man 1 ' -ard, who was held as the man who hat f personated the role of the Spaniard ink ; gold brick cae, alleges was inflicted on tt. by the defendant and Banker Whitmore, ta s their effort toj extort a confession from him. The name of jllill was called but the defend- , ant failed toimaterialize either in person or proxy. It thrice echoed through the chain, her and his bond in the sum of $200 was te-rlared te-rlared forfeited. A similar case in whuch, Banker .Whitrnore is the respondent, rill, come up on November 3d, after which th action for damages in the sum of $25,000 will be taken up. Robbed at the Rio Grande. T. F. Holiand and Frank J. White,. indicted in-dicted on charges of highway robbery, will appear for trial before Judge Zane tomorrow morning. The accused are charged witi robbing Patrick Meehan who was brought up from Grand Junction last night In cuj-tody cuj-tody of Deputy United States Marshal Bo. man Cannon, the offense having been committed com-mitted while the prosecuting witness was awaiting a train. White and. Holland had. . drawn their! -victim into a dice game and, . upon his exposing a roll of money they at- -- tacked him.' Meehan was relieved of fotif one hundrejl dollar bills which were subse queutly found upon the prisoners who had been run down by the police. Probate Court. In the case of William G. Collett, deceased, in which a petition for special letters of administration ad-ministration had been filed, came on withont notice, ana an oraer maae tnai donn l. ana John Y. Rich be such special administrators. In the estate and guardianship of Georgis Husler, insane, an order was made granting the petition praying for the guidance of Lha court in certain matters. The examination of Sarah Ann Cole, ad judged insane, was heard, and she was com mitted to the asylum at Provo. An examination examina-tion of certain persons charged with ill-treat-t ing said Sarah Ann Cole was in progress this aftcrnoon- The Maupin Robbery. Upon the application of counsel for the dc, fense the case of the people against Maupin, charged with robbery, was permitted to go go over for the term. Maupin is the daring: genius who assaulted Morris, the restaurateur restaura-teur opposite the postoffice, last spring, and robbed him of a pocketbook containing $170, in cold cash. He was run down by Sergeant Donovan and thrown into prison, since which time he has awaited the decree of fato behind the bars. The Fitzgerald Rape. The feature of tomorrow's seitings on thj criminal calendar is tho Fitzgerald rape case. Fitzgerald was arrested as the fiend who followed a septugenarian into a wine room at the Cactus saloon on West Temple street and there assaulted her. F'or days her life was despaired of; and the trial tomorrow promises another recruit for the Pen. Assault to Murder. Henry Hall, the colored Apollo who undertook un-dertook to kill Pat Strathers a rival 6uitort for interruptions whilethe former was pressing press-ing his courtship will come in for a trial to morrow morning. The ease is creating a noticeable agitation among the dark water! of the local Nile and the chamber promised to be packed w ith colored society. Court Notes. The grand jury at Beaver yesterday re ported seven indictments. Today's session of the district court lasted less than twenty minutes. Thomas C. Axelson, a native of Denmark, was admitted to citizenship this morning. Judge Zane this morning announced thaft on Saturday morning he would make settings set-tings of civil jury cases and that trials would commence October 21. The criminal cases, said he, could be set afterwards. Judge Anderson is grinding out decision at Beaver. "Under the head of sexual t offenses there were seven cases, in three of which the defendants entered pleas of guilty and promised to obey the law in the future. f |