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Show FOR EMBEZZLllENf Deputy Marshal Arthur Parsons in California after Charles L. Crain, the Promoter. HE WILL BE BE0UGHT BACK HERE. After a Long Vacation, the Grand Jury Resumed its Labors this Morning. Some Noted Criminal Cases Set for Trial-Looking Trial-Looking for a Burglar Police Court Proceedings Short Orders. The career of Charles L. Crane in Zion Was brief but glorious. He lirst came before the public some two ears ago as the organizer of the Salt Lake Building and Loan association. Afterwards ue organized the Inter-Mountain Abstract company and ttie Sears Liiue and Rock company. com-pany. As a promoter, Charles was a sue- j cess, for the various companies started ! through his efforts have all been successful, ! but he appeared to hre little ability as a business manager. He gradually worked himself out of the companies named, and his List venture was the Franklin Avenue variety theater, which started out well, but oou Collapsed. Before the crash came, however, Crane left Salt Lake, and it was Boon whispered that all of his accounts were not straight. By the time this was found to be an actual fact, however, Mr. Crane had been lost track of, and it was only recently th it it was learned that he was sojourning in tho Sacramento valley. Mr. Ritchie, an "tlicial of tiie Salt Lake Building aud Loan association, having made a charge of embezzlement em-bezzlement against Crane, Deputy Marshal Arthur Parsons was sent to California after him, and he is expected to return to-day. Just how much Mr. Ritchie claims that Crane embezzled is not definitely known, but it is said upon excellent authority that he amount is not a larire one. Mr. ( r:iue lias a wide circle of acquaintances acquaint-ances here who will be surprised to hear that criminal charges have been preferred against him, and it is attributed more to Ciismanagement than to crimiual intent. Criminal Cases Set. Amor.g the cases set for trial yesterday was that of William Daggett, the ex-city detective, de-tective, whose arrest some time ago on the charge of attempting to rob a Union Pacific employe at the Hot Springs created such a sensation. The trial is now set for May :20th, but at lesst one important witness is absent from the city, and there may be another postponement. Another noted ease is that of Banker G. C. Whitmore of Nephi and William Hill, an ex-policeman of Provo, charged with committing a battery upon William Leonard while the latter was a prisoner in the count- jail. Leonard, it will be remembered, was connected with the "gold brick" scheme by which Whitmore v. as swindled out of over .$5000. It is alleged al-leged that after Leonard was arrested, Whitmore and Hill tortured him in order to make him confess. The trial is -set for May ltth. The trial of B. W. Driggs, Jr., and Alex. Johnson, the two young attorneys who are charged with forging Judge Hoge's name to n note, is set for .May 23. Eliza Fawks and Heber Cooper of Boun-' Boun-' Cful, will be tried on May 23, on the charge cf adultery. It will be. remembered that th woman's husband committed suicide a short therc were ugly rumors of foul play afloat. Still After Hiin. The police are still on the trail of Henry Siefert, the younsr drug clerk who cut such a wide swath in Zion until he fled to avoid arrest. A day or two after his departure de-parture , the police uuearthed about 5000 worth of goods which he had carried to his home a little at a time from Smith's drug store, and the establishment of the Wasatch Drug company. On the night of April 18th, the latter was burglarized, and Siefert is supposd to have done the work. Sam Park has sworn out a complaint before Judi;e Kesler charging him with burglar- and the police have sent Siefert's photo to" the officers offi-cers in Colorado, where the young man is supposed to be, and it is not unlikely that he will yet be apprehended. Moore Bound Over. The examination of John Moore, the crook who was arrested on Saturday last for sending saws to prisoners in the county jail, had a hearing before Commissioner Pratt this morning on the charge of assisting prisoners to escape. He was held to await the action of the grand jury, and in default of bonds went back to jail. The Grand Jury at Work. After n long vacation the grand jury re assembled this morning-, and soon settled set-tled down to work. Among the cases to come before the inquisitors are'those Of J. C. Williams and Mrs. Edith C. Martins, against whom there are charges of adultery, and John Bergen aud Mr. Nelson, charged with unlawful cohabitation. Police Court. Business in police circles was very quiet today, no arrests having been made up to 4 o'clock. In the police court there were six drunks and one vag, sentence being suspended in three cases and one being dismissed. Louis White was one of the unfortunates who did not escape and was fined 5 for drunkenness. Charles McCall got on a 85 drunk and will pay the debt. Fred Rose entered a plea of guiltv of t'runkenness and will be given about fifteen days tomorrow morning. An effort will be made to secure sufficient funds from relatives rela-tives to enable him to take a course at Keeley's. The case against John Roe, who was charged with vagrancy yesterday, was dismissed dis-missed .his morning. |